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This Teenage Life is a podcast made by teens about their ideas, stories, and unique perspectives in the middle of their own growth as humans. Please feel free to reach out to us at team@thisteenagelife.org, we love hearing from listeners.

This Teenage Life This Teenage Life

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.7 • 188 Ratings

This Teenage Life is a podcast made by teens about their ideas, stories, and unique perspectives in the middle of their own growth as humans. Please feel free to reach out to us at team@thisteenagelife.org, we love hearing from listeners.

    The College Process

    The College Process

    Applying to college in the U.S. is an multi-step, often emotional process. It can be challenging to write personal essays that construct neat narratives. And while we often try our best to get accepted to universities we like and can afford, for many of us, the college application process involves our first explicit experience of rejection and reframing of back-up options as opportunities.
    In this episode, teens from This Teenage Life talk about their experiences of the college application process, and contributors in college talk about their transition from high school to college.
    This episode is sponsored by the XQ institute. Check them out at xqsuperschool.org. If you're a student, or even a teacher who may be listening to better understand your students, you can join the conversation at XQ America on social.

    • 21 min
    Social Anxiety

    Social Anxiety

    Many of us struggle with social awkwardness and anxiety about social interactions. In this episode, inspired by listener emails, we discuss our relationship to social anxiety and how we deal with it.

    • 25 min
    Nostalgia

    Nostalgia

    Growing up can be confusing. It's easy to look to the past or future and fantasize about "when we all had it figured out." But for many of us, looking back can feel bittersweet, especially when we think of the "simplicity" of being a kid.
     In this episode of This Teeange Life, we talk about our nuanced relationships with nostalgia.

    • 21 min
    Where the boys at?!

    Where the boys at?!

    This Teenage Life currently has four dialogue groups. This May we want to start a group specifically focusing on teens (ages 13-19) who identify as boys since most people in our other groups identify as girls. We’ll be running it with actor Sullivan (Matt) Jones. If you want to join, email us at team@thisteenagelife.org
    FYI, we're starting a new dialogue group for everyone this summer. So if you're interested, just reach out:)

    • 4 min
    Writing Part 1: Journaling

    Writing Part 1: Journaling

    For many of us, writing is an outlet — a way to create and access other worlds or express our feelings. On this episode, we're exploring our relationships to journaling and how it helps us be ourselves.

    • 16 min
    Popularity & Cliques

    Popularity & Cliques

    This Teenage Life has teen contributors from dozens of countries. While we may have different languages and cultures, we've all had the experience of feeling excluded. In this episode, teens from across the world share their reflections on  navigating cliques and popularity. 

    • 17 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
188 Ratings

188 Ratings

🩷🤭 ur average teen girl 🤭🩷 ,

Love this podcast soooo much 🩷

i love how it reflects to other teens perspectives and it makes me feel less lonely in life

The positive puppy 🐶✨ ,

Amazing

I love this podcast! It’s so cool and interesting 🤩🤩 I love how it shares teens’ perspectives on varied topics and real world problems! It definitely makes me feel less alone in the world and I listen to this every day. It’s so relaxing 😌It’s also really relatable. Podcast people, you guys RULE, just keep slayyyyiiiing 👑😘💗🪩

Local judge ,

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What I think is unique about this show is that I haven’t heard anything like this! Most shows have only about 1-4 ppl stating what they think about certain topics I love how ppl around the world get to share their opinions on situations!💞

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