Troubled Teen Industry with Samantha Leach

High Low with EmRata

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture

3.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Unpacking the numerous systemic issues with the Troubled Teen Industry, the controversial network of for-profit, youth treatment centers such as boot camps, wilderness programs and boarding schools with the author of The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia, Samantha Leach. Sam shares her reporting, lived experience, and personal insights, in a rich discussion of the lingering effects of Y2K celeb culture's toxic influence on young women, the power of shame, and how names like Paris Hilton and Bhad Bhabie play into all of this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Hi-Lo with Emrana. This is our solo episode
0:09.8	we do on Thursdays and Mrana asks. This is a topic I've been thinking about and talking
0:16.1	about for a while now. It started back in the spring when I had bad baby Danielle on
0:22.5	the podcast and she talked a bunch about her personal experience and perspective with
0:29.1	the troubled teen industry. Something I really wasn't familiar with until that point. She
0:35.9	talked about the wilderness therapy that she attended as a result partly to her stent
0:41.7	on the Dr. Phil show and some of the very harrowing experiences that she had there including
0:47.1	a staff member's death during her stay. So I've been looking to do an episode on the for-profit
0:53.4	troubled teen industry ever since this conversation and I found out about this book just in time
1:01.1	for this episode and luckily we have been given the opportunity to interview the author. So on this
1:08.8	week of Emrana asks, we have Samantha Leach who has just published a book called The Alyssa's
1:15.4	Three Girls One Fate in the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia. It's on a ton of lists right now,
1:22.0	Amazon's best nonfiction book of the month for June and Harper Bazaars 23 Best Summer Beach
1:28.2	Reads of 2023. I read a great review of it in the New York Times. There's a piece about it on
1:36.0	nylon as well. She's the entertainment editor at large at bustle and has written for glamour,
1:41.6	L and nylon. So let's get into it with Samantha Leach. Stay tuned for more Hi-Lo with Emrana.
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