Allison Holker: The Silent Struggles
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This week the Lautners are joined by dancer and choreographer Allison Holker! Allison talks about her audition process for So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) and what drew her to her late husband, Stephen "tWitch" Boss. She openly shares how Stephen's ability to give so much love and life to everyone around him ultimately took a toll on his well-being, then talks about the subtle signs that indicated he was struggling with his mental health. Allison and the Taylors discuss the large stigma that continues to surround men's mental health and stress the importance of going to therapy, even when you may feel like everything “feels fine”. Allison explains how she has navigated grief as an individual and as a parent while being in the public eye, then offers heartfelt advice for other parents with kids who are grieving. Finally, Allison talks about her relationship with dance now, her favorite form of self-care, and what she has learned from her children over the years. We hope you enjoy this powerful and vulnerable episode!
Be sure to follow Allison @allisonholker! To email us your questions or share your story, you can reach out to [email protected]. Be sure to rate, review, and follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode! Plus, follow us on Instagram, @thesqueeze and personally @taylautner and @taylorlautner + on TikTok @thesqueezepodcast To learn more from The Lemons Foundation, follow @lemonsbytay on Instagram and visit lemonsbytay.com
Produced by Dear Media
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | I would never consider saying, |
| 0:05.0 | I'm having a bad day, not feeling great today. |
| 0:07.0 | I would pretend like everything was perfect all the time. |
| 0:09.0 | There's also this stigma of like, well, if I say that, I'm going to sound terrible and ungrateful. |
| 0:14.0 | And like I'm not humble and I'm not appreciating all these beautiful gifts that I've been given. |
| 0:18.2 | For so long, I always was and I am so thankful for this life that I get to live. |
| 0:25.0 | I went on my best friend's new podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | He told me he goes, |
| 0:29.0 | I want to end each episode just simply asking scale 1 to 10, |
| 0:32.0 | where you at today normally |
| 0:34.8 | programmed to say anywhere between eight and ten but I actually was sad that |
| 0:39.0 | day you know what if I'm being completely honest with you I'm a today. It's the truth and I spent so much |
| 0:44.4 | time not telling the truth. I think it's about time to just be honest. I can be a 9-10 tomorrow |
| 0:50.1 | but today I'm a three and that's okay. When life gives you lemons what do you do with them? |
| 1:02.8 | Over here at the Squeeze, we talk about it. |
| 1:05.6 | Welcome to the squeeze. |
| 1:14.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:16.0 | Hard lunch. |
| 1:17.0 | Oh geez I'm caught. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm caught. |
| 1:20.0 | My gosh this is off to a terrific start. Thank you for joining us. We are honored to have you here today. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Taylor Lautner, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Taylor Lautner and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.