24: Dance Mom's Jill Vertes
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2016
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode features special guest, Jill Vertes, from the mega-hit reality show, Dance Moms. She has been on the hit reality show for over five years with her daughter, Kendall Vertes. She will talk to host Susie Meister about child stars, raising a child in the entertainment industry, working on a reality show, and her years at the Abby Lee Miller Dance studio. We will discuss the challenges of facilitating your child's success without being a "stage mom," and how she works to shield her child from the negative effects of fame and fortune. Jill will address the questions many have about the difficult balance of supporting your child in the industry while letting them feel like they have a "normal" life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the Brain Candy Podcast. You know what we've been meaning |
| 0:17.8 | to do? I keep meaning to say the Brain Candy Podcast is candy for your left brain and |
| 0:23.0 | your right brain. I want people to know our tag. So like welcome to the Brain Candy Podcast |
| 0:26.8 | candy for your left brain and your right brain. Yeah, because that's I keep and we haven't |
| 0:32.6 | been doing a lot of brain worthy stuff. I know. We need more of that. I know. A lot of candy, |
| 0:38.0 | not a lot of brain. I know. I'm so terrible. You know what? It kind of goes with the magazine |
| 0:42.8 | since I've been reading lately because it's like my subscription to psychology today has |
| 0:49.8 | not showed up for a few weeks. We neither. And so now I'm just like picking up whatever |
| 0:54.2 | and the freaking nail salon. And we're getting about like a Kardashian here and there. So we support |
| 1:00.6 | candy. We love it. Pop culture. But we need to pepper in more brain. However, today it's kind |
| 1:07.5 | of going to be more candy. So just deal with the people. We'll get some brain going in a minute. |
| 1:11.3 | Probably. I wanted to do an episode about child stars and like kids in the entertainment industry. |
| 1:18.2 | Love it. And I did an interview recently with Jill Vertes from Dance Bombs. She's one of the |
| 1:26.7 | moms on Dance Bombs and her daughter Kendall is one of the dancers on this show. And I wanted to |
| 1:32.4 | talk to her about what it's like being in like the white hot light of this social media crazy |
| 1:37.9 | world and the fame and all that and raising a kid in it. It's got to be interesting where you're like |
| 1:44.2 | the go between between your child and all the social media stuff. Like there's all these new |
| 1:50.5 | I love love the show child genius on lifetime. But you talk about that. The competition show for |
| 1:58.3 | genius children. And some of them have social media accounts, but it's their parents account |
| 2:06.3 | obviously. So you know, they're it's like how yeah, people have to be on social media or be in the |
| 2:15.4 | spotlight without just one thing like being in on dance moms like for example, there's Abby Lee, |
| 2:22.8 | the dance teacher who you know a lot of people would take issue with the way that she interacts |
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