I Ditched Shoes for a Year - Heres Why @UnpluggedEva

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Sneakers, stilettos, slippers, bare feet. It turns out we have a lot of opinions about what we put on our feet, what they look like, and when it’s appropriate to wear them.

After being told to put on shoes at a Starbucks last year, I began to wonder exactly how our relationship to shoes (and feet) has evolved over time. It’s a tale of good marketing, false scientific claims, and a lot of injury to the part of our bodies that are so essential for our mobility.

A BIG thank you to those who contributed their stories and voices to this episode including:
Adelya Maxinoski @adelya.max
Anna McNuff @annamcnuff
Vivo Barefoot @vivobarefoot

Key Resources used in this video:
- Marlen Komar, Bustle, The Sneaky Manipulative History of Why Women Started Shaving, 2016
- Statista, Global footwear market - statistics & facts, 2022
- New York Times, If Shoe Won't Fit, Fix the Foot? Popular Surgery Raises Concern, 2003
- Natural Footgear, The Shoe Cushioning Myth.
- Runners World, Wearing minimalist footwear increases foot strength by 60 per cent, 2021
- Rory Curtis, Daily activity in minimal footwear increases foot strength, Footwear Science, 2019
- Vivobarefoot, Shoespiracy, 2019
- Vivobarefoot, The Barefoot Movement Conference, 2021

updated 3 years ago

I Ditched Shoes for a Year - Heres Why

Unplugged 2023-05-24 | → Join us as we encourage you to live life on your own terms: unpluggedwitheva.substack.com
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Sneakers, stilettos, slippers, bare feet. It turns out we have a lot of opinions about what we put on our feet, what they look like, and when it’s appropriate to wear them.

After being told to put on shoes at a Starbucks last year, I began to wonder exactly how our relationship to shoes (and feet) has evolved over time. It’s a tale of good marketing, false scientific claims, and a lot of injury to the part of our bodies that are so essential for our mobility.

A BIG thank you to those who contributed their stories and voices to this episode including:
Adelya Maxinoski @adelya.max
Anna McNuff @annamcnuff
Vivo Barefoot @vivobarefoot

Key Resources used in this video:
- Marlen Komar, Bustle, The Sneaky Manipulative History of Why Women Started Shaving, 2016
- Statista, Global footwear market - statistics & facts, 2022
- New York Times, If Shoe Won't Fit, Fix the Foot? Popular Surgery Raises Concern, 2003
- Natural Footgear, The Shoe Cushioning Myth.
- Runners World, Wearing minimalist footwear increases foot strength by 60 per cent, 2021
- Rory Curtis, Daily activity in minimal footwear increases foot strength, Footwear Science, 2019
- Vivobarefoot, Shoespiracy, 2019
- Vivobarefoot, The Barefoot Movement Conference, 2021

Taking a Vow of Celibacy as a 33-Year-Old Woman

Unplugged 2024-04-18 | I'd love to hear your thoughts: is intentional celibacy (for a specific period of time) something you've ever considered or tried? Or is it just a hard no for you? Let me know in the comments!

My main channel: @evazubeck

I Used to Hate Working Out, Now I Run Ultra Marathons

Unplugged 2023-10-19 | *Also: I ran this ultra to raise funds for an NGO empowering women in sports. Please consider contributing here: bit.ly/Eva100km - The fundraiser is happening over on Instagram, so you will need to access the link via your Instagram app on your phone*

So... why on Earth would anyone *choose* to run for 18 hours straight? In this video, I dive into my troubled history with working out, talk about the 3 ultra marathons I've ran, and explore the reasons why people choose to run ultra long distances without being forced to 🙃

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The HONEST Reason Why I Dont Want Children

Unplugged 2023-09-15 | → Join us as we encourage you to live life on your own terms: unpluggedwitheva.substack.com
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Today’s video is a little different. Think of this video as more of a heart-to-heart chat. Just me and you. I’m revisiting some of the common reasons why people choose not to have children and why they may or may not resonate with me.

Yes, I still don’t want to have kids, but the reason I resonate most with might surprise you!

→ Watch our other video on choosing to be childfree here: youtu.be/iZvF5IJFIAE

We Need to Talk About the Ultra Rich Paying for Extreme Travel

Unplugged 2023-07-04 | → Join us as we encourage you to live life on your own terms: unpluggedwitheva.substack.com
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Why would someone ever pay $250,000+ for an experience of a lifetime? Is it for social currency?; Fame?; The feeling of being the first ever to do something? Join me as we discover precisely how and why the ultra-rich travel the world.

Key Resources used in this video:
- Forbes’ 37th Annual World’s Billionaires List: Facts And Figures, 2023
- Fast Company, The Man Who Wants to Send Us To the Bottom of the Ocean, 2017
- Barack Obama, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Speech, 2023
- New York Post, Super-rich demand for risky excursions shockingly surges despite Titan sub disaster, 2023
- The Washington Post, What is submersible tourism? The Titanic expedition, explained, 2023
- Forbes, X-treme Luxury Travel for Billionaires: The Rise of Luxpeditions, 2018
- Wendover Productions, How the World’s Wealthiest People Travel, 2022
- Vox, Billionaires: Explained, 2019

Ancient Japanese practice for well being

Unplugged 2023-03-30 | ...

