Lexi Hensler: Destigmatize the Conversation

The Squeeze

Taylor Lautner

Taylor Lautner, Tay, The Squeeze, Taylor, Education, Tay Lautner, Health & Fitness, Squeeze, Lemons By Tay

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

After returning from a long European trip, your hosts are thrilled to be back in the interview chair talking to social media star and mental health advocate, Lexi Hensler. Lexi is open about her struggles with anxiety and depression from a very young age and talks to the Lautners about what helps her manage it all. She also talks about her bucket list, something she came up with when she was in the hospital with an infection that resulted in organ failure and a panic attack disorder. Lexi is out to destigmatize the conversation around mental health, and one of the amazing ways she is doing that is through her weighted stuffed animal company, Hugz. Lexi talks about her biggest goal for the company, discusses her relationship with social media, and shares her love for Oprah. Plus, the three bond over their love of dogs and the value they bring to your life, especially on the hard days. Lexi’s message is loud and clear: please keep holding on and know it does get better. If you find yourself struggling with your mental health, please reach out for help. You can find various resources here. Be sure to keep up with Lexi @lexihensler and check out givehugs.co Thanks to our awesome sponsor! Jenni Kayne — Find your forever pieces at jennikayne.com. Our listeners get 15% off your first order when you use code THESQUEEZE at checkout To email us your questions or share your story, you can reach out to [email protected]. Be sure to rate, review, and follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode! Plus, follow us on Instagram, @thesqueeze and personally @taylautner and @taylorlautner. To learn more from The Lemons Foundation, follow @lemonsbytay on Instagram and visit lemonsbytay.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When life gives you lemons, what do you do with them?
0:07.0	Over here at the Squeeze, we talk about it. Welcome back to another episode of The Sweet.
0:23.7	Happy Wednesday.
0:24.8	Happy Wednesday. This feels so nice being back in here.
0:29.6	I have missed this room. I've missed this
0:34.4	this microphone my headset girl loves a microphone
0:38.4	not really actually I'm going to I like it more than you do. We did, yeah we just got back from a long trip.
0:47.8	Yep. It was a great trip. We had so much fun. Yeah. We started in Germany. We attended German Comic Con and met a bunch of people and that was super cool.
1:04.0	A lot of squeeze listeners.
1:05.0	Yeah, yeah, that was really fun.
1:09.0	Like it's fun.
1:10.0	It's fun when you have people come up and say, you know, I love Twyla, I love, you know, this, that, and the other. But there's something, there's
1:18.6	something special when people come up and say that they listen to the podcast and they you know just puts a
1:26.5	smile on their face or they moved them in some certain way or gave them some like helpful trick or tool and that really gets me going.
1:39.2	Yeah, you know.
1:40.7	Or do we go after that?
1:42.2	After Germany. know. Or did we go after that?
1:59.3	After Germany, we went to Koneak, France, stayed at an incredible home for a few days and that was truly one of the coolest things we've ever done in our life if if not thee.
2:04.0	And then we bopped to Portugal for a few days.
2:08.0	Which I didn't know, this is really bad.
2:11.0	I didn't know where Portugal was until like a week before. Well we also didn't know we were going to Portugal until the week before we left on our trip, but I learned where Portugal is. I thought it was freaking beautiful.
2:22.2	Oh my gosh, I want to go back.
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