{"id":588822,"date":"2025-11-23T13:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/588822\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:26:13","slug":"bbc-sounds-ready-to-talk-with-emma-barnett-i-was-lucky-i-was-hated-in-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/588822\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Sounds &#8211; Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett &#8211; \u2018I was lucky I was hated in high school!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"full-quote island component text--left br-box-highlight\">\n<p>\u201cIf I were frozen with worry about what people thought, I wouldn\u2019t have had the experiences that I\u2019ve had&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Ryan<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Katherine says people who really \u201cknow\u201d her like her, but she gave up \u201cearly\u201d on being liked by everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was never super likeable,\u201d Katherine says. \u201cI was aware, really young, that I was not ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way I interacted with people was jarring, sometimes was unlikeable, was different \u2013 I would say the wrong thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a while, she \u201caspired to be\u201d like women who were \u201cuncomplicated and soft,\u201d doing jobs at Hooters and entering bikini pageants \u2013 but she would always \u201cslip up\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine\u2019s mother shared some words of wisdom which changed her perspective on everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother said, \u2018those girls aren\u2019t normal. They\u2019re ordinary\u2026 you\u2019re extraordinary. You\u2019re going to be disliked sometimes\u2026 and you should lean into that. And then I started doing comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Katherine\u2019s \u201cthick skin about criticism\u201d helped her when tackling tricky audiences \u2013 in one such instance, the compere was \u201capologising to the audience\u201d for bringing a woman onstage.<\/p>\n<p>Emma asks if Katherine has any advice for other young women who are worried about being liked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were frozen with worry about what people thought, I wouldn\u2019t have had the experiences that I\u2019ve had,\u201d Katherine says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy let an imaginary judgement of you\u2026 stand in the way? You\u2019d be wasting your life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m lucky that I was so hated in high school!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf I were frozen with worry about what people thought, I wouldn\u2019t have had the experiences that I\u2019ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-588822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115599244563954715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}