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, you guys, welcome to the podcast this week. How's everyone doing? I hope you are all doing

fantastic. For those of you who are just listening in today

and haven't heard the updates on things, this is the last year I'm going to be doing the podcast

till the end of this year and I'm going to be doing one episode a month. And these episodes are going to be on things that you guys have

requested me talk about and also the things that I coach the most on. So if you have special

requests for podcast episodes, go ahead and send those to me at the Teen Life Coach on Instagram.

You can just DM me on there and I'm going through all those requests.

A lot of them are the same. You guys ask for a lot of the same things because you guys are all going

through a lot of the same things. And I coach on a lot of the same things. So I'm doing my best to

try to get those podcasts to you this last year. So today I wanted to talk about

what people say. And what people say or a fear of what people are going to say takes up a lot of

our energy. We worry about it a lot. We worry about what people are going to say, how they are going to judge us.

And when someone does say something that we view as hurtful or wrong or maybe misunderstood,

we put a lot of energy into analyzing it, overthinking about it, dwelling on it, and holding

onto it. So I want you to ask yourself, when somebody says something

you don't like or agree with, how long does it take you to move on from it and let go of it?

Is it hours, days, weeks, years? I have an older friend of mine who will bring up things from

30 years ago that people said

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