Best Sirius Bonner Podcasts (2025)

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11. Navigating Chaos and Strengthening Community in Turbulent Times 51:25

9d ago51:25

51:25

In this episode of The Body Trust Podcast, hosts Hilary, Dana, and Sirius unpack their feelings and responses to Trump’s presidency. The episode discusses the emotional weight of recent and near-future political events, including the potential withdrawal of federal support for programs like WIC. The hosts explore the emotional and psychological ram…

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10. Almond Moms, Biohacking Dads and Lineages of Harm 49:55

23d ago49:55

49:55

In this episode hosts Hilary, Dana, and Sirius delve into the pervasive influences of diet culture, focusing on two distinct yet interconnected phenomena: “almond moms” and “biohacking dads”. They discuss the normalization of disordered eating practices within families, the broader societal impacts, and the roots of these behaviors. They also explo…

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9. Practicing Healthcare from a Weight Inclusive Lens 59:07

1M ago59:07

59:07

In this episode Dana, Sirius, and Hilary discuss the importance and implementation of practicing healthcare from a weight inclusive perspective. They explore terminology such as ‘weight inclusive’ and ‘size inclusive’, and dive into what a weight inclusive model of care looks like compared to a weight normative approach. They also talk about connec…

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8. Challenging New Year's Resolutions: Embracing a Body Trust Approach 54:35

2M ago54:35

54:35

In this episode of the Body Trust Podcast, hosts Sirius Bonner, Dana, and Hilary discuss The Anti Resolution Revolution. They explore how New Year’s resolutions are often rooted in fatphobia and healthism and the importance of integrating body trust into this period. They share insights on why many people resort back to old dieting habits and how t…

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7. Health and Weight are not Correlated: A Critical Examination 46:16

2M ago46:16

46:16

In this episode of the Body Trust Podcast, hosts Dana, Hilary and Sirius discuss common misconceptions around health, weight, and body size. They challenge the strongly held belief that health and size are directly correlated and critique the influence of diet culture, white supremacy, and systemic barriers on these notions. The conversation delves…

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6. Q&A: Debunking Weight Loss Myths 1:03:42

3M ago1:03:42

1:03:42

In this episode, Dana, Hillary, and Sirius answer listener questions about weight loss and its complexities. They discuss the inefficacy of sustainable weight loss, the psychological and physiological impacts, and the harms of weight cycling. The conversation delves into cultural myths and biases surrounding weight, the problematic nature of attemp…

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5. Navigating Family, Boundaries, and Diet Culture During Holidays 51:45

3M ago51:45

51:45

In this episode, Dana, Hilary, and Sirius discuss the challenges of maintaining body trust during holiday gatherings, particularly when faced with weight stigmatization and diet culture pressures. They explore strategies for setting boundaries, managing difficult family dynamics, and the importance of grief and self-preservation practices. The conv…

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4. The seduction of GLP-1’s: desperation, stigma, and fat bias 56:17

4M ago56:17

56:17

In this episode, Dana, Hilary and Sirius discuss the effects of GLP-1’s within the context of body trust and diet culture. They unpack the seduction of these drugs amid rising conversations around bodies and fatness, highlighting the harmful collaboration between the weight loss and eating disorder treatment industries. The hosts reflect on the sti…

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3. Exploring the normalization and consequences of GLP-1’s 57:06

4M ago57:06

57:06

In this episode of the Body Trust Podcast, hosts Dana, Hillary and Sirius discuss all things GLP-1’s. The conversation covers the historical and contextual background of weight loss drugs, their evolving use from diabetes treatment to weight management, and their little-talked about potential risks and side effects. The hosts emphasize the importan…

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2. Unpacking Diet Culture: gender, health, and dieting’s impact on society 43:22

5M ago43:22

43:22

In this episode of the Body Trust Podcast, hosts Dana, Hilary and Sirius discuss the pervasive and shape-shifting nature of diet culture. They delve into how diet culture subtly infiltrates daily life and the ways people might unknowingly adhere to it. The hosts highlight the historical and contemporary implications of diet culture, its intersectio…

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1. What is Body Trust? Reclaiming trust in our bodies, rejecting anti-fat conditioning 40:08

5M ago40:08

40:08

This introductory episode of The Body Trust Podcast explores the concept of ‘body trust’. Hosts Dana, Hilary and Sirius discuss the narrative arc of body trust work, which consists of three phases: rupture, reckoning, and reclamation. They emphasize that body trust is a birthright, often lost due to societal and cultural conditioning around body im…

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Trailer 2:08

5M ago2:08

2:08

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, …

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S2 EP8: with Camille Leak: Exploring the Intersection of DEI and Trauma 44:22

2+ y ago44:22

44:22

“Become a witness to yourself.” - Camille Leak In Inclusive Life, we are continually looking at the ways in which we can reach across differences as a path to connection and liberation. We often explore the impediments to being with one another authentically such as defensiveness, perfectionism, guilt, and shame. Camille Leak brings this conversati…

