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Unshakeable ConfidenceWhat Happens When You Finally Quit DietingIn this weeks episode, I’m dismantling the fear that creeps in when you stop dieting. The fear of eating everything in sight, of losing control, of “letting yourself go.” And I’m showing you exactly why that fear isn’t your fault, it’s a byproduct of a system designed to keep women doubting themselves and stuck in the diet, binge cycle.This is more than a chat about food. This is a reckoning with the rules that have been holding you hostage in your body, your business, and your life.Highlights from this ep...
2025-08-1519 min
Quarter-Life Questions - adulting made easyBuilding Confidence, Overcoming self doubt and trusting yourself with coach Tamsin Broster from Unshakable Confidence PodcastDo you struggle with self-doubt? Imposter syndrome? Or maybe you’re just tired of second-guessing yourself in work, relationships, or social settings? This one’s for you.This week on the pod, we’re diving into a Quarter-Life Question that so many of us have asked at one point or another: How do you actually build lasting confidence?Joining me is certified confidence coach Tamsin Broster, founder of Unshakable Confidence. Tamsin helps women stop waiting to feel “ready” and start showing up exactly as they are - and she shares her top tips when it comes t...
2025-08-1353 min
Girls In PropertyBody Confidence: Celebrating Our Bodies as Homes with Tamsin BrosterIn this powerful episode, Athena Dobson sits down with Tamsin Broster to explore the deeply personal and universal topic of body confidence—a crucial issue that affects many women. Tamsin shares her journey, highlighting the struggles with body image that began at a young age and how they evolved over time. Through her candid reflections, she sheds light on how societal pressures often dictate the way women perceive their bodies and how those perceptions can impact both their personal and professional lives.The conversation also dives into the profound changes brought on by motherhood and how they ca...
2025-08-111h 11Unshakeable ConfidenceThe Photos You’re Not In (And Why It Matters)What does it really cost you when you avoid the camera? When you stay quiet in meetings? When you put off launching that offer or applying for that promotion because you don’t feel ready to be seen?In this powerful and personal episode, I’m talking about the ways high-achieving, brilliant women in business and corporate erase themselves without even realising it, and how this im pacts your personal relationships too.We unpack:How body image struggles silently sabotage visibility, confidence, and incomeWhy skipping the brand photoshoot or LinkedIn post isn’t a neutra...
2025-08-0825 minUnshakeable ConfidenceStop the Scroll: What Comparison Is Really Costing YouThe real reason you keep comparing yourself to other women — and how it’s quietly draining your confidence, your creativity, and your momentum.You might be feeling stuck, invisible, or like everyone else is smashing it while you’re still figuring things out. If thats you, this episode is where we explore what I really want you to know about the comparison spiral you're in:You’re not behind.You’re just on a different page.This episode uncovers:Why comparison shows up even when you logically 'know better'How...
2025-08-0124 min
Mothers' Hood10 - It’s Not the Glass Ceiling Holding Mothers Back with Tamsin Broster.In this episode, I’m joined by Tamsin Broster, feminist visibility and confidence coach, former Ministry of Defence leader, mother of two and all-round powerhouse. Tamsin shares her deeply personal story of stepping away from a 20-year civil service career to reclaim her identity, rebuild her confidence and rewrite what success means not just as a mother, but as a woman navigating loss, IVF, leadership, and the complexity of modern motherhood.This is a raw, rich, and honest conversation about what it means to live through matrescence in its fullest expression. From navigating IVF...
2025-07-2837 minUnshakeable ConfidenceBuild Your Empire in the Body You HaveLet’s kick off season 2 with a truth most of us were never taught when we were little.You don’t need to shrink your body to grow your business, your career or expand your life.In this episode of the Unshakeable Confidence Podcast, I’m diving into one of the most common (and costly) lies we’ve been sold — that we have to change how we look before we’re allowed to show up, be visible, and have the life we want.If you’ve ever delayed going live, avoided being photographed, or held back f...
2025-07-2515 minUnshakeable ConfidenceYour Human Design Isn’t Here to People Please with Emily ArmitageDo you know why you just can't run your business like everyone else? Why you seem to be running on empty and everyone else is nailing it? It's likely you just haven't discovered the power of your human design and how it can bring you the business you want. Emily Armitage is the human design expert with a difference, the patriarchal standards you've been living up to are going out of the window right now!When you get to grips with your design you'll be showing up in a way that screws the system that...
2025-04-1846 min
Opinionated! with Jenna DaleEp.7 Diet Culture Isn’t Just in Your Diet: Tamsin Broster on How It’s Holding Women Back in BusinessIn this episode of Opinionated, I’m joined by Tamsin Broster, a confidence and visibility coach on a mission to help women take up space unapologetically in their businesses. Tamsin’s unique approach comes from her deep understanding of body image and anti-diet culture, and she’s here to challenge the societal conditioning that keeps women hiding and second-guessing themselves.Tamsin shares how diet culture doesn’t just affect our eating habits—it affects our entire existence, especially in the business space. We’ve been conditioned from a young age that our value is based on how we look, and...
2025-04-0936 min
MindShift Power PodcastThe Confidence Conspiracy: Why Society Wants You Small (Episode 84)What if the insecurities haunting you at 13 could still be controlling your life at 50? According to confidence coach Tamsin Broster, this isn't just possible—it's precisely what happens to countless women who never address their fundamental relationship with themselves.Tamsin joins the MindShift Power Podcast to reveal the startling connection between teenage self-doubt and midlife crises. Drawing from her expertise working with perimenopausal women struggling with confidence, she offers a unique perspective on how young women can avoid this fate by building self-belief now.The conversation delves into how beauty standards and diet culture—a mult...
