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New Series – SINS Angels…
Once every week or so, Practical Paleolithic is going to feature ONE OF YOU!
I’m calling the new series “SINS Angels” and the goal is to feature a female blogger who embodies the SINS ideal. This isn’t CrossFit specific or Paleo specific or anything-else-specific. It’s open to ALL women who can inspire others, have a blog and blog regularly and, most importantly, LIVE the SINS ideal day in and day out.
Every time a SINS Angel’s story is featured on Practical Paleolithic, she’ll get an autographed hard copy of my book, “The Paleo Dieter’s Missing Link,” some stuff from some other sponsors I’m finalizing things with AND, maybe most important of all, plenty of traffic from this site and Strong is the New Skinny on Facebook.
“In truth, there never was anything “wrong with me.” There was – and still is – something wrong with a culture where health isn’t a priority, foods we’re told are healthy by “experts” aren’t, disease is rampant, lifestyles are out of control with stress and strife and no one will look at the facts, tell the truth, drop the politics and create change.
Misinformation in the diet and health fields is ubiquitous. Almost no one tells the truth. Almost. Change is coming and there will be many established power structures that suffer and disappear when it does.”
-Adam Farrah
There are some major things happening in the world. I wrote the above quote last year in my Paleo Diet book, but it goes for a lot of other things as well. A LOT of established power structures are collapsing and it’s happening in virtually every segment of business and life and every area of the world.
And, it’s far from being “The End of the World” as some of the “Old World” power structures would have us believe – it’s just the end of THEIR world… I’m talking about Old World “institutions” like newspapers and printed media of all kinds, the major TV networks, the news and whatever dried up, bigoted Old World pundit is crying about the end of whatever obsolete medium or product or business this week. The world is changing in a beautiful way on so many levels.
There Are No More Gatekeepers…
Seth Godin says it beautifully in his book, “Tribes” and in this video:
Interestingly, Godin’s book, “Tribes,” and the video above is what inspired and guided the creation and building of the Strong is the New Skinny Community on Facebook in the first place.
At this moment, there are 41, 547 people who “spoke with the ‘Like’ button” and said ENOUGH IS ENOUGH with an emaciated, weak, under-fed and over-cardio’ed standard of women’s “beauty.”
Now WE Set the Standard…
The web is a BEAUTIFUL and POWERFUL thing. EVERYONE has a voice on the web. I LOVE when “old economy” types tell me journalism is dead. Dead? There’s a new blog born every half a second! That’s 175,000 a day! Far from dead, journalism – and the spreading of IDEAS – has never been HEALTHIER. If you want to know what the “old economy” people are REALLY crying about it’s this: CONTROL OF INFORMATION.
A bunch of 70 year old douche bags can’t sit in a board room, smoke cigars and run million dollar ad campaigns that convince us what beauty is, what fitness is, what success is or what’s valuable anymore. Well, they still can, but the web makes it a hell of a lot easier to ignore them and get REAL information now… Sucks for them, but it’s pretty cool for the rest of us…
It’s not even two years ago that I wrote the original blog post “Is Strong The New Skinny?” – based on an iPhone pic my friend Marsha posted on Facebook. All of YOU voted with your “Shares” and your “Likes” and your “Tweets” and, 6,800 shares later, Strong is the New Skinny on Facebook – SINS as most of you know it – is a thriving community. (BTW, when I read that original post, I don’t even think it’s that good! Far from a literary masterpiece, I think it was the idea and the raw emotion in it that you all responded to…)
If this whole topic of “Is journalism dead or not?” is interesting to you, check out this classic blog post by Seth Godin: “But Who Will Speak for the Trees?”
Beauty 2.0…
SINS has brought a lot of people together from a lot of different communities, ideologies and parts of the world. These people have gathered around that idea that STRENGTH IS BEAUTIFUL.
My partner Marsha makes her contribution and tells her story – AND wears her heart on her sleeve – on her blog: “http://strongisnewskinny.blogspot.com/” in support of a new standard for beauty and what women are capable of. And there’s a Wise Old Ape who posts a daily collection of images called “Team Gorilla” who supports the idea too.
Now, It’s YOUR Turn…
Once every week or so, Practical Paleolithic is going to feature ONE OF YOU!
I’m calling the new series “SINS Angels” and the goal is to feature a female blogger who embodies the SINS ideal. This isn’t CrossFit specific or Paleo specific or anything-else-specific. It’s open to ALL women who can inspire others, have a blog and blog regularly and, most importantly, LIVE the SINS ideal day in and day out.
Every time a SINS Angel’s story is featured on Practical Paleolithic, she’ll get an autographed hard copy of my book, “The Paleo Dieter’s Missing Link,” some stuff from some other sponsors I’m finalizing things with AND, maybe most important of all, plenty of traffic from this site and Strong is the New Skinny on Facebook.
Let’s Turn Up the Volume on These Voices…
So, let’s turn up the volume on the voices that think skinny is obsolete and strong is where it’s at! Send me an email with a little about yourself and why you should be a “SINS Angel” and a link to your blog at adam@practicalpaleolithic.com and let’s rock this thing!
ttys
Adam
I freaking love this idea. Oh and Seth Godin is the man 
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