Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today you guys we have a

special interview with Joey Mascio on the podcast today. So I hope you enjoy learning from him and I hope

you love the conversation I had with him. He's brilliant and he has lots of good things to share.

Okay. So here we go. Here's the

interview. Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. I am so happy to, okay, you're going to have to tell me

how to say your last name if I say it wrong. It's Joey Mascio, right? You nailed it. Well done.

Okay. Good. I didn't want to mess that up. But welcome to the podcast. I know you've been to the

podcast or you've been on the podcast before with McHale, but I've never had the opportunity to have you

on the podcast with me. So thank you for coming on today and being with us and sharing your

vast knowledge about growing up and being a teen

with us. So why don't you go ahead introduce yourself. Tell us your background and what you

currently do. Yeah. So my name's Joey Mascio. I'm also a life coach. I specialize in working with

teens on many things,

including stopping procrastination, stopping self-doubt, anxiety, essentially creating more

success and happiness in their lives. And it's the best work, isn't it? Sammy?

It is. I do love it. It's so much fun and I love it. So before I was a life

coach. So now I do that full time. But before that, I was a middle school teacher where I taught

English and theater. But for the last four years, I was actually the teacher in the discipline

office. Oh, okay. Yes. Yeah, I was in there. And when the teens got sent out for any reason or whatever

was going on in their lives, they'd come spend some time with me. And that's where I started

doing coaching for teens. And that's where I fell in love with it because I could see some,

some change in their lives and work with them throughout the year. And it was phenomenal. And then

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