2025-04-0128 minUnshakeable ConfidenceHow Awards Transform Your Confidence & Your Brand with Emma HewittNominate yourself for an award?!? Yep we went there because like it or not your competitors are doing it and they are also nominating themselves without the ick and this is why you should too. Emma Hewitt is an expert when it comes to awards, she takes you through the entire process from choosing the right awards to writing an award winning entry and she gets results, she has the receipts to prove it. Awards are a massive confidence boost for you and your business but they also help you gain free PR and so many other...
2025-03-2146 min
The Should-Free Life and Business Podcast7: "I should be thinner, prettier and more confident"How many times have you felt like you should be thinner, more polished or more confident before you can truly take up space? Society hands us a long list of ‘shoulds’ when it comes to beauty, body image and confidence - but what if we faced those expectations head on and decided for ourselves what confidence really looks like?
In this episode of The Should-Free Life and Business Podcast, I’m joined by confidence and visibility coach Tamsin Broster, to dive deep into the many complex, nuanced issues around body image, self-acceptance and breaking free from harmful, limiti...
2025-03-1149 minUnshakeable ConfidenceChallenging Misogyny & Reclaiming Girlhood with Rae PearsIn this episode, I’m talking to Rae Pears about her incredible work with Girlhood Reclaimed, a community interest company challenging the misogynistic narratives that impact young women, girls and anyone who has been socialised into girlhood.We dig into the reality of growing up in a world shaped by sexism and everyday misogyny shape girls’ lives in ways many adults don’t even realise. Rae shares why creating safe spaces for honest conversations is so important and how listening (really listening) to young people can make all the difference.We also talk about body image...
2025-02-2846 minUnshakeable ConfidenceYour Wardobe is a Business Tool with Samantha HarmanWomen are constantly judged by their appearance especially clothing, yet style is rarely framed as a tool for empowerment. Samantha Harman joins me on the podcast to unpack the societal pressures surrounding what women wear, the mental load of outfit choices, and the double standards when it comes to using style as a business tool.We explore how personal style is the over looked business tool you didn't know you needed. It’s about stepping into your power, owning your worth, and using your wardrobe as a strategic asset to build your authority in business. If...
2025-02-1345 minUnshakeable ConfidenceMarketing That Moves the Needle On Your Business with Rowena WildingIf you are on LinkedIn you would have to be under a rock to not have seen posts from Rowena Wilding. She is quite simply LinkedIn's very own Queen of marketing! She's one of our most loved people over there and I have the pleasure of calling her my friend but also working with her too.This woman is not just a marketing expert but she's building something long lasting that has a ripple effect on how we all do business.Key Takeaways from this episode:Authenticity wins every time : Why being...
2025-01-3040 minUnshakeable ConfidenceThe Confidence Trap of AI-Generated Brand PicturesTechnology is glorious but sometimes it can be damaging in ways you don't realise. I'm not against AI (unless it's used to rip of other peoples work) but in this episode I want to address the issues I see with AI brand photos.AI has the potential to help us simplify our work and our processes but I'm seeing a worrying trend of people using it as a cheaper way to create professional looking brand photos with the click of a button, not realising it could be damaging their confidence.The perfect photos with zero...
2025-01-1621 minUnshakeable ConfidenceYou Can't Fight the Patriarchy on an Empty StomachDo you ever have something to share so urgently that you reschedule everything and record a podcast episode on New Years day!Well apparently I do and I make no apology because I think this was a much needed episode. Women running feminist led businesses are being struck by fear of the very things they are trying to dismantle. Patriarchal beauty standards, diet culture and everything we try and help women ignore for themselves, still hold us in a vice like grip and its impacting how we help women but instead of letting that stop...
2025-01-0233 minUnshakeable ConfidenceMotherhood, Menopause & Entrepreneurship with Faye DickerJoin me this week for a brilliant conversation with the stunning and wonderful Faye Dicker as we chat about motherhood, entrepreneurship, and the power of community. Faye, the creator of Freelance Mum, shares how she transformed her idea from a podcast into a thriving membership community for mums in business. We naturally dive into the ups and downs of balancing kids and career, the magic of women supporting women, and why networking is a game-changer. Faye also opens up about her love for cold water swimming, how it kept her grounded during lockdown, and the...
2024-12-1954 minUnshakeable ConfidenceFrom Self-Doubt to Soulmate: Unlocking Love with Hannah HoltThis week I sit down with Hannah Holt to dive deep into the world of mindset coaching, exploring how women’s self-worth, relationships, and self-acceptance play a crucil role in the choices you make when it comes to love and success.We talk about the societal pressures that make women feel inadequate and how recognising your own value is key to breaking free from those expectations.We touch on the importance of communication in relationships, how body image issues impact self-esteem, and why healing past traumas is essential for creating healthy, fulfilling connections. Hannah also sh...
2024-12-1239 minUnshakeable ConfidenceHow to Talk About Your Business Confidently on Social MediaIn this episode of Unshakeable Confidence, I dive into the powerful connection between self-acceptance, confidence, and body image, especially during menopause. I share why I decided to rename the podcast and how this shift reflects the deeper conversations I’m passionate about having with you.But the real focus of this episode is about overcoming fears around showing up online—whether that’s posting on social media or getting in front of the camera. I’ll help you see how finding your voice and stepping away from the noise of societal expectations can transform your business and reach th...
