Pursuit of Wellness

Love love love episode with Michelle !!

I used to really like Mari and the podcast but after seeing she had tirzepatide on her calendar, I’ve realized she’d built a business on lies. She can’t even say she is taking it for her newly diagnosed PCOS/fertility because she told Dr. Hyman she was ovulating regularly with diet and lifestyle. She’s a fraud.

For Fi’s sake I’m hoping she’ll go on to have a super successful career and return to the pod to have a more genuine friendship with Mari resulting in more realistic convos on the pod. I like these two together, but you can see the power dynamic even from their parting conversation on the pod. I love Mari but I do feel like she needs to learn how to let the conversation flow without butting in and redirecting everything to herself and her own life—even in that last conversation Fi would be on the verge of sharing something important and Mari would butt in with something for her own life or Fi would be sharing the woes of wanting children but not yet having a partner, and Mari is coming in with unhelpful lines. Overall it’s a great pod I just feel like Mari can be out of touch with the masses so to speak—like I’m a successful attorney and even I can’t afford to get lab work whenever I want to figure out what’s going on with my skin or to see a functional medicine doctor (they’re all out of network and $500/visit without treatment) to figure out what’s going on with my fatigue and hormones (and it’s not about “priorities”—I do spend on my health). It’s just that most of the advice is expensive to implement, and even upper middle class women can’t really afford the suggested solutions most of the time. Honestly sometimes I can’t even listen because it reminds me that I need to be making so much more money to reach that next echelon of wellness.

I am enjoying this podcast and the engaging conversations that Mari offers!