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Speaker 1: This is t pod. Hey guys, welcome back to this

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Speaker 1: week's Teddy Teapod. I felt like it was fitting that

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Speaker 1: maybe we get into the discussion of bullying, cyber bullying,

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Speaker 1: social media bullying, all those type of things because of

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Speaker 1: what's been going on in my world this last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks. I mean, of course, there has been so

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Speaker 1: much love and so many great comments, but within those

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Speaker 1: great comments, there are some things that people say that

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Speaker 1: are just so brutal, and you know, whether it's they

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Speaker 1: wish that I died or wishing harm on my kids,

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Speaker 1: I think it really just should remind us all that,

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Speaker 1: like we don't always know what everybody's going through, and

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Speaker 1: in the world of social media, in the world of

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Speaker 1: so many unknowns, we've got to just take a moment

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Speaker 1: to like, if we don't know what's but he's going on,

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Speaker 1: what's going on in somebody's world, take back a moment

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Speaker 1: and say, like, maybe I shouldn't say that, Maybe I

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Speaker 1: don't actually wish this stranger dead, Maybe I don't wish

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Speaker 1: this karma on their kids. Like around the same time

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Speaker 1: people are saying karmically, we hope something happens to your children.

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Speaker 1: You know, my daughter is getting neurosurgery, or my son's

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Speaker 1: broken his thumb or whatever it may be. And I am, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, trying my heart is not to break down

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Speaker 1: and be the strongest parent that I can, but also

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Speaker 1: trying to be this balance of being myself on social

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Speaker 1: media and saying like here, I am sharing the good,

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Speaker 1: the bad, and the ugly of myself, but like, also,

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Speaker 1: you're really hurting my feelings and I don't know you,

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's been a really like sad week

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Speaker 1: with Chad Chadwick Boseman's passing away. And I remember back

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Speaker 1: when he was doing Black Panther or there was an

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Speaker 1: Instagram photo or something and it was people commenting on

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Speaker 1: his weight loss, and and the fact that people would

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Speaker 1: would comment on something they have no idea about. It's

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Speaker 1: just heartbringing, especially with what we know now. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not comparing our situations in any way. I'm only comparing

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Speaker 1: it to the world of being virtually online and not

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Speaker 1: knowing all the information. We've got to take a look

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Speaker 1: at ourselves. We've got to be able to say, when

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Speaker 1: I say this to somebody's face, could I live with

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Speaker 1: myself saying this to somebody's face? And what would I

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Speaker 1: do if somebody actually said this to my face? Um?

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Speaker 1: And so because of that, I'm going to bring on

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Speaker 1: a specialist today to talk about how we can protect

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Speaker 1: our children's from cyber bullying and give us a lot

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Speaker 1: of useful information. I'm also going to have Rebecca Black on,

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Speaker 1: which I'm beyond excited about. She knows this world of

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Speaker 1: cyber bullying beyond and I'm excited to dig into it.

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Speaker 1: And thanks you guys for listening. Are you guys now?

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to get on. Josh Oaks, who has

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Speaker 1: smart Social dot Com. He has a background at Disney

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Speaker 1: and a love for all things technology. Josh combines both

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Speaker 1: to help teens and tweens use social media as a

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Speaker 1: portfolio of positive accomplishments. How cool is that Josh travels

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Speaker 1: the nation speaking to over thirty thousand students each year

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Speaker 1: sharing tips to create positive online activity. To me, that

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Speaker 1: is a game changer because so often we are seeing

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Speaker 1: negative activity when it comes to our teens and tweens. So, Josh,

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Speaker 1: just to kind of catch you up to date, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm on a you know reality show that the Good,

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Speaker 1: the Bad, and the Ugly, and it's one of the

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Speaker 1: things that comes with the packages. What people say, and

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Speaker 1: what I always say is like, listen, I think you

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Speaker 1: should definitely have your favorites, the ones that you don't

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Speaker 1: like as much, whatever it is. But I never want

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Speaker 1: anybody you to wish harm on somebody else. And and

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Speaker 1: something that was recently starting is I started to get

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Speaker 1: messages not only saying to me, um, you know, I

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Speaker 1: hope you die Teddy, more along the lines of like

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Speaker 1: because of you, karma happened, and that's why your daughter

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Speaker 1: daughter needed neurosurgery, or you know, I hope something happens

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Speaker 1: to your kids as payback for what happened on the show.

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Speaker 1: And it really started leading me thinking about ways to

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Speaker 1: protect our kids. You know, yes, I can protect them

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Speaker 1: through my social media. Most of the time, the people

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Speaker 1: kids get older, you know, like my kids already are

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Speaker 1: like can we can we be on TikTok. Can we

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Speaker 1: do that? I'm like, no, you know, but what is

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Speaker 1: the healthy boundary is that you can set as a

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Speaker 1: family without creating fear, but also creating you know, a

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Speaker 1: successful relationship with social media. Yeah, that's a great question.

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Speaker 1: And so first of all, sorry that people are harsh

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Speaker 1: to you online. We have a couple of rules that

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Speaker 1: I'd love to tell my quick backstory for one second,

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Speaker 1: how I was bullied if I may, and and how

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Speaker 1: that might help you, um teddy. Many years ago, I

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Speaker 1: ran for city council in Hermosa Beach, California, which is

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Speaker 1: where they filmed the original Baywatch many years ago. And

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Speaker 1: it was gorgeous and I was the youngest person on

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Speaker 1: the ballot. I was running against people who are all

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Speaker 1: In the campaign, I set out to knock on more

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Speaker 1: doors than anyone else. I was positive. But there were

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Speaker 1: two people that blogged negatively about every candidate. And I

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Speaker 1: reached out to him and said, hey, you're you're being

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Speaker 1: negative online about every candidate. Can we meet? You don't

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Speaker 1: like me and respect me. Can we sit down the cough.

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Speaker 1: They wrote back to Teddy and said, no, we don't

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Speaker 1: want to meet you, but we're going to continue to

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Speaker 1: And and there's a couple of things that happened, Teddy.