2024-12-0522 min
Hell Yes Style12 - How marketing expert Rowena Wilding is paving the way with hell yes styleThis is a special episode because it's an in-depth conversation with my brilliant client and friend Rowena Wilding. Marketing expert and mum-of-three, Rowena is paving the way for other women in business. She is super passionate about re-investing into other small, women-run businesses that do good stuff in the world. We started working together around a year ago and in this episode, Rowena gives a candid account of what that journey has been like.If your marketing is feeling overwhelming, if you need support for a marketing or copywriting project, if...
2024-10-141h 07
Emotipod: Arts & EmotionsDysmorphiaDissatisfaction or discomfort with one's appearance - we all have a little bit, but the beauty and slimming industries as well as popular culture feed the body shaming and 'othering' that can lead to very serious dysmorphic disorders like anorexia, addictions, extreme plastic surgery, etc.Host Frances talks to peri-menopause, body image and confidence coach Tamsin Broster about how she's helping women - and her own children - feel happy in their own skins.Tamsin BrosterJoin Frances on Instagram:@francesbbristolor LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/francesbvoice
2024-03-1627 min
Live Unrestricted - The Intuitive Eating & Food Freedom PodcastHow To Thrive Through Menopause Without Dieting w/Tasmin BrosterLet's talk about menopause for a sec. I don't have to tell you that we live in a society where there's constant pressure on women to stay looking young, pretty, and thin... creating these unattainable standards that leave you feeling exhausted, frustrated and hating your body.Then...perimenopause comes in and you're now experiencing MORE challenges like weight gain, unfamiliar symptoms, and a rage that comes from nowhere leaving you tired, resentful and lost.You might hate the fact that your clothes don't fit but you've had decades of dieting experience and you...
2024-02-2849 min
The Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 54 - And That's A WrapWell, what a ride these last two years have been with the podcast. We open this show with some news that has left a lump in our throat, to say the least!
This episode is an emotional one and a must-listen, whether you are just discovering us or if you have been here since the beginning.
Join us as we laugh, cry, and dive into the biggest and most unexpected twists and turns of the topics we’ve covered and the guests who have joined us.
We share the biggest things we have lear...
2023-10-061h 08The Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 53 - Revisited: Transitioning to Intuitive EatingHere is our most popular episode from the last 2 years of The Anti-Diet Club Podcast and it's all about transitioning to intuitive eating when you have been dieting for longer than you can remember.
This episode was our 3rd episode and we were still finding our feet with the podcast back then, but we knew that our listeners needed to have our take on how to move towards intuitive eating in the kindest, most compassionate way. There’s no doubt that dieting keeps a grip on us for a long time and we know it isn’t easy...
2023-09-2244 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 52 - Revisited: But I Need To Lose WeightShow notes - Revisited: But I Need to Lose Weight
On this week's revisited episode, we get to number 2 in our most popular episodes. It’s no surprise that our second most popular episode is related to the feeling of needing to lose weight. The idea that our bodies are always too big is the very reason diet culture exists.
What if you feel that you need to lose weight? Perhaps you feel that it’s ok for others to be in a bigger body but you just can’t accept it for yourself. In this ep...
2023-09-0856 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 51 - Revisited: If Not Dieting, Then What?As Gillian and I take a short break from recording, we wanted to share with you some of the most popular episodes so far. This Episode is our 3rd most popular so join us this week to revisit this topic.
How do you set goals, focus on health or pursue your dreams when you are no longer dieting? Why does leaving diet culture often feel like giving up?
When you first embark on a life without dieting, it can feel a little disorientating and while everyone around you is still rooted in di...
2023-08-2551 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 50 - Your Questions AnsweredOur 50th Episode is here! We are so thrilled to be reaching this milestone and we wanted to do something special for our listeners, so we decided a special Q&A episode would be the best way to give you some of the direct answers to some of your most commonly asked questions.
Over the last two years, we have received so many stories, comments, DM’s, and emails from our listeners with so many different topics and questions and before now we have stuck to one topic for each episode. For this episode, we wanted to co...
2023-08-1156 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 49 - Dressing for Your Today Body with Dacy GillespieHow do you let go of clothes that don’t fit and find joy in dressing for your today body? Dacy Gillespie has built her personal styling business around helping women to let go of body ideals and beauty culture and find their own personal style.
She joins us on the podcast to explore what happens in our body when we can feel our clothes digging in or open our wardrobes to see nothing that fits our body as it is today.
Dacy brings her experience of how she works with clients to understand their body...
2023-07-2845 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 48 - Diet Culture: The Male Perspective with Jonny LandelsHow does diet culture affect men? This is a question we haven’t explored on the podcast before but we recently connected with Jonny Landels, he joined us for a very interesting conversation about how he went from a fat loss coach to a HAES-aligned PT openly challenging his own anti-fat bias.
He openly shared his struggle with knowing his diet culture approach was no longer what he believed in, but not knowing how to articulate what he was learning about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach to fitness and health.
Jonny explains how the lang...
2023-07-141h 03The Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 47 - Anti-Diet Movement with Kelsey EllisOur guest this week is Kelsey Ellis a body-positive fitness trainer who joins us to talk about movement outside of diet culture. Kelsey was a personal trainer who started her career in mainstream diet culture and weight loss focussed fitness, but she had a wake-up call that made her realise she was so deeply obsessed with body goals and counting calories and it was not only not serving her clients but it was damaging her own relationships and her ability to enjoy her life fully.
Our bodies love to move and Kelsey is on a mission to h...
