Body Liberation through Fitness with Damali Fraiser Many people are moving to position body neutrality over body positivity and Damali believes it's both/and. As Damali says, "We are never just one thing and just as I am a fat black woman that may not always like every aspect of my "both", I wants to seek anything but neutrality when comes to my body!" In this episode we dive into: Defining body neutrality, body positivity and how in the end it's more so about body liberation How we can achieve body liberation through fitness What it really means to be inclusive in fintess spaces Finding community and belonging in your body Getting to the root of why so many of us hate our bodies Brining equity, inclusivity, and plus size representation to the kettlebell industry Coaches Corner Waitlist & Free 5 Tools to Reimagine Well-being and Movement Culture "Inclusivity is not just that somebody is included because people can be included and still not feel like they belong. Getting past token inclusion and really making it about full community care, so that when people are there, they're included, they belong." About Damali Damali believes that coaching is meaningful and meaningful coaching is inclusivity. We find inclusivity in fitness through compassion and the practice of dismantling systems of oppression for every BODY. Damali is a former Muay Thai Fighter, Mother of 2, now a non-diet kettlebell and nutrition coach, owner of Lift Off Strength & Wellness (liftoffstrength.ca) who teaches kettlebells in an accessible size-inclusive approach. At Coaches Corner, she also offers coaches, of all modalities of movement, the opportunity to learn to teach kettlebells safely and confidently. Connect with Damali Website Instagram TikTok ****************************************************** About Fantastical Fatty Lindsay Johnson, aka Fantastical Fatty, is a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover. They believe fat people deserve to love their fat bodies and take up space! 👉 Website 👉 TikTok 👉 Instagram Stay Fat & Fantastic, Lindsay 😘…

REWRITING THE BOOK ON PLUS-SIZE RUNNING! MARTINUS EVANS | @300POUNDSANDRUNNING In a world where fat athletes are excluded from races, training, clothing, and all other forms of representation ... it just takes one crappy comment from a troll to piss someone like Martinus off enough to create his own size-inclusive world for plus-size runners! Martinus Says... "You need to have delusional self-belief. You have to believe in yourself so much, so hard that anybody else around you thinks you're crazy. " Some of the highlights of our convo include, When the Doctor Tells You You're Too Fat So You Decide to Run a Marathon When Run Coaches Won't Train Fat People So You Become a Run Coach Instead When the Haters Spur You On To Create an Entire Brand Around Their Mean-Spirited Words Why We Need to Learn to Do It Afraid and Do It Alone When Everyone's Worst Nightmare Comes True: Falling Off the Treadmill Why You Need Delusional Self-Belief Meet the Martinus! Martinus Evans has run over eight marathons since his doctor told him to “lose weight or die” in July 2012. Since then, he’s also coached hundreds of runners and founded the Slow AF Run Club, a community of over 10,000 members worldwide. He is also the author of the book Slow AF Run Club: The ultimate guide for anybody who wants to run who enjoys speaking passionately about issues related to size-inclusivity, mindset, DEI and mental health. TikTok Instagram Instagram Website All Resources We Talked About Slow AF Run Club Book: Slow AF Run Club Get the First Chapter of Martinus's Book, "Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run," ****************************************************** About Fantastical Fatty Lindsay Johnson, aka Fantastical Fatty, is a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover. They believe fat people deserve to love their fat bodies and take up space! 👉 Website 👉 TikTok 👉 Instagram Stay Fat & Fantastic, Lindsay 😘…

FORGET SOCIETY'S BODY STANDARDS AND FIND BODY JOY! FIERCE AND CURVY EMPIRE | @fierceandcurvyempire At a certain point, we just have to stop giving a crap about other people's opinions (seriously, who cares?) and forget about trying to fit into society's beauty standards for the sake of finding our own body joy! Only then can we start to confidently take up space and be the best version of ourselves... the version that's changing the freaking world! Queen K Says... "Taking up space is not giving a damn what anyone else is thinking, to fully experience the moment and not have anything else take you away from that." How much juiciness can we fit into one podcast episode? You're about to find out! I talked with the Queens of Fierce and Curvy Empire, founder Queen K and her crew Queen D and Queen C, and we dove into what it looks like when we buy into society's body ideals and thin beauty standards and why we have to STOP GIVING A CRAP about all of that and discover our own body joy! Some of the highlights of our convo include, Why we need to stop waiting to lose weight to feel worthy Exploring dance in a plus-size body as a journey, not a destination What happens when we move for joy, not maximum calorie burn Finding body joy when life throws you a curve ball The glorious concept of Fat Vanity? No longer internalizing body shame that others carry and project onto us Why fat representation matters for younger generations The frustration of existing in a society that doesn't want to see fat people living their best lives When someone tells a fat person they're so brave ... and why sometimes that feels awesome and other times totally sucks! All Resources We Talked About FACE's Virtual Empire FACE's Coffee & Curves Podcast Meet the Queens of FACE! Queen K created FACE, an all-inclusive full-figured dance company that provides a safe and strong community, and believes that everyone has the right to move their bodies and take up space. Queen K is joined by Queen D and Queen C to create a safe and encouraging community to bring out the fierce queen within YOU! This no judgement zone is where we will build each other up, straighten each other’s crowns, and show the world that we are not defined by our size. Connect with the Queens TikTok Instagram Facebook Website ****************************************************** About Fantastical Fatty Lindsay Johnson, aka Fantastical Fatty, is a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover. They believe fat people deserve to love their fat bodies and take up space! 👉 Website 👉 TikTok 👉 Instagram Stay Fat & Fantastic, Lindsay 😘…