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Speaker 1: And this is why I'm one of the forefront people

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Speaker 1: in this space right now, is because number one, it

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Speaker 1: hurts an adult. And if it hurts an adult, that

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Speaker 1: bad that people won't want to meet you, but they'll

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Speaker 1: say terrible things to you as they've done to you

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Speaker 1: or about your family or anything else. It hurts. Guess

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Speaker 1: how much that hurts a child. It's really bad. The

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Speaker 1: second thing is it starts to change our Google results.

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Speaker 1: As these people were blogging, they would people I would meet. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think I knocked on two thousand and fifteen doors

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Speaker 1: So people just genuinely either liked me or didn't and

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Speaker 1: they always were very kind. But one of the things

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Speaker 1: They would go to Google to search and learn more

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Speaker 1: coming up in my Google results. So those two important

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Speaker 1: opportunities and everything else, which is so important. Now, may

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Speaker 1: I give you a couple of ideas. Yes. So one

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Speaker 1: of the things that we find most important and that

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Speaker 1: I did when I was being bullied, was I had

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Speaker 1: friends read the comments. I stopped reading the comments for

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Speaker 1: You should follow up with them. And they made it

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Speaker 1: And that's something that I know Joe Rogan does. He goes,

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Speaker 1: I don't even read the comments. I have my buddy

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Speaker 1: Jamie go in there and read them. Right, whether you

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Speaker 1: like Joe or not. I listen to a few of things.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty interesting. But that's a person that has a message,

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Speaker 1: then a couple other things to um, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Do you have somebody

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Speaker 1: I couldn't even keep up with that. You know, there

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Speaker 1: So we have a couple of rules here at our organization,

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Speaker 1: at smart Social dot com. The number one safety app

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Speaker 1: Learning how to not have road rage happens a decade

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Speaker 1: you have an angry uncle that's always screaming at people,

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Speaker 1: So what we tell people is way before you think

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Speaker 1: do you want to do with your career call edge internship,

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Speaker 1: then kids have a purpose instead of just giving him

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Speaker 1: a Ferrari that's a an eight hundred dollar ferrari in

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Speaker 1: their pocket. That's an iPhone that becomes a pastime that

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Speaker 1: gets him in trouble. Yeah, I mean, I I noticed.

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Speaker 1: Even So I have a stepdaughter, she's amazing, and she

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Speaker 1: has She got a phone early because she goes back

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Speaker 1: and forth between our house and her mom's house, so

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Speaker 1: of course, so she can have open communication. Um, she

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Speaker 1: ended up getting a new one and she had her

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Speaker 1: leftover one, and so my daughter Slate became obsessed with

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Speaker 1: wanting to get her phone. Can I have a phone?

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Speaker 1: Bell has a phone? Phone? The phone? No, you can't

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Speaker 1: have the phone. You can't have a phone. So regardless,

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Speaker 1: for about two weeks, she asked every single day about

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Speaker 1: the phone. I kept telling her, no, she still doesn't

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Speaker 1: have the phone. Every couple of days she'll stick her

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Speaker 1: foot in again and ask for the phone. I don't

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Speaker 1: even know the appropriate age that you give a trial

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Speaker 1: the phone, because I didn't have a phone. I know

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Speaker 1: that we're gonna roll our eyes about like what I

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Speaker 1: did as a kid, But like, what do you think

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Speaker 1: the appropriate age to give in and say, okay, you

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Speaker 1: can't have a phone, because in my mind, you don't

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Speaker 1: need a phone. Slate one, we're not going anywhere too.

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Speaker 1: I give you your tablet time when you're allowed to

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Speaker 1: have it at the three? Like who are you calling?

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Speaker 1: These are all really good questions. So I've got a

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Speaker 1: couple of ideas. So I'm just kind of pulling up

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Speaker 1: when should my kid get a phone? That's a really

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Speaker 1: good question. Uh. First of all, parents, you decide when

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Speaker 1: you're the experts. But our professional recommendation is that zero

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Speaker 1: to ten, there's no phone, right, they're borrowing yours, they're

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Speaker 1: doing other stuff. I know if parents are separated or divorced,

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Speaker 1: that does something weird. I have a solution for you

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Speaker 1: if you need it. But then at age ten you're

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Speaker 1: gonna think this is young eight to ten. It's a

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Speaker 1: cell phone safety contract with your kids, because you have

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Speaker 1: to say before you get it, this is what's going

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Speaker 1: to happen. And also parents, and as you know, teddy um,

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Speaker 1: when your kids go over to their friends houses, their

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Speaker 1: parents always have an extra zombie phone. It's an extra

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Speaker 1: old phone that fires up on WiFi. We call it

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Speaker 1: a zombie phone because the heart of a phone usually

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Speaker 1: is connecting to a T and T Verizon or T Mobile,

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Speaker 1: but it'll fire up on on WiFi and let your

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Speaker 1: kid borrow it while they're over there to set up

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Speaker 1: a Snapchat and TikTok account. And that's why you have

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Speaker 1: to have an agreement with your kids, a dialogue. Your

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Speaker 1: kids are doing nothing wrong if they set up a

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Speaker 1: new account if you haven't warned them about that yet,

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Speaker 1: so it really goes back over to the parents. But

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Speaker 1: zero to ten, no phone, if you can avoid it.

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Speaker 1: Let the kid be a kid a little bit longer

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Speaker 1: ted if you can not understand about the divorce thing.

