E86: Interview with Award-winning Actor and Body Positivity Coach Kate Huffman

You’re not too fat or too skinny for anything in this world! Stop letting other people dictate what you should do with your body! In this episode of the Fire In The Belly Podcast, we listen to Award-winning actress and Body Positivity Coach Kate Huffman debunk the unrealistic standards on beauty and fitness. Kate shares her own experience with anorexia and depression which were caused by fat-shaming when she was young. Today, she wants everyone, especially women, to know that your body appearance does not dictate your self-worth! Learn more about body positivity when you listen in now. KEY TAKEAWAYS   Some people think they can determine the state of one’s health based on appearance alone. You can’t. Stop fat-shaming (and fit shaming) other people just because their bodies do not conform to your preference. We must always interact and live our lives with compassion. As parents and/or shapers of young minds, we must be wary of what we tell our children when it comes to physical appearance. Teach body neutrality instead. There is no right body type.  When we let other people’s, judgments influence us, we tend to degrade ourselves. Our mental health suffers—we feel shame, anxiety, and loneliness which may lead to depression and/or eating disorders. Just know that there are various body types, and ALL of them have a place in this society. No one should feel excluded. It’s funny how women’s value is anchored to physical appearance. The beauty industry mostly offers products that cater to society norms—for example, products for straightening curly hair, tanning or whitening, and slimming.  It’s as if life can only progress if we follow such preposterous rules.   BEST MOMENTS   “I had to have those all of that experience to be able to take the message to others.” “You get so much accolade in this world when you lose weight.” “I wouldn’t allow anything to be responsible for me and my choices other than me.” “People fat shame publicly, constantly with no apology, no punches fold, and don’t stop for a second and think that it’s bullying that they’re doing.”   VALUABLE RESOURCES Join the Facebook Group: Body Positivity for People with Bodies  And if you want to offer folks a free guide with some of the tools I use with my clients, you could also include this: katehuffman.com/freegift Subscribe to Fire In The Belly Podcast on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fire-in-the-belly/id1499375061)! ABOUT THE GUEST Kate Huffman is an award-winning actor and playwright and a body positivity coach. She helps people reclaim the time, energy, and money wasted on the endless war with their bodies so that they can live freely and confidently in alignment with their purpose.  As an actor (Fresh Off the Boat, Castle), her work in film, TV, and theatre has won her an LA Weekly Theatre Award, an Encore Producers Award, a Valley Theatre Award, an Indie Series Award nomination, and several LADCC nominations. Her award-winning one woman show, I’M TOO FAT FOR THIS SHOW, which tells her story of twenty years of secret eating disorders and body dysmorphia, has toured around the country as well as internationally. It was the experience of doing this show and seeing how universal the story was - how many people out there were struggling with similar issues - that sent Kate on her path to body acceptance and body positive coaching.   katehuffman.com/workshops Insta: @katehuffwoman  ABOUT THE HOST The ‘Mighty Pete Lonton’ from the ‘Mighty 247’ company is your main host of ‘Fire In The Belly’.  Pete is an Entrepreneur, Mentor, Coach, Property Investor, and father of 3 beautiful girls. Pete’s background is in Project Management and Property, but his true passion is the ‘Fire in The Belly’ project itself. His mission is to help others find their potential and become the mightiest version of themselves. Pete openly talks about losing both of his parents, suffering periods of depression, business downturn and burn-out, and ultimately his years spent not stoking ‘Fire In the Belly’. In 2017, at 37 years of age that changed, and he is now on a journey of learning, growing, accepting, and inspiring others. Pete can connect with people and intuitively asks questions to reveal a person’s passion and discover how to live their mightiest life. The true power of ‘Fire In The Belly’ is the Q&A’s - Questions and Actions! The ‘Fire In The Belly’ brand and the programme is rapidly expanding into podcasts, seminars, talks, business workshops, development course, and rapid results mentoring. CONTACT METHOD https://www.facebook.com/mightypetelonton/ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mightypete https://www.facebook.com/groups/430218374211579/ Support the show: https://www.facebook.com/groups/430218374211579/