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S2 EP7: with Dr. Crystal Menzies: Finding Inspiration from Maroon Communities to Guide Us Forward 45:41

2+ y ago45:41

45:41

One of the barriers for well meaning white folks and BIPOC who want to see a better world is this belief in the inevitability of positive outcomes. Dr. Crystal Menzies When Dr. Menzies drops this pearl of insight into the latest Inclusive Life Podcast conversation with Nicole, Nicole names the “inevitability of positive outcomes” as “a uniquely U.S…

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S2 EP6: A Roadmap for Black Women to Thrive in the Workplace with Ericka Hines 39:33

2+ y ago39:33

39:33

There is something about the Black Women Thriving research project that feels a lot like love. It began with a personal need and grew into a much larger question: What would it take for Black women to thrive - not just survive - in the workplace? From this question, a massive project took shape. In this project, Founder of Every Level Leads, Ericka…

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S2 EP5: Processing the Post-Roe Reality with the Inclusive Life Team 44:22

2+ y ago44:22

44:22

This episode of the Inclusive Life Podcast is an intimate conversation between Nicole and two members of her Inclusive Life team, Christina Hernandez and Laura Halpin. We convened to talk about our personal responses to the overturn of Roe v. Wade. We began with our own reactions, exploring our immediate sense of how each of our lives and our loved…

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S2EP4 Part 2: Fat Phobia is a Social Justice Issue with Dana Sturtevant, HIilary Kinavey, and Sirius Bonner 39:01

3y ago39:01

39:01

“The white gaze is upon us at all times, and the ways in which Black bodies have been destroyed by whiteness are many. But this is just one of them.” - Sirius Bonner One thing to get straight: divorcing yourself from diet culture isn’t just about being fat, loud, and proud. Sirius Bonner, who joins Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant for Part 2 of t…

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S2EP4 Part 1: Fat Phobia is a Social Justice Issue with Dana Sturtevant and HIilary Kinavey 47:56

3y ago47:56

47:56

“We all eat for emotional reasons. That’s normal. Food is flavored with complex meanings. It connects us with our culture and our ancestry and heritage. We eat to celebrate. We eat to grieve. Food is an emotional thing for human beings. When we dumb it down to its nutritional components and see it only as a vehicle to give us nutrients, we are miss…

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S2EP3: Joy & Revolution Now with Jennifer Davis 44:36

3y ago44:36

44:36

"Creativity and engaging in creativity can offer insight into how we move forward." - Jennifer Davis There’s a sturdy and subversive thread woven through Jennifer Davis’s life and work: Where there’s an expectation to do things a certain way, of conformity or straight lines, because that’s how it’s always been done, Jennifer’s life is all about say…

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S2EP2: Disrupting Business as Usual with Pamela Slim 54:59

3y ago54:59

54:59

“If you’re designing a space for the most marginalized folks, by definition, the entire experience is going to be more inclusive for everybody.” It is a gift to have Pamela Slim as our guest for the official start of Inclusive Life Podcast Season 2. The conversation illuminates Pam’s skills at disrupting business as usual. She points out over and o…

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S2EP1: The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict from an Antiracist, Progressive Perspective: a Conversation with Dr. Clarence Lusane 33:37

3y ago33:37

33:37

For many people alarmed at the very visible anti-Black racism at the outset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine two weeks ago, it’s important to understand more about the history of Afro Ukrainians and Africans in Ukraine. This conversation between Dr. Clarence Lusane and Nicole Lee sheds some light. We’ll learn that it is not a new history. Dr. Lus…

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EP9: Rest: a Practice to Meet Urgent Times with Jen Lemen 31:39

4y ago31:39

31:39

“There’s a way that we can meet urgent moments without the spirit of urgency. That requires a competency and capacity that comes from deep grounding and regulation. Being able to show up consistently in ritual, rhythm and routine.” This conversation with Jen Lemen feels like strong medicine. With so many of us understandably depleted and exhausted,…

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EP8: “Stop the Steal” Insurrection: the Black Movement Law Project Responds with Tanay Lynn Smith, nash Shearer, Abi Hassen, and Marques Banks 1:17:04

4y ago1:17:04

1:17:04

This conversation amongst friends is a peek into the deep complexities of keeping Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and other marginalized folks safe while they activate and organize for liberation. Black Movement Law Project is about the intentional and deliberate work of first protecting (physically and legally) the people in movement spaces. A…

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EP7: What is Your Role? Understanding the Ecosystem of Social Change and Where You Fit In with Deepa Iyer 41:49

4y ago41:49

41:49

We’ve all heard the phrase “stay in your lane,” an admonition that can actually cause paralysis for people just stepping into social change work. When thinking about activism, I wanted to share a framework that holds the concept of “lanes” more loosely and graciously. Deepa Iyer, author of We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Imm…

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EP6: Navigating Holiday Conversations, Version 2020 49:52

4y ago49:52

49:52

In this conversation with Ericka Hines and Heather Laine Talley, we are looking at Holidays 2020 as a new and different creature. We are approaching the holidays desperately needing connection and yet we are divided not only by our political beliefs but our differing boundaries around COVID social distancing and even our varying attachments to real…