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Speaker 1: But ages ten to thirteen is time for um, some

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Speaker 1: kind of a phone alternative of first phone. And kids

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Speaker 1: are gonna hate a flip phone. They're gonna roll their

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Speaker 1: eyes and hate you. And that's okay, you are a

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Speaker 1: normal human being. But it could be something like a

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Speaker 1: GAB wireless phone is spelled g A B B wireless um,

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Speaker 1: And that is a dummy phone. In fact, I have

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Speaker 1: one right here. This is a gab wireless phone everybody

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Speaker 1: listening right now. Looks just like an iPhone and it

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Speaker 1: runs on the Android operating system, but they kind of

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Speaker 1: watered it down. It's what's called a first phone. There's

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Speaker 1: a new one called pin Wheel that's out here soon

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Speaker 1: as well. And this phone only has contacts. It has

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Speaker 1: text messaging that doesn't send pictures as of the time

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Speaker 1: of this video. It has a camera, and it has

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Speaker 1: an FM radio, and it lets you call your parents,

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Speaker 1: text your parents, but and it but it doesn't let

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Speaker 1: you text images. So it's a good first phone because

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Speaker 1: your kid won't be bold. Yeah, and and Teddy, here's

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Speaker 1: why this is huge. Um, So ten to thirteen, maybe

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Speaker 1: fourteen years old? Is this first phone right and we'll

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Speaker 1: call it a water down smartphone. It gives them all

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Speaker 1: the features that they want, but it doesn't allow them

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Speaker 1: to get download any apps, so there's no social media

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Speaker 1: on this phone. The average use time, I'm gonna pull

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Speaker 1: this out of nowhere. I'm guessing the average use time

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Speaker 1: they want to text and then they go put it down.

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Speaker 1: Like me, I've communicated, I'll put it down. Um And

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Speaker 1: then age fourteen before fourteen, Please everybody please consider being

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Speaker 1: very careful before buying your kids a smartphone like an

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Speaker 1: iPhone or an Android. You are connecting your kids with

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Speaker 1: seven billion other people. So what we would recommend is,

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Speaker 1: if you are going to give your kid a smartphone

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Speaker 1: at fourteen, go six months to a year without social

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Speaker 1: media apps installed. I know your kids are gonna hate me,

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Speaker 1: blame it on me, It's okay. And then at age fifteen,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna give you the chance to do something where

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Speaker 1: it's a smartphone and allowing them now because they're tethered

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Speaker 1: to your phone, because now you can control it now,

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Speaker 1: allowing to download with your permission, and you log in

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Speaker 1: to Snapchat, Instagram or TikTok or something that you approve

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Speaker 1: that you also have an account on your their follower

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Speaker 1: and you have their pass code and their password, so

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Speaker 1: you can get into their phone and into their account

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Speaker 1: if something happens. Now I've got to go into the

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Speaker 1: world of YouTube. So here's the next thing. My kids

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Speaker 1: also have started to ask can we watch these YouTube

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Speaker 1: So it's only on YouTube, kids, but like, can we

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Speaker 1: watch these YouTube videos? And it's like, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It almost looks like a fifty I'm watching with them

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Speaker 1: just kind of see and but it'll be like either

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Speaker 1: kids play like when they were into l O L dolls,

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Speaker 1: like an adult almost playing with l L dolls, or

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Speaker 1: this happening. And I always would just be like, let's

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Speaker 1: watch this or let's do that. But what how do

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Speaker 1: you really know what's okay in regards to the YouTube.

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Speaker 1: So here's what I would do. First. YouTube is a

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Speaker 1: mixed bag because anyone can create content, and that content

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Speaker 1: is usually designed to get your kids addicted. Remember the

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Speaker 1: unboxing things or they just unboxing everything. Remember those eggs

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Speaker 1: five years ago. They go, oh, here's a kinder egg

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Speaker 1: or whatever it is and pop it open. Kids love

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Speaker 1: that YouTube. If YouTube wins and the influencers win, here's

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Speaker 1: what they get. They get your your kid's eyeballs for

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Speaker 1: a long time, so they can run multiple ads during

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Speaker 1: the video. And that's what they want from a business standpoint,

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Speaker 1: they want your kid to be hooked. So I've got

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Speaker 1: a couple of tips on how to remove that. Number One,

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Speaker 1: know what influences your kids are following. Some of them

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Speaker 1: might throw inappropriate language in there, and you don't want

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Speaker 1: them Subliminally teaching something to your kid that you don't approve.

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Speaker 1: So yes, you can watch a Blippy video right. A

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Speaker 1: lot of kids are younger kids and nephews. Blippy. He's

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Speaker 1: he has suspenders, it's pretty funny. Here's how a dump

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Speaker 1: truck works, and it's hilarious. But follow that influencer. As

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Speaker 1: long as it's a Blippy video, you can watch it right,

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Speaker 1: because other videos will pop up from other people and

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Speaker 1: it looks like it's maybe another Marvel character, but that

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Speaker 1: person is talking to your kids in a way that's inappropriate.

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Speaker 1: Number two, if your student is on their actual phone

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Speaker 1: in the actual YouTube app. We have a few techniques.

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Speaker 1: I give these away for free in our In our

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Speaker 1: next webinar, which is September one, I believe it is,

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Speaker 1: we teach the hidden secrets of YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, iPhone, Netflix,

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Speaker 1: and an Android. That's six I think there's seven. In YouTube,

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Speaker 1: you can actually turn off the auto play feature. You

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Speaker 1: can also do this in Netflix. The auto play feature

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Speaker 1: is kind of cool. And I tell students this, Hey,

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Speaker 1: you are in charge of the next video you watch,

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Speaker 1: and I want to make sure that the AutoPlay features off,

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Speaker 1: so that way you're not sitting there and and YouTube

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Speaker 1: is is deciding your next video. When AutoPlay features off,

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Speaker 1: it just plays the video and then your kids can

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Speaker 1: have the choice, because right now it's a mind game, Teddy,

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Speaker 1: it's a mind game. These smart producers in TV. You

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Speaker 1: know how they hook us with their preview on coming

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Speaker 1: up or next on the Bachelor. I mean you're you're

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Speaker 1: basically going, oh, I have to I have to skip

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Speaker 1: through these commercials and stay with it because there's this drama. Well,

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Speaker 1: YouTube producers and people are smart, and every app is

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Speaker 1: just like a TV producer. They're going coming up next,

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Speaker 1: and they get you hooked with a free preview or

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Speaker 1: a video or something funny. So what we do is

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Speaker 1: we try and turn off that addictive nature of auto play.

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Speaker 1: You can do it also on Netflix if you go

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Speaker 1: to Netflix dot com. And Netflix is huge, we all

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Speaker 1: know that it's in almost every single household. You can parents,

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Speaker 1: don't share your password of Netflix password with your kids

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Speaker 1: because when you go to Netflix dot Com, not on

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Speaker 1: the app. You have to do this. On Netflix dot

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Speaker 1: Com you can go in and adjust Little Billies or

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Speaker 1: Sally's age requirement of they can only watch things up

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Speaker 1: to why seven or why thirty or whatever that their ages.

