Talia Pollock is an author, speaker, storyteller, plant-based chef, TV personality, and health and empowerment coach. She’s the host of the popular Party in My Plants Podcast and the proud founder of Party in My Plants, an internationally-celebrated wellness platform that helps real, busy, everyday people skyrocket their positive energy to boldly take on the world in any way they wish.
Talia’s simple recipes and spunky lifestyle advice have been featured repeatedly on the Dr. Oz Show, The Huffington Post, mindbodygreen, Buzzfeed, Bustle, Success Magazine and more. Her first book, Party In Your Plants, 100+ Plant-Based Recipes and Problem-Solving Strategies to Help You Eat Healthier Without Hating your Life is out now! She lives in New York with her husband and her goldendoodle, both of whom love kale and one of whom eats it off the floor.
In this episode we talk about:
- the health issues she struggled with in her teens and early 20s and not getting any really diagnosis
- how her passion for humor and humor writing saved her as she had a passion to focus on besides her illness
- getting an internship in LA for Adam Sandler’s production company and how that hooked her into the wellness world
- how a coconut smoothie restaurant recommendation changed her life
- how we get used to feeling like crap and don’t realize there is a better way to feel
- being totally transformed by her diet changes but also becoming a hermit because she felt so different from others because of what she was eating
- feeling like she had to choose health or happiness
- how you can have the healthiest habits in the world but still be so stressed out that you aren’t truly getting the benefits of your healthy lifestyle choices
- how our fear of being judged limits us so much
- moving to NYC to learn how to be a vegan chef AND pursue comedy
- why she started making What to Eat Wednesday videos to solve the worries of what to eat when trying to eat for your health and also being a human and going to parties, and restaurants and not feel weird or isolated
- the confidence it takes to ask the waiter for a substitution, ask to go to a certain restaurant, and not be afraid to look high maintenance
- getting a page position at David Letterman and how watching the show every night got her thinking about if she had the opportunity to be a guest on a show like that what would she want to be doing
- leaving her comedy path to create Party in My Plants and bring comedy to making wellness be more accessible and fun
- wanting to empower people through motivational speaking
- reframing her wellness mission to see it really comes down to confidence
- her daily commitment to her Why
- how you can feel it in your body when you aren’t aligned and even get sick from it
- how it takes more work to have a fear than to move through the fear
- how tapping has supported her
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
You can find Talia at https://partyinmyplants.com and @partyinmyplants and @itsmetaliap
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