The Confident Tween and Teen Podcast

Laura Orlando is a confidence coach who spent years working with middle and high school girls, and her podcast is basically a distillation of the stuff she wishes every young person knew before the social pressure of those years hit them. Episodes run short, usually 15 to 25 minutes, and each one zooms in on a specific confidence problem. How do you speak up in class when your voice shakes? What do you do when your best friend starts hanging out with someone else? How do you handle the voice in your head that keeps telling you you're not good enough? Laura mixes her own stories with tools borrowed from cognitive behavioral therapy, broken down into language a 12-year-old can actually use. She interviews guests too, including young people who talk about their own anxieties, body image struggles, and friendship dramas without sugarcoating any of it. The show isn't just for girls, though it skews that way, and parents who want to understand what their kid is going through often find themselves learning something too. It's the kind of podcast you can put on in the car on the way to school and have something real to talk about by the time you arrive.