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Speaker 1: You can also un checked two major boxes, and I

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Speaker 1: teach all this in our free webinar. Thousands of parents

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Speaker 1: have taken this five star reviews and it teaches you

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Speaker 1: how to un check these two boxes. One is auto play,

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Speaker 1: and it just changes the game. On Netflix, you go whoa,

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Speaker 1: because then your kids aren't hooked into scrolling past Ozark

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Speaker 1: and it's going look coming up next. It's just all

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Speaker 1: this stuff is less enticing. They get to decide what

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Speaker 1: they're gonna pick rather than emotionally getting involved in the preview.

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Speaker 1: That's a hard thing to teach your kids is the

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Speaker 1: preview looks good and you're not allow that's not for you. Well,

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Speaker 1: I also want to give any parents that heads up.

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Speaker 1: Even if your kids can't write or spell, they can

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Speaker 1: still find stuff on YouTube because the other like this

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Speaker 1: was a couple of months ago, but my son is

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Speaker 1: obsessed with wrestling, loves wrestling, anything to do with wrestling.

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Speaker 1: He was having his tablet time, thankfully he was. We

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Speaker 1: were together in the same room and I hear him

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Speaker 1: talk into the phone the best of John Cena. So

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Speaker 1: at first I'm like, okay, that seems fine, he's trying

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Speaker 1: to see that he's you know, he wants to see

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Speaker 1: a wrestling match. But then I start seeing his face

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Speaker 1: and it's like this confused look on his space and

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Speaker 1: like what And I'm like, what's happening Cruis? And I

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Speaker 1: went over and it was a kissing scene between him

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Speaker 1: and whomever his girlfriend was on the reality show he

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Speaker 1: was on. So like, even though you think things are

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Speaker 1: going okay, are my kids can't type with my kids?

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Speaker 1: Can't you know whatever it may be, they're able to

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Speaker 1: have acts and that's on YouTube kids. Yeah, um yeah.

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Speaker 1: So really the moral of the story is be where

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Speaker 1: your kids are at every app they want to download,

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Speaker 1: know that it's a new park. Go there first. Would

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Speaker 1: I would? I would go there first without your kids

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Speaker 1: and download the app and get to know it, because

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Speaker 1: that way the pressure isn't on Teddy. You're not saying, well,

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Speaker 1: let's look get it together up. I don't like this Snapchat.

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Speaker 1: It's inappropriate. By the way, parents, if you give your

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Speaker 1: eleven year old Snapchat, there is a part in it

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Speaker 1: that you cannot turn off that is designed only for

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Speaker 1: college students. It's called the Explore feature. And you're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: all just turn off parts of the app. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: that's not how it works. That's that's unfortunately. You get

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Speaker 1: all the app or none of the app. You can

641
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Speaker 1: limit the time that kids use it by using that

642
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Speaker 1: tim or feature that we talked about. But there are

643
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Speaker 1: parts of every app that you must know about. We

644
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Speaker 1: have something in our webinar dent Free. We teach you

645
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Speaker 1: how to turn off the map feature in Snapchat. It's

646
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Speaker 1: called snap map. It is a part of Snapchat that

647
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Speaker 1: predators used to check kids. It's the most creepy thing

648
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Speaker 1: you've ever seen. We teach you in four or five

649
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Speaker 1: clicks how to turn it off. Moms are emailing us, going,

650
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Speaker 1: I had no idea people could see where my daughter lived.

651
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Speaker 1: They can not only follow her and be uh there,

652
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Speaker 1: friends are not following. Followers are not friends, but it

653
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Speaker 1: looks like on there all these are all my friends.

654
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Speaker 1: They're not sorry to interrupt you if you even have

655
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Speaker 1: a like. For example, I have Snapchat on my phone.

656
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Speaker 1: I don't use Snapchat, can use it even if you're

657
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Speaker 1: not showing Snapchat. But it's just on your phone. People

658
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: still it can usually track you quite often. Yeah, so

659
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Speaker 1: I'll teach you offline how to turn that off. Parents

660
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: know about snap map, you can go google that or

661
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: you can go to smart social dot com. Take our

662
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: free webinar. It's amazing. We we help people all over

663
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: the world in multiple continents. How there's a there's a

664
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Speaker 1: few hidden features. And as we it's not social media

665
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Speaker 1: is bad, it's how to navigate it. We get in

666
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Speaker 1: kind of a car together and we drive down the

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Speaker 1: road and we go look at that, and look at that,

668
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Speaker 1: and we just we make it more comfortable by going

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Speaker 1: into the jungle together in a safe vehicle, looking at

670
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Speaker 1: each one of these apps. And and to finish off

671
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Speaker 1: on like a positive note. So our kids are starting

672
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Speaker 1: school next week via zoom. That's you know, no in person.

673
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Speaker 1: What is a good way to kind of get our

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Speaker 1: kids excited about you know, the positives of being able

675
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Speaker 1: to interact on Zoom or whatever the program is that

676
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Speaker 1: you're gonna they're gonna be doing their schoolwork on with

677
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Speaker 1: their peers. First, have a little bit of a um

678
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Speaker 1: have your behavioral discussion in with them. Hey, when mommy's

679
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 1: on the phone in the back or someone or you're

680
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: not talking, feel free to mute yourself. Tell your kids

681
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: mute yourself. It's just gonna keep them a little bit safer. UM,

682
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: let the teacher know if somebody is inappropriate to you,

683
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: have a talk about bullying and zoom it happens. Um,

684
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Speaker 1: when to mute yourself, How to support the teacher and

685
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: help the teacher? How to smile? You have no idea

686
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: on our podcast as we do this, how many kids

687
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 1: are just sitting there and and they're just like leaning

688
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: back with no posture. Right now is the time to

689
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 1: practice in person posture, positive smile, trying your best, take

690
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Speaker 1: a break, Let's go outside and go on a walk

691
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: during your things. And I know it's it's crazy right now,

692
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: it's not fun, but we're gonna get through this together.