2023-06-3050 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 46 - The Role Books Play in Body LiberationWe love books and it’s surprising that we haven’t spoken about the role books play until now. This week’s episode is a deep dive into how books can really support everyone’s journey into anti-diet and body liberation. We uncover the reason perfectionism can actually hinder progress and how to approach books along your journey without reaching overwhelm. What were the first anti-diet, body-positive books we read, and the role they played in us seeing a glimpse of another world that validated how we were feeling when we were caught up in diet culture.
2023-06-1649 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 45 - The Trouble with Weight Loss Injections with Dr. Asher LarmieLet's talk about weight loss injections. If the headlines are to be believed, we’ve solved the puzzle of how to make fat people thin people…but have we really or is this just another diet packaged as a miracle cure? We reached out to Dr Asher Larmie to give us the inside knowledge of how these injections work, what the large companies and medical professionals are choosing not to show us, and what we know so far from the data and studies we do have.
Asher leaves no stone unturned and gives us the truth behind the g...
2023-06-021h 02The Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 44 - Liberation Beyond Diet Culture with GillianThis week it’s Gillian’s turn to take the solo mic for her own personal story of body liberation and beyond. She shares her deep and honest accent of how her life opened up beyond simply no longer dieting and punishing her body. Unlearning diet culture leads to questioning everything from her career, and relationships to her values and beliefs.
Gillian gives a vulnerable, open account of how her life completely changed over years of self-reflection, therapy, and peeling back the layers of social conditioning that had contributed to losing sight of what she really wanted from...
2023-05-1956 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 43 - What Do We Mean by Non Diet?With International No Diet Day upon us this week, we are discussing the ways the media have diluted the meaning of this day and used it to reinforce anti-fat bias and the idea that not dieting is unhealthy. This conversation leads us on to the ways in which the body-positive movement has strayed far away from the fat black and queer community, their voices all too often drowned out by the swathes of white, straight-sized bodies telling us to simply love our curves.
Our culture is so focused on thinness as a measure of health without questioning w...
2023-05-1846 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp. 42 - Menopause and Diet Culture with TamsinThis week Tamsin is doing a solo episode for the first time since we started the podcast. She is exploring perimenopause/menopause and the lack of representation and support for anyone who isn’t a white, straight-sized, cis-gendered woman. When we go through this phase in our lives the focus seems to be weight gain and there's so much discussion around being body positive but with the underlying message that we need to lose weight. Tamsin shares the horrors that she found when she went looking for fat-positive, weight-inclusive support for menopause symptoms and surprised herself at what she un...
2023-04-2142 min
Where The Wild Women AreBody Image and Intuitive Eating with Tamsin BrosterTamsin Broster is an Intuitive Eating & Body Image Coach. She helps people overcome years of chronic dieting, binge eating and feeling at war with their body and helps them have a relaxed relationship with food and feel confident in their body. She supports people to challenge their beliefs around body image and beauty to enable them to break free from society's expectations.
How to connect with Tamsin
Instagram: Tamsin_broster
Website: www.tamsinbroster.co.uk
Facebook Group: Intuitive Eating & Body Confidence Group
Full episode information at our...
2023-04-1748 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 41 - Plus Size Kids and Clothes That Fit with Pam LuckWhy do kid's clothing brands ignore the fact that plus-size kids exist? We speak with Pam Luck, founder of Ember & Ace, a plus-size athletic clothing brand that she created to meet the demand that other clothing brands appear to be ignoring.
In this episode, we ask Pam about her own experience as a young athletic kid growing up with no access to adequate sports clothes to fit her body, and how this affected her own relationship with sports. Now as a parent herself, she has a mission to not only fill the gap in this market but t...
2023-04-0740 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 40 - Client Story with Sam MossmanThis week we talk to Sam, a client of Gillian's whose pursuit of the perfect body led her into years of restrictive diets, an obsession with wellness fads, and a dedication to bodybuilding and completely transforming herself over and over again. After spending decades pursuing thinness and thousands of pounds later she discovered intuitive eating, a path that would lead her directly to Gillian for support. Her story of rebuilding trust with her body and accepting herself as a different size wasn’t straightforward, she admits she was skeptical and thought she would never truly be able to relinquish co...
2023-03-2445 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 39 - But I Need To Lose WeightWhat if you feel that you need to lose weight? Perhaps you feel that it’s ok for others to be in a bigger body but you just can’t accept it for yourself. In this episode we discuss why it’s hard to simply let go of the desire to lose weight even if you want to pursue an anti-diet path..
If you experience discrimination due to your body size, pursuing weight loss can feel like the only way to support yourself. Society often doesn't feel like a safe place to ‘put weight on the back burner’...
2023-03-1053 min
Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen#257: When You Still Have the Diet Mentality with Gillian McCollum and Tamsin BrosterI’m joined by Tamsin Broster and Gillian McCollum, anti-diet and body image coaches. We’re talking about binge eating and diet mentality and how to overcome it, why traditional “thinking based” strategies to stop a binge aren’t always enough, and why anxiety goes hand-in-hand with food restriction. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/257 In this episode, we talk about: - The difference between binge eating and emotional eating, - That binge eating looks different for everyone, - Why anxiety is your body’s normal reaction to hunger, - That if you’ve been brought up in d...
2023-03-0749 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 38 - Finding Plus Size Community with Ebony JamillahWhat do you do when you are surrounded by folks who don’t have to struggle to find clothes in high street stores, or understand what it’s like to be told you can’t enjoy sports or activities simply because of the size of your body? Ebony took matters into her own hands and put a call out on TikTok for some big baddie besties! What happened next shocked her as her DM’s were flooded with people sharing their own experiences of being the bigger one in the group and feeling isolated and asking to join and Big Girl...
