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The brand of beauty we are so often sold is way too small. It divides and dis-integrates us. Melissa Louise Johnson is on a mission to re-discover authentic beauty. Not...
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The brand of beauty we are so often sold is way too small. It divides and dis-integrates us. Melissa Louise Johnson is on a mission to re-discover authentic beauty. Not the counterfeit kind reserved for the toned and airbrushed, but a lasting kind of beauty. Eternal and sacred. Living and moving all around us. Join Melissa as she interviews men and women who exude internal and eternal beauty in order to reshape cultural scripts. It's time we re-discover what beauty truly is.
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21 GEN 2026 · On this week’s episode, we talk about current societal trends impacting women and girls, leading them to believe that they are always on show and that the way they look is the most important thing about them. Thankfully, we have a trusted companion to do so in Oona Hanson.
https://www.oonahanson.com/ is an educator and parenting coach. Through her writing, workshops, and private consultations, she supports families in raising kids who have a healthy relationship with food and their body. She has been featured in television programs, like Good Morning America, and her work has been featured in various publications, including People, USA Today, US News & World Report, Today, CNN, and The Washington Post.
In our time together, we unpack a recent article Oona wrote for CNN, entitled, https://oonahanson.substack.com/p/the-life-of-a-girl-whos-always-onSpecifically, we talk about the showgirl imagery in Taylor Swift’s latest album, how we might interact with the next generation around the prevalence of weight loss ads, and the recent TikTok, now banned hashtag, #skinnytoc.
Buy Melissa L. Johnson's book, https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Learn more about https://www.impossible-beauty.com/ and join the community https://www.impossible-beauty.com/
6 GEN 2026 · On this podcast, I am committed to helping listeners (and myself) understand beauty in its truest, most life-giving sense. And that is why I am so excited to start the new year with David Taylor as today’s guest.
https://www.wdavidotaylor.com/ is a theologian, author, speaker, priest, and director of initiatives in art and faith. As https://www.fuller.edu/faculty/david-taylor/, he has lectured widely on the arts, from Thailand to South Africa. He has also written for The Washington Post, Image Journal, Theology Today, Worship, Religion News Service, and Christianity Today, among others. Additionally, in 2016 he produced a short film with Bono and Eugene Peterson, entitled https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/bono-eugene-peterson-psalms/.
In today’s episode, David not only gives us a behind-the-scenes look at his class on beauty at Fuller Seminary, but also shares his own biblically grounded understanding of what true beauty is. David also uncovers lies about beauty he sees at work in Western society, discusses how we might navigate aging in a broken world, and helps us see how we can know God in and through the arts. My hope is that this conversation will leave you feeling deeply encouraged, as you are reminded that true beauty is alive and at work in the world.
David's latest book: https://www.ivpress.com/naming-the-spirit
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2 DIC 2025 · Amidst the busyness of the Christmas season, it can be hard to take the time to slow down and contemplate the breadth and depth of Jesus’s birth. In today’s episode, https://www.trillianewbell.com/ helps us do just that.
Trillia is the author of numerous books, including Bible studies, children’s books, and non-fiction titles, such as her latest book: https://www.trillianewbell.com/booksTrillia also supports other writers as the Acquisitions Director at Moody Publishers.
In today’s conversation, Trillia invites us to reflect on the character and work of Jesus, as well as how the Christmas story helps us persevere in faith amidst a broken world. Trillia also helps us see why societal beauty standards are unhelpful and, instead, invites us to embrace the beauty of diversity. My hope is that this conversation may open your mind and heart anew to the beauty and hope that the Christmas season brings.
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18 NOV 2025 · Amidst the inreasing pressures of beauty culture to run from any hint of aging, it makes sense that cosmetic procedures and skincare products are surging in popularity. And, yet I wonder if we might meet aging in a different way. And that’s where Joyce Rupp comes in.
https://joycerupp.com/ is the author of numerous bestselling books, an international retreat leader, a conference speaker, was a volunteer with hospice for fifteen years, and is a member of the Servites or Servants of Mary community. In today’s conversation, Joyce helps us see aging from a more life-giving perspective and expands our view of what beauty is and what role it plays in our transformation. Joyce also shares about her own faith journey and how she persists in knowing God as good and beautiful amidst a very broken world.
May this conversation ground you in knowing a deeper beauty that is already present in you and all around you.
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5 NOV 2025 · In 2013, after 16 years of hospital and community work, Registered Dietician and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, Jessica Setnick, closed her private practice to fulfill her mission of educating primary care professionals about eating disorders, dysfunctional eating behavior, and how to best promote recovery and prevention. In addition to speaking and authoring numerous publications, Jessica also mentors the next generation of eating disorder professionals through case consultation and supervision.
In my conversation with Jessica, she discusses how shame and fear-based messages in the health care field often make people's eating issues worse, as well as the normalization and prevalence of disordered eating behaviors in American society. Jessica also addresses recent food trends like orthorexia and clean eating and when trying to eat healthily becomes unhealthy.
In our conversation and in her work, such as in her Heal Your Inner Eater Workbook and workshop, Jessica helps all of us take a step back and evaluate what our food behaviors and beliefs are and if they bring us life.
These topics and Jessica's work are important for all of us who have been exposed to the inundation of diet and wellness culture; may this conversation help you find greater wholeness in your relationship with food and your body.
https://www.understandingnutrition.com/items/handout-from-eating-disorders-boot-camp-understing-orthorexia-positive-vs-pathological-nutrition
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21 OTT 2025 · On this podcast I seek to redefine beauty as “the life of God at work in us and all around us.” In today's episode, Courtney Ellis helps us experience the life of God at work in nature, specifically among birds.
