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Alisha Fernandez Miranda is a Cuban-American writer based in Scotland. Her memoir, 'My What If Year' was published in February 2023, and the book describes her year-long experiment doing internships in the dream jobs of her childhood. She is also the host of the award-winning podcast, 'Quit Your Day Job', which explores some of these dream careers, with people who are actually doing those jobs. Alisha is a graduate of Harvard University, and the London School of Economics, and is the former CEO and current Chair of I.G. Advisors, an award-winning social impact intelligence agency that coaches the world’s biggest non-profits, companies and foundations on their philanthropy and social impact. She began her career in the pages of TEEN PEOPLE magazine, and is good friends with my previous guest, Amar Shah, who is also from Florida and who was also on TEEN PEOPLE's News Team. The TEEN PEOPLE News Team was a corps of young journalists from across the United States who created original content for the magazine, and contributed to TEEN PEOPLE's human interest reporting. As you'll hear in this episode, Alisha treasures her time with TEEN PEOPLE, and like many of my guests, speaks so fondly of that magazine and that time in her life! Time stamps: 03:00 Why Alisha has kept a box of TEEN PEOPLE magazines, and why she was in TEEN PEOPLE magazine 08:35 TEEN PEOPLE News Team members were early content creators 09:50 TEEN PEOPLE was Alisha's first professional network, and the first time she was communicating online with people she didn't know in real life 16:23 Alisha talks about her move from Miami to Scotland (via Harvard and LSE) 21:21 mini Brexit rant 21:31 Alisha moved to the UK in 2008, a few months before the 2008 financial crisis 23:46 UK is a "dumpster fire", says Alisha (we get political) 25:44 I ask Alisha about her memoir 29:26 Alisha wants to intern at Disneyworld 30:48 Alisha wants to write more books 34:07 Alisha talks about her podcast, Quit Your Day Job 41:56 Is Alisha related to Lin-Manuel Miranda?? 43:10 What's up with youth journalism in Florida? 44:45 What advice would Alisha give her teenage self? Podcast notes: Check out [at]TeenPeoplePod on Twitter and Instagram for pictures from this episode! Buy Alisha's book through her website: www.alishafmiranda.com Connect with me on: www.annasoper.ca Intro music: Jazzy Abstract Beat by Coma-Media on Pixabay Outro music: Spirit Blossom by RomanBelov on Pixabay Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.

If you spent hours on AOL Instant Messenger, this episode is for you! Amar Shah is a multiple Emmy award-winning writer and producer who got his start on TEEN PEOPLE magazine's News Team! He speaks with me about online friendships, making an impact, and his viral Washington Post essay; on growing up in a real-life Kwik-E-Mart. Digressions: Kobe Shaq The Great Gatsby You've Got Mail The Simpsons Jennifer Love Hewitt The Internet Archive Notes: Find Amar's work here: https://www.amarshahwrites.com Preorder his book here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hoop-con-amar-shah/1143424468?ean=9781338840322 And preorder Jennifer Senior's book here: https://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic-editions/#on-grief Find me online at www.annasoper.ca and on Twitter and Instagram at TeenPeoplePod. ................ Sounds and music: The Sound of dial-up Internet by wtermini on Pixabay Poor, But Happy by HoliznaCC0 CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Snippet of 1999 Neutrogena commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N2YaU1Pfy8 Spirit Blossom by RomanBelov on Pixabay ................ Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.

Kelly McWilliams was a teenager when she published her first novel. These days, Kelly's working on her third novel, while promoting Agnes at the End of the World; a dystopian YA book published in 2020. Agnes at the End of the World received starred reviews in School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Publisher’s Weekly. It was also featured, funnily enough, in People magazine’s “20 Best Books to Read This Summer”, in the summer of 2020. Kelly spoke with me from her home in Colorado, where she told me about an entirely coincidental connection between her and my very first guest on this podcast, Caron Levis. Caron (who once interned at Teen People) teaches in the Creative Writing MFA program at The New School in New York. Guess who took one of her courses? That’s right, it’s my guest, Kelly McWilliams. Podcast Notes: Take a look at Kelly's website: www.kellymcwilliamsauthor.com, and find her on Instagram at kellymmcwilliams. Kelly (an author) and I (a librarian) referenced a whole bunch of books and writers in our chat! They are: Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting (1975, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Octavia Butler: Parable of the Sower (1993, Four Walls) Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games (2008, Scholastic) Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 (1995, Delacorte Press) Nalo Hopkinson N. K. Jemisin: How Long 'til Black Future Month? (2018, Orbit Books) Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer: Escape (2007, Broadway Books) Leah Johnson: You Should See Me In a Crown (2020, Scholastic) Caron Levis Robin McKinley: The Hero and the Crown (1984, Greenwillow Books) Kelly McWilliams: Doormat (2004, Random House Children's Books) Agnes at the End of the World (2020, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Mirror Girls (2022, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Bethany C. Morrow: A Song Below Water (2020, Tor Teen) Sarah Moss: Ghost Wall (2018, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Jewell Parker Rhodes: Ninth Ward (2010, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Black Brother, Black Brother (2020, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Matt Ruff: Lovecraft Country (2016, HarperCollins) Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad (2016, Doubleday) The Nickel Boys (2019, Doubleday) Author photo: © Black Forest Photography Music: © Anna Soper Find me on Twitter and Instagram at TeenPeoplePod, and take a look at my website, www.annasoper.ca. For more information on my research, check out Sarah Wilson's award-winning podcast, Roots and All. I spoke with Sarah about Kate Crooks, a long-forgotten Canadian botanist: https://rootsandall.co.uk/portfolio-item/episode-91-the-work-of-kate-crooks-with-anna-soper/. Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.

