10 for Teens + Tweens
This is 10 for Teens + Tweens, a 10-ish minute podcast by Empowerful Girls that helps you grow curiosity, compassion, and confidence so you can take on the world!
Host Stephanie Valdez discusses positive themes and tackles tough topics, teaching girls how to handle them. She shares guidance on personal development, physical and mental health, relationships, and media literacy. She hopes every girl listening will accept and embrace herself (strengths and weaknesses), make stronger connections with friends and family, and be mindful with media. More than anything, Stephanie wants girls to know for themselves that they are enough.
Stephanie Valdez is the founder and director of Empowerful Girls. She has a degree in Communications and a background in Journalism. Stephanie is certified as a Girl Power Instructor, as well as in Social and Emotional Learning and Youth Mental Health First Aid. She has years of experience mentoring teens and tweens, and is also raising her own.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 137
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
016. Get To Know You
We've talked before about embracing your uniqueness, but what if you aren’t sure what makes you unique? What if you feel like you don’t know yourself very well? Then we need to help you get to know y…
015. Manage Stress
Plenty of things can cause stress; some stress is good, but a lot of stress is bad. Stress doesn’t have to consume or paralyze you, and since it’s something that will pop up throughout your life, I w…
014. Apologize
An apology is more than just saying, “Sorry.” There's an art to apologizing, in fact, three parts to it:
1. Own It
2. Feel and Empathize
3. Make It Right
Let's explore these tools, plus:
What sort of thi…
013. Make Friends Using Social Skills
How to make friends … can’t you just walk up to someone, ask if they’ll be your friend, and they say, “Yes!”? That might work, especially with really young kids, but it’s usually not that simple or s…
012. Extinguish Friendship Fires
Even the greatest BFFs can have bumps along the way. Sometimes there are misunderstandings. Other times emotions get the best of you both, and you say things you didn’t mean, or did mean to say. Some…
011. Find (and Be) a Good Friend
Okay -- let’s talk about Friends! I don’t mean the TV show, I mean real friendship!
What sort of attributes make up a positive friendship? I researched a lot of lists that identified qualities of a g…
010. Practice Self Love with Affirmations
Affirmations are positive, assertive statements about yourself using adjectives -- words that describe you! Affirmations don’t have to be complicated on lengthy, just simply say, “I am ______. What w…
009. Find Peace Through Forgiveness
Think of the most recent time you forgave someone, or someone forgave you. Briefly reflect on how you felt after the forgiveness was given, by you or someone else.
When I was younger, I was taught to …
008. What Makes You Unique
Think about your characteristics that set you apart from others. All of these things are part of you who you are, your unique identity. And like singing different notes together, the things that mak…
007. Feel With Empathy
I want to focus on something I feel is especially important right now, and will continue to be in your friendships, family relationships, and even interactions with people you don’t know. I want to t…
006. Go Get Your Goals Girl
Have you ever made a goal and reached it? How about not reached it? That’s ok! I’ve been there, too. It’s okay if you set a goal and don’t quite get there. Growth isn’t dependent on whether you achie…
005. Just Breathe
In previous episodes, we’ve discussed topics and tools about learning how to respond instead of react and how to deal with craziness in life.
I’ve got another one for you, and it’s going to sound too …
004. Be The Good
There’s a saying I’m sure you’ve heard before, it goes, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Or my cold weather version, “When life gives you cocoa powder, make hot chocolate!” Have you ever …
003. Choose Gratitude
The week this episode airs, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving in the US. But no matter what season it is, what kind of year or week or day you’ve had, you can still choose to have an attitude of gratitu…
002. What You Can Control
There’s a lot going on right now. And a lot of it is beyond your control, and that can feel difficult. But it's okay to feel. Learning to deal with change and let go of things that are out of your co…
001. You Are Enough
If there is just one thing you remember hearing me say, I hope it is this: “You. Are. Enough.”
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Girls, I am thrilled you are here for the very first episode of 10 for Teens + Tweens!
If I could…
10 for Teens + Tweens Trailer
10 for Teens + Tweens helps girls grow curiosity, compassion, and confidence so you can take on the world! I’ll discuss positive themes and tackle tough topics, teaching you how to handle them. I’ll …