How your career can destroy your life with food

Sep 27, 2023 | Podcast

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What would you do if you realized the business and life you had created for yourself and your family was built on diet culture fraud and destroying your life with food?

Deanna’s story is a common one. Negative body image, the desire for sports performance, and complicated life changes created years of diet cycling and body dissatisfaction. As she entered her 40s, Deanna decided enough was enough.

After significant soul searching Deanna changed her professional identity to create a better life with food

My eating disorder was santioned by diet culture. Even my mom endorsed it. It was the culture for women to be excited for other women when they lost weight.

Deanna Schober, Intuitive Eating Coach and Podcast Host

Deanna Schober is the co-founder of Built Daily and the 5-star rated Fitness & Sushi podcast alongside her husband, Tony. Together, they have helped thousands of women break the yo-yo diet cycle, and get their health on track, by healing their relationships with food, their bodies, exercise, and their minds.

Deanna Schober co-creator of Built Daily and the Sushi and Fitness Podcast
Deanna gets vulnerable about how she gave up a career in the weight loss industry to heal her relationship with food

We are conditioned, to believe we have to be young and beautiful to be special and sexy for men. We’re not taught to ask ourselves if that’s what we even want.

Deanna Schober, Intuitive Eating Coach and Podcast Host

Listen to Deanna’s story about how she unraveled her relationship with food.

Why she made the difficult decision to ditch her career built on diet culture?

What it was like to transition (personally and professionally) from being a weight-loss/wellness coach to an anti-diet, intuitive eating coach.

You can hear more of our conversation in my interview with Deanna on the Fitness and Sushi Podcast

Learn more about Deanna and Tony’s work on their website Built Daily

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