Who had Bush v. Gore in a Teen People debate on their Y2K bingo card? Padraic Maroney is a writer and marketing professional from upstate New York. After moving to Philadelphia as a teenager, he created content for The Bucks County Courier Times’ 'Reality' section, written by local teens. This led to an opportunity as a Teen People Trendspotter, as well as an internship in New York. Twenty years later, Padraic has published an unauthorized, behind-the-scenes tale of the making of the Scream franchise, and is now preparing another book on the Saw series from the early-mid 2000s. He began by telling me about Teen People magazine’s unsuccessful attempt to get George W. Bush and Al Gore together, on stage, in a Teen People-sponsored debate on youth issues, during Election 2000. Could that debate have changed the course of history?? Probably not, but we’ll never know, will we? Here’s Padraic’s story. Podcast notes: Padraic’s book, 'It All Began With a Scream': https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58866004-it-all-began-with-a-scream Padraic's Twitter: [at] padraicjacob Find me on Twitter and Instagram at teenpeoplepod, and have a listen to my interviews with Zena Burns and Kelly McWilliams in season one of Teen People podcast. Credits: President Clinton's Remarks Regarding Columbine HS Shooting (1999) courtesy; William J. Clinton Presidential Library Intro music: © Anna Soper Outro music: Fighter [No Vocals] - punk rock by ohhgeeeznotagain on Pixabay Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.

Like a Millennial Pygmalion, 16-year-old Frankie Thomas was plucked from the streets of New York, into the glossy studios of Teen People magazine. Their photo appeared in the March 2004 issue of Teen People (the prom issue!), under the headline "Smooch-proof Lips". Among other things, Teen People’s makeup artists suggested using lip liner as lipstick—it’ll last longer—or layering gloss over a lip stain. As you’ll hear in this episode, this was uncharted territory for Frankie. Frankie grew up in Chelsea, and went to the Friends Seminary, also known as the Quaker School. Founded in 1786, the school’s former students include Kyra Sedgewick, Vera Wang, Amanda Peet, and Lena Dunham. Frankie has an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has written for The Paris Review; focusing on '90s pop culture, Young Adult literature, and queer aesthetics. Their writing career began with a teenage blog—you’ll hear excerpts from this throughout this episode. Want to see Frankie's Teen People photo? Find it on Twitter and Instagram, at TeenPeoplePod, and on Tumblr: www.teenpeoplepod.tumblr.com. And check out my website, www.annasoper.ca. Read Frankie's work here: about.me/frankiethomas Frankie's book list: 'I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This', Nadja Spiegelman, 2016 (Riverhead Books) 'Detransition, Baby', Torrey Peters, 2021 (One World) 'Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls', T Kira Madden, 2019 (Bloomsbury) 'The Secret History', Donna Tartt, 2004 (Vintage)(Frankie's literary North Star!) Did you figure out that this whole episode is a tribute to Wes Anderson's movie soundtracks? Borrowing tracks from The Royal Tenenbaums to Moonrise Kingdom, here's the music that made it happen: Frédéric Chopin, ‘Berceuse Op. 57’, Christine Hartley-Troskie. CC BY 2.5 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5), via Wikimedia Commons. Maurice Ravel, ‘String Quartet in F Major (Second Movement)’, United States Army Band. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Lesfm, ‘Amazing Grace of Christmas’. Public domain, via Pixabay. Erik Satie, ‘Gymnopédie no. 1’, Robin Alciatore. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Johann Sebastian Bach, ’Sheep May Safely Graze’, BWV 208, Kevin MacLeod. CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons. embracetheart, ‘City Traffic (Outdoor)’. Public domain, via Pixabay. Franz Schubert, ‘An die Musik’, Adrien Poupin and Armelle Mathis. CC BY 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons. Mild Wild, ‘See Through’. CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons. Amy Sayer, ‘wild tape’. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), via Free Music Archive. Ketsa, Awakening-Spring. CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), via Free Music Archive. Mild Wild, ‘Line Spacing’. CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons. Update, April 2022: Read James Frankie Thomas' first essay as James Frankie Thomas; a startling take on The Killers' 2003 hit, Mr. Brightside: www.astra-mag.com/articles/i-wish-i-could-stop-thinking-about-mr-brightside/ Update, October 2023: Hear more about James' first book in our follow-up conversation! soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/jamesfthomas Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.