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Making It Awkward — 134 episodes

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Re-release: 5G, Conspiracies and the Post-Truth Era with Dr. Eoin Flaherty of Maynooth University

2

Queer Men and Body Image: Peptides, Peacocking, and Pick Mes

3

Health Journalism and Disruption; What Happened at the American Diabetes Assoc. Conference? With Lindsay Lee Wallace

4

Re-Release! Queerness, Christianity, & 50% Off Ozempic for Pride!? with Kent Thomas, MSW

5

Tradwives, Motherhood and Traditional Values; Book Club: Yesteryear Part 2

6

Tradwives, Motherhood and Traditional Values; Book Club: Yesteryear Part 1

7

Re-release! Pronatalism, Eugenics, Fertility and Climate Justice with Dr. Eoin Flaherty

8

Anti-Hunger Policy and MAHA's Creep into Public Health with Meghan Cichy, MPH. RD.

9

The People vs Poison Rally RoundUp with Trampus Harmon

10

Re-release: The Ultra-Processed Food Hysteria to Trad Wife Pipeline with Lindsay Lee Wallace

11

Glyphosate & the People vs Poison Rally: Fear vs Facts

12

Food Fearmongering at the Center for Science in the Public Interest with Sherene Chou, MS RD

13

Having Grown Up with Jillian Michaels, Gen Z is Healing

14

Meeting a MAHA Mom in the Middle with Leslie Voorhees Means

15

Debating Jillian Michaels and Winning with Tigress Osborn

16

Jubilee's Surrounded Explained and Jillian Michael's Unhinged Right Turn

17

Leveling Down: Levels Health, CGMs and the False Promises of Data-Driven Health with Selena Salfen and Meghan Cichy

18

Casey Means Went to Congress, Will She Be Our Next Surgeon General? With Meghan Cichy MPH RDN and Selena Salfen MPH RDN

19

The Food Triangle's "Healthy Fats" and Olive Oil 101 with Dr. Selina Wang

20

What Mike Tyson's MAHA Super Bowl Ad is Really Saying; with Tigress Osborn, NAAFA Executive Director

21

Heated Rivalry: Parasociality, Straight Women's Sexuality, and the Cultural Response with Lindsay Lee Wallace

22

Heated Rivalry: Queerness, Coming Out and the Hags That Move the Story Along with Blake Flaugher, MPH

23

Bonus Episode: Community Commitment and MAHA Hypocrisy; F*** ICE

24

Jessica's Monch Monch Ad & Dr. Robert Lustig's Fiber Fail

25

The Manly Man's Inverted Food Triangle: Dissecting the Dietary Guidelines with Meghan Cichy MPH, RDN.

26

Thought Hygiene: Manifesting, Magical Thinking and OCD with Lindsay Lee Wallace

27

Childfree By Choice; Joyful, Unapologetic Childfree Women Frighten the Patriarchy

28

The Caucacity of the Mediterranean Diet with Sherene Chou, MS. RDN.

29

Confinement Nannies and MAHA's Luxury of Taking From Other Cultures with Sherene Chou, MS., RD.

30

Calley Means is In Over His Head and Giving True Crime Vibes with Selena Salfen, MFA., MPH., RDN.

31

Cheryl Hines: The Sad Beige Life of a Dangerous Optimist with Alison Pill and Natalie Ingraham

32

Re-Release: Re-Grifting: Casey and Calley Means; Taking Truemed to the White House with Selena Salfen, MPH, RDN

33

Autism Research Ethics and the Exploitation of Alternative Stats with Jocelyn Green

34

One Mother's Quest to Help Autistic Kids Lose Their Diagnosis with Dr. Theresa Lyons

35

Bubonic and Iconic: Plague History--From Rodents to Racism with Dr. Bethany Johnson

36

Autism Solved; Conspiracy Ken Strikes Again

37

Out of Institutions and Into Society; Community Mental Health Treatment with Kyle Davis, MSW, LICSW

38

MAHA Won't Pay For a Candy Bar, But We're Paying For Measles; Dr. Carole 2.0

39

Re-Release! Poppers 101, RFK Jr, B*tt Stuff and the State of Sex Ed with Blake Flaugher, MPH

40

Fauci Needs to Be Locked Up! With "The Terrorist Therapist," Dr. Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H.