IT'S OK TO BE FAT AND JOYFUL! SOPHIA APOSTOL | @FATJOY.LIFE Your body isn't broken and your fatness doesn't need fixing. It's the systems that need to change! It's ok to be fat and you don't need to change your body to be able to create fat joy in your life. Sophia Says... "Our bodies are not the problem. The systems need to be fixed." It's taken Sophia a lifetime to release her ties to toxic weight-loss culture, embrace her fat body, and dare to take up space in the body she has now. The bottom line of it all ... it's ok to be fat! In this episode, we share our experiences of existing in a fat body and weave in our stories that anyone who's dared to exist in a plus-size body will relate to! In this episode we discuss, The Emotional Labour of Buying Clothes Falling in Love with the Word Fat Shopping with Straight-Sized Friends When You're Fat Why 95% of Diets Fail (and why that's a good thing!) Identifying as a Fat Person Reclaiming Your Body Identity Daring to Take Up Space in the Body You Have Now! Meet Sophia! Sophia hosts The Fat Joy podcast, a joyful rebellion against anti-fatness. Sophia and her guests explore the harms, biases, and oppressions we've all experienced while living in a world that marginalizes plus-size & fat bodies and promotes the lies of Diet Culture and how we can still dare to have the audacity and courage to reach toward joy and live our best lives while advocating for collective fat liberation & body positivity. Connect with Sophia TikTok Instagram YouTube Website ****************************************************** About Fantastical Fatty Lindsay Johnson, aka Fantastical Fatty, is a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover. They believe fat people deserve to love their fat bodies and take up space! 👉 Website 👉 TikTok 👉 Instagram Stay Fat & Fantastic, Lindsay 😘…

HOW BODY CONFIDENCE HELPS YOU TAKE UP SPACE KELSEY JONES | @KBTHEWANNAB Kelsey Jones, alt fat baddie with a passion for makeup and helping others love the skin they're in by showing off her own with no apologies, tells us how to have body confidence so we can take up space and love ourselves no matter what we look like! Kelsey Says... "In the self-love journey, no step is too small, as long as it's going in the right direction." Before Kelsey was an alt fat baddie sharing drool-worthy makeup and fashion on TikTok and Instagram she was following all the "rules" we all so easily fall in line with. That is until she boldly decided to face the fear of the unknown, leave nursing school and begin her self-love and body confidence journey. She's learned that we can't live our lives trying to please others and that self-love and body confidence comes from carving our own path and taking up space as our most powerful, badass selves. In this episode, we talk about, Why we can't make ourselves miserable living to please other people If people in marginalized bodies are conditioned to live their lives for other people Waking up and realizing we don't have any sense of who we are and what we want When we question whether we're taking up space or seeking attention Who's voicing the bully in our heads that's telling us taking up space isn't ok The feeling that comes from wearing what we want and knowing it helps other folks in bigger bodies do the same That trolls don't matter; it's about the people who feel better about themselves because of our content Meet Kelsey! she/her Kelsey Jones is an alt fat baddie with a passion for makeup and helping others love the skin they're in by showing off her own with no apologies 😘 Connect with Mia TikTok Instagram ****************************************************** About Fantastical Fatty Lindsay Johnson, aka Fantastical Fatty, is a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover. They believe fat people deserve to love their fat bodies and take up space! 👉 Website 👉 TikTok 👉 Instagram Stay Fat & Fantastic, Lindsay 😘…

