This podcast will help you see food in a whole new way!
HERstory on a Plate is a conversation about food, diet culture and how it impacts women in today’s world. Join hosts Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson as they share their stories around food, culture, body image and how it has shaped their personal stories. Committed to ending the stigma of diet culture and instead, they show how embracing food traditions can be healing.
Episode 1: Fresh Starts or Desperate Measures
This time will be different. Have you’ve said that to yourself? The new year brings pressure about all the things we need to change. The pressure of fixing things, especially changes in our bodies, can be overwhelming leading to desperate measures because this time is has to work. Hosts Jennie and Nina are talking about this timely topic on this inaugural episode of Herstory On a Plate. Making changes, wanting to evolve and grow is part of the human journey. Jennie points out that change doesn’t mean becoming a different person, and it surely doesn’t mean becoming a different size.
Episode 2: Grief, Love & Food: with Rachel Zimmerman
Hosts Jennie and Nina are talking with Rachel Zimmerman, an award-winning journalist covering health and medicine for over two decades. Rachel is talking about her unique and up close perspective on loss and grief and trauma. She breaks down what current research is doing to understand how collective trauma as well as intergenerational trauma impact us today, as a society and as individuals. She also shares her very personal story of trauma around loss and grief. Her daughter’s father and her former husband committed suicide. At the time, Zimmerman explains she wasn’t sure how her life could go on. She couldn’t see a future where any of them would ever be happy again.
Episode 3: Celebrities and Aging Bodies with Jennie Kramer & Nina Manolson
The conversation revolves around the topic of aging and its cultural impact, focusing on how celebrities’ aging is scrutinized and its influence on regular individuals. Hosts, Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson, discuss the privileges and challenges of aging, emphasizing the cultural conversation around it.They explore societal attitudes, the impact of media, and the pressure to conform to youth and beauty standards. Billions of dollars are spent every year to deny, slow, or minimize the impact of aging, nearly all related to how we look. Culture matters too. Some societies revere elderly members, looking to them for wisdom and guidance. In the US, we devalue aging, often making us feel invisible.
Episode 4: Navigating Binge Eating Disorder and Embracing Body Autonomy: A Conversation with Amy Pershing and Chevice Turner
Hosts Jennie and Nina are joined by guests Amy Pershing and Chevice Turner. Together they discuss the profound journey of recovery from Binge Eating Disorder (BED) and the importance of embracing body autonomy. Amy, the founding director of Bodywise, and Chevice, the founder of the Binge Eating Disorder Association, shared insights from their extensive experience in the field.
Episode 5: Fabulous Clothes for the Body You Have with Guest Jenny Rushmore
Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson are talking to Jenny Rushmore, the founder of Cashmerette. She shares her inspiring journey of revolutionizing clothing patterns to fit women of all sizes and shapes. Having struggled with finding clothes that fit her own body, especially due to her larger bust size, Jenny embarked on a mission to create patterns that accommodate various body types.
Episode 6: The “C” word: CONTROL with Jennie Kramer & Nina Manolson
Jennie and Nina are talking about control today. We are living in a time where there’s a lot happening in the world that is out of our hands. Wars, climate disasters and political unrest are just a few things that leave us feeling out of control.We find ourselves feeling like we don’t have agency to make decisions. There are real things we can’t control, and there are imagined things that we like to think we can control and everything in between.
Episode 7: My Partner’s Weight Loss Journey: What to Expect and How to be Supportive
When one partner embarks on a weight loss journey, it can have a significant impact on the other partner, even if they are not actively trying to lose weight themselves. This blog post explores the different ways this can happen, and offers tips for navigating these challenges.
Episode 8: What are you Grieving?
Listen to this in-depth conversation between Nancy Loeffler and hosts Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson about Nancy’s journey through grief and her book, “The Alchemy of Grief: Your Journey to Wholeness.” Nancy shares her personal story of loss, the process of excavating her life to find meaning and purpose after her daughter’s death, and the importance of acknowledging and processing grief in its various forms.
Episode 9: Compare & Despair
Co-hosts Jennie Kramer and Nina Manolson are back and today and they’re talking about how we all compare ourselves to others and the negative consequences of this behavior. Imposter syndrome is real, for even the most accomplished and confident among us. Hear how this has shown up for both Jennie and Nina and how they address it for themselves and how they help their clients with this universal issue.
