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The Beautifull Project
by thebeautifullproject
Ordinary women telling extraordinary truths about their bodies, about beauty, and about belonging.
Episodes
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When Death Opens a Door: The Lauren Story
This is it, folks! The last and final episode of the last and final season of The Beautifull Project podcast. And to honor the beautiful end of this beautiful work, we've chosen to talk about death, about the ways in which the end of a thing can give meaning to its life. We talk about our bodies...
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S4: Ep. 3 Taking on Trauma: The Annika Story
We can't have a season about coming back to our bodies without having a little talk about trauma, can we? Absolutely not! While trauma seems to be a trending topic these days, the truth is that we're only beginning to understand the impact of trauma on our bodies. But while we may not know...
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S4: Ep. 2 Finding Food Freedom: The Michelle Story
If there's one place where diet culture runs deep, it's definitely in our relationship with food. From counting points to tracking macros, there is no shortage of suggestions out there that will continually remind us that we can't possibly be trusted to know how to nourish ourselves. But Michelle...
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S.4: Ep.1 Movement is Medicine: The Kali Story
This episode is a how-to for healing your relationship with moving your body. Kali Eastin, owner of the Kalioke Movement Lounge, brings a bit of her own story to the mic, but also grounds this whole conversation in solid science about what it means for us to move our bodies. She provides a path...
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Bonus Ep. 8: : Marylee: sweet potatoes and confidence
Teri and Marylee talk about diet culture and body image from a white and a Black perspective.
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Bonus Ep. 7: The Beautifull Project: Ch ch ch changes
Hosts Sarah Stevens and Teri Voyna discuss changes to the podcast
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Bonus Ep. 6: Burn the Motherf*cker Down: Teri’s Story
"If I'd been in a car accident and had a bone sticking out of my leg, would I get to the ER and have them refuse to fix my broken leg because I'm fat? Would they wait until I lost weight to pursue treatment? No. Of course not. This isn't different, but I still can't get what I need." Teri was one...
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Bonus Ep. 5: To Let it Go: Adriane’s Story
Adriane is a survivor of human trafficking and shares her story in this episode. She tells her truth from beginning to end, and is hoping this act of courage will allow her to let go of the past and step into the power of her present life.
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Bonus Ep. 4: Seeing Me: Delia’s Story
"I thought I lived a life where people saw me, and they don't. Because I didn't even see myself. And by "saw me," I mean people saw me as a black woman. I didn't see myself as a black woman. I thought I did. But I didn't." Delia is a woman, a wife, a mother, and a force of a human being. In this...
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Bonus Ep. 3: I Just Want to Go Back: A Spilling Story
"I just want to go back. To a time when we don't have fear. When we're not so sheltered from each other, from the external relationships with each other. I just want to go back. Welcome to the first interview of The Spilling Stories, a special series dedicated to abandoning the idea that we need…
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Bonus Ep. 2: Pushing Off the Bottom: A Spilling Story
"It doesn't do me any good to try to struggle to the surface until I've touched the bottom. If you don't let yourself go to the bottom where you can actually find your feet, it's hard to know which way is up. So, part of it for me is allowing myself the full sink, allowing myself to fall apart."...
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Bonus Ep 1: Spilling Over: A Mini Among the Madness
"Maybe I don't need to hold it all together. Maybe I really need to just let myself spill over." The Beautifull Project podcast is interrupting its regularly scheduled programming for a series of special episodes aimed directly at what it means to take up space in a world flipped upside down. In...
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S 3: Ep. 4: The Gray Matters: An Interview with Haley DeGreve
"A lot of our conversations are filled with smile emojis, but at the end of the day it's leaving us empty. Just because we're more doesn't mean we're more connected... we need community." In episode 4, we sat down with Haley DeGreve, college senior, marketing and communications major, and...
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S 3: Ep. 3: Use Your Voice: An Interview with Brandy Donaldson
"I don't really now how this big, black lesbian got accepted into so many circles, but it happened for me. Since they let me in the door, I'm going to always have something to say." In this episode, we welcome Brandy Donaldson - author, speaker, and activist - to the microphone. Brandy began her...
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S 3: Ep. 2: Give Yourself Permission: An Interview with Gaye Shannon Burnett
"It doesn't matter who tells you that you can't have access. You go and you see... 'Can I get in here?'. And maybe not today, but tomorrow you can try again. I think it's important for women to give themselves permission." Welcome to Episode 2 of Season Three: The Mamas and the Makers. In this...
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S 3: Ep. 1: One Shameless Mama: An Interview with Sara Dean
Welcome to Season Three: The Mamas and the Makers! In this first episode, we welcome Sara Dean, the original Shameless Mom, to the mic for an incredible conversation about what it takes to make something you love. Sara is the creator and host of the Shameless Mom Academy Podcast, a top rated...
