Morgan Simianer: Raised by Resilience
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Tay is back for another girl-talk conversation, this time with Netflix's Cheer star Morgan Simianer! Morgan kicks things off by sharing how she met her husband, their engagement story, what she’s loving most about married life, and her favorite moment from their wedding day. She then opens up about her early childhood, from the pain of her mom leaving to living alone in a trailer so she wouldn’t burden anyone. Morgan reflects on the role her grandparents played in giving her stability, the moment she finally felt safe, and whether she’s in touch with her biological parents today. She dives into how her upbringing shaped her relationships, what healing has looked like for her, and the biggest hurdle she’s had to overcome. We then shift into her cheer journey, from trying out for Navarro to becoming a fan favorite on Cheer, and how she navigated the sudden public attention and its