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March 1, 2021 55 mins

I'm so thrilled to welcome Sonya Renee Taylor back to the podcast. We talk about what's different in the second edition of The Body Is Not an Apology -- which is a New York Times bestseller! We also talk about the forthcoming Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook.

Tune in and find out how Sonya started this amazing work and why she is committed to changing how the world thinks about bodies.

You can also click through to the show notes to watch the video version - BodyKindnessBook.com/170

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Guest Info
Sonya Renee Taylor is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology, a digital media and education company promoting radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice and global transformation.

Sonya’s work as a highly sought-after award-winning Performance Poet, activist, and transformational leader continues to have global reach.

Sonya is a former National and International poetry slam champion, author of six books, including The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; February 2021), educator and thought leader who has enlightened and inspired organizations, audiences and individuals from board rooms to prisons, universities to homeless shelters, elementary schools to some of the biggest stages in the world.

Website | Books | Instagram - @sonyareneetaylor | Instagram - @thebodyisnotanapology/ | Venmo | Patreon

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