41

The Fetishization of Asian Women and Subverting Stereotypes with Kaila Yu

42

The MAHA Strategy Report: Policy Amateur Hour with Trampus Harmon, Selena Salfen, MPH RD, and Meghan Cichy, MPH RD

43

Ultra-Processed Food Hysteria, Reader Meltdowns, and Nutrition Reporting with Jamie Ducharme!

44

Re-Grifting: Bryan Johnson's Blueprint and the Cult of Longevity with Jen Jacobs

45

Wearable Devices and "the Delusion of Knowledge" with Dr. Maisha Davis

46

Re-Release! Part 2: "No food is better than bad food" says UCSF's Dr. Lustig

47

Ketogenic Diets For Epilepsy: Jessica's Keto Experience with Dr. Lexi Brown

48

Constant Glucose Monitoring and the Levels App; an Experiment with Selena Salfen MPH RD

49

Re-release: "No food is better than bad food" says UCSF's Dr. Lustig. Part 1

50

The Womanosphere, Food Politics and the Next Body Ideal

51

The Womanosphere, Cuteservatives, and Choice Feminism with Cecily Nelson-Alford

52

Holding Onto Hope and Humanity; ICE, Palestine and Black Liberation

53

Re-Grifting: Paul Saladino and His Carnivore Creep with Beef Farmer Trampus Harmon

54

The First MAHA Report: What's In, What's Out, and What's Wrong with Selena Salfen, MPH, RDN and Meghan Cichy, MPH, RDN

55

Re-release!: Making It Awkward at UCSF's Trans Health Summit, with Calvin Gilbert, FNP

56

100 Days of Hellth and the MAHA Commission with Meghan Cichy, MPH, RDN and Selena Salfen, MPH, RDN

57

Beef Tallow and the Ethics of Colostrum Supplements with Dr. Sarah Dougherty and Trampus Harmon

58

Re-release! Making America Healthy Again; Part 2

59

Great British Bake-Off's Mike Wilkins on Farming and Queer Life in the UK

60

Crack, Cheetos & Cigarettes; Soda Taxes Pt. 2 with Blake Flaugher MPH and Raeann Bowlds MPH

61

MAHA Moms, Measles and Medical History with Dr. Bethany Johnson

62

Share Diabetes with Maria? Soda Taxes Pt 1 with Dr. Kelly Brownell

63

Re-Grifting: Dr. Andrew Huberman's Long Con with Tessa Rapaczynski

64

Bonus: Eating Disorder Awareness Week x Black History Month: Me Little Me Returns

65

#Farmlife at Harmon and Son Beef! The Trump Administration's Impact on Farmers and the Food Supply

66

An Intro to Farm Subsidies and Cheese Caves! With Mackenzie Behrle

67

Dad Content then The Guy Who Helped Coin the Phrase That Led Us to Fascism

68

Conspiracy Ken Gets Confirmed- RFK Jr. Will Never Be Ken-Enough

69

Re-Grifting: Dr. Mark Hyman

70

Bird Flu, Biology, Raw Milk & Pet Safety with Dr. Sarah Dougherty, DVM

71

The Raw Milk Divide with Farmer Trampus Harmon

72

We Saw This Coming; Glancing Back and Gearing Up for 2025

73

Neurodivergence and Girl Dinner with Dr. Lexi Brown-Re-release

74

Flavor Maxiamalists and Minimalists in America with Pops

75

MSG, spice and all things nice!

76

Should We Stop Eating Seed Oils? With Dr. Selina Wang

77

The Joy of Reading Romance and the Bliss of a Happy Ending (Re-Release)

78

Going Wild on Health and Fertility with Alison Pill

79

Election Reflections; Father Daughter Edition

80

Treatment in the Real World; Me Little Me Debuts! with Elizabeth Ayiku

81

Curlfriends! Hair, Identity, Health and Fat Lib with Whitney Trotter and Tigress Osborn

82

Making America Healthy Again; Part 1 with Jeff Hutt

83

Can Nutrition Policy Be Purchased? With Sherene Chou

84

Vicki Gonzalez Talks Breast Cancer at 40 and Reminds Us to Get Our Boobs and Bits Checked

85

What a TIME!; "Feedback" & Lessons, Plus Race, Class and Lunchables ft. Patrilie Hernandez

86

Minisode: Making (Dollars and) Sense of Ultraprocessed Foods?