Courtney Ellis is an author, speaker, pastor, and host of https://open.spotify.com/show/2hV7NgvWDkNTOoRHXSQgc9. She holds a master’s degree in English literature from Loyola University, a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and alongside her husband, she pastors Presbyterian Church of the Master in Orange County, California.
In my time with Courtney, we discuss her latest book, Looking Up: A Birder’s Guide to Hope Through Grief. Courtney shares how birding can be a gateway to a deepening awareness of beauty in the world, how it can lead us to hope, and why she sees birding as a spiritual practice. In short, Courtney helps us see that birds remind us that God is at work all around us and that He is with us; all we have to do is look up.
Buy Melissa L. Johnson's book, https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Learn more about https://www.impossible-beauty.com/ and join the community https://www.impossible-beauty.com/
7 OTT 2025 · https://www.gretchenandrew.com/ left Silicon Valley for the art world and now refers to herself as a “Search Engine Artist.” Gretchen uses her experience as a former computer scientist at Google and her artist training in London with Billy Childish to “hack systems of power with art, code, and glitter,” as she states it, and helps make invisible parts of technology visible. Her work has been featured in outlets such as The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine, CNN, The Los Angeles Times, and The Financial Times, among others.
In my time with Gretchen, we discuss her latest limited series, entitled https://www.gretchenandrew.com/facetune-portraits/universal-beautycurrently featured at The Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan. In this series, and in our time together, Gretchen helps us see how AI is shaping beauty standards, the pressures those standards create, and the resulting invisible scars of these developing technologies. Given the rapid pace and pervasiveness of these technologies’ impacts, this conversation is such an important one. I can’t wait for you to listen and learn more.
**Also, please know that at points this conversation includes some mature themes, in case you’d like to be mindful of when and where you listen to this episode.
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24 SET 2025 · https://www.ellenwildman.com/ decided she didn’t want to hate her body anymore. So, she set out on a journey to heal and change that relationship. In today’s episode, Ellen tells us about her journey of healing and self-acceptance and the book that she wrote as a result.
Ellen Wildman holds an MA in Biblical and Theological Studies from Denver Seminary and is the author of Single and Not Sorry and most recently, https://www.ellenwildman.com/already-whole-book In my time with Ellen, we discuss lies from beauty and diet culture that get in the way of partnering with our bodies, how we can shift from our bodies being a project or enemy to our partner, and what it means to be made in the image of God. As you listen to our conversation, may grace, healing, and wholeness infuse your relationship with your body as well.
Buy Melissa L. Johnson's book, https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Learn more about https://www.impossible-beauty.com/ and join the community https://www.impossible-beauty.com/
22 LUG 2025 · The tricky part about diet culture is that it oftentimes masquerades as health and wellness. Given that, in today’s episode, https://schillingnutrition.com/and I discuss and even debunk some of today’s most prevalent wellness trends.
Leslie Schilling is a registered dietitian, sports nutritionist, nutrition therapist, and the author of https://www.amazon.com/Feed-Yourself-Culture-Divine-Design/dp/0310366526/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1693927232&sr=8-1. Leslie also served as a performance nutrition consultant for Cirque du Soleil®, is an expert contributor to U.S. News & World Report, and has been featured in media outlets like Health, Women's Health, Self, Pregnancy Magazine,Yoga Journal, The Huffington Post, and on HGTV.
In our time together, Leslie discusses the oftentimes disordered nature of clean eating, including her thoughts on Whole 30. She also gives important insight on increased fears regarding sugar consumption, as well as artificial dyes. As you’ll hear today, Leslie is an advocate for helping her clients, and people in general, find peace with food and their bodies. I hope that’s exactly what this conversation moves you toward today.
Buy Melissa L. Johnson's book, https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Learn more about https://www.impossible-beauty.com/ and join the community https://www.impossible-beauty.com/
8 LUG 2025 · After struggling with doubt for years,https://zachwindahl.com/l committed to an intensive Bible study program in Australia that completely transformed his life and changed his thoughts on the Bible. Since then, he has written The Bible Study, which has since sold over 500,000 copies, and launched The Brand Sunday, a company that creates resources that help people engage with God’s Word. In short, Zach’s mission is to simplify the Bible so anyone – no matter their background – can understand it, apply it, and grow in their faith.
In today’s conversation with Zach, we dive into his new book, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSY9QDTL/?bestFormat=true&k=the%20bible%20simplified%20zach%20windahl&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-pd-bk-d_de_k0_1_15&crid=3QTE4JBZQM645&sprefix=the%20bible%20simpland discuss why and how the Bible is relevant to and transformational for modern readers, what the Bible teaches us about authentic beauty, and how Zach maintains belief in a good and beautiful God in a world so full of struggle and suffering.
I found this conversation to be so inspiring; I hope it is for you too.
Buy Melissa L. Johnson's book, https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Deep-Beauty-Fighting-Demanding-Flawless/dp/0764242032/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Learn more about https://www.impossible-beauty.com/ and join the community https://www.impossible-beauty.com/
The brand of beauty we are so often sold is way too small. It divides and dis-integrates us. Melissa Louise Johnson is on a mission to re-discover authentic beauty. Not...
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The brand of beauty we are so often sold is way too small. It divides and dis-integrates us. Melissa Louise Johnson is on a mission to re-discover authentic beauty. Not the counterfeit kind reserved for the toned and airbrushed, but a lasting kind of beauty. Eternal and sacred. Living and moving all around us. Join Melissa as she interviews men and women who exude internal and eternal beauty in order to reshape cultural scripts. It's time we re-discover what beauty truly is.
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| Autore | Melissa Louise Johnson |
| Organizzazione | Melissa Louise Johnson |
| Categorie | Cultura e società |
| Sito | - |
| melissa@impossible-beauty.com |
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