2023-02-2446 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 37 - Am I Doing Intuitive Eating Wrong?Do you feel that you just can’t get the hang of intuitive eating? Do you wonder if you are doing it wrong? In this episode, we discuss how doubts and fears can creep in when you start intuitive eating after years of chronic dieting. How can you tell if you’re on the right track? How can you really be sure it’s ‘working’? We share our expertise on how to evaluate your intuitive eating practice if you’re feeling as if it’s not clicking for you, including key things to watch out for. Plus we share our own experi...
2023-02-1051 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 36 - When Your BMI Gets In The Way of IVF with Emma HaslamThis week we are joined by Emma Haslam, founder of Your IVF abroad. Her fertility journey almost came to an abrupt end due to BMI restrictions and medical weight bias. She shares her story of how her determination to have a child and advocate for herself led her to seek fertility treatment abroad. Emma shares her story in the hope of helping others advocate for themselves and seek alternative options to grow their family and not give up hope. We talk about her fears, heartbreak, anger, and the joyful moments she faced along the way and how she now...
2023-01-2748 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 35 - Client Story with Rachael BotfieldThis week we are joined by Rachael, a client of Tamsin’s who has a history of dieting through slimming clubs and always being the one who was the one sharing diet tips, bringing her own food to events, and obsessively navigating life around food and dieting.
She shares with us how becoming a mum and working in an industry that valued beauty and thinness left her lacking in confidence and unsure of a way out other than pursuing weight loss over and over again.
Her anti-diet journey began when she found the body positivity co...
2023-01-1344 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 34 - The Wellness TrapNew year, new you? Before you get sucked into a health kick, listen to this episode first! Wellness culture is the new diet culture and as you might expect it’s in full swing this January. In this episode, we share our own experiences with orthorexia, wellness culture & disordered eating. Including some tales of fancy gadgets, protein balls, obsession with popular wellness bloggers, and milking almonds before work!
Health and wellness culture perpetuates food and body shame and isn’t accessible or sustainable for the vast majority of us. It often takes us away from simple health-promoting behaviour...
2022-12-301h 01The Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 33 - Is Your Partner Anti-Fat?How do you cope if your partner has fatphobic views and you fear rejection if you gain weight? What if they’ve never struggled with their weight and have no concept of just how hard it is to keep pursuing thinness? How can you explore new relationships, dating and find a partner who isn’t fatphobic?
Embarking on an anti-diet journey can be hard to explain to others, especially when we have been deep in diet culture for years. In the beginning you may not have the language or the full understanding of where this might lead to e...
2022-12-1643 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 32 - Who The F*ck Am I Outside of Dieting with Sabina McAllister SingwellExactly who are you when your identity no longer revolves around food rules and body obsession? This week we chat with Sabina McAllister Singwell about her reckoning with body trust, her struggle with Orthorexia, the reclamation of her body, and connecting with her spiritual self as part of her healing journey. This episode isn’t to be missed if not for some great book recommendations along the way.
Content warning: Sexual assault (at 17 mins)
Topics covered:
Dieting/pursuit of weight loss
Orthorexia
Feminism
Spirituality + Religion
Fat Liberation
Body Trust
Personal Pleasure + Joy
Book Re...
2022-12-0249 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 31 - Surviving Holiday Diet TalkThe holiday season is upon us with Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New year just around the corner. We know this is often the time of year that folks find themselves around the table with friends and family and diet chat with no clear escape route.
How can you even begin to explain this anti-cultural way of being in your body to those who have never heard of intuitive eating or Health at Every Size?
In this episode, we chat through some of the different scenarios people often find themselves in and more importantly how to protect...
2022-11-1842 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 30 - This Is Us NowOur one-year anniversary episode is here! To celebrate this milestone we have recorded a very special episode. Join us as we recap where we are in our personal lives, sharing some of our most vulnerable moments that have happened behind the scenes but also we give you an insight into what to expect from season 4 including some very special news about how you can get much more from us in the future.
And if that wasn't exciting enough, this episode is also on YouTube so you can actually watch the video recording of this episode for the...
2022-11-0339 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 29 - Client Story with Siobhan O'ConnorThis week we have a client story from Siobhan O’Conner. This was an emotional episode as Siobhan openly shares her memories of going along to slimming clubs from the age of 9, along with caregivers who regularly dieted and reinforced the idea that being fat was something to be avoided at all costs.
Siobhan recalls her younger years of always being the party girl and struggling with alcohol, mental health, and binge eating. She describes how covid forced her to come face to face with the things in her life she had been avoiding and how this led...
2022-10-2056 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 28 - The Shame of Not Feeling Body PositiveEver have that feeling of "I shouldn't feel this way about my body" because, in theory, you align with the body positivity movement? Because you've read all the books, you’ve followed all the social media accounts, you listen to all the podcasts. You might even be accepting and positive about all other bodies. Yet you can’t seem to shift your negative feelings about your own body, you still have thoughts of wanting to shrink your body and that shame stops you from seeking support from friends, or a professional.
This week we explore the feelings of s...
2022-10-0645 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 27 - Sexuality, Curiosity and Body Image with Samantha FoxIn this episode we have an incredible conversation with Samantha Fox, she lifts the lid on how compulsory heterosexuality and compulsory femininity is so deeply ingrained in us and forms so much of our beliefs from a young age. She explains how curiosity and getting radically honest with who we really are allows us to break free from these systems of oppression.
There are so many parallels to anti-diet work because of how we find ourselves questioning the beliefs we have held for so long, we dive into all the ways in which this relates to diet...
