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The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

1KHO 802: Uncertainty Is the New Norm | Jenny Anderson, The Disengaged Teen

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Everything your kids are going to face next is changing faster than we can keep up, and this conversation with Jenny Anderson will change how you think about school, motivation, and what actually matters. On this episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, host Ginny Yurich talks with the author of The Disengaged Teen about the silent crisis happening right in front of us: kids who look fine on paper but feel disconnected, overwhelmed, or checked out entirely. Drawing from research on 65,000 students, Jenny explains why engagement drops off a cliff by high school, how Silicon Valley is winning your child’s attention, and why even high-achieving kids are at risk. This is a practical, eye-opening conversation about helping kids move from apathy or pressure into curiosity, resilience, and real-world capability, and it starts with how we show up as adults. Learn more about Jenny and all she has to offer here Check out Jenny's How to Be Brave substack here Learn more about The Disengaged Teen book here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Summer gets busy fast. One minute you're easing into warmer weather and the next you're juggling sports schedules, swim days, camping trips, road trips, late nights around the fire and trying to keep the house from completely falling apart in the middle of all of it.

0:13.2

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0:18.6

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0:21.5

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0:26.6

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0:31.3

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0:35.7

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0:54.3

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1:04.1

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1:09.9

Welcome to 1,000 hours outside podcast. My name is Ginny Arts and the founder Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.

1:12.5

My name is Jenny Ernst and the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.

1:14.8

And I'm so excited for today's guest calling him from London.

1:18.5

Jenny Anderson.

1:19.3

She has an incredible substack.

1:20.7

She's newish on Instagram.

1:22.5

You can find her there.

1:23.8

But more importantly, most importantly, it's all important.

1:27.1

But she has an incredible book

1:28.6

called The Disengaged Teen. And I have never read a book about being disengaged. The subtitle

1:35.3

is helping kids learn better, feel better, and live better. Jenny, welcome. Thank you so much

1:41.4

for having me. It's great to be here. What an interesting topic that kids are disengaged. You talk about how a shocking number of young people don't see the point of school anymore. Give us a bit of your background. I'm always interested how people land in a topic that I'm not even familiar with. Sure. So, yeah, my co-author and I, Rebecca Winthrop, we kind of set out

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