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On Being Happy To Be Different

Seraphina Speaks

Release Date: 02/01/2024

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The answers you get depend on the questions you pose. This episode is about the questions grown ups ask vs the ones that might be better to ask tweens and teens.      In the Main Episode and the Behind The Scenes Bulletin you’ll learn about: • The type of questions adults ask • How the question mark came about  • What an Interrobang is • Why adults might be asking the questions they ask • Sample questions to steal and try out • How to tell the difference between questions that tweens/teens would answer and those that adults ask • How great questions help...

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Accepting and celebrating our differences helps us get comfortable in our own skin. But if you’ve ever felt like YOU were the problem, that you were different, and things would be easier if you changed to “fit in” then this episode is a gift for you.    In the Main Episode and the Behind The Scenes Bulletin you’ll learn about:   • What being different means and what the opposite of this is • Why people try to not be different  • What Herd Mentality is • The two biggest costs of trying to be someone we’re not • Why being HAPPY with our differences is...

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Seraphina Speaks

Accepting and celebrating our differences helps us get comfortable in our own skin. But if you’ve ever felt like YOU were the problem, that you were different, and things would be easier if you changed to “fit in” then this episode is a gift for you.    In the Main Episode and the Behind The Scenes Bulletin you’ll learn about:   • What being different means and what the opposite of this is • Why people try to not be different  • What Herd Mentality is • The two biggest costs of trying to be someone we’re not • Why being HAPPY with our differences is...

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We can’t calculate exactly how many celebrity-ish people there are in the world but it seems that these people get special treatment wherever they go.    In the Main Episode and the Behind The Scenes Bulletin you’ll learn about:   • What celebrity is and how people become one • Whether King Charles III is a celebrity • What VIP Syndrome is • Why celebrities have responsibilities to their fans • What can happen when a celebrity is unhappy with their special treatment • The step-by-step plan to becoming a self-made celebrity • How celebrity is available to...

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Accepting and celebrating our differences helps us get comfortable in our own skin. But if you’ve ever felt like YOU were the problem, that you were different, and things would be easier if you changed to “fit in” then this episode is a gift for you. 

 

In the Main Episode and the Behind The Scenes Bulletin you’ll learn about:

 

• What being different means and what the opposite of this is

• Why people try to not be different 

• What Herd Mentality is

• The two biggest costs of trying to be someone we’re not

• Why being HAPPY with our differences is essential

• How we decide to be ourselves rather than conform 

• The first steps towards being at peace in ourselves

• My neurodiversity and how this links to being happy to be different

 

The Activators! podcast is reviewed and you’ll hear about the episode Seraphina recommends you listen to.

 

In this episode you’ll hear from 1) my trusty sidekick triplet brothers Montgomery and Horatio 2) new UK-based correspondent Isadora and 3) Selena Rezvani author of Quick Confidence.  They share their views on being happy to be different, in their own ways. 

 

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Credits:

• Hosted by Seraphina Malina-Derben

• Written and produced by Danusia Malina-Derben + Seraphina Malina-Derben

• Mixed + Mastered by Marie Kruz

• Cover art by Anthony Oram