Dear Teenage Me Podcast

Today's guest is Phoebe Kuhn, a Communications & Content Specialist based in Bali, Indonesia.  

She has spent 7+ years in Digital & Marketing roles working on some of the biggest brands in the world.

Through years of experience in the Digital Marketing & Communications sector and an extensive background in Human Behaviour, Phoebe fuses her unique experience to masterfully produce memorable content that sparks conversations and elicits emotion, establishing an inextricable bond between brand and audience. 

In a former life, Phoebe worked at the world's most award-winning Advertising Agency, BBDO (the one that the hit TV Show "Mad Men" is based on). She currently resides in Bali, swapping out fluorescent lights and late nights for ocean, sunshine and early mornings fuelled by bulletproof coffee and the occasional surf. 

She is here to empower individuals to ensure their talents & unique genius truly shine.

In this episode of the Dear Teenage Me Podcast I talk with to Dr. Naama Barnea-Goraly who has developed an app to empwer and connect teenage girls, Girltelligence!

Naama received her medical degree from the Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel, and her clinical training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as well as a post-doctoral neuroimaging research fellowship at Stanford University.

She then went on to work as an Instructor and brain researcher at Stanford. Her research, on brain structure in disorders affecting social cognition was published extensively in leading psychiatric and neuroscience journals, and presented in international conferences.

In the course of her work she became interested in gender differences in social cognition, and the importance of supportive authentic communities, especially for girls and women. This led her out of the lab and into the real world to found "Girltelligence", a girl empowerment app for teen girls and young women to find a supportive community, and resources to support their mental health and reach their full potential.

Today's guest is Sally Hetherington the CEO of Human and Hope Association. 

After seeing the unintended consequences of voluntourism whilst she was volunteering in Cambodia from 2011-2017, she teamed up with Human and Hope Association (HHA), a nightly English school at the time, to develop it into a reputable community centre.

Sally learnt that for sustainable change to happen, locals needed to be leading organisations.

As a result of her empowering approach to development, she successfully made herself redundant, leaving HHA to be entirely run by local staff. Sally is now CEO of Human and Hope Australia that raises funds for Human and Hope Association to continue their poverty-alleviating programs.

Her manifesto, 'It's Not About Me' was published by Elephant House Press in 2019. Sally received an Order of Australia Medal at age 33.

In conversation with Sally, we discuss all the best advice for young people wanting to volunteer abroad, more ideas on how to be altruistic in life, plus thought-provoking ideas and tips for life in general! 

Today's guest is Nancy Lipman aka WINGWOMAN. She is a Music Industry Coach dedicated to helping people master and transform their lives. 

Nancy talks about her own journey as a teenager and offers up all the wisdom she has to give her angry and confused teenage self.

"With many personal challenges growing up, I had no clue of what I was capable of, and the last thing I was interested in was "self-help". 

What a Girl Wants, what a girl needs.. Today's guest is Lizzy Edwards, Mixcloud's very own executive assistant and mindfulness expert. 

What a Girl Wants, what a girl needs.. Today's guest is Chrissy Symeonakis, the gutsy founder and CEO of 'Creative Little Soul' who started her Digital Marketing company at the same time as discovering she had Multiple Sclerosis.  She takes us through her awe-inspiring journey, from the mentorship she received as a teen, to vulnerably sharing with us her recent mental health breakdown, how she is overcoming it, and offers up her own well-earned advice to the teenagers and young women of the world today.