The Burnt Toast Podcast

Today’s episode is a delightful conversation with  Shelly Anand and Nomi Ellenson , co-authors of the wonderful new picture book  I Love My Body Because .  If you want more conversations like this one, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And become  a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Producing a weekly podcast requires a significant investment...

Today’s episode, a conversation with blogger and fat liberation activist Linda Gerhardt, is the kind of story I can only tell on Burnt Toast.  Because lipedema—despite impacting some  11 percent of women  worldwide—isn’t a Sexy News Story. It doesn’t have the kind of hook mainstream media outlets want. Lipedema patients aren’t the kind of victims (i.e. thin white ladies) that America loves to rall...

This week, we're taking it old school with a solo Virginia episode! She's reading her most popular essay to date, about why you should stop romanticizing your child's lunchbox . (Note: We recorded this before the  White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health ; check the transcript for some thoughts on these new developments.)  If you'd like to support Burnt Toast, pl...

This week, Corinne joins Virginia for another Ask Us Anything episode! We have a lot of thoughts about pants. So buckle up for that. We also talk about snacks. Pants and snacks, and I know, you're already in. If you'd like to support Burnt Toast, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And considering becoming a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 f...

This week, Virginia chats with Chelsea Conaboy , author of an amazing new book, Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood . If you'd like to support Burnt Toast, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And considering becoming a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50 for the year. Producing a weekly podcast requires a significant i...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com It's our September bonus episode! And we're trying out a new format: Virginia's Office Hours, where a Burnt Toast subscriber comes on the pod to chat with Virginia about fatphobia, diet culture, parenting and health. Our first guest is Serena, who is trying to navigate family gatherings whil...

This week, Virginia chats with  with Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant,  cofounders of the Center for Body Trust , and  authors of a new book out this week, Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation . If you'd like to support Burnt Toast, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And considering becoming a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It's just $5 per month or $50...

This week, we revisit an old episode of Comfort Food where Virginia Sole-Smith and Amy Palanjian chat with Lisa Du Breuil, an incredible fat activist and clinical social worker who specializes in eating disorders and addiction. They discuss sugar addiction and how to navigate endless treats with your kids. If you'd like to support Burnt Toast, please rate and review us in your podcast player!...

This week, Virginia chats with  Dana Miranda,  a certified educator in personal finance and the founder of Healthy Rich , a platform for inclusive budget-free financial education. Check out her podcast  and her Substack newsletter, Founder Notes . If you'd like to support Burnt Toast, please rate and review us in your podcast player! And considering becoming a paid Burnt Toast subscriber . It...

Today, Virginia is chatting with Julia Turshen . Julia is a New York Times best-selling cookbook author. Her latest book is Simply Julia , she writes a fantastic newsletter, and she’s the host and producer of the podcast, Keep Calm and Cook On . Julia lives in the Hudson Valley, with her spouse Grace and their pets. And she teaches live cooking classes every Sunday afternoon. Follow her on Instagr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com They're dealing with a consumer that they've never marketed to before and they don't really have the tools to do that. They don't know what's going to speak to that consumer. And it's also fatphobia, right? Because the brand doesn't want to center fat people as their customer. So they have to put everybody...

I think it's important for people to recognize that no matter how fascinated you might be by a Black person’s hair, we are not an exhibit or curiosity. You're listening to Burnt Toast. This is the podcast about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. I’m Virginia Sole-Smith, and I also write the Burnt Toast newsletter . Today I am speaking with anti-racism activist, writer, and educator Sh...

People don’t have a choice about whether or not to fight these things. You have to keep learning all you can, you have to keep finding the allies you can. And to despair is to abandon all the people who need us most. You’re listening to Burnt Toast. This is the podcast about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. I’m Virginia Sole-Smith, and I also write the Burnt Toast newsletter . Today...

Yoga Journal, which is the long standing print magazine for yoga professionals, and the yoga community, is owned by the same parent company that publishes Clean Eating magazine. So there’s a lot of intersection in the writing and the journalists between them. And I find it very problematic. Extremely problematic. But that’s capitalism, right?  You’re listening to Burnt Toast . This is the podcast...

You’re listening to Burnt Toast! We have another Comfort Food rerun for you this week. Hopefully, by the time you’re listening to this, I have turned in my book manuscript, and I am taking this week to chill out. It’s the first week of July and we’ve got family visiting. My whole goal for this first week is to just spend a ton of time in my pool and my garden, and let my post book brain melt. Ther...

Kids turn one and our expectations change. Suddenly, we want them to eat for nutrition and “food is fuel.” You're listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast (and newsletter) about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. As you are listening to this podcast today, I am also writing the last pages of my next book. It is called Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture . It will be ou...

The reason people are angry at thin women is because they hate fat. Yes, of course, we should not be yelling at skinny people. But it’s important to hold that together with, when those jokes get made, they’re actually anti-fat jokes. They’re not anti-thin jokes. You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. Today we are doi...

Like yesterday, I included goldfish crackers in a lunch picture. And I’m like, how long is it going to take before someone yells at me about the goldfish? You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. Today I am chatting with fan favorite, and my best friend, Amy Palanjian . Amy is the creator of the blog Yummy Toddler Food...

Because this is what we do to ourselves every day. We put in so much effort to just exist as basic people in the world. Like, we’re not like knockout celebrities. We’re not like stunning anybody. Like, we put in all of this work for a reward that doesn’t actually ever come. You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. Toda...

We have to disconnect the idea of good parenting from health and fitness. Because people don’t have a moral imperative to health. You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting and health. Today I am chatting with Amanda Martinez Beck . Amanda is a fat activist, author and host of the Fat and Faithful podcast. She focuses on the ways tha...

You’re listening to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting and health. Today we’re doing a very fun Ask Me Anything episode. A lot of great questions came in, so I’ve asked Corinne to help out with this one. For folks who don’t know, Corinne works on Burnt Toast with me and she is also the founder of @selltradeplus , an Instagram account where you c...

We hear so much about Betty Friedan, and the Feminine Mystique. And the whole thing was women find power and fulfillment and identity outside of the home by working professionally. Right? The thing that that leaves out is when you go outside of the home, who’s in the home? Like that work never went away. Hello and welcome to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fatpho...

If you asked any of these gentle parenting experts, they would say parenting is the most important work in the world. But they are also perpetually downplaying the hardest parts of it—which means not ever making visible the parts of parenting that we most need to change. Welcome to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. Today I am chatt...

“Sometimes I’ve just shoved some granola in my face, because I knew that I needed to have some fuel in my body. I didn’t really enjoy it. And that’s okay. That’s absolutely appropriate for that moment.” Welcome to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast where we talk about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health. Today I am chatting with Leanne Brown who is the author of the cookbooks Good and Che...

NOTE: We're planning a special AMA episode of the podcast and we want your burning questions! Please submit your questions via this Google Form to help us stay organized. Welcome to Burnt Toast! This is the podcast and newsletter where we talk about diet culture, fatphobia, parenting, and health.  We don’t have a brand new episode for you today because I’m on spring break this week. As many of you...