Episode 330: Joan Denizot

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD
Podcast. Joan Denizot is an inspiring speaker and inclusive
business consultant who empowers organizations to embrace
diversity, foster inclusivity, and drive positive change. She is
the founder of Zize Bikes—a company that creates bikes that
transcend conventional limits and empower individuals of diverse
body sizes—and is also an author. Her most recent book, Big Body
Business, redefines business success beyond profits, advocating
inclusivity, comfort, and transformation.


In this episode, Tro and Joan talk about weight stigmatization
and its negative impacts, why Joan founded Zize Bikes, what goes
into engineering a bike that is comfortable to use for an obese
person, small things that medical offices and other businesses
can do to better accommodate overweight patients/customers,
terminology and labels that are appropriate terms for referring
to overweight people, the pros and cons of the body positivity
movement, psychological hardships that overweight people are
prone to as a result of their size, and why


For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for
listening!


Links:


Joan Denizot:


Big Body Business (Book)

Zize Bikes

Website

Body Ready

Facebook



Dr. Brian Lenzkes:


Website

Twitter



Dr. Tro Kalayjian:


Website

Twitter

Instagram



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