This Is So Awkward

By Peoples Media, This Is So Awkward

This is so awkward…but it doesn’t have to be. These days, puberty starts earlier, lasts longer, and happens with a cellphone in hand. The most trusted voices on puberty, Dr. Cara Natterson and Vanessa... more

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This Is So Awkward episodes:

February 14, 2025 Teen Dating…from a Teen Perspective
Adults are baffled, bemused, and slightly horrified by what they hear about teen dating. Our 16-year-old guest, Elle Kristine, helps set the record straight on today’s teen relationships. She uses decidedly modern methods to offer teens relationship advice, like her @AskElle account on TikTok and her AI-based teen dating app. Ultimately, Elle believes that today’s teens are looking for the same things they have always sought in relationships: connection and love.

Show Notes:

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52min
February 11, 2025 Teen Romance and First Loves
The language of teen relationships is literally foreign: the glossary-requiring terms they use to describe their romantic lives vary from kid to kid, with little agreement. What do words like “situationship,” “talking” (which isn’t actually talking), and “hook-up” mean? Now layer on the virtual world in general – and social media in particular – and you can feel like you need to get a PhD in the language of young love. Journalist Lisa Phillips, author of First Love, defines it all, ultimately creating a playbook of the realities of youth romance.

Show Notes:

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Head to http://lumen.me/AWKWARD for 20% off your purchase

Get 20% OFF any AquaTru water purifier when you go to AquaTru.com and use promo code AWKWARD

Visit equip.health/AWKWARD to get a free consultation from Equip

First Love by Lisa Phillips

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1h
February 07, 2025 Preventing Pregnancy + STIs/STDs
It can be increasingly hard to find valid, science-based health guidance in this age of rampant misinformation and now missing information. This episode zooms in on the prevention of pregnancy and STI/STD transmission, one corner of health and sex education that is in the midst of erasure from many government websites. We cover everything from abstinence to barrier methods, hormonal contraception, and IUDs. And if for some reason the content of this podcast gets censored, it’s all in our book: This Is So Awkward!

Show Notes:

Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP

Go to Quince.com/awkward for free shipping and 365-day returns

Head to http://lumen.me/AWKWARD for 20% off your purchase

Get 20% OFF any AquaTru water purifier when you go to AquaTru.com and use promo code AWKWARD

Visit equip.health/AWKWARD to get a free consultation from Equip

Order our book This Is So Awkward

Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
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1h 1min
February 04, 2025 Texts from Teens with Chip Leighton
Teens can be so brutally honest at some moments and utterly clueless at others. Chip Leighton, the self-described middle aged dad influencer Leighton Show and author of What Time Is Noon, memorializes it all with a hefty dose of barb-filled humor. Chip lays bare a hilarious, unvarnished view into the experience of parenting teenagers.

Show Notes:

Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP

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To celebrate Phyla’s exciting new launch, we’re offering 25% off your first order. Go to phyla.com and enter the code "puberty" at checkout.

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_leighton_show
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_leighton_show/

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55min
January 31, 2025 When Co-Parents Aren't on the Same Page
Parenthood is complicated by a million complex issues, only ramping up in the tween + teen years. Then layer on the common truth that any two people can disagree. Adults bring their own knowledge and history to parenting – their upbringing, temperament, and even values can differ radically, often landing them on different sides of the same question. So what are co-parents to do when they don’t see eye-to-eye on issues like substance use, screen time, clothing choices, or just general independence-seeking?

Show Notes:

Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP

Go to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code AWKWARD to receive UP TO $300 off air purifiers

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To celebrate Phyla’s exciting new launch, we’re offering 25% off your first order. Go to phyla.com and enter the code "puberty" at checkout.

Managing Divorce with Adolescents

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51min
January 28, 2025 Tidy Up Your Life
Life is messy. Tyler Moore AKA Instagram’s The Tidy Dad helps families declutter not just their physical messes but also their emotional baggage too. Everything from middle school mayhem to toilet bowl hygiene, this episode is chock full of practical advice. But there’s no judgment for those who have a ways to go before they qualify as tidy!

Show Notes:

Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP

Go to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code AWKWARD to receive UP TO $300 off air purifiers

Go to Quince.com/awkward for free shipping and 365-day returns

To celebrate Phyla’s exciting new launch, we’re offering 25% off your first order. Go to phyla.com and enter the code "puberty" at checkout.

Order our book This Is So Awkward

Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
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54min
January 24, 2025 Changing Landscape for Sex Ed
This is not a political episode but sex education is a political issue. At the start of a new presidential administration we are already seeing shifts in what can and cannot be taught in schools. Our guest, Jaclyn Friedman, helps clarify the facts and project what the future of sex ed may look like.

Show Notes:

Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP

Go to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code AWKWARD to receive UP TO $300 off air purifiers

Go to Quince.com/awkward for free shipping and 365-day returns

To celebrate Phyla’s exciting new launch, we’re offering 25% off your first order. Go to phyla.com and enter the code "puberty" at checkout.

Order our book This Is So Awkward

Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
Produced by Peoples Media

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56min
January 21, 2025 The Cognitive Dissonance of Parenting
Why do we double down on a decision even when all evidence points to it being the wrong choice? It’s often thanks to the phenomenon known as cognitive dissonance and its companions: self-justification and memory rewriting. Social psychologist Carol Tavris explains what these words mean, how they play into decision-making, and why adults can’t help but fall into this trap even as their kids get older. This fascinating episode will blow your mind!

Show Notes:

Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP

Go to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code AWKWARD to receive UP TO $300 off air purifiers

Go to Quince.com/awkward for free shipping and 365-day returns

To celebrate Phyla’s exciting new launch, we’re offering 25% off your first order. Go to phyla.com and enter the code "puberty" at checkout.

Mistakes Were Made (but not by ME)
Estrogen Matters

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1h 4min
January 17, 2025 Goal Resets Instead of Resolutions
New Year’s resolutions are fine, but goal setting is better. This reframe makes physical and emotional wellness more achievable, for kids as it is for adults. But sometimes, in an effort to get “healthy,” people of all ages develop behaviors that are anything but. This episode opens with our what’s in and what’s out list for 2025 – far more fun than standard resolutions – and offers tips for identifying when health goals turn unhealthy.

Show Notes:

Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP

Go to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code AWKWARD to receive UP TO $300 off air purifiers

Go to Quince.com/awkward for free shipping and 365-day returns

To celebrate Phyla’s exciting new launch, we’re offering 25% off your first order. Go to phyla.com and enter the code "puberty" at checkout.

Episode on Orthorexia

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48min
January 14, 2025 In the Wake of Disaster
One week ago, Los Angeles erupted in flames. Firestorms engulfed entire communities on both the east and west sides of town. Thousands have been displaced, losing not just their homes but their schools, parks, and community gathering spots. In this episode, we cover how to prepare for emergencies – not just the physical items you need to have at the ready, but also the conversations to be had with tweens and teens. It will surprise no one that this is not one talk but many.

Newsletter with LA Resources

Show Notes:

Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP

Go to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code AWKWARD to receive UP TO $300 off air purifiers

Go to Quince.com/awkward for free shipping and 365-day returns

To celebrate Phyla’s exciting new launch, we’re offering 25% off your first order. Go to phyla.com and enter the code "puberty" at checkout.

Order our book This Is So Awkward

Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
Produced by Peoples Media

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...more
56min

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