#118: How Diet Culture Impacts Your Career and Your Values with Rachel Garrett, Career & Leadership Coach
We’re joined by an incredible client of mine, Rachel Garrett, who is a career and leadership coach, to discuss how the pursuit of a smaller body wound up becoming a smaller life.
Have you ever thought about how diet culture has impacted your professional life, the career path you've chosen, or how you've been able to show up in that area of your life more generally?
In this conversation, Abbie is joined by career and leadership coach Rachel Garrett (who is also a client of Abbie's!). We explore Rachel's story with her body and food -- from childhood influences and coping mechanism, to her ongoing struggle with self-acceptance, and the constant pursuit of aligning her life with her values.
In particular, we focus on the intersection between diet culture and professional growth, the parallels between societal pressures in career and diet culture, focusing on productivity, appearance norms, and power dynamics.
Tune in to here more about the impact of diet culture on mental space, personal values, and professional achievements, along with the effects of childhood trauma on disordered eating behaviors.
Tune in to hear more about…
What's on Rachel’s plate
What Rachel would regret at the end of her life had she not started healing her relationship with food and body, and the regrets she has now.
What she wants to pass on to her own children.
How diet-culture steals our agency
Her relationship with food and body in her childhood and where her beliefs came from
How dieting can be a tool for connection to our loved ones, and a coping tool through grief
Decoupling your child’s body from what you think that says about you as a parent when untangling from diet-culture
How she has seen diet culture intersect with and impact her own career
What she asks her clients to consider when they begin working with her
How we can consciously decide on career choices that fit into how we want our lives to feel
The importance of finding non-negotiables
The intersection between power and body expectations
The pressure for women to be thin and feminine at work to be successful
The time, energy, mental energy, and money that diet culture steals from us
How eating is not normalized in work settings
Her own letter a la Liz Gilbert’s brilliant Letters From Love
About Rachel:
Rachel Garrett is a Career and Leadership Coach supporting clients in designing careers on their own terms. With a combination of mindset shifting tools and personal branding know-how from her 15-year career in marketing, she inspires clients to confidently “speak elevator pitch", build out career paths based on their priorities and step into their worth. Prior to starting her coaching practice, Rachel built a successful career in digital and social marketing at brands like American Express, Reader’s Digest, and VNS Health. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Rachel just celebrated one year of her anti-diet journey (WOOT!) after joining one of Abbie's group programs. It's been a healing time and also one of noticing how much her eating/body road has intertwined with her career failures and successes. Learn more at rachelbgarrett.com and rachelbgarrett.com/connections.
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