STOPPING GIRL ON GIRL VIOLENCE ONE SCHOOL AT A TIME! THE KIND CAMPAIGN with Lauren Paul and Molly Thompson!
Everything is the Best
Dear Media, Pia Baroncini
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Lauren Paul and Molly Thompson — co-founders of Kind Campaign—join me to talk about friendship, forgiveness, and the deep impact of girl-against-girl bullying. From creating the Finding Kind documentary to building a nationwide movement, these two are rewriting the narrative around female friendships as they dive into the emotional and psychological effects of bullying among young girls. Please enjoy!
Produced by Dear Media
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:15.5 | We've been trying to get this podcast book for a long time. |
| 0:18.0 | It's been a while. |
| 0:19.3 | Yes, we've been in conversation for a while. |
| 0:21.4 | I am so happy to meet both of you and thank you for coming. Can you tell everybody how you two met? |
| 0:27.4 | Yeah, we met at Pepperdine. We had a bunch of mutual friends and we were in the film program there together. |
| 0:33.5 | And so we had worked on some projects together and had connected through film and friends. |
| 0:40.6 | And then, but then like us doing kind campaign together, I think a lot of people assume we were like best friends for 10 years or we had been like working on it forever. |
| 0:48.8 | It was just very much a meant to be thing that happened. |
| 0:52.9 | We both came back from the summer our junior year and we |
| 0:55.8 | were having lunch and kind of just talked about personal experiences with bullying. And then that |
| 1:01.1 | conversation turned into, should we make a documentary film about this? And then we just did. |
| 1:06.2 | We're like, we're going to just do something. I don't know what it's going to be, but we're going to do |
| 1:09.7 | something. And we were friends, but not like... Was that the first film that you guys had made or the first you made together? to tackle my whole life in some way, but just didn't know exactly what that looked like. |
| 1:32.8 | And working on a documentary, I came back from that summer and was like, oh, that would be a perfect medium to share this. And again, we had worked together on some things and just felt like |
| 1:38.5 | doing it with a friend would be a cool thing to do. And Molly had experiences, you know, |
| 1:44.0 | related to bullying like we all have. |
| 1:46.7 | And but yeah, we weren't like super, super close. We hadn't like really worked together. |
| 1:51.0 | And the fact that we both were like, okay, let's do this. And that we just happened to have |
| 1:55.6 | such a perfect kind of, I don't know, working relationship and like have maintained this like |
| 2:00.3 | incredibly close friendship throughout it all too. It's like a really, I think, rare thing. Very. That's pretty |
| 2:06.2 | unique. And what was the process like of making the documentary together? Well, we really, |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 8 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dear Media, Pia Baroncini, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dear Media, Pia Baroncini and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.