This week, Father Cooper is joined by life coach and body positivity expert Susan Hyatt. Susan breaks down the prevalence of diet culture in today’s society and why it is so toxic. She provides tangible lifestyle changes that can lead to healthier and more fulfilled lives. How does your environment affect your mood and eating? What message is your closet sending to you? Summer often leads to anxiety around body image and Susan is here to challenge and shift our current mindset. She teaches us that it is possible to love our bodies as they are while also working towards healthier habits. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What is up, daddy?
Gang?
It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with call her daddy, daddy, daddy.
Let's get into it.
Cause I'm so excited.
So to anyone listening, I am here with Susan Hyatt.
I came across Susan's TED talk, and I just immediately knew that you guys would love her message.
So, Susan, your talk is titled, if we want a better world, we've got to kill diet culture.
You're a life coach and you help your clients to live healthier lives, but not through dieting.
So let's start.
Can you outline for us what is diet culture?
So, diet culture, literally no one can escape it.
It's in the air that we breathe.
It basically is the culture or the structure that we live within, part of a tool of the patriarchy.
And so diet culture is the media.
Diet culture is stories that your mom and your grandma told you.
Diet culture is an $80 billion industry.
That whole goal is to keep women distracted and buying products and working towards shrinking ourselves instead of expanding our lives.
And so it's not just one thing.
It's an entire attitude of a culture that wants to keep women busy doing other things.