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Making It Awkward — 129 episodes

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The People vs Poison Rally RoundUp with Trampus Harmon

2

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

3

Glyphosate & the People vs Poison Rally: Fear vs Facts

4

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

5

Having Grown Up with Jillian Michaels, Gen Z is Healing

6

Meeting a MAHA Mom in the Middle with Leslie Voorhees Means

7

Debating Jillian Michaels and Winning with Tigress Osborn

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

Autism Solved; Conspiracy Ken Strikes Again

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

The Fetishization of Asian Women and Subverting Stereotypes with Kaila Yu

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

The Womanosphere, Food Politics and the Next Body Ideal

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

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

49

Pronatalism, Eugenics, Fertility and Climate Justice with Dr. Eoin Flaherty

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

Re-release! Making America Healthy Again; Part 2

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

Re-Grifting: Dr. Mark Hyman

65

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

66

The Raw Milk Divide with Farmer Trampus Harmon

67

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

68

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

69

Flavor Maxiamalists and Minimalists in America with Pops

70

MSG, spice and all things nice!

71

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

72

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

73

Going Wild on Health and Fertility with Alison Pill

74

Election Reflections; Father Daughter Edition

75

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

76

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

77

Making America Healthy Again; Part 1 with Jeff Hutt

78

Can Nutrition Policy Be Purchased? With Sherene Chou

79

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

80

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

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

Love on the Spectrum! with Jessica and Her Spouse

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

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

97

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

98

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

99

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

100

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

101

GLP-1s, Diabetes and How Whiteness Works

102

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

103

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

104

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

105

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

106

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

107

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

108

Fat Liberation and Size Freedom Policies with Tigress Osborn

109

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

110

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

111

Diet Evangelism: Netflix's vegan twin experiment

112

Litigation and Legacy with Steven Dunn; Part 1

113

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

114

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

115

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

116

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

117

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

118

Jen Jacobs, Editor Extraordinaire

119

Babe, have you eaten today? With @yourdietitianbff

120

I Asked My Dad About Dehumanization

121

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

122

The Research on BMI and Gender Affirming Care with Elijah Castle

123

What Makes Something News? With Lindsay Lee Wallace

124

Alison Pill is Making it Awkward in Film and TV

125

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

126

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

127

Feeling Aligned in Queer Fashion, with Mahlah Catline

128

"Be the unexpected"

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Introducing Making It Awkward!