How do you stop caring what others think? A filmmaker and a therapist answer | Baron Ryan and Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile
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🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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How do you quit people-pleasing? Internet filmmaker Baron Ryan and family therapist Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile unpack the all-too-common fear of rejection and explore the practices necessary to reclaim your ability to finally say “no” and stop caring about what other people think. (This conversation is part of “TED Intersections,” a series featuring thought-provoking conversations between experts navigating the ideas shaping our world.)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas and conversations to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Ted Intersections is back for a second season. This original series features unscripted conversations between TED speakers |
| 0:22.0 | taking on subjects at the intersection of their expertise. In this conversation, internet filmmaker |
| 0:27.7 | Baron Ryan sits down with marriage and family therapist Stephanie R. Yates Anya Buele to answer |
| 0:34.3 | the question, how do you learn to love yourself? They dig into the struggles of people-pleasing, |
| 0:40.3 | why we care so much about what people think of us |
| 0:43.3 | and how we can resist that sneaky urge to compare ourselves to others. |
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