You are listening to Episode 81.

Why are kids with early success at risk for low self-confidence?

Hello and welcome to this episode.

I am so excited to welcome one of my favorite accounts on Instagram.

Dr. Becky at Good Insight.

Dr. Becky is a clinical psychologist with a PhD in clinical psychology

who specializes in parenting, anxiety, and resilience.

And we're talking about why kids with early success can be at risk for low self-confidence.

Thank you for joining me today.

Thank you so much for having me.

Excited to talk about this kind of really nuanced and interesting and important topic with you.

Yes, I think it's so important because it's also something that I also want to balance for my own son.

But tell me a little bit more about yourself and why you started Dr. Becky at Good Insight.

So, yes, I'm a clinical psychologist, as you mentioned.

I'm also a mom of three, so my kids are nine, six, and almost four.

And there's really not much I find as interesting as people and kids and families and family systems and intergenerational patterns.

I'm just very curious, I guess, about why we kind of develop into the people we develop into what we need,

what we end up getting, and kind of how our bodies adapt accordingly.

And so, I guess the larger story really is that that I just have always found people to be endlessly interesting.

And then about two years ago, I started working on a product in the sleep space with a friend of mine.

I was talking to her about the sleep product.

I had kind of a gaivert for my daughter who had always had some sleep struggles.

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