The Body Trust® Podcast
Welcome to The Body Trust Podcast, a podcast about collective healing and the radical journey of body reclamation in a culture of anti-fatness, weight stigma, disordered eating and other traumas. Hosted by Dana Sturtevant, Hilary Kinavey, and Sirius Bonner, The Body Trust Podcast will challenge prevailing views on food, bodies, weight, and health, and unpack how social justice intersects with body liberation. Each episode offers insights and stories to help you unlearn the b.s., deepen your roots into body trust, and make your healing bigger than you. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. We can't wait to connect with you!
The Body Trust® Podcast
39. Good Woman - A Reckoning with Savala Nolan
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On the Body Trust Podcast, Hillary, Dana, and Sirius interview Savala Nolan about her book Good Woman: A Reckoning. They discuss the Super Bowl’s heavy presence of GLP-1 ads, Savala’s quick Instagram response as a handhold toward concepts like Health at Every Size and weight neutrality, and the added weight of government-backed messaging (including a Mike Tyson ad sponsored by realfood.gov). They connect diet culture to broader systems that control women’s bodies and voices, including male sexual violence and the challenges of naming harm (referencing Savala’s “Which Men” essay). Savala reads from her opening chapter “Refusal” (“I refuse to be good”) and describes the book as divesting from “good woman” conditioning—being quiet, pleasing, and body-controlling—while rebuilding a fuller, more authentic life. She explains that leaving dieting can make a woman culturally “illegible,” shares a workplace example of pervasive diet-talk, and outlines how midlife dissatisfaction and motherhood catalyzed the book. Savala also describes how she raises her daughter with food autonomy, body respect, and tools to navigate outside messages.
RESOURCES
The Book: Good Woman - A Reckoning* by Savala Nolan
*Most Anticipated Feminist Book of 2026 by Ms. Magazine
Instagram: @savalanolan
Website: savalanolan.com
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