Hello and welcome to the teen life coach podcast.

I'm your host, Mikkel, and today we're talking about being more than beautiful.

Hey guys, what's up?

So excited to be with you all today.

And we are talking about one of my favorite topics today.

We're talking about beauty and how you're more than beautiful.

And also handsome for all the men out there listening.

I did an episode a little bit ago where I talked about feeling beautiful and how we create the sense of being beautiful with our thoughts.

And a lot of times we think that beauty is something either you have or you don't have or you can try to earn it by making

yourself look a certain way but just how like women and men no matter what they look like

so many will struggle with body insecurities and you know even models right and so I think

that episode is really good if you want to cultivate more body positive thoughts.

But I've just been thinking about it a ton and I was introduced to Beauty Redefined.

Beauty Redefined is a platform run by Lindsay and Lexi Kite and it is all about body image and how women look

at their bodies and how we perceive ourselves and our self-worth because of our sense of

a beautiful or not beautiful body and it was so like such a shift in perspective to me that I had to share it with you guys.

And so I highly recommend like go check out their Instagram.

It's called Beauty Redefined.

But I'll be talking in this episode today just a lot about some of the messages and research

that they've done. So we get this message from a very young age that being beautiful is one

of the most important, if not the most important thing a girl can be. And you get this from like TV ads, from movies we watch, magazines,

that the girls who are important, who are popular, who are loved,

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