693
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Speaker 1: But now is the time to treat it like it's

694
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Speaker 1: in class, almost like a little job. Interview your kids

695
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: are how do we use this with a purpose instead

696
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: of just like I have to instead of I get

697
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: to be on Zoom? What could we do and maybe

698
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: listen to your kids? Give them what are the three

699
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Speaker 1: things you want to accomplish today that you want to

700
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Speaker 1: learn me? Do you want to become a Zoom expert?

701
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: Do you want to answer five questions? Right? Let your

702
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: kids decide you might get some creativity out of them,

703
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: and you know what, it's good to let them speak up.

704
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 1: This is a tough time for everybody. Kids don't want

705
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Speaker 1: to stay home all the time. They kind of want

706
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Speaker 1: to go to school. So getting them to set some

707
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 1: goals and hearing from them usually is a good thing.

708
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Speaker 1: I love that, And I know for sure something that

709
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Speaker 1: they said on our class call that really resonated with

710
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: me was, guys, make sure your kids show up to class,

711
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Speaker 1: even though it's virtual, fully dressed, not in their pajamas,

712
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Speaker 1: had eaten well, like the same way you would actually

713
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Speaker 1: send them to school, because if they just roll out

714
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Speaker 1: of bed and they're just eating a bar while they

715
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Speaker 1: start their first thing, it doesn't set the tone for

716
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Speaker 1: the day. And I think that really makes a lot

717
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Speaker 1: of sense because I know when I wake up and

718
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Speaker 1: I immediately get on a conference call and I'm just

719
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: like going through the motion, it's never as good as

720
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Speaker 1: when I get up by, you know, on a walk,

721
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Speaker 1: have my breakfast, take some time, take a shower, or

722
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 1: you know, whatever it may be. Whatever your morning machine

723
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Speaker 1: is gonna be with your kids, I think is such

724
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Speaker 1: a game changer. So like set that from the beginning

725
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be perfect, and just like you know,

726
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: drop offs at school don't have to be perfect. But

727
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Speaker 1: if we set the tone for the day and we

728
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Speaker 1: set the expectations, our kids aren't going to be shocked

729
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: at the end. Yeah. I am so grateful to speaking

730
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Speaker 1: with you today. Thank you so much for so much

731
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: good information. How do people find you? And I mean

732
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Speaker 1: I'm going to have to listen to some of these

733
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Speaker 1: webinars now, Yeah, so they go to smart social dot com.

734
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Speaker 1: We have an awesome parent webinar that is really going

735
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Speaker 1: to teach you, as I said, Teddy, the hidden secret

736
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Speaker 1: inside of TikTok that they don't want you to know,

737
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Speaker 1: the hidden secret of Snapchat, Instagram, Netflix. We show you

738
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Speaker 1: step by step how to set this up, and we

739
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740
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Speaker 1: and some Android stuff smart social dot com. We also

741
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Speaker 1: have an educator webinar. Schools are trying to get us

742
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Speaker 1: together and they're doing great. We support our teachers. We

743
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Speaker 1: have seven safety tips on really how to promote safety

744
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Speaker 1: at home and at school on campus during this virtual

745
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Speaker 1: learning thing. So it's all available at smart social dot com.

746
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It's so nice talking to today.

747
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. I am super pumped to talk

748
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,240
Speaker 1: to Rebecca Black today about cyber bullying, all types of bullying.

749
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: She has gone through so much in her years of

750
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Speaker 1: becoming like a YouTube sensation, huge musical star. Like I'm

751
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Speaker 1: sure you guys all know the song Friday. I listened

752
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: to it five days ago and it's still stuck in

753
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Speaker 1: my head. And I remember feeling the same way back

754
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Speaker 1: when I listened to it the first time. She is

755
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: such a great artist and gone through so much, so

756
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Speaker 1: I think I really would love her tools for a

757
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: younger audience on how how to deal with this constant

758
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: bullying that's happening online or even in school. So I'm

759
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: so excited to have you on one. It is the

760
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 1: second that I found out that you're coming on. I

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00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: really listened to some of your music and now it

762
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: is stuck in all of our my kids and my

763
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: head NonStop. I'm like, what is it about your songs

764
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: that immediately get stuck in your head? One, you have

765
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: a beautiful voice, because I also stalked your Instagram and

766
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Speaker 1: you're just sitting there singing like with your guitar, and

767
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 1: I was like, this is incredible. But like two, it

768
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: is such a talent to have a song or to

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Speaker 1: have to play something, and it really resonates with you.

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Speaker 1: And like I am thirty nine years old, and like

771
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Speaker 1: my kids are seven and five and all of us

772
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: like we have to be like stop you, you have

773
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: a problem now. But I would love to like hear

774
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: the history on like how everything went down, and just

775
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: talk to you a little bit about bullying, cyber bullying

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00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: in general and like all this craziness. Yeah, got what

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Speaker 1: a crazy I guess almost ten years it's been. Um

778
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Speaker 1: so I got started. I got I had a very

779
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Speaker 1: on a unexpected, kind of unprecedented at the time, start

780
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Speaker 1: into I guess the industry at the time. I guess

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Speaker 1: I kind of started into an industry that also barely existed,

782
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Speaker 1: which was, you know, now kind of this massive online

783
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Speaker 1: influencer world where there's YouTubers and people getting their start

784
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: off of I mean you see on TikTok, like seventy

785
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: thousand people going viral on TikTok every day. Back then,

786
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: it just really happened, you know. Back then it was

787
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: like two boys at their grandparents house, like Charlie that

788
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: my finger, like one of the first viral videos or

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It was just so random and and

790
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Speaker 1: kind of so much less of what it is now.

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Speaker 1: And I was thirteen, and I grew up a kid

792
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Speaker 1: who loved to perform my group, a kid who did

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00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: everything from the musical theater or to like patriotic singing

794
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,760
Speaker 1: groups and just kind of whatever I could do to

795
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: get that part of me out into the world just

796
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: because it was what I loved. And Friday was this

797
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: song that was just kind of meant to be like

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00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: another experiment of that that would exist in like my

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Speaker 1: little bubble in Anaheim, and that my grandparents would see

800
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: maybe if it reached that far. And uh, it ended

801
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 1: up blowing up hugely, massively, way more so than it

802
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: ever should have or that I thought it could have.

