Welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm Coach Sammy and I am so glad you are here.

The teen years can be fun and exciting, but also filled with self-doubt, insecurities, and lots of

frustration. I am here to help you along your

teen journey and make sure you enjoy your teen years as much as possible. Let's get started.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the podcast this week. How's it going? How is your Halloween? I can't believe it's

already November. Halloween is over. The first half of school is almost over. Finals are coming up.

It's crazy. This year is going by way too fast. My baby turns nine this week. Nine, you guys. As a coach, I am constantly

learning from other coaches and experts. I always like to be up to date on the latest tools and

strategies and helping teens, the latest concepts that kind of blow my mind sometimes. I'm like,

wow, I never thought of it that way.

So one coach I was learning from this week was talking about influence and comparison

and just letting influencers into our lives.

And I really love what she had to say.

So I'm going to be talking about that today with you guys.

And she was talking about this concept that

our happiness is directly correlated to who we compare ourselves to. For some reason, that kind of

really hit home for me this week. I think it is normal to spend a lot of time comparing

ourselves to other people because that's what

our brains like to do. It's what our brains are programmed to do to always be on the lookout and

comparing and contrasting and making sure that we're safe. And I loved how she was teaching that

the way that we compare ourselves totally affects our level of happiness.

So you guys, this week I was out doing yard work with my kids. Do you guys love it when your

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