Spill the Tea: The Secrets of High Achieving Teens
Spill the Tea: The Secrets of High Achieving Teens
Podcast Description
Spill the Tea is high achieving teens sharing about their lives, their dreams, and all that goes into success! Listen to student, Virginia Lee, guide a conversation with teenaged students, high school alumni and experts about varied topics that affect high achieving teens and their families. Want to know more about stress in teens in schools where the average SAT score is 1500? How did they get that lead in the school play, and now that they have it- what is it like? What about why your teen is up to 1am every night? How about a lesson in how to text like a teenager? How did they get into that super elite school? Most Episodes are packed with student voices, information from experts and are less than one hour. If you are a teen, going to be a teen, or parents of a teen, no doubt there is something for you too. Join us!
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on several impactful themes affecting high-achieving teens, such as stress management, balancing academics and extracurriculars, and the science of sleep. Episodes feature discussions like 'Sleep Secrets' that explore how successful individuals leverage sleep for performance and 'Teen Stress in High Pressure Environments', which delves into the sources of stress among teens involved in competitive activities.
Winner of TWO Signal Awards and American Writing Award’s Parenting Podcast of the Year 2026!!!
Spill the Tea is a podcast with high achieving teens sharing about their lives, their dreams, and all that goes into success! Listen to student, Virginia Lee, guide a conversation with teenaged students and experts about varied topics that affect high achieving teens and their families. Want to know more about stress in teens in schools where the average SAT score is 1500? How did they get that lead in the school play, and now that they have it- what is it like? What about why your teen is up to 1am every night? How about a lesson in how to text like a teenager? How did they get into that super elite school? Most Episodes are packed with student voices, information from experts and are less than one hour. If you are a teen, going to be a teen, or parents of a teen, no doubt there is something for you too. Join us!
Join us back down the rabbit hole that is the Science of Sleep in Teens. Our last episode on sleep was such a hit with over 1000 listens to that episode alone! So we broke it down into bite size episodes to make it easier to learn the science, some tips and all the tricks, without losing sleep over the details.
We have two famous and renown sleep experts: Dr. Maida Chen from University of Washington Department of Pediatrics, and Dr. Mary Carskadon a powerhouse pioneer in the science of sleep and currently at Brown University.
There are three episodes in this miniseries;
1. Episode One: Sleep Deprivation- What happens when you are running on empty.
2. Episode Two: High Achieving Teens Don’t Just Drink Coffee; How to Super Power Your Day
3. Episode Three: The Magic of REM- A tour through the our brain’s workshop for memory, learning and dreams
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