Interviewing Haley Jackman: How Tiktok Ruined my University Experience
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Cat & Nat
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Most teens think university is where you magically become a fully formed adult.
Haley Jackman learned it’s more like being dropped into a jungle — with a ring light and a comment section watching your every move.
At 19, the Canadian influencer arrived on Western’s campus with a growing platform and an unfiltered voice. What followed? Viral headlines, social fallout, brand deals that funded Golden Gooses — and the hard realization that adulthood doesn’t come with instructions.
In this episode, Haley opens up about:
- What happens when you post your real-time confessions online
- The social cost of being “known” on campus
- Why normal isn’t always the goal
- The glitter and grit of influencer life
- And why walking away from college can be just as brave as sticking it out
We talk about identity, criticism, independence, and the quiet power of choosing solitude over cliques. Haley shares how social media became both her shield and her sword — and why she’s now building something even bigger from her unfiltered truth.
If you’re a teen carving your own path, a parent trying to understand social media culture, or someone who’s ever felt behind in the “grown-up” race, this episode is for you.
Because sometimes the bravest thing you can do… is admit you don’t have all the answers.
For more on Haley check out @haleymjackman
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like everything I've like posted, I was like aware in the situation that I was like, well, whatever, like it's fine. |
| 0:08.2 | But it did come back and kind of bite me in the ass in a way just when I went to school. |
| 0:12.8 | Never in any other parts of my life did I feel like it did. |
| 0:16.2 | But when I went to school, I really felt like it did. |
| 0:18.9 | But at the same time, I didn't regret it. |
| 0:20.7 | Like, it was like, the, it was the worst thing I had been through. |
| 0:26.1 | Meanwhile, I had 70,000 people telling me what I should do and shouldn't do because I was posting it. |
| 0:32.3 | But what else do you post when you're, like, in your room crying for... |
| 0:35.1 | Today, we have a special guest on our podcast it is |
| 0:43.0 | haley jackman she's a 19 year old content creator from canada who newly 19 oh newly 19 and |
| 0:50.3 | influencer and we found her because actually like our algorithm was sending it to us because |
| 0:56.5 | my daughter was going to university next year and Haley happened to be going into a university. |
| 1:02.1 | My daughter was looking at and then all of a sudden she started coming up and we were so |
| 1:05.7 | drawn to her content because it felt so like an inside into what it would be like to be her age and be an influencer |
| 1:12.7 | that we kept getting served all of her content. |
| 1:16.2 | And now we are followers and we're watching Haley's really exciting life, |
| 1:21.9 | the life of a newly 19 year old who's had, I mean, we've only known you this year, but you done school? Are you done? |
| 1:30.4 | On hold. Are you on pause? Yeah, like, kind of. Like, I'm still doing some type of like courses and |
| 1:35.6 | stuff, but I'm not like at Western. So Haley was at Western when we were watching her in residence, |
| 1:42.0 | in a program that we thought sounded really cool. |
| 1:45.8 | And you discovered like, I have so, I know, you discovered as a mom, like, you discovered very |
| 1:53.5 | quickly in residence at Western, in the MIT program, which you can tell us what that is, |
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