2022-09-221h 02The Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 26 - Are You A Secret Eater?Do you find yourself eating in the dark? Hiding your food from others? Eating in your car or just anywhere out of sight from others? The restriction of dieting causes reactive eating but so often this reactive eating carries so much guilt and shame, we feel we have to hide it from others.
We share our own stories of secret eating and how this played a big part in our dieting years, in the hope that you can see that you are not broken or flawed, it’s simply a way of surviving and coping under the pr...
2022-09-0852 min
Wedding Business Growth Coach PodcastIs Your Self Worth Affecting How You Show Up In Your Wedding Business?The way we value ourselves has a direct link with how we do or don't show up as the face of our wedding businesses on and offline. That is why in the episode I have invited Tamsin Broster onto the show, a Confidence & Body Image Coach, to unpick how our self worth will be impacting our visibility and potentially reducing our ability to build meaningful connection with our audience of prospective wedding clients. Tamsin also shares with us her approach to start challenging our inner critics voice and begin a journey to feeling more confident in your...
2022-09-0133 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 25 - Client Story with Karen Murray (part two)This is the second part of our client story with Karen Murray. This week Karen shares with us the highs and lows of her food and body recovery journey. She gives us an honest account of what she struggled with along the way, and what felt easier as she went through the process of accepting her body. Some surprising feelings came up as she began to dismantle diet culture thoughts and rediscover the joy of food through intuitive eating.
If you want to know what it really feels like to work through recovery from diet culture, this...
2022-08-2535 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 24 - Client Story with Karen Murray (part one)This week we bring you an incredible open and honest client story from Karen Murray. Like so many of us, her struggles with food and body span over decades and have been ever-present at every point in her life. Karen explains the true extent to which she attempted to control her body size through food and exercise and how she found her way out through anti-diet work.
Karen is a client of Gillian’s who has been on such a journey through her own recovery, she wanted to share her story to help others.
Nothing sh...
2022-08-1157 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 23 - Medical Trauma with Dr Asher LarmieWhat a guest we have for you this week, none other than Dr Asher Larmie (they/them) aka The Fat Doctor. Asher is a Transgender Non Binary fat activist and GP with over 20 years of medical experience in the UK.
Asher shares with us how their own journey unfolded and the ways in which the medical system is harming fat patients and why they continue to fight for an end to medical weight stigma. Their #noweigh campaign aims to be the first step towards dismantling weight centric healthcare that has become the norm in our society.
2022-07-2855 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 22 - When Intuitive Eating Doesn't WorkWhat happens when Intuitive Eating feels like an uphill struggle or quite simply out of reach?
This week we share our honest thoughts and experiences of why Intuitive Eating might not be the perfect answer for everyone opting out of dieting. We delve into the privilege behind Intuitive Eating and discuss some of the factors that mainstream Intuitive Eating providers aren't talking about.
Topics Covered:
Eating disorder recovery
Social determinants of health
Binge eating
Dieting & food restriction
Anti-fat bias
Wellness culture
White supremacy and systemic racism
Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast
Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com
Connect with Tamsin Broster
Website...
2022-07-1450 min
The Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 21 - Relationships and Self Worth with Rebecca SpittlesThis week we welcome our first guest of season 3, Rebecca Spittles. She shares with us her own personal recovery story and journey from hating her body to finding her self-worth outside of diet culture.
She tells her incredible story of always being presented as the ‘big’ girl and the stigma that came with that from a young age and explains how this played out in her social life and the relationships she sought as a result.
Rebecca is a Divorce & Separation Support Coach supporting men and women through the emotional and practical elements of a rela...
2022-06-3049 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 20 - But I Don't Want to Gain WeightHow do you accept your body if you gain weight? Can you heal your relationship with food and still control your body? How much influence do you really have over your body size in the first place?
We know weight gain is a valid fear for many, and that it’s not as easy as simply just learning to love your body and be happy with it at any size especially when the world is set up for thin people and weight stigma is reinforced at every turn.
In this episode we talk through these re...
2022-06-1648 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 19 - Dealing with Judgement and ComparisonHow do you judge yourself? Who are you comparing yourself to? We know that you can’t escape the trap of comparing yourself to others and wondering if you are good enough. Even if you have managed to leave the world of diet culture behind, these feelings still come occur.
This episode is all about recognising when you are allowing these feelings to affect your self worth and how to work through them and build your resilience as you heal.
Join us to find out more about our personal relationship with self judgment and comparison an...
2022-06-0241 min
Inspired Souls with Helen PinkettBody Image & Why Its Important With Tamsin BrosterTamsin Broster is a Food Freedom & Body Acceptance Coach helping you to quit the binge for good
In this episode we hear about Tamsin's journey, intuitive eating & how our relationship with food is part of our self care & self worth stories
Contact Tamsin:
Website:
www.tamsinbroster.co.uk
Email:
freedom@tamsinbroster.co.uk
2022-05-2431 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 18 - Dismantling Diet Culture in Schools with Emily PerfectThis week we are joined by Emily Perfect a primary school teacher passionate about supporting children to feel confident in themselves, their own bodies, and happy with who they are! She joins us to explain how diet culture and food obsession affect kids at a young age and shares with us the simple changes she had made at her school to ensure the children develop a positive body image.
Emily shares her own story of struggles with her body and how she became an advocate for changing the way we talk about food and bodies in front...