803
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, it ended me up in to a place

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Speaker 1: where I was thirteen and had hundreds of millions of

805
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: people not only kind of coming into my bubble but

806
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Speaker 1: giving me really stark opinions of what they thought about

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Speaker 1: me and kind of what I should do for the

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Speaker 1: rest of my life. And some of them were positive,

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00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: a lot of them were negative. Uh, And it really

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Speaker 1: changed I mean, it changed my life obviously. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: it really shaped me, for better and for worse, into

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00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: the person that I am today. So so yeah, I

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00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: mean you even ended up having to be homeschooled, right

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00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: because it was just relentless. It was. It was crazy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't necessarily solely because of of everything

816
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: going on. There was there was a lot. There was

817
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: a lot happening. I had parents that had no idea

818
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Speaker 1: what they were doing. I don't come from a family

819
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Speaker 1: who was, you know, experienced in in this world at all,

820
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,720
Speaker 1: their veterinarians. So I was just trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: what to do. And so I did. I did go

822
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Speaker 1: into homeschooling for a while, and uh, I went back

823
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Speaker 1: into high school later on. And what would you say,

824
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Speaker 1: what advice would you give to parents who maybe have

825
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Speaker 1: kids who are wanting to be in YouTube or wanting

826
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Speaker 1: to start a music career or whatever it may be.

827
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm worried for my kids to even like

828
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Speaker 1: look at my TikTok, because then they start wanting to

829
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Speaker 1: do it and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is craziness,

830
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Speaker 1: and people comment these terrible things. What advice would you

831
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Speaker 1: give to parents who are in this situation where their

832
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: kids are wanting to, you know, be artistic and put

833
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: themselves out there, but you don't really know how to

834
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: handle I'm not the world's most like you know, well

835
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:18,959
Speaker 1: versed when it comes through TikTok or YouTube or any

836
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: of those types of things. I know how to do Instagram,

837
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: but like that's it. Yeah, yeah, And that's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Internet is changing so fast every single

839
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: day that nobody knows what is going on, nobody knows

840
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: what to do with any of this. I still feel

841
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: like when TikTok first came out, I felt like I

842
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: was a grandma trying to figure out something. This is

843
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Speaker 1: what I do. I think one thing that I heard

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Speaker 1: my parents, specifically my mom say all the time growing up,

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Speaker 1: as she was trying to handle it the best she could,

846
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,959
Speaker 1: It's like there's just no handbook, there's no lessons, there's

847
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 1: nowhere to go to ask questions. It just kind of

848
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, making it up as as she went,

849
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,720
Speaker 1: that's all she could really do and and try to

850
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: protect me as best says as she could. And I

851
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: think that I can't imagine how scary it must be

852
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: as a parent. I don't have that experience, you know,

853
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 1: when your kid is starting to go through it. And

854
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: of course where we live in a time now where

855
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: everybody all so many kids want this like really cool

856
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: idea of being really kind of big in their circle

857
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: or having this online moment, which it can turn out

858
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: to be a positive thing. But I think as a parent,

859
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: the best advice I could give is try to understand

860
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: this world like you are a kid as best as

861
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: you can, because when you know it, it will make

862
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: so much more sense to you. Um, because a kid

863
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: is on here, like on TikTok. I'm on TikTok like

864
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: way more than I should, or or YouTube or like Instagram.

865
00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: It all exists and it consumes us. But I just

866
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: I just think that being as kind of with it

867
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 1: as possible will help you understand it and then help

868
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: your kid, you know, get through it emotionally. That is

869
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: the biggest also thing as well. It's like I understand

870
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: that once somebody kind of gets their start or get

871
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: something really I don't know, something that gets a lot

872
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: of attention, it can be really exciting, um and there's

873
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: a lot of opportunity, But your kid is not an

874
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: opportunity for you. You know, a kid is just trying

875
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:33,240
Speaker 1: to go through their own thing. And is there something

876
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: now that's still like when they say something to you

877
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 1: that it's still just like hits home and hurts you.

878
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: Or have you been one of those people that can

879
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: block out the noise or how do you handle it now? Uh,

880
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 1: it's an up and down. I've definitely come a long way.

881
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: I think where I went wrong for a while was

882
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: trying to convince myself that nothing bothered me. I did

883
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: that for a long time, and what happens is you

884
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: just like build up this huge pile of resentment underneath

885
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: the massive rug that one day you're gonna have to

886
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 1: pick up that rug and deal with it. Um. I

887
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: just try to be patient with myself and and kind

888
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: of I think when I let myself realize, like, wow,

889
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: anybody who would be getting this many opinions about themselves,

890
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: you know, or this many kind of thoughts into their world,

891
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: this would be hard for any single person. And if

892
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: it wasn't, that would be concerning. I mean, it's incredible.

893
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 1: I know how I feel, as you know, an adult,

894
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: when it happens to me, or when it happens you

895
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: know somebody says something like you know, carm is gonna

896
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,280
Speaker 1: get you through your kids or whatever it is, whatever

897
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 1: the like recent attack is going to be. I know

898
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: how I feel. I can't even imagine being thirteen years

899
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 1: old trying to process that. Yeah, so what what what

900
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: advice would you give to kids who are getting this

901
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: getting this heat, or getting this hate or getting this

902
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: like whatever type of information to kind of deal with it?

