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Troubled Teen Industry with Samantha Leach
Season 1 · Episode 80

Troubled Teen Industry with Samantha Leach

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August 3, 202326m 56sExplicit

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Show Notes

Unpacking the numerous systemic issues with the Troubled Teen Industry, the controversial network of for-profit, youth treatment centers such as boot camps, wilderness programs and boarding schools with the author of The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia, Samantha Leach. 


Sam shares her reporting, lived experience, and personal insights, in a rich discussion of the lingering effects of Y2K celeb culture's toxic influence on young women, the power of shame, and how names like Paris Hilton and Bhad Bhabie play into all of this.

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