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This is Ted Hell, I'm Dr. Shoshana Unger-Lighter.

Today, we hear from wellness influencer Peachy Liv.

Peachy will share how she coped with her experience with cyberbullying and the pressures of social

media and why she now advocates for a kinder and more respectful digital world.

After, I'll speak with Dr. Caitlin Costello, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at University of

California at San Francisco. She'll explain the very real impact online harassment can have on

young people and how we can protect their mental health from the dangers of social media.

When I was 12, I had a dream to tell one million young people that it is possible to close the gap

between how learning should feel like and how it actually feels. All my friends went to school

out of pressure to compete in gaining the highest grades, which leads to depending their self-worth

on numbers, normalizing cheating and hating school. I had this mission because I wanted young

people to fight for our right to have an education that encourages us to learn out of internal

curiosity instead of external pressure and one that feels rewarding, fun, self-fulfilling and

collaborative. So I thought if I could talk in front of a thousand people at a time, I would just

need to do that a thousand times and then I would reach a million people, right? Until I realized

that I could reach millions of people all at once online. For me, realizing that felt like finding

a superpower. That's when I started my journey as an educational content creator and changemaker.

So I created videos that challenged students to find the subjects they are curious and passionate

about, provided tips on making learning fun and demonstrated how technology could transform how

we learn and help us reach our fullest potentials. Since then, my videos on YouTube have been viewed

more than 55 million times. Plus, I've helped create social activism through my online work,

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