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The Teen Life Coach

235: Alyson Stoner: Growing up in Hollywood, becoming mentally healthy, and finding happiness

The Teen Life Coach

The Teen Life Coach

Kids & Family

4.6689 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Disney star Alyson Stoner joins me on the podcast this week to talk about their own personal journey with anxiety and what they are doing now to help youth overcome anxiety and mental health struggles. Behind the scenes, Alyson suffered from a variety of health conditions that affected every area of their life. Their personal healing journey led them to their truest passion, studying the mind-body connection and creating tools alongside experts that help people heal and empower themselves. Alyson Stoner is a multi-disciplinary artist known for their on-screen acting, dancing, singing work in 200+ TV shows, movies, and music videos, and as an online content creator and health advocate. Appearing in franchises such as Step Up and Camp Rock to dancing with the likes of Missy Elliott and Eminem, Alyson has been producing their own content since their late teens, including the Simplexity podcast and mental health platform Movement Genius, building a growing online community of 5.2m+ folks. Much of Alyson’s passion is invested in advocating for improved mental health resources and long-term prevention strategies for youth and underrepresented communities. They’re currently working on concrete solutions that support artists and entertainers who face unique psychological, physical, professional, financial, and social challenges. Their "Toddler-to-Trainwreck" video is an introduction to a much larger and urgent conversation that they hope to address in Dear Hollywood. Dear Hollywood is a tell-all podcast about the “toddler-to-trainwreck” pipeline that young artists face in the entertainment industry. Following their viral op-ed, host Alyson unpacks the cultural phenomenon of child stardom from the most comprehensive, illuminating vantage point ever offered. Incorporating expertise from child development specialists, artist-to-artist conversations with famous child performers, and Alyson’s own never-been-shared stories, the audience is invited into a powerful and proactive conversation around high-performing children, while simultaneously gaining deep insight and wisdom for their own journey towards healing and self-empowerment. New episodes Friday. Subscribe & follow @alysonstoner to join the conversation. Listen to the Podcast Here: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3XhCWlROLvRYfTiXrQfwk2 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dear-hollywood/id1699053001 YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD9cqoP3xxcGiJKHxWwS0kO1EAqSf-qDE Check out Movement Genius Here: https://www.movementgenius.com/

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm Coach Sammy and I am so glad you are here.

0:11.2

The teen years can be fun and exciting, but also filled with self-doubt, insecurities, and lots of frustration.

0:20.6

I am here to help you along your teen

0:23.5

journey and make sure you enjoy your teen years as much as possible. Let's get started.

0:30.5

All right, you guys, welcome to the podcast today. I have another wonderful, amazing guest on with us today. Allison Stoner is on the podcast

0:41.8

today. Allison was a Disney star growing up and has played roles in the sweet life of Zach and Cody,

0:50.2

cheaper by the dozen, Camp Rock. And my kids are actually a big fan, Alison, by the way.

0:56.5

Excellent.

0:57.1

Well, thank you for having me.

0:58.3

Yeah.

0:58.8

So the things that you're doing right now are really amazing.

1:02.2

And I wanted you to come on the podcast today to talk about them.

1:06.0

But I also want you to share your story with the teens that are listening because you do have a really

1:12.4

amazing story of overcoming some hard things, lots of struggles, and you're doing some amazing

1:19.3

things for teens and the youth right now to help them. So how about you introduce yourself to the

1:24.4

listeners and tell us a little bit about your story and what you're

1:28.9

working on these days. Of course. Well, my name is Allison. I'm originally from Ohio. I started

1:36.0

dancing when I was three years old and then performing in Hollywood when I was just seven years old.

1:42.8

And from the outside in, you know, we saw all of these exciting opportunities to perform

1:47.9

and do things that I really enjoyed.

1:50.4

However, I wasn't aware of the toll it was taking on my health and some of the health

1:56.0

issues that I ended up developing in response to leaving a very, you know, perfectionistic, high performing,

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