2022-05-1945 min
The Pocket StylistEpisode 58 - Plus size body confidence.In this Episode my guest is Tamsin Broster.Tamsin Broster is an Anti-diet Body Image Coach. She helps people overcome years of chronic dieting, binge eating and feeling at war with their body to have a relaxed relationship with food and feel confident in their body. She supports people to challenge their beliefs around body image and beauty to enable them to break free from society's expectations. Website www.tamsinbroster.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tamsin_broster/About the HostWorking with per...
2022-05-1241 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 17 - Can We Talk About Emotional Eating?Emotional eating is a concern for many of our listeners so we wanted to cover this topic in detail for those of you that find yourselves continually in the cycle of eating emotionally and feeling bad about it afterwards.
We both identified as emotional eaters during our own journey and struggled with trying to control it for years. In this episode we chat through these experiences of emotional eating, and explain more about our approach to it now. We help you understand why dieting harder doesn't solve it and how to break out of that cycle.
2022-05-0541 min
Always WorthyIntuitive Eating with Tamsin BrosterHello Listeners! TW FOR EATING DISORDERS. This episode is truly one of my favorites. I talk with Tamsin, an intuitive eating coach who also has her own podcast about the seriousness of diet culture and what it does to our body image. I also talk with her about intuitive eating and how we can achieve peace with food. If you'd like to learn more about Intuitive Eating you can read this AMAZING BOOK. Here's the link to purchase. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1250255198/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ARJXY92W1H1AQ0PCX...
2022-04-2933 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 16 - What Triggers Binge Eating with Isabel Foxen DukeThis week we are talking about binge eating and how to feel relaxed around food with Isabel Foxen Duke.
Isabel has been influential in both of our journeys to recovery from dieting and also our progression into becoming anti-diet coaches and developing our understanding of binge eating. She has an incredible amount of knowledge about food and how restriction of food ultimately affects our ability to trust ourselves with what we need and want. In this episode, she shares her knowledge and over a decade of experience with us on how to truly understand why we feel s...
2022-04-2147 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 15 - How Diet Culture Impacts YogaThis week I’m turning the mic on Gillian to interview her about her journey to becoming a yoga teacher and her experience of how diet culture intersects with yoga culture.
Gillian explains how western yoga culture has become heavily interlinked with healthism, diet culture, and the beauty ideal which has an impact on how it is represented and who can access it.
The version of yoga we’re sold has so many barriers to entry through lack of representation to teachers ill-equipped to hold space for those in marginalized bodies.
Join us for...
2022-04-0740 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 14 - Fat Fertility with Nicola SalmonOur guest on the show this week is fat fertility coach, Nicola Salmon.
She shares with us the influence her PCOS diagnosis had on her from a young age, how anti-fat bias shows up in our healthcare system and what choices are available to people at higher weights who want to grow their families.
Nicola is a fat-positive fertility coach and author of “Fat and Fertile”.
She helps fat folks navigate getting pregnant in a weight-obsessed world and advocates for change in how fat people are treated whilst accessing help with their fertility.
2022-03-2436 min
Podcasting 101 with RachaelPodcast Insights with Tamsin Broster and Gillian McCollumIn this week's episode, I talk to Tamsin Broster and Gillian McCollum from The Anit-Diet Club Podcast. We talk about: How they came up with the idea for the podcast [2.47]How they determined who it was for [5.06]Planning the topics [8.55]Deciding on the episode format [11.38] [16.32]Marketing for social media [18.49]The Tech [24.01] -----Top Tips: Don't worry about what your voice sounds like! [30.47] Don't be afraid of reaching out to people to be guests on your show [30.56] Don't let the tech trip you...
2022-03-2334 min
Podcasting 101 with RachaelWelcome to Podcasting 101 with Rachael!Welcome to Podcasting 101 with Rachael During this episode, I talk about my journey to Podcast Manager and why I started this podcast. My first podcast - The Virtually Inspiring Podcast [0.50]My Journey and what I do now [2.34] My favourite podcasts [5.11]Kermode & Mayo's Film Review | Simon Mayo and Mark KermodeEvil Genius | Russel Kane You're Dead to me | Greg Jenner The Podcast Manager Show | Lauren Wrighton [6.01]The No Bullsh*t Guide to a Happier Life | Helen Calvert [6.12]My first podcast guest coming up, Tamsin Broster and Gillian McCollum from Th...
2022-03-1608 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 13 - When Photos Trigger Body ShameWhy do photos trigger so much body shame? What do we do when we look back at pictures and wonder why we ever thought there was anything wrong with us? How do we feel when our body has changed or we have recovered into a larger body? Why don’t we feel confident to be able to get into the pictures with our loved ones?
Join us as we discuss all the things that come up around photos, past, present and future and how we can take steps towards showing up without changing how we look.
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2022-03-1053 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 12 - Cultivating a Positive Body Image with Summer InnanenOur guest on the show this week is body image expert, Summer Innanen.
She shares her years of experience with us to explain why making peace with your body isn’t about loving how you look.
We get deep into conversation with Summer to help you explore healing your relationship with your body without trying to fall in love with every part of it.
Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their sc...
2022-02-2442 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 11 - Body GriefGiving up dieting and healing from diet culture can uncover a myriad of emotions.
This week we discuss why letting go of our ideal body and hopes of what could have been, feels like processing a loss through grief.
In this episode, we explore the stages of body grief, why it’s important to allow space for these feelings, and how to support yourself towards body acceptance.
Topics covered:
5 Stages of grief
Societal beauty standards & expectations
Thin privilege
Body Image/Body Acceptance
Dieting/Weight loss
Health at every size
Weight set point th...
