50. How Can I Protect My Mental Health on Social Media? Especially as a Content Creator, with Matt and Abby Howard

Healing Her with Ashley LeMieux

Cloud10

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

5.0 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Ever wondered what really goes on behind the scenes of social media stardom? I'm super excited to have my good friends, Matt and Abby Howard, join us on this episode. They share their incredible journey from aspiring theater majors to going viral and building a large following on YouTube. We dive deep into the ups and downs of being in the social media spotlight, including the mental health challenges they face and the importance of setting boundaries to keep their sanity. Plus, they talk about the tricky balance of managing their booming careers while being awesome parents. Get ready to be inspired by their story of staying true to themselves despite all the online noise and judgment. Sponsors: Want full, plump, hydrated lips? Try City Lips today at citybeauty.com and get 15% off site-wide with code: HEALINGHER HIGHLIGHTS 03:30 How theater brought Matt and Abby together. 12:00 When did you realize that your online success was becoming a viable career? 16:00 How Matt handles the pressure and potential for public failure in his music career. 22:30 Ways to manage outside opinions and feedback. 25:00 Practical ways to protect your mental health from social media pressure. 27:30 The two types of coping mechanisms and if yours is helping or hurting your progress. 30:30 How to handle feedback (and even judgment) on social media. 32:15 What are the challenges of being a public figure as a parent? 45:00 What advice would you give to someone hesitant to pursue their dreams? RESOURCES + LINKS Join the Healing Her Membership to heal and gain clarity in community! Go to - Ashleylemieux.com/membership Apply for 1:1 coaching with Ashley Want to feel more peace? Get your peace score with this quiz! Get Clarity Mapping: A Guided Journal to Living An Intentional Life Read my new book - I Am Here by Ashley LeMieux FOLLOW Matt & Abby on YT: Matt & Abby - YouTube Unplanned Podcast on YT: The Unplanned Podcast - YouTube Matt & Abby on TikTok: @matt_and_abby Abby Howard: @abbyelizabethoward Matt Howard: @_matt_howard_ Ashley LeMieux: @ashleyklemieux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	When I started a YouTube channel, if that would have failed, it would have just been within my friends and family that new.
0:35.8	Oh yeah, Matt tried to be, ha ha, he tried to be a youtuber for a year and he failed.
0:39.8	But now that there's millions of people watching, it is a little intimidating to where it's like,
0:45.0	if I fail, now it's not just my friends and family that know that I failed, it's millions.
0:50.8	Welcome to the Healing Her Podcast. This is your grief expert and friend Ashley Lemie
0:55.8	Lameu.
1:14.8	You guys are so excited. I have my friends here with me today who you for sure have seen at some point or another listening or scrolling on the internet but as I was getting ready for this conversation and I was like just doing my hair this morning I was thinking because you
1:19.7	know you have friends in your life where like you'll hang out sometimes but then I feel like I have
1:24.6	just a handful of friends where if we were in dire circumstances or like we needed
1:29.8	someone to bail us out of jail that's the group of friends I would call.
1:35.0	And I was like, Matt and Abby for sure
1:38.3	are my top three friends that I would call
1:42.4	if something crazy happened and we're like, hey, we need you to come bail us out right now because I know that they would be like, all right, we're there.
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