Teen People - All Star: Amar Shah on Kobe, Shaq, and making an impact

All Star: Amar Shah on Kobe, Shaq, and making an impact

03/16/23 • 50 min

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.

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Celebrating TEEN PEOPLE magazine's 25th anniversary

I don’t think of my podcast as being about TEEN PEOPLE magazine: it’s about my guests, and why they were in TEEN PEOPLE, and what they’re up to now in their 30s and 40s. But January 2023 is the 25th anniversary of TEEN PEOPLE, so I thought I’d celebrate with an episode featuring a few of the guests I’ve interviewed since I started this podcast in the spring of 2020! TEEN PEOPLE was founded in 1998, and was published until 2006. While their bread and butter was celebrities, their heart and soul was “real teen content". Where are these "real teens" now? That's the premise of this podcast. (If you love this idea as much as I do, leave a rating or review!) In the 2000s, content by and for "real people" took off. From Tavi Gevinson's Style Rookie, to reality TV, and Humans of New York, people were hungry for media in which they could see themselves. TEEN PEOPLE helped popularize that trend with their own focus on real teens. (Remember: this was before social media made it possible to reach a global audience with the tap of a button!) This episode features clips from my first two seasons, including interviews with Caron Levis, Gennie Gorback, Robin Knudsen, Zena Burns, Dr. Ben Barry, and James Frankie Thomas. You can find their episodes in seasons one and two of Teen People! Notes: Intro music: RomanBelov on Pixabay Outro music (edited for length): Fog Lake, 'Roswell'. Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0): www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Tag me: I'm on Twitter and Instagram at TeenPeoplePod. Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.

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Alisha Fernandez Miranda talks TEEN PEOPLE, Disney, and her dream jobs

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.