Hosted by Jessica Wilson, MS RD · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 134 episodes
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What's going on with health and food policy right now? Each week dietitian and author Jessica Wilson shares her conversations with experts in their field or on their farm and figures out how we got here and why. Jessica has followed the ultra-processed food hysteria to trad wife pipeline and the direct path from COVID conspiracies to RFK Jr to the current administration.From her conversation with the Make America Healthy Again spokesperson to the Oregon beef farmer this podcast connects it all. Listen each week as she brings something new to the conversation and at times makes it awkward.
Jessica Wilson, MS RD hosts Making It Awkward, a society show with 134 episodes published.
Closing out Pride Month with a conversation about body image in queer men. Blake Flaugher MPH returns to the show and joins Caleb Draper to talk about gym culture among queer men including a selfie-specific locker room m
The American Diabetes Assoc . conference got spicy! But was that intentional? Did it have to? Lindsay Lee Wallace returns to the show to talk about her recent trip to the Health Journalism 2026 conference and the ADA con
Happy Pride month! 🏳️🌈 50% off Ozempic for Pride!!! Jessica traveled to NYC in 2024 and got to investigate an ad for Ozempic. Kent Thosmas, MSW joined Jessica to talk about this ad and her visit to the clinic offering
Spoilers! Meghan Cichy, trad wife Leslie Voorhees Means, Selena Salfen and Alison Pill are back on the show for Part 2 of a conversation about Yesteryear, a novel about a tradwife, Natalie, and her curated yet frightenin
No spoilers! Meghan Cichy, trad wife Leslie Voorhees Means, Selena Salfen and Alison Pill are back on the show for Part 1 of a conversation about Yesteryear, a novel about a tradwife and her curated yet frightening life.
Dr. Oz has made up a new description of American women: under-babied . So it was a good time to return to this conversation with Dr. Eoin Flaherty. The Trump administration has talked about using awards , scholarships an
People are hungry in America , in a country of billionaires, where food should be a human right, and the administration will no longer collect data on food insecurity in the US saying that it is "redundant, costly, polit
Jessica attended the People vs Poison rally that was held in Washington DC on April 27th and Trampus Harmon comes back to the show to hear all about it. She shares her conversation with a Bernie Sander door knocker turne
Jessica's UPF experiment has been in the news again! She invited journalist Lindsay Lee Wallace back to the show to see if the two could answer some questions: How has the ultra-processed food hysteria impacted politics
How much should we fear glyphosate ? We get drastically different answers depending on who you ask. Trampus Harmon, Making it Awkward's farmer in residence, returns to the show to provide us the facts, context and nuance
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is the original nutrition influencer. It has used the same alarmist language that gets traction currently used on social media for over 50 years. Sherene Chou returns to the
Today's ep is to wrap up the conversation about Jillian Michaels , phew! And will provide some brief initial feedback received on last week's episode with MAHA Mom Leslie Voorhees Means. Today you'll hear from two colleg
MAHA Mom Leslie Voorhees Means joins the show to talk about people, politics and making the effort to be curious and find humanity. Leslie is the wife of Calley Means , a senior adviser for the Department of Health and H
Tigress Osborn debated Jillian Michaels about the health and wellness field on Jubilee Media's Surrounded –and won! Tigress, the Executive Director of NAAFA , comes back to the show to talk about her experience being one
Jillian Michaels is a one hit wonder who keeps trying to make a comeback. She also is also loud about her changing politics. About her becoming a Conservative in 2020, "I was forever gone. Took the red pill." Today is a
Would you ever add chia seeds to your latte? Levels Health , a health-tech startup co-founded by presumptive Surgeon General Casey Means , is a deeply unserious company and provides both hilarious and irresponsible guida
Dr. Casey Means went to Congress last week. On February 28 2026 she went before the Senate's committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to make her case to be the next Surgeon General . During the hearing Casey w
RFK told us that "We are ending the war on saturated fats" with the release of his food triangle and accompanying Dietary Guidelines . Dr. Selina Wang , Faculty Director at the UC Davis Olive Center, returns to the show
Tigress Osborn , Executive Director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance returns to the show to discuss Mike Tyson's Super Bowl ad for MAHA and the inverted food triangle . The fat shaming ad is part of
Lindsay Lee Wallace returns to talk about why she thinks women who have sex with men are drawn to Heated Rivalry . She wrote in, Yearning and Submission in 'Heated Rivalry ', "Women who yearn and submit are often main ch
Jillian Michaels
3 appearances on this show
Calley Means
White House health adviser · TrueMed
2 appearances on this show
Dr. Theresa Lyons
International Autism Educator, Ivy League Scientist, and Autism Parent · Navigating AWEtism
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Bethany Johnson
Director of Strategic Planning · vAuto
2 appearances on this show
Kyle Davis
electrical engineering graduate · Integrity Financial Group
1 appearance on this show
Kaila Yu
Author of Fetishized: A Reckoning With Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty, and Nuanced Writer of Historical and Contemporary Pop Culture, Misogyny, & Anti-Asian Racist Othering
1 appearance on this show
Kent Thomas
Body-Liberation Coach and Social Worker
3 appearances on this show
Mike Wilkins
Distinguished Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Biola University · Shamrock Capital
1 appearance on this show
Dr. David Wiss
registered dietitian with a PhD in public Health · Wise Mind Nutrition
1 appearance on this show
Dalina Soto
founder and bilingual registered dietitian · Nutritiously Yours & Your Latina Nutritionist
1 appearance on this show
Chrissy King
writer, educator, body liberation advocate · Body Liberation Project
1 appearance on this show
Jessica Jones
Missions Trip Coordinator · Wilton Presbyterian Church
1 appearance on this show
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