Hollywood Burnout, Redefining Wellness and Balancing Beauty & Health with Maria Menounos

Pia Baroncini0:01

The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

Arielle Lorre· Host0:04

[upbeat music] This is Well, a podcast about wellness in all its forms. I'm Arielle Lori, and each week, I'm sharing unfiltered conversations with the people shaping how we feel, live, and look. Come for the substance, stay for the honesty, and leave with the tools to be well inside and out. Today's guest is Maria Menounos, and I don't think that there are many people who have navigated both Hollywood and serious health challenges with as much honesty and resilience as Maria has. She probably needs no introduction with you guys, but she is an Emmy Award-winning journalist. She's a television host, producer, best-selling author. A lot of people know her from hosting shows like Entertainment Tonight, Extra, and E! News. She's also now the founder and host of Heal Squad. But behind the scenes, she was dealing with an absolutely relentless schedule and burnout, which she gets into in this episode, and eventually major health issues that completely changed the way that she thinks about wellness and success. So in this episode, we get into all of that. We talk about what success and wellness meant to her in those peak Hollywood years and just the toll that hustle culture and the entertainment industry took on her body. We talk how thyroid issues became kind of the gateway to deeper chronic health struggles, which I know so many women deal with.