Food Junkies Podcast

Vera Tarman, Clarissa Kennedy

crissy_kennedy@hotmail.com

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Booking Overview

A health and recovery interview podcast focused on food addiction, abstinence-based recovery, eating disorders, and related clinical and lived-experience perspectives, typically featuring clinicians, researchers, authors, addiction professionals, and people with established recovery stories. Suitable pitches include food-addiction specialists, eating-disorder and behavioral-health clinicians, researchers, authors, and credible recovery advocates with substantial personal or professional expertise; booking difficulty is medium because the show welcomes relevant niche experts but expects strong subject-matter alignment.

Metrics

Episodes: 325

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 12.0k subscribers

Contact Information

crissy_kennedy@hotmail.com

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Host

Vera Tarman - Physician specializing in addiction medicine and author of Food Junkies.

Clarissa Kennedy - Podcast publisher and co-host focused on food-addiction recovery education.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Clinicians, addiction professionals, psychologists, researchers, authors, program founders, and people with substantial lived experience of food addiction and recovery.
Required Achievements:  
Relevant clinical or research practice, Published books or studies, Leadership in food-addiction or recovery organizations, Long-term documented recovery experience

Recent Guest Discussions

Brian Baumal - Perfectionism, Shame, Diet Culture, Gestalt Therapy, Relapse Planning, And Sustainable Food-addiction Recovery.

Lara Pedersen - Early Food Addiction, The Experience Of Addiction While Competing As An Elite Athlete, Recovery, And Writing About Her Journey.

Susan Peirce Thompson - Six-year Recovery Outcomes, Bright Line Eating, Glp-1 Medications, Maintenance, Identity Shifts, Grief, And Long-term Food-addiction Recovery.

Recent Topics

Food Addiction, Recovery, Eating Disorders, Addiction Medicine, Weight Management

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Food Junkies Podcast
:

Episode 290: Dr. Carolyn Dean | Magnesium, Yeast Overgrowth & Sugar Cravings

July 30, 2026

Fatigue. Brain fog. Cravings that never quit no matter how "good" you're eating. In this episode of Food Junkies, Dr. Vera Tarman sits down with Dr. Carolyn Dean — MD, naturopath, and author of more than 50 books including The Magnesium Miracle — to unpack a piece of the addiction and recovery puzzle that rarely gets airtime: magnesium deficiency and its tangled relationship with yeast overgrowth, sugar metabolism, and chronic cravings. Dr. Dean has spent over five decades in integrative and ...

Episode 289: Brian Baumal | Perfectionism, Shame, and Food Addiction Recovery

July 16, 2026

In this episode of Food Junkies, Dr. Vera Tarman and Clarissa Kennedy sit down with Brian Baumal, a registered psychotherapist based in Toronto and owner of Aliva Psychotherapy, where he specializes in weight management, eating disorders, food addiction, and psychological support for bariatric surgery patients. Brian trained at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto and has been a licensed member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario since 2015. He's also a food addict in long-te...

Food Junkies Recovery Stories Episode36: Lára Pedersen

July 13, 2026

CJ welcomes Lara, a former professional soccer player from Iceland, for a powerful and deeply honest conversation about food addiction and recovery. Lara began struggling with food at a very young age and recognized early that it was beginning to take over her life, even while competing as an elite athlete. She speaks with remarkable transparency about her experiences, their impact on her, and the path she has taken toward healing. Lara's willingness to share is so profound that she even wrot...

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