Alyson Stoner, SEMI-WELL-ADJUSTED DESPITE LITERALLY EVERYTHING: A Memoir
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Actor-dancer Alyson Stoner chats with Zibby about their bold, incisive, and revelatory new memoir, SEMI-WELL-ADJUSTED DESPITE LITERALLY EVERYTHING, which weaves together stories from their life as a former child star with a sharp cultural critique of the entertainment industry. Alyson opens up about surviving exploitation, eating disorders, financial loss, and assault—and how those experiences fueled their work as a mental health advocate and industry reformer. Ultimately, Alyson shares practical tools for protecting young performers and explains why safeguarding children in a digital age should matter to everyone.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.6 | Alison Stoner is the author of semi-well-adjusted, despite literally everything, a memoir. |
| 0:50.8 | Allison is a multidisciplinary entertainer, author, and the founder and CEO of Movement Genius, |
| 0:56.6 | a mental health company providing therapist-led content to improve well-being. |
| 1:00.8 | As the writer and host of the award-winning Dear Hollywood podcast, Stoner advocates for industry |
| 1:05.9 | and policy reform centering the protection of children in traditional and digital media, |
| 1:11.6 | with multiple certifications and 15 years of group facilitation experience, they've led and contributed to programming |
| 1:16.9 | for the United Nations, the World Health Organization, LGBTQIA plus centers, and leading universities. |
| 1:23.5 | During childhood, Stoner appeared in over 200 films, TV shows, and tours, including Camp Rock, Phineas and Ferb, Step Up, Cheaper by the Dozen, and iconic music videos with Missy Elliott and Eminem. |
| 1:35.7 | Today, they're focused on impact-driven and community-based initiatives, such as designing artist well-being essentials, a robust digital toolkit, including expert-led education and tools |
| 1:45.7 | for performers to pursue their passions in a healthy and sustainable way. |
| 1:49.9 | Next, Stoner is releasing their debut memoir, semi-well-adjusted, despite literally everything. |
| 1:56.8 | Welcome, Alison. |
| 1:57.6 | Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked with Zivie to talk about |
| 2:00.9 | semi-well adjusted despite literally everything. Congratulations. |
| 2:04.9 | Thank you for having me. Thank you. |
| 2:07.1 | I could not put your book down. Oh my gosh. The amount you have gone through in your life, |
| 2:11.1 | the stories, the fact that you're such this accomplished entrepreneur at this point, |
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