Making It Awkward
A Podcast with Jessica Wilson
Introducing Making it Awkward
In 2023 Jessica started her podcast Making it Awkward. From the beginning she started highlighting the gap between research and reality. From her ultra-processed food experiment and connecting processed food hysteria and trad wives, to her expertise in the Making America Healthy Again(MAHA) movement and RFK Jr’s health claims, Jessica has been in front of conversations about food policy. Her guests include MAHA spokesperson Jeff Hutt, Great British Bakeoff alum Mike Wilkins, and highly esteemed director emeritus of Duke’s World Food Policy Center Dr. Kelly Brownell, who told Jessica that soda, Cheetos and baby formula have the same impacts on the body as crack cocaine.
Jessica makes things awkward with her interviewing style that values curiosity and patience which often gets guests to say the quiet part out loud, as UCSF’s Dr. Robert Lustig did when he told her that starving was healthier than eating “bad food.”
Join Jessica Wilson weekly as she makes things awkward. You can listen on your favorite podcast platforms or watch on YouTube!
Contact the show: makingitawkwardpod@gmail.com