2022-02-1051 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 10 - Medical Fatphobia with Ly KerrThis week we welcome our first guest on the show, Ly Kerr. In this episode she shares her personal story of experiencing medical weight stigma and the impact it had on her journey to body liberation.
Her story reminds us of the prevalence of weight bias in our health care system and the harmful effects it has on individuals in bigger bodies seeking medical care.
If you feel alone in your struggles navigating medical fatphobia, and may be wondering how to advocate for yourself or if you can ever find body acceptance, then this episode...
2022-01-2735 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 9 - If Not Dieting, Then What?How do you set goals, focus on health or pursue wellbeing when you're no longer dieting?
When you first embark on a life without dieting, it can feel a little disorientating and while everyone around you is still rooted in diet culture, it can leave you questioning if you have made the right choice.
In this episode we help you detangle weight from health and bust some common myths around what it means to let go of the never ending pursuit of weight loss.
Topics covered:
What is Health at Every Size (H...
2022-01-1348 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 8 - Diets Don't WorkAs we approach January with it’s relentless pushing of diets, lifestyles and wellness nonsense, we know that many people will be tempted and in some cases encouraged to partake again for yet another year. We’ve brought you this episode to help you make that decision armed with some things to think about when considering if dieting is in fact the solution.
Topics covered in this episode include:
Weight loss (we never discuss numbers)
Chronic dieting, restriction and orthorexia
Weight cycling
Food cravings
Binge eating
Emotional eating
Weight set point theory
Social connections and how diet...
2021-12-3042 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 7 - The Harm of Anti-Fat BiasWhat is anti-fat bias? How does it harm us and what can we do about it? In this week's episode we’re talking about some of the overt and covert ways in which anti-fat bias shows up in our culture and how this contributes to our collective fear of weight gain keeping us stuck in diet culture, body shame and distressed eating patterns.
Discussions in this episode include:
Weight stigma
Weight bias/oppression
Marginalised bodies
Media representation
Medical weight bias
Contact us
Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast
Email th...
2021-12-1644 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 6 - The Value of Self CareWhat does self-care actually do for us? How does it affect us when we’re not taking care of our own needs? In this week’s episode, we explore what self-care means to us and how it is linked to how we feel about our bodies and our ability to pursue a life without dieting.
Discussions in this episode include:
Body Dissatisfaction/Body image
Self Talk/Inner Critic
Diet Culture Values & Beliefs
Social Media
Self Comparison
Contact us
Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast
Email theantidietclubpodcast@gmail.com
Co...
2021-12-0243 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 5 - Setting Healthy BoundariesIn this week's episode, we cover the topic of boundaries. What exactly are boundaries? Why do we need them and when is it ok not to have them? What's the difference between a request and a boundary? In this episode, we reveal the challenges we have faced with simple boundaries and why we feel it’s ok not to have this perfected.
Discussions in this episode include:
Weight loss/dieting
Diet recovery
Body acceptance
Perfectionism
Disordered eating
Fatphobia/Weight stigma
Relationships
Contact us
Follow us on Instagram @theantidietclubpodcast
Ema...
2021-11-1746 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 4 - When Food Has Power Over UsAs we approach the holiday season, food begins to take on a new identity in terms of what’s allowed and permissible. We're unpacking our thoughts around the marketing of foods at this time of year and the roller coaster we're being taken on. We discuss why food has taken on a moral value and how that affects our relationship with food and why it has power over us.
Discussions in this episode include:
Food morality
Scarcity mindset
Bingeing
Intuitive eating
Body acceptance
Letting go of diet culture beliefs
Contact us
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2021-11-0444 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 3 - Transitioning to Intuitive EatingIn this episode we’re talking through the surprising ups and downs of starting an intuitive eating practice. We share our own experiences and some common themes we see coming up in our coaching practices. If you’re transitioning away from diet culture and are wondering why intuitive eating doesn’t feel like plain sailing then join us for this episode to understand more about what you may be experiencing.
Intuitive Eating - Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch
Discussions in this episode include:
Moving from diet culture into intuitive eating
How diet culture mindset impacts our ab...
2021-10-1940 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 2 - Why We Have Poor Body ImageThis week we're talking about body image. Why do we feel so dissatisfied with our bodies and how can we live in the body we have and feel connected to it instead of judging it?
We discuss how body dissatisfaction affects our day-to-day lives and where the idea comes from that we should be thinner or change parts of ourselves to fit society's view of "ideal".
Discussions in this episode include:
Fatphobia/weight bias/fat oppression
Body dissatisfaction/body image
Body trust
Weight cycling
How the media impacts our perception of health and beauty
B...
2021-10-1939 minThe Anti-Diet Club PodcastEp 1 - This Is UsWelcome to the launch episode of The Anti Diet Club Podcast. In this first episode Gillian Mccollum & Tamsin Broster share their own personal stories of how their years of dieting, disordered eating, and body dissatisfaction began. In this episode, we talk about what food and body image felt like growing up and how they affected us at each stage of their lives.
Tune in to hear how we both found our way from chronic dieting to the path of recovery.
Discussions in this episode include:
Fatphobia/weight bias
Weight loss and the honeymoon stage...
2021-10-1846 min
What the Mum!Turning her passion and personal challenges into serving othersJoin me as I talk to Tamsin Broster about being a Mum in Business.
Tamsin Broster is a mum and a Food and Body Freedom Coach. She was inspired to start her business as a result of her own relationship with food and how she viewed her body. She is on a mission to help others who have similar challenges so they can truly feel free and also love the body they have.
You can follow Tamsin on Instagram and find out more about her business from her website.
If you enjoyed this...
2021-08-1228 min