Podcast Episodes

Text Etiquette

Season 3 Episode 17

There are all these weird implicit social rules while texting. Should I add an exclamation mark? What does their "ha" mean? In this episode of This Teenage Life, we explain some of the norms we abide…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Maintaining Friendships During Quarantine (...or trying to)

Season 4 Episode 16

Casual interactions are harder to come by in COVID. In this conversation, we talk about struggling to maintain friendships and struggling with ways to reach out to other people.

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Hair Reflections

Season 4 Episode 16

Hair can be a huge part of our cultural identities and sense of ourselves. However, as authentic, inner confidence grows, it can also become less important to us. In this episode, Cami and her mom re…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Hair and Identity Expression

Season 4 Episode 15

There's so much tied up in hair - cultural significance, identity expression, and more. On this week's episode of This Teenage Life, we're talking about our experiences with our hair.

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Quarantine Daydreams

Season 3 Episode 14

We might be stuck inside during a global pandemic, but in our heads, we're going places. We're rockstars, comedians, novelists, and boxers. In this episode of this Teenage Life, we discuss feelings o…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Staying Connected While Being Apart

Season 3 Episode 13

We cherish connection but in the pandemic, we're struggling to foster the kind of closeness that comes from casual interactions with people. In this episode, we talk about our feelings of disconnecti…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Our Fragile Democracy

Season 3 Episode 12

Today was a historically jarring and upsetting day — a mob raided and vandalized the U.S. Capitol.

This isn't a normal episode. We made it in the last few hours and it's several of us processing our …

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Loneliness

Season 3 Episode 11

It's a particularly weird holiday season. A lot of us are feeling particularly isolated right now. In this episode, we talk about our feelings of loneliness — when we feel lonely and what we do when …

Published on 5 years ago

Body Insecurities

Season 3 Episode 10

Clear skin, slim thick bodies — we're often taught to associate our self worth with how we line up with societal expectations about beauty. In this episode, we speak openly and honestly about our bod…

Published on 5 years ago

Pretend Adulting

Season 3 Episode 9

It can happen when you're filling out a form or checking out at the grocery store: an imposter-syndrome feeling that occurs when you're doing something "adult, while inside, you're still feeling like…

Published on 5 years ago