How the internet reacted to my CHILDFREE video

Unplugged 2023-03-04 | ...

I Stopped Shaving and the Internet LOST IT

Unplugged 2023-03-01 | → Join us as we encourage you to live life on your own terms: unpluggedwitheva.substack.com
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Well, the title pretty much says it all, hey!

Imagine making a personal decision about your body only to have strangers on the internet make comments about just how sickening your choice makes them feel. But how did we even get here? Exactly why do women shave and why do we have SO MANY opinions about people who don’t? We explore these questions in this week’s video!

Key Resources used in this video:
→ Marlen Komar, Bustle, The Sneaky Manipulative History of Why Women Started Shaving, 2016
→ Marlen Komar, Bustle, Photos Of Shaving Ads From The Last 100 Years, 2016
→ Rebecca M. Herzig, Plucked: A History of Hair Removal, 2015
→ Kirsten Hansen, Hair or Bare?: The History of American Women and Hair Removal, 1914-1934, 2007
→ Lauren R. Harrison, Shaving and Fashion: A Storied History, 2010
→ Gabrielle Moss, Bustle, Pubic Hair Trends, From Ancient Greece To Today, 2014
→ Shivali Vora, New York Times, It’s Just Hair, 2021
→ Jill Burke, Did Renaissance Women Remove their Body Hair?, 2012
→ Phil Edwards, Vox, How the beauty industry convinced women to shave their legs, 2015

Things people say when I tell them I don’t want kids

Unplugged 2023-01-18 | ...

The Dark Side of Living in the City

Unplugged 2022-09-18 | → Join us as we encourage you to live life on your own terms: unpluggedwitheva.substack.com

Come on an adventure with us this week as we explore some of the reasons why living in cities is hurting you mentally and physically. It might sound grim, but the good news is that the solution is easier than you think...

Key resources used in this video:
- Lucy Jones, Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild, 2020
- Belinda Kirk, Adventure Revolution: The life-changing power of choosing challenge, 2021
- Stanford University, Stanford researchers find mental health prescription: Nature, 2015
- Richard Ryan, Netta Weinsteine, Jessey Bernstein, Kirk Warren Brown, Louis Mistretta, Marylène Gagné, Vitalizing effects of being outdoors and in nature, 2010
- Kenneth P Wright Jr, Andrew W McHill, Brian R Birks, Brandon R.Griffin, Thomas Rusterholz, Evan D. Chinoy, Entrainment of the Human Circadian Clock to the Natural Light-Dark Cycle, 2013
- Time Magazine, You Asked: Is It Bad to Be Inside All Day?, 2016

I Dont Ever Want to be a Mother. Heres Why.

Unplugged 2022-07-20 | → Join us as we encourage you to live life on your own terms: unpluggedwitheva.substack.com

Huge news, our first ever video is live! This one is personal. We explore my choice to be Childfree and debunk some of the myths associated with people who choose not to have children. We historically look at the role of children, societal understandings of motherhood, and track birth rates across generations to understand where the supposed ‘maternal instinct’ comes from.

Key resources used in this video:
- Dr Amy Blackstone, Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence, 2019.
- Anne Allison, Precarious Japan, Duke University Press, 2013.
- Julie Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt, Single Life and the City 1200-1900, 2015.
- Elaine T. May, Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness, 1997.
- S. Philip Morgan, Late Nineteenth-And Early Twentieth-Century Childlessness, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 97, No. 3.
- McCrindle, The Baby Bonus Generation, 2013.
- The Nation, The Disturbing Rise of ‘Femonationalism’, 2019.
- The Conversation, What the baby bonus boost looks like across ten years, 2017.
- The Australian Institute of Family Studies, Household division of labour from 1991 to 2016, 2018.
- Gary L. Brase & Sandra L. Brase, Emotional regulation of fertility decision making: What is the nature and structure of “baby fever”?, 2012.

WELCOME TO UNPLUGGED

Unplugged 2022-07-20 | → Join us as we encourage you to live life on your own terms: unpluggedwitheva.substack.com
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UNPLUGGED videos will help us navigate some of life’s big questions: from making the choice (not) to have children, to why urban living might have something to do with your anxiety, to why I’m boycotting the make-up industry (and you should too). Each video will tackle one big slice of LIFE. We have so much to talk about.

I created UNPLUGGED to inspire us all to live life on our own terms. Because what many of us are told is the “only” or “right” way to live is simply a convenient social fiction.

This channel is essentially all about freedom.

The freedom to question what we’ve been told. The freedom to make our own choice. The freedom to navigate life on our own terms.

You can also follow along on Instagram (instagram.com/unpluggedeva) for snippets of the full YouTube videos.

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