Erica and India discuss their intentions for the shows Pause on the Play® and Flaunt Your Fire®. After nearly 300 combined episodes, they pause to explore how to use them as continued resources and how to stay in the loop about future projects.

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Diet culture is everywhere.

What we consider healthy. What we consider unhealthy. The foods that we’re taught are good for us and the ones that we’re told to stay away from. How we think about food, health, and wellness is shaped by a culture steeped in white supremacy culture.

There is so much more nuance available to us around food, health, wellness, and culture–not to mention enjoyment–when we break down the binary of good vs. bad foods, healthy vs. unhealthy people.

Dalina Soto, MA, RDN, LDN joins Erica for a conversation about diet and wellness culture, why ancestral and cultural foods too often get left out of the conversation, and the policy and systemic influences on what we think of as “healthy” food.

In this discussion:

• Why we need to expand binary thinking about nutrition and health
• How nutritional guidelines in the US leave out large swaths of cultural and ancestral foods
• The impacts of stress and other social determinants of health on the body, and why that’s a policy failure not a personal one
• Taking guilt and shame out of doing what you can with what you have when it comes to food

Connect with Dalina Soto, MA, RD, LDN:

• Your Latina Nutritionist
• Instagram: @your.latina.nutritionist
• TikTok: @yourlatinanutritionist

Resources:

• "Anotha One"
• Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall
• Fearing the Black Body, Sabrina Strings
  
  

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​So often, our goals and the way we feel about success come from what we’re supposed to want, what we’re supposed to do, and how we’re supposed to act and feel once we achieve those goals.

But being truly satisfied with our achievements means defining success outside of the “shoulds.”

Amanda McKinney joins Erica for a replay from a live conversation within The Pause on the Play Community about success, accidental entrepreneurship, and maintaining a balance between your business and your life.

In this discussion:

• Why it’s essential to pause and consider what you actually want from your business
• Why you can’t separate your values from the way you do business
• How to bring your values into the way you build your business

Connect with Amanda McKinney:

• Website
• Why Not You?: An Accidental Entrepreneur's Guide To Success
• FREE Guide to Defining Success
• Instagram: @theamandamckinney

Resources:

• 173. Diverse Perspectives: Reconsidering the Meaning of Success

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Inside the Community, you’ll get access to live conversations, workshops, community conversations and Q&As, plus our whole library of evergreen resources.

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