WHY FAT RUNNERS NEED TO STOP DIETING MIA BRAITHWAITE | @THE_FAT_ATHLETE Plus Size Running Coach, Mia Braithwaite, brings the heat as she challenges common myths around being a fat runner, plus size athlete, running for weight loss (hint: it's not gonna work) , joyful movement, anti-fat bias in medicine, what a runner's body looks like and how to get started running in a fat body. Whew! Mia Says... "Weight cycling causes harm to your body and to your fitness goals. You cannot maintain a caloric deficit and be able to do distance running." Mia is here to change our perception of fat runners and all plus-size athletes in general. She's calling out the misconception that runners are skinny or that the goal of runners in bigger bodies should be weight loss. In fact, we both get heated in this podcast as we yell from the rooftops how unhealthy yo-yo dieting (weight cycling) is, especially if you're trying to achieve a calorie deficit at the same time as you're trying to improve your fitness. In this episode, we talk about, What it means to move for joy (not weight loss) What it looks like to perform thinness and fitness in order to be considered a 'good fatty" Why you can't be a distance runner and starve your body of the fuel it needs at the same time How to get started with joyful movement (hint: it starts with listening to your body!) All Resources We Talked About Mirna Valeria Mia's Facebook Group: The Movement Mindset: All Bodies Belong Meet Mia! Mia is an RRCA/USATF-certified running coach for people in larger bodies. Anti-diet, body liberation focus, HAES-aligned. She's here to help fat athletes and plus-size runners learn to run in the body you have now! Connect with Mia TikTok Instagram YouTube Facebook Group ****************************************************** About Fantastical Fatty Lindsay Johnson, aka Fantastical Fatty, is a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover. They believe fat people deserve to love their fat bodies and take up space! 👉 Website 👉 TikTok 👉 Instagram Stay Fat & Fantastic, Lindsay 😘…

WHY FAT JOY MATTERS IN PLUS SIZE ROMANCE NOVELS ALEXIS MANESS | @AUTHORALEXISCMANESS Fat people are so much more than their bodies and they deserve to see themselves experiencing joy, romance, adventures, and success no matter the size of their bodies! Alexis Says... "You deserve to be seen in a positive way in media. You have every right to be there and seek that out and advocate for yourself to have that." Plus-size romance novels are missing the mark with it comes to writing fat characters with joy and adventures unrelated to their body size and Alexis is stepping up to literally change the story! In this episode, we talk about, Fat-neutral representation in media Staying in the lines as the token fatty Unlearning internalized fatphobia How do we engage in fat liberation Writing badass fat characters All Resources We Talked About Alexi's Book: Vengeance Becomes Her Book: Burnout Book: Fearing the Black Body Book: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat Podcast: Fat Joy Podcast Maintenance Phase TikTok Creator: Atomic Apple Pie ****************************************************** About Fantastical Fatty Lindsay Johnson, aka Fantastical Fatty, is a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover. They believe fat people deserve to love their fat bodies and take up space! 👉 Website 👉 TikTok 👉 Instagram Stay Fat & Fantastic, Lindsay 😘…

Welcome to the Fantastical Fatty Podcast , where we celebrate fat baddies challenging fat phobic stereotypes, smashing anti-fat narratives, and changing the freaking world for fatties like you and me. I'm your host, Lindsay Johnson, aka @fantasticalfatty . I'm a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover. I'm here to remind you that you're allowed to love every inch of your fat body, take up space and live your best fat baddie life. What that means is I will not sleep, I will not rest, and I will not stop until we as a society stop thinking that being fat is bad. More importantly, until you, me, and every other fat baddie out there in the world heals their own body shame, unpacks their own internalized fatphobia, releases toxic diet culture moves beyond seeing their body as an object and connects deeply to their worth, their brilliance and their confidence in their fat identities. Oh, and also learns to love their fat body. Really appreciate it. Adorn it. Revel in it, and finally feel confident to take up space, and go be freaking amazing. No matter where you are on your journey to fat liberation and fat joy, this podcast is gonna amp you up. You're gonna get to hear from some truly fantastical fatties. Whether they themselves are in the space of fat liberation or fat activism, or they're just living badass lives in a bigger body. We will of course talk about the intersectionality between fatphobia and racism, ableism, gender sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and so on. And yes, ooh, I know those are heavy topics, but they are important topics and quite frankly, I think we need to be talking about them more because we all have so much healing to do and so much unlearning. But don't get me wrong, this podcast isn't just going to be heavy. We are gonna have so much fun together. We're gonna share advice, tips, and practical steps that you can take along your own fat liberation journey, and you're gonna get connected to some seriously awesome resources, whether that's the creators themselves, books, art, clothing, stores, organizations, communities, you name it. We are here to join hands together in fat, unity. Embrace all of our fat joy capacity, and get out there and change the freaking world. Please share the fat love with your besties and send them a link to today's show if you think they're gonna love it. Don't forget to follow us on your fave podcast platform and give us a rating and review so the algorithm loves us back All right, that's it from me, go listen in the first episode. ****************************************************** About Fantastical Fatty Lindsay Johnson, aka Fantastical Fatty, is a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover. They believe fat people deserve to love their fat bodies and take up space! 👉 Website 👉 TikTok 👉 Instagram Stay Fat & Fantastic, Lindsay 😘…