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S 2: Ep. 15: Just Keep Going: The Sarah Interview
+Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault+ "When the truth gets stuck in us, it crowds out the space that could be used for love and connection. Telling the story is a way to get the truth outside of me." In this final episode of the Season of Survivors, Sarah sits down with her wife, Becky... not to...
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S 2: Ep. 14: Meant to Be Told: The Katie Interview
+ Trigger Warning: Miscarriage + In this episode, we sat down with Katie, a survivor of miscarriage. Katie unpacks her story delicately, the way you unpack some little treasure you've stored away for safekeeping. And in many ways, that's what Katie had done with this memory up until this point.…
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S 2: Ep. 13: Whole Again: The Rachel Interview
+Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault, Spiritualized Trauma + "And then one day, I sat up in bed, and said, 'I'm whole again.'" In this episode, we sat down with Rachel, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and later, a survivor of an abusive marriage. Rachel grew up in a deeply religious context…
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S 2: Ep. 12: Hold Out for Hope: The Liv Interview
+ Trigger Warning: Eating Disorders, Miscarriage + "I believe in the power of community, in surrounding yourself with people who can believe things for you that you can’t believe for yourself when you’re in pain. And I’m a big believer in hope. Hold on to hope. Hold on to hope that you will come...
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S 2: Ep. 11: My Pain Does Not Define Me: The Joni Interview
++ Trigger Warning: Domestic Violence ++ In this episode, we sat down with Joni, a survivor of domestic violence who is committed to understanding the patterns from her past in order to find healing in her present. She is a gifted storyteller who expertly weaves the details of her lived…
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S 2: Ep. 10: Finding Her Deepest Joy: The Amanda Interview
In this episode, we sat down with Amanda. Amanda is a survivor of birth trauma, a very real experience for many women who have given birth. Challenging the idea that the only "successful" birth story is the one that goes perfectly according to plan, Amanda shares what it was like to walk through…
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S 2: Ep. 9: The Power to Heal: The Jackie Interview
+Trigger Warning: Sexual violence, domestic abuse, PTSD, depression, chronic pain, miscarriage+ In this episode, we sit down with Jackie - a woman who has survived serial trauma, beginning with a violent sexual assault during high school. The content of Jackie's story makes it one of the most...
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S 2: Ep. 8: Your Brain is Bad Ass: A Little Healing with Nicole
We've spent a year and a half bringing you the voices of women who demonstrate strength and resilience. We have invited you to open yourself in the same way. But until this podcast, we never offered you any tools to help you put yourself back together after we invite you to let yourself fall…
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S 2: Ep. 7: Know Your Worth: The Kira Interview
+Trigger Warning: Sexual abuse + "I had finally dug up some self worth and I was ready to throw it around a little." In this episode, we welcome Kira to the mic to tell her story. Kira shares her story about the sexual abuse she endured at the hands of a trusted teacher during her adolescence, a...
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S 2: Ep. 6: Purpose from Pain: The Kit Interview
+Trigger Warning: Sexual Violence+ In this episode, we welcome Dr. Kit Ford, Founder of Argrow's House of Healing and sexual violence survivor. Dr. Kit is a force for good in her community, and exudes a sense of purpose about her life in the most beautiful way. Dr. Kit's traumatic experiences do...
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S 2: Ep. 5: Hold Out for the Kindness: The Sarah Interview
There is nothing more inspiring than a woman who challenges the expectations set in front of her and this woman… she has all the inspiration we need to remember what we are made of when our life requires resilience. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a baby, Sarah has lived and moved in a disabled...
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S 2: Ep. 4: Whole and Wholehearted: The Stephanie Interview
+Trigger Warning+ Eating Disorder, Depression In this episode, we welcomed Stephanie to the mic. Stephanie is a survivor of an eating disorder and an advocate for other survivors. She has spent most of her life looking for healing… not just for the eating disorder, but to find a deeper...
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S 2: Ep. 3: Grit and Grace: The Maggie Interview
"What matters most is how we walk through the fire." - Charles Bukowski + Trigger Warning+ Sexual assault, PTSD In this episode, we welcomed Maggie to the mic to tell her survival story. Maggie is a semi-retired pageant girl and a two-time survivor of sexual assault. She transformed her pain into...
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S 2: Ep. 2: Beauty from Terror: The Laura Interview
"There is beauty in terror. No feeling is final. Just keep going." +Tigger warning: Sexual assault, suicidal ideations, chronic pain, breast cancer + The episode kicks off the Survivor Series with a powerful interview with Laura, a survivor of sexual assault, 6 years of unimaginable chronic pain,...