87

Netflix's The Boyfriend & The Chicken Smoothie of it All with Kent Thomas

88

"Smoke & Mirrors"; Food Elitism and Wellness Culture With Shana Spence, MS, RDN

89

"How Dare She Be Phenomenal!" Women's Sports and Gender Panic with Dr. Naima Reddick

90

Making it Awkward Turns 1; A look back at the first season

91

Re-Release: Jessica's Ultra Processed Food Diet Results with Amy Fletcher

92

Hedonism, Palatability, and the Science-ification of "Junk Food;" Same advice, different packaging.

93

Eating Disorders, Dopamine, Salience, & The Status Quo with Molly Robbins

94

Sex is the Sixth Vital Sign; HIV, PrEP, and Disclosure with Pablo Sarmiento, NP

95

Eating Disorders, Food Addiction, Hyperpalatability, and Mental Health with Dr. David Wiss

96

Love on the Spectrum! with Jessica and Her Spouse

97

Salsa is a Vegetable!; Reclaiming Our Cultural Foods with Dalina Soto, RD

98

NPR Told Us To Eat Like Peasants; Its Living Better Series was Good for Clicks and Giggles

99

Tight Sphincters; on Being "Divisive" in the Eating Disorder Field with Dr. Deb Burgard

100

Final Thoughts & Who is Anti-Diet for?; With Jaye Rochon and Cara Harbstreet, MS RD

101

Rage Farming and Sh*tting on Women; with Clara Nosek

102

Neurodivergence, "Picky Eating" and ARFID with Naureen Hunani, RD

103

Anti-Diet Dietitians Made Cereal Ads, Then Things Got Awkward; with Sasha Chavkin

104

Pineapple Overthrow Butter Mochi and Hawaiian Tourism with Daphne K. Jenkins

105

Ultra Processed Fridays and Southern Food; a dad and daughter chat

106

GLP-1s, Diabetes and How Whiteness Works

107

Eating Disorders Don't Discriminate? With Dr. Chukwuemeka Nwuba

108

Writing the Next Book And Not Settling in Love with Chrissy King

109

Live, Laugh, Languish; Jessica Wrote a Book and Then it Got Awkward with Alison Pill

110

BMI Cutoffs for Gender Affirming Surgery; Kindness is Not Liberation with Isaac and Dr. Zo Amaro Jimenez

111

The Pivot: Food Heaven to Diabetes Digital with Wendy Lopez and Jessica Jones

112

Why are there BMI cutoffs for Gender affirming surgery? With Dr. Blair Peters.

113

Fat Liberation and Size Freedom Policies with Tigress Osborn

114

Food & Body Stuff in the Spotlight and Backstage with Stephanie Lexis and Libby Parker

115

Litigation and Legacy; Part 2 With Dr. Whitney Trotter and Meghan Cichy, MPH, RDN

116

Diet Evangelism: Netflix's vegan twin experiment

117

Litigation and Legacy with Steven Dunn; Part 1

118

"Impossible"; Being Black in the Eating Disorder Field with Dr Whitney Trotter and Angela Goens

119

Create a Policy to Reduce Anti-Fatness At The Doctor's Office and on Campus with Shantille Connolly, MPH CHES

120

My Body, ages 4-10. It was too much and very awkward.

121

Books...But Make it Awkward, with Shana and Maya

122

"#bannedbodies--AI's Social Media Discrimination with Jen McLellan"

123

Jen Jacobs, Editor Extraordinaire

124

Babe, have you eaten today? With @yourdietitianbff

125

I Asked My Dad About Dehumanization

126

Is Non-binary Identity a 3rd Gender Category?; USPATH Conference Reflections

127

The Research on BMI and Gender Affirming Care with Elijah Castle

128

What Makes Something News? With Lindsay Lee Wallace

129

Alison Pill is Making it Awkward in Film and TV

130

Ultra-Processed Parenting; Formula Feeding with Kent Thomas and Dr. Natalie Ingraham

131

But What IS an Ultra-Processed Food? with Amy Fletcher

132

Feeling Aligned in Queer Fashion, with Mahlah Catline

133

"Be the unexpected"

134

Introducing Making It Awkward!