Busting Weight Loss Myths & Transforming Your Relationship with Food with Kim Shapira, Celebrity Dietitian

09/06/23 • 50 min

Are you always fighting cravings? Or in a never ending battle with your weight? In today’s episode, we sat down with a Registered Dietitian to get to the bottom of weight loss woes, popular advice, Ozempic, hunger cues and everything you need to know if your goal is to lose and maintain your weight—without depriving yourself.

In this episode you’ll learn:

How to take back your relationship with food

Most common weight loss MISTAKES

How to maintain weight in perimenopause

The truth about taking Ozempic

How to STOP sugar cravings fast

Why your hunger cues are off

Kim Shapira M.S., R.D. is a celebrity dietitian (Kaley CuoCo, Brittney Snow, Marla Sokoloff and many more), nutritional therapist, and author of This is What You're Really Hungry For releasing July 25th, 2023. With a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from Tulane University and a Master’s degree in Human Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition from Boston University. Kim has spent over 25 years helping people lose weight and keep it off (with a giant emphasis on keeping it off), both in her private Los Angeles practice as well as in hospitals, sports clinics, addiction centers and universities around the States.

Kim Shapira has been at the forefront of nutrition therapy since the early 2000s, helping clients to truly understand their relationship with their bodies and correcting life long negative behaviors. Kim has been featured in Yahoo! News, Vanity Fair, Pop Sugar, Sky News, Just Jenny, Dr. Drew and many more.

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In this episode you’ll learn:

How to take back your relationship with food

Most common weight loss MISTAKES

How to maintain weight in perimenopause

The truth about taking Ozempic

How to STOP sugar cravings fast

Why your hunger cues are off

This episode is brought to you by beeya:

Learn more about beeya's seed cycling bundle at https://beeyawellness.com/free to find out how to tackle hormonal imbalances.

Get $10 off your order by using promo code BEHINDHEREMPIRE10

Follow Yasmin:

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Website: https://www.behindherempire.com/

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How to Leave Your Day Job, Build Your Brand & Start Your Own Thing with Nicole Gibbons, Founder of Clare

In this week's episode we're re-airing one of our top episodes with Nicole Gibbons, the founder of Clare, the only Black-owned paint brand in the US, and is a favorite of Jessica Alba, Maria Sharapova, and Nate Berkus to name a few.

Before pursuing interior design, Nicole spent nearly a decade managing PR for one of the world’s largest retail brands, Victoria's Secret. Although she was excelling in her career, Nicole felt uninspired and was looking for a new outlet for her creativity. She started working on a decorating blog on the side that ultimately gained serious traction and led her into the path of interior design.

After working as a designer and establishing herself as a voice in the industry, Nicole decided to do another career pivot and had a yearning to build something that would be a household name. When working with clients, she always noticed the hassle around picking paints and saw an opportunity to disrupt the outdated paint industry and create a direct-to-consumer business that makes the entire process a way better experience.

Nicole has been featured in top media outlets such as HGTV, The Rachael Ray Show, Good Morning America, and Oprah Winfrey’s OWN. She's also raised venture capital from the backers of Warby Parker, Casper, Peloton, and more.

We talk to Nicole today about the power of patience when it comes to building your business, how to think about your finance before you take the leap, how she raised money and built a tech business with zero connections to start, and so much more!

In this episode, we'll talk to Nicole about:

Nicole's thoughts on confidence and the nature of risk and reward in entrepreneurship. [3:09]

The familial links that Nicole has to entrepreneurship and her early corporate career. [4:30]

Nicole's side hustle journey: pursuing passion while employed. [6:06]

How the blog organically evolved from a passion project into a business. [8:12]

Patience and consistency fueled Nicole's transition to full-time interior design. [10:01]

Foregoing the safety of paychecks and betting on yourself. [13:16]

Nicole's second pivot; executing on her research and ideas. [20:48]

How networking has played into Nicole's strategy throughout. [24:45]

Entering the world of venture capital; Nicole's philosophy towards funding. [27:13]

Advice for approaching investors; asking questions and due diligence. [34:57]

Sharing the story of your brand and creating a common thread through everything you do. [37:31)

Nicole's key resources: community, questions, and more. [41:29]

Nicole's thoughts on the idea of work-life balance and welcoming different seasons. [46:18]

Lessons from the early days of hiring for a new company. [49:28]

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Ditching Corporate to Pursue Your Wildest Dreams with Sarah Gibson Tuttle, Founder of Olive & June

In this week's episode we're re-airing one of our top episodes with Sarah Gibson Tuttle, the CEO and founder of Olive & June, an innovative at-home nail-care brand that's disrupting the industry.

Risking everything you have to pursue a dream can be the scariest but most rewarding thing a person can do in their life. Today’s guest has done just that.

Sarah spent a decade in equity sales trading at Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan. She never thought she'd become an entrepreneur until her love for Drybar inspired her to create the same thing, but for nails. Although everybody thought her idea was crazy, Sarah was confident it would work and put all her savings into the first flagship store. Olive & June is now successfully democratizing nail care with their full suite of at-home mani and pedi products.

In today's episode, we talk about how life's curveballs can be the biggest gift to sending you on a new path to rediscover your purpose and Sarah explains what it was like for her to ditch her safe corporate job to follow her passions, what kept her in her previous job for so long, and how her divorce added to her motivation to shake things up. She also shares the fears and imposter syndrome she overcame on the journey and the importance of therapy in her personal and professional life.

Tuning in, you’ll hear how Sarah got funding, how she built a strong community around her brand, and how she has successfully pivoted over the years (especially during COVID). She also shares the importance of delegating and how, as a wife, mother, and entrepreneur, she manages it all. For a very vulnerable real conversation on what it takes to build a multimillion-dollar company from scratch, tune in today!

In this episode, we’ll talk to Sarah about:

Overcoming career leap obstacles. [03:27]

Sarah's enduring passion through entrepreneurial challenges. [05:31]

Sarah's lengthy tenure as an equity sales trader. [08:52]

How divorce spurred her to shake things up. [12:25]

Building connections, embracing resistance. [17:38]

Therapy, empathy, and the impact of divorce. [22:50]

Overcoming fear and investing life savings. [26:03]

Creating a brand community. [29:02]

Balancing vision and adaptability. [37:05]

Olive & June's pandemic pivot and community support. [38:09]

Sarah's fundraising approach and investor relations. [40:32]