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S 2: Ep: 1: Welcome to the Season of Survivors
Prepare to be filled, friends... Season Two is HERE! In this episode, Sarah spends just a few minutes prepping you for what you can expect from Beauti: The Interviews during this Season of Survivors. She talks trigger warnings, trauma, and big ass triumphs in this short intro.
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S 1: Ep. 16: The Mikhayla Interview
Surprise! A bonus episode with Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw, Miss Iowa 2018. Mikhayla opened up about growing up in a body that she felt she needed to hide, about her decision to believe that she had more to offer the world than her body, about her commitment to helping other women know the same thing....
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S 1: Ep. 15: The Sarah Interview
In this episode, the Founder of the Beautifull Project tells her body story. She shares her earliest memories about being a little kid in a fat body, about a lifetime of disordered eating and body dysmorphia, about finding freedom in a chorus of courage that refuses to shrink in order to fit.…
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S 1: Ep. 15: The Ann Interview
In this episode, we sat down with Ann, a woman who struggled to find her truth, but now speaks with a voice so clear and articulate that it's hard to hear anything but wisdom in her story. We made space in this interview for her story of living in a thin body. She laid out some great structure…
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S 1: Ep. 14: The Jessica Interview- Round 2
She's baaaack! Jessica joins us again, a happy, healthy, postpartum mama with some good stuff to share about the birth of her second child, about releasing herself from parent guilt, about beginning to accept the limits of her control.
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S 1: Ep. 13: The Nicole Interview
In this episode, we make space for Nicole, an entrepreneur, an artist, a light to the people who are privileged enough to be near her. She helps us understand her experience as a child caught between her feuding parents. She sheds some light on the way access to food influences our relationship...
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S 1: Ep. 12: The Teri Interview
In this episode, we sit down with Teri, a woman who weaves truth and humor together into a story that invites the audience to lean in. She survived an abusive childhood, an experience that she’s allowed to galvanize her into a force that unapologetically takes up space in the world.
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S 1: Ep. 11: The Kim Interview
In this episode, Kim talks about her own body story, one marked by her experience as an adopted child in a family with whom she shared no physical characteristics. Kim talks about searching for her people for the ones to whom she could belong and she ultimately channeled this sense of…
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S 1: Ep. 10: The Tiffany Interview
Trigger Warning: In this episode, Tiffany talks about surviving sexual assault and other forms of violence. She also references suicidal ideations and other substantial impacts of trauma. If any of these topics could be harmful to you, please exercise caution if you choose to listen.
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S 1: Ep. 9:The Jenna Interview
In this episode, we talk with Jenna. Jenna is a woman with a story about awakening. She gently weaves her narrative through a childhood marked a body that was too much, around an adolescence tightly wrapped up by insecurity, and then directly toward a place of healing and transformation. She…
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S 1: Ep. 8: The Ashley Interview
In this episode, we interview Ashley, a mama, a wife, and a woman who has spent a lifetime trying to compensate for feeling like she was taking up too much space in the world. She tenderly shared a story from her childhood about understanding that she just didn’t fit, and went on to reveal the…
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S 1: Ep. 7: The Mom Interview
In this episode, Sarah sits down with her mom to understand how generations of body stories help to shape our own body story. Her mama opens up about being a "chubby" kid, an adolescent who would do anything to be thin, and a woman who is working toward finding joy. Truth telling at it's finest…
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S 1: Ep. 6: The Jessica Interview
In this episode, Jessica dives deep into the cultural narrative surrounding the pregnant body, the endless expectations placed on a pregnant woman, and the need for a new dialogue around what it means to be in a body that can grow another body.
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S 1: Ep. 5: The Delia Interview
In this episode, we interview Delia, a woman who has demonstrated seemingly endless supplies of resilience throughout her life. Delia grew up with a white mom and a black dad in the 80’s. She lost her dad when she was in 4th grade, and had to discover a way to navigate a world of always feeling...
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S 1: Ep. 4: The Courtney Interview
In part four, Courtney Courtney dives deep into a conversation about the crippling impact of expectations. From our families, from our culture, from our communities. She tells a few incredible stories about the lengths she’s gone to in order to change her body. And most importantly, she...
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S 1: Ep. 3: The Rumaisa Interview
This is the third part of a four part series with the models from The Beautifull Project. In this episode, Rumaisa talks about the intersection of culture, religion, and belonging. She opens about the vulnerability required to stand in your own truth in spite of what everyone might think about…
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S 1: Ep. 2: The Danielle Interview
The Danielle Interview by Beauti: The Interviews
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S 1: Ep. 1: The Amber Interview
This is the first of a four part interview with the models for The Beautifull Project. They share their body stories and expose all of the ways that they've attempted to shrink in order to fit. Find out more about The Beautifull Project at www.thebeautifullproject.com
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