Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.

I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about social skills with Kate Fitzsimon's.

Hi guys, welcome to the podcast today.

I am so excited to have Kate Fitzsimons here with us today. And she's

actually a friend of mine. I was on her podcast a little while ago. And I'm going to have her

introduce herself. And she, I think you've been engaged since I've talked to you last, right? Yeah. Okay.

I believe so. There's a big rock on my finger. There is. Congratulations. Okay, so go ahead and

introduce yourself. Well, I'll do the good old stereotypical, gidday guys.

Okay, yes, she's Australian. I didn't mention that. They're probably like, why does she sound funny?

Yeah, so I'm proudly in Aussie, but very grateful to now be living over here in the US.

I live in New Jersey with my now amazing fiancée.

So, yeah, love brought me over here, but not just love for him, but love for helping teenagers.

And especially around, I guess, just dealing with

the tough stuff in life, resilient, learning how to feel confident in yourself, learning how to,

I guess, go after what you really want in life. I know there's a lot of pressure and expectations

on teenagers' shoulders.

And it's a passion that's been born from when I was a teenager.

I'm sure, just like you, Sammy, I struggled a lot.

I had bad anxiety.

I had an eating disorder, which I can see now was really born from a lack of control. I hated not having control. So I tried to

seek control through food and body the image. And of course, I ended up just with massive self-loathing

and insecurities. So that's part of it. And then when I was just out of my teenagers, I'd just

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