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EP5: Book Launch: Raising Antiracist Kids: The Power of Intentional Conversations about Race & Parenting 50:39

4+ y ago50:39

50:39

By Nicole Lee

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EP4: Don’t Forget Your People with Rebecca Cokley 59:01

4+ y ago59:01

59:01

“Inclusive Life for me means our movements have an understanding that it’s your vulnerabilities that make you strong.” This conversation with Rebecca Cokley is, in part, a peek into the disability rights movement from the intimate perspective of Rebecca’s childhood. Rebecca is an only child of two disabled and rather subversive activists whose fami…

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EP3: Renegotiating the Relationship between Politics and Spirituality with Sarah Love McCoy and Lindsay Pera 36:20

4+ y ago36:20

36:20

“I’ve got my eye on the future. The future that keeps me going forward is one that is built in a more loving way. A more compassionate world is the one that I keep in my mind’s eye as my guidepost and my true north.” – Sarah Love Politics and spirituality have a long-standing dysfunctional relationship. In this conversation with artist and writer S…

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EP2: The Power of Belonging with Dr. Rodney Glasgow 55:31

4+ y ago55:31

55:31

“School is the absolute savior of my life. It changed the whole trajectory of who I would have been. Growing up in the 90s to teenage parents in the ghettos of Baltimore, school changed my survival rate. That’s absolutely the truth.” Dr. Rodney Glasgow is a product of a childhood in a culturally diverse community on the north east side of Baltimore…

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EP1: An Introduction to the Inclusive Life 4:18

4+ y ago4:18

4:18

Welcome to the first episode of Inclusive Life! I'm your host, Nicole Lee, human rights lawyer, DEI consultant, activist, mom and founder of Inclusive Life. It is a joy and a privilege to bring this project into being. I believe it’s important. Because I believe if we want to have a just and equitable society, we are going to have to build it. I be…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Sirius Bonner Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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The Body Trust® Podcast

Dana Sturtevant, Hilary Kinavey, Sirius Bonner

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Inclusive Life with Nicole Lee

Nicole Lee

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11. Navigating Chaos and Strengthening Community in Turbulent Times 51:25

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10. Almond Moms, Biohacking Dads and Lineages of Harm 49:55

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9. Practicing Healthcare from a Weight Inclusive Lens 59:07

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8. Challenging New Year's Resolutions: Embracing a Body Trust Approach 54:35

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7. Health and Weight are not Correlated: A Critical Examination 46:16

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6. Q&A: Debunking Weight Loss Myths 1:03:42

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5. Navigating Family, Boundaries, and Diet Culture During Holidays 51:45

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4. The seduction of GLP-1’s: desperation, stigma, and fat bias 56:17

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3. Exploring the normalization and consequences of GLP-1’s 57:06

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2. Unpacking Diet Culture: gender, health, and dieting’s impact on society 43:22

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1. What is Body Trust? Reclaiming trust in our bodies, rejecting anti-fat conditioning 40:08

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Trailer 2:08

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S2 EP8: with Camille Leak: Exploring the Intersection of DEI and Trauma 44:22

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S2 EP7: with Dr. Crystal Menzies: Finding Inspiration from Maroon Communities to Guide Us Forward 45:41

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S2 EP6: A Roadmap for Black Women to Thrive in the Workplace with Ericka Hines 39:33

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S2 EP5: Processing the Post-Roe Reality with the Inclusive Life Team 44:22

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S2EP4 Part 2: Fat Phobia is a Social Justice Issue with Dana Sturtevant, HIilary Kinavey, and Sirius Bonner 39:01

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S2EP4 Part 1: Fat Phobia is a Social Justice Issue with Dana Sturtevant and HIilary Kinavey 47:56

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S2EP3: Joy & Revolution Now with Jennifer Davis 44:36

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S2EP2: Disrupting Business as Usual with Pamela Slim 54:59

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S2EP1: The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict from an Antiracist, Progressive Perspective: a Conversation with Dr. Clarence Lusane 33:37

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EP9: Rest: a Practice to Meet Urgent Times with Jen Lemen 31:39

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EP8: “Stop the Steal” Insurrection: the Black Movement Law Project Responds with Tanay Lynn Smith, nash Shearer, Abi Hassen, and Marques Banks 1:17:04

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EP7: What is Your Role? Understanding the Ecosystem of Social Change and Where You Fit In with Deepa Iyer 41:49

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EP6: Navigating Holiday Conversations, Version 2020 49:52

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EP5: Book Launch: Raising Antiracist Kids: The Power of Intentional Conversations about Race & Parenting 50:39

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EP4: Don’t Forget Your People with Rebecca Cokley 59:01

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EP3: Renegotiating the Relationship between Politics and Spirituality with Sarah Love McCoy and Lindsay Pera 36:20

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EP2: The Power of Belonging with Dr. Rodney Glasgow 55:31

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EP1: An Introduction to the Inclusive Life 4:18

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