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Kennedy Saves the World

Dagen McDowell Saves You From Your Teenage Anxiety

Kennedy Saves the World

FOX News Podcasts

Entertainment News, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.5812 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Kennedy sits down with FOX Business Anchor Dagen McDowell to discuss what advice she would give to her fourteen-year-old self. Dagen would tell herself to protect her mental health as well as her body, to choose friends wisely, and read poetry as much as possible. She later predicts how social media would have affected her life if it was present during her childhood. Follow Kennedy on Twitter: @KennedyNation  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.8

Thank you. Welcome to this episode of Kennedy saves the world. And today I'm going to save you from your teenage anxiety.

0:39.8

It's so interesting because the reason we love movies like Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off and things like that that harken back to adolescents is because that time in your life that's so filled with

0:56.3

uncertainty where it feels like you're constantly sliding off a cliff and you are battling

1:02.9

your own childhood, your own desire to break away from your family and be an adult, your hormones,

1:12.5

your social life,

1:20.9

and everything that compounds what is already a difficult yet entertaining period in time.

1:25.6

But it never leaves you. It always resonates. Like our adolescence is something that is always present. It is always right there.

1:32.7

The first book that I wrote was actually an advice book for young women. I wrote it when I was 25, not because I was full of wisdom, but because I wanted to send my former self a lifeline.

1:41.0

And, you know, just give my anxious teenage person the sense that don't worry so much.

1:48.2

Don't spend so much time worrying, especially about what other people think, because believe

1:52.2

it or not, it's all going to work out. And, you know, what I thought I knew when I was 25,

1:58.7

I feel like I'd probably have a little bit better advice now, having

2:04.0

had children and been married and been divorced and worked really hard at a career that means so

2:12.1

much and, you know, trying to help other people navigate their lives and their careers, there's always something

2:20.4

in that for the person who was in a state of anxious becoming my adolescent self.

2:28.7

So I thought we would build a teenage time machine and go back to the past to who we were and you know what are the pieces

2:37.9

of advice that you would give your uncertain self and also what did you do that was awesome the

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