Fitspo Fatigue: The Impact Content Creation has on Fitness Creators
In the final episode of Beyond the Feed, host Erin Donovan is joined by Piedmont University alum Anika Nguyen to discuss how creating fitness content was not everything Anika wanted it to be. Nguyen obtained her masters in human performance after receiving her undergrad in applied health science, where she ran an active fitness account for friends to follow along on her fitness journey and share her advice. Nguyen talks about her struggles with content creation, along with how important nutrition and education are to her.
14 Nov 2025
Faith Over Food
Host Erin Donovan is joined by Andrea Lee, author of the 31-day devotional "Body Image: Valuing God's Good Gift," to discuss navigating body image struggles spiritually. Lee shares her own personal story and offers spiritual guidance on overcoming perspectives and idolatry surrounding body image today.
7 Nov 2025
Post-COVID Cravings
Host Erin Donovan is joined by Piedmont University sports and mass communications student Bailee Nolan to discuss athlete-to-student training transitions, marathon training and the pandemic's impact on social media and fitness habits. Nolan shares her experience with fitness influencers in the height of the pandemic, as well as how her social media habits have changed post-pandemic.
31 Oct 2025
Growing Up in Digital Dieting
On this week's episode of Beyond the Feed, freshman health science major Lila Polakowski joins host Erin Donovan to get a little vulnerable. Polakowski discusses the impact of social media and fitness influencers on her relationship with her own body and diet. Additionally, Donovan and Polakowski break down 75-hard, the disciplined lifestyle challenge that has flooded the internet.
24 Oct 2025
Intermittent Fasting: Yay or Nay?
Host Erin Donovan is joined by former Piedmont University women's soccer player Lanie McCarty to discuss her recovery from injuries, navigating the end of a sports career, and her experience with intermittent fasting. McCarty shares how intermittent fasting has helped her develop better routines and be more intuitive and intentional with her own nutrition.
17 Oct 2025
Dissecting Today's Digital Diaries
On this week's episode, Piedmont University graduate student Paige Kluba joins me to discuss social media platforms' differences, including how users portray themselves, the roles of differing platforms and how social media has impacted her. Kluba also discusses how educational and entertainment content can be better differentiated for users' benefit.
10 Oct 2025
Educating the Youth: Nutrition in the Classroom and Home
Women, infant, and child nutritionist and lactation specialist Courtney Johnson joins Erin Donovan to discuss Johnson's career path, notable problems in today's nutrition beliefs, and what changes could be made. Johnson discussed how parental education lays the foundation for youth's eating behaviors and thoughts.
3 Oct 2025
Creatine Cravings: Sciences Most Studied Supplement
Host Erin Donovan is joined by exercise science and Piedmont men's golfer Doug Gugel to discuss Gugel's introduction to the fitness world, navigating social media algorithms and his own experience using creatine. In light of social media's influence on supplementation, Gugel highlights the improvements he saw using creatine as well as its adverse effects.
26 Sept 2025
The Pyramid Scheme: Finding a Balance in Food Education and Nutrition
Piedmont University assistant professor Garrett Kinsey joins host Erin Donovan to discuss dieting consequences in college athletes, the process of opening up a gym, and Kinsey's take on the food pyramid. Kinsey shares his thoughts on how nutrition education needs reform, and what changing food education might look like.
19 Sept 2025
All or Nothing: Navigating the Animal-Based Diet
Piedmont University golfer Keegan Goins joins host Erin Donovan to discuss navigating changing sports, collegiate athletics and, most importantly, Goins' experience with the carnivore diet. Goins discusses how Carnivore shifted her mindset on food and how others can understand the importance of feeling good when dieting.
12 Sept 2025
Nature Versus Nurture: Is Dieting A Learned Behavior?
Professor Lindsay Dilbeck joins host Erin Donovan on this episode to discuss her experience dieting among sports and athletes. Dilbeck shares her opinions on the nature versus nurture debate regarding body image issues and how the creatine craze is actually not as bad as it's made out to be.
5 Sept 2025
Counting Points, Finding People: Food, Community, and Social Media Balance
Host Erin Donovan sits down with her mom, Leslie Donovan, to discuss growing into the digital age, navigating finding communities on social media, and how Weight Watchers has helped Donovan find peace in dieting. Donovan shares her view on how social media has become a breeding ground for comparison for its users and how she has navigated avoiding that trap.
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