Life Coach, Kristen Goodman loves to work with mothers of teens (that's a lot of YOU!) because she believes that teaching you the skills to be a more confident parent, and helping you get rid of guilt, will help you love your life AND your teen and raise more confident teens. Today she is sharing how to combat that totally normal back to school anxiety we have all felt.

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Today's Supergirl is 20 year old Whittley Norton. Whittley's perspective on life, family and faith is incredible! At 10 years old Whittley was removed from her home and put into a group home after years of abuse. After 9 years of living in different group homes and foster homes she finally got her forever family. Listen to find out what this meant to her and what she has learned from these experiences. 

Do you feel called to help? Check out Big Brothers Big Sister of America.

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Our THOUGHTS become our FEELINGS that then become our ACTIONS that become HABITS that then become our CHARACTER. Today Christy Watson is teaching us how we can use this formula to change our perceptions of our body image.

Watch the Dove Commerical Christy refers to.

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I love talking to teens hearing their perspectives on things. 19 year old Alli Trendler has great perspective on not looking back on closed doors and seemingly lost opportunities because closed doors mean a new door and new opportunities are coming. Listen to her experiences where she discovered this.

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I am pretty sure I was the last person on the planet to hear of Ashley Reeves from Ashley's Fresh Fix. Am I right? Do you know her? If not you need to. She is a power house! I love the messages she shares about body image and self love and healthy living and so much more. Today she is talking about 10 things she wishes she knew when she was a teen.

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Today I am talking with Jaime Wilkins, Life Coach and host of the podcast Sincerely Satisfied. Jaime shares a tender story from her teen years about a time she was able to help a friend and another time when she was not able to help that same friend and how she felt about herself when she couldn't help him.

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On today's podcast I am talking with Sita Kinikini. Sita writes music and sings, plays tennis and loves to travel. She is full blooded Tongan with a rich heritage. These are just parts of her. They don't define her. Sita is also gay. This is just another small part of her that doesn't define her.

This is not a discussion on whether homosexuality is right or wrong. This is a discussion on how we need to treat everyone with kindness and respect. Sita shares the shame she felt when she realized her preferences were different than those of her friends. She shares the fears she experienced before coming out and how people reacted once she did come out. It broke my heart when she described feeling like a monster and didn't want anyone to know she was gay.

Maybe this is something you can relate to. Or maybe you have a friend or loved one in a similar situation. I think it is important to have conversations about topics that scare us or make us uncomfortable to raise awareness. There is a lot of research that shows increased depression and death by suicide among members of the LBGTQ community. I believe however that we can help this by treating everyone with love, kindness and respect.

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Fernanda, originally from Monterrey, Mexico, has lived in Idaho for the past 9 months as an exchange student. I had to much fun sitting down with her and talking about her experience living here and how teen life here compared to Mexico.

Interested in becoming or hosting an exchange student? Check out NorthWest Student Exchange

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Have your parents ever told you, "I was a teenager once. I know exactly what you are going through." Did you believe them when they said it? I sat down with my sweet friend Alta this week and asked her what it was like to be a teenager over 70 years ago! A lot has changed since then but I learned that some things will never change. As she talked about balancing an after school job with homework and maintaining a social life, tests, difficult teachers and bargaining with her mom for a later curfew I realized we are more alike than we might think and we can learn so much from other's experiences. Listening to Alta share her stories was so much fun! I loved hearing about the time she delivered a baby when she was in the 10th grade, why her underwear often said "Pillsbury" on them and what it was like to travel to school in the "Pig Wagon". I especially loved hearing what someone with 89 years of life experience wishes she had done differently when she was a teen.

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How does knowing where you came from give you an identity? Can we gain strength from the experiences of those that went before us? Today Carolynn Reynolds is sharing her love of Family History and talking about how learning about her ancestors has blessed her.

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