903
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: What got you through? It's it's so hard and and

904
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: that is the thing that I guess I would have

905
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: told myself, um, back back when I was going through it,

906
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: because I mean, when you're thirteen, is it's one of

907
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: the worst ages. You know, it's not it can be

908
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: the best, but it just it's really hard. You're so tender,

909
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: and you're getting to that point where you feel like

910
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: you know everything and you should know everything, and everyone

911
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 1: around you seems to have it figured out and you're all,

912
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: I mean, middle school is just weird. Um. I guess

913
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: I wish I would have been able to just be

914
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: a little bit more forgiving with myself. I think I

915
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: was really really hard on myself for um, feeling like

916
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: I was just constantly messing up and feeling like I

917
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: wasn't doing anything right or the way that I should

918
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: be doing it. And that's the point of being thirteen, Like,

919
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 1: that's the point of being a teenager or a young

920
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: person or anyone at all. And at any point in

921
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: your life is you're gonna mess up. You're gonna do

922
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 1: things that you're not going to do or that you

923
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: wouldn't do in your future world. But that is how

924
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: you get to you and it's okay. Just be kind

925
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 1: and forgiving and also whatever you do, it's a thirteen

926
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: year old in high school at any point in your

927
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: life is just not going to define you as long

928
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: as you don't like it's not a long term I

929
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: mean anything from year to year, just constantly a shifting um.

930
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 1: And did you ever get to the point where you

931
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: just wouldn't look at comments? Yeah? Yeah, Or I would

932
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 1: look at comments and feel nothing. And that was probably

933
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:36,800
Speaker 1: the worst time, because when somebody would say something kind

934
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,439
Speaker 1: or something positive or something that is nice to take

935
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: in because there's a balance with it all, I couldn't

936
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: do it, and so I saw only people that thought

937
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: the worst of me, and I was unable to kind

938
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,280
Speaker 1: of let anything go to come in, which is important

939
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: as well, especially as a young person. I agree, and

940
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: I could see myself doing the same thing now, Like

941
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: I'll get a bunch of nice comments and then something, well,

942
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 1: somebody will say something to me that I'm like what,

943
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: and I'll comment to the negative and I'm like, what

944
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 1: are you doing? Like just block that person and keep

945
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: it moving, like I've now taken so much like pride

946
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: and being like block You're done, you know, like this

947
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: is an unnecessary comment. I mean, like why would you

948
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 1: say this to a stranger? And throughout like your time

949
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: and being in the spotlight and like as you're getting

950
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: older and not older, but as you're no longer thirteen

951
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: and you've met you know, I know you performed with

952
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 1: Katy Perry once, Like did you ever have any other

953
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: people in the music industry give you any like really

954
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:45,919
Speaker 1: sound advice on? Yeah, yeah I did. Um. I will

955
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:50,359
Speaker 1: never forget the conversation I had with actually Katy Perry

956
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: like early on, and I'll always just be so appreciative

957
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: of not only her, but just people like her who

958
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: uh can see a kid for what they are, which

959
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: is just a child who needs a little bit of

960
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: love and uh and she she really emphasize the importance

961
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:13,240
Speaker 1: of a family and the people who are your home

962
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: and it can be really difficult in I don't even

963
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: think in just the entertainment industry, but in so many

964
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: aspects of our world nowadays to let something come in

965
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: between that, UM, and especially as as as a kid

966
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: and as someone young who's trying to figure it out,

967
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 1: if you can hold close to that relationship with your

968
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: family and UM, I guess kind of not forget about

969
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:41,800
Speaker 1: that aspect of yourself outside of whatever else is happening. UM,

970
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: that can be really important and really helpful. So yeah,

971
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: when it first started happening to you, did you immediately

972
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: like have that conversation with your parents or did you

973
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: feel like nervous to have the conversation. I'm trying to

974
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: get to a place of being thirteen and saying like, wow,

975
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: would I have had that? I know, like if I

976
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: got in a fight with somebody like in school, or

977
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 1: an argument or somebody said something to me, I don't

978
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: know that I necessarily would have told my parents. So

979
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: I'm curious how it works in the world of social

980
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: media when it happens. Oh god, I know, I mean

981
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: looking at today and what kids are kind of now

982
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 1: dealing with, where not only do you see someone go viral,

983
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: you see a kid go viral and then immediately they

984
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: have a record label and they have this going on

985
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 1: and this going on, and it's like, how did this

986
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,760
Speaker 1: just turn into a booming industry within a week? UM,

987
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 1: That I can't even imagine. But I think, uh, in

988
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 1: my case, I'm lucky to have had parents who, uh,

989
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: not only who I had a really close relationship with,

990
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: specifically with my mom, who again wanted to protect me,

991
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 1: like as her kid before anything else. UM. And that

992
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 1: was really helpful and and I think um just helped

993
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 1: me experience my age years a bit as as I

994
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:06,359
Speaker 1: should and and and hopefully would have still UM. But

995
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:10,760
Speaker 1: I think the most important conversations were acknowledging the mistakes

996
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: that there were because we were all trying our best,

997
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: and parents I know everywhere are always, you know, hopefully

998
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: trying their best to do the right thing, and sometimes

999
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 1: it it doesn't turn out the way that you wanted to.

1000
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,760
Speaker 1: I think my parents probably felt a lot of guilt

1001
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 1: as well for kind of feeling maybe a little bit

1002
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: responsible for letting me kind of out to the wolves.

1003
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, when I decided

1004
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,319
Speaker 1: that this was something I wanted to do long term

1005
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:38,399
Speaker 1: and was a passion of mine. Um. They also knew

1006
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 1: how to kind of let me go and do it,

1007
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 1: um without overprotecting me, If that makes sense. Figure it

1008
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,799
Speaker 1: out a little bit. Oh yeah, is there anything you

1009
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 1: would have done differently now knowing what can be? Then? Oh? God, Um,

1010
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: a lot of things I wouldn't have worn. But no,

1011
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,040
Speaker 1: I mean I think I just would have been and

1012
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:03,919
Speaker 1: kinder to myself and more forgiving to myself. And then

1013
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:07,320
Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about like the negative of social

1014
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: media and of bullying and all these types of things.

1015
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: What would you say is like the most positive? I

1016
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: mean you the fact that you could wake up an

1017
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: overnight have like to I mean, what was it like

1018
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 1: two d thousand views in one night or something like?

1019
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,839
Speaker 1: It's incredible and shows testament to like how talented you are.

1020
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 1: What do you think all the positives of social media are?

1021
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: And like how can people use it in a positive way? Yeah?

1022
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of positives to it,

1023
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 1: and especially seeing the way that the Internet has changed

1024
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: from the time where I kind of first started in

1025
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: two now there's been so many good outcomes. Um, I

1026
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: think as a younger generation, obviously you see so many

1027
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 1: more people now so aware of what's going on in

1028
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: the world, and so aware of what's happening to each

1029
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: other and how we're treating each other, and kind of

1030
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 1: the things that we've accepted as as always being the

1031
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: way that they were now being changed for something better.

