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 are you guys all doing? This is my second time recording this podcast. The first time I

recorded it, my mic wasn't working. So here we go again. Happy Thanksgiving. What do you guys

get to do for Thanksgiving? My favorite part of Thanksgiving is hanging out with my family

and the sweet potatoes. I love the sweet

potatoes and the Brussels sprouts. My kids hate both of those, but I like those. And I just love

being with everybody. We have family coming into town this afternoon to be with us for Thanksgiving.

So that's going to be super fun. Every once in a while, I like to do a little series on the podcast

because there will be a subject I want to cover, but it's way too much content to just put into one

podcast, so I just make it into a series. And this episode is the start of my happiness

habits series for teens.

There are quite a few things that teens have in common that make them happy.

Okay, there's things that there's certain things that happy teens do.

And so I wanted to spend the next few episodes talking about those things that teens do that make them be happy.

Everybody is looking for happiness. Everybody is looking to feel

good. And the people that are the happiest do certain things and practice certain habits in their

lives so that they can feel happy. So this is the perfect timing to talk about gratitude because

that is the first topic we're going to cover this week and tomorrow

is Thanksgiving. And this is the week that we really focus on being grateful. And maybe because

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