1032
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 1: I think that's really cool and what I what I

1033
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 1: try to do now more than anything, is add to

1034
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 1: that kind of I feel like online we're seeing the

1035
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 1: potential of a community that's building in in a positive

1036
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 1: way for good and for the betterment of other people. Obviously,

1037
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 1: everybody knows about cancel culture and how it can kind

1038
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 1: of go a little too far, um, But I think

1039
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:39,399
Speaker 1: that it's there's something hopeful in this kind of well

1040
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: intended thinking, rather than the Internet just becoming this like

1041
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: very dark rabbit hole of just people being awful to

1042
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 1: each other. There's still a lot of work to be done,

1043
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:52,279
Speaker 1: and people are still awful, and people are still kind

1044
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: of using the anonymity of it all to get out

1045
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 1: there whatever they have going on in their lives. Um.

1046
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: But I do like seeing more and more everyday young

1047
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: people kind of getting involved on what will hopefully become

1048
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: the right side of history. Um, whether it be in

1049
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: a larger way or in just their own communities, and

1050
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 1: do you feel like you talk about it with your

1051
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:18,399
Speaker 1: following now, Like are you like are you an open

1052
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,320
Speaker 1: book about it, or like this bothers me or this

1053
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: sorts my feelings or any of those things are do

1054
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 1: you kind of just like keep it, you know, keep

1055
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:26,879
Speaker 1: it close to the heart and kind of have your

1056
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: outside showing and your inside. I try to. I try

1057
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:36,320
Speaker 1: to have a balance. I see people who are open

1058
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: with every single thing happening in the moment, and that's

1059
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: what works for them. Um. But what I what I've

1060
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: found works for me and for my audience is I

1061
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: try to observe what's going on in my own world

1062
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: and learn from it, and then once it's happened, share

1063
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: what I've learned, rather than just kind of living it

1064
00:55:56,520 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: all out online. I guess if that makes sense. UM.

1065
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: For example, like coming to terms of my own sexuality

1066
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: was something that I knew I wanted to talk about

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Speaker 1: the second I identified it, but I waited until I

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Speaker 1: had really gone through so many conversations with myself and

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Speaker 1: with people that I really trusted, with people in the community,

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Speaker 1: with just making sure that I was being I think

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Speaker 1: there's a certain responsibility when you have a platform, whether

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Speaker 1: you'd like to admit it or not. Um, but I

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Speaker 1: do really think that honesty, more and more honesty is

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Speaker 1: is going to be important from from people like like

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Speaker 1: the both of us, from people who have It doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter how many followers you have, whether you have ten

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Speaker 1: or ten thousand or ten million, everybody's got a platform,

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Speaker 1: and the honesty is what will kind of break down

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Speaker 1: this like what seems like unachievable perfect world that still

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Speaker 1: exists on Instagram, the glossy version of everybody has like

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Speaker 1: my life is better than yours that Instagram creates. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that's huge, and I think that's really good

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Speaker 1: advice what you said, like you think it through instead

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Speaker 1: of having like kick reaction, where like you're going to

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Speaker 1: say something just in the moment and then go wow,

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Speaker 1: I didn't actually think this is so I know that

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Speaker 1: that has when I'm tweeting or anything like that the

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Speaker 1: shows on, if I'm immediately responding, I'm probably not gonna

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Speaker 1: love my response. But if I like watch the show

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Speaker 1: prepare then tweet, you know, like I have it organized,

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Speaker 1: then I feel like I'm less likely to say something

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Speaker 1: that I regret and more like, I actually this is

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Speaker 1: how I feel. Um, how do I know you have

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Speaker 1: like your recent singles out? How do people find you

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Speaker 1: get more information on you? Listen to your recent songs,

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Speaker 1: give us all the deep Yeah, I mean I it's

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Speaker 1: been a it's been a crazy, weird, weird year, but

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Speaker 1: I have really been honestly. The one thing that has

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Speaker 1: TikTok is uh is writing and music. I put out

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Speaker 1: a few singles um earlier this year called Closer and

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Speaker 1: and Sweetheart, and people can find them everywhere. You listen

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Speaker 1: to music wherever you want, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, whatever. Right,

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Speaker 1: all right, and then your Instagram is miss Rebecca Black. Right,

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Speaker 1: It's Rebecca Black. That's it. You guys have to go.

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Speaker 1: You have such a beautiful voice, you have such a

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Speaker 1: great heart, And I think this is such a good

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Speaker 1: message to put out there, like fight for your dreams.

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Speaker 1: Like also know like you can talk to your parents

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Speaker 1: and be open with what's going on. And if you

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Speaker 1: are a parent listening to this podcast right now, talk

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Speaker 1: to your kids about what they're doing. Get yourself involved,

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Speaker 1: and if they're not involving you, it might mean that

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Speaker 1: something's wrong. Yeah, that's perfectly said. Thank you so much, Betty,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on. Well, guys, I

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Speaker 1: hope you took in as much from this episode as

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Speaker 1: I did. I know speaking to Rebecca and Josh, we're

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Speaker 1: both eye opening to me a lot of good reminders

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Speaker 1: for myself, but also for our kids and what the

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Speaker 1: world is they're growing up in. I think social media

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Speaker 1: can be such a positive, but if we don't handle

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Speaker 1: it right, it can also be such a negative. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys tuning in and please continue to send

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Speaker 1: me your topics. I want to be on the pulse

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Speaker 1: of what you guys want to hear, what you want

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Speaker 1: to talk about. I try my best to be an

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Speaker 1: open book for you guys and talk to you about

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Speaker 1: everything that's going on in my life. But I want

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Speaker 1: to know what's going on in your life and the

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Speaker 1: topics you want me to dig into. So please either

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Speaker 1: send us a d M at um Teddy T Pot

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Speaker 1: or send us an email at Teddy at Teddy t

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Speaker 1: pot dot com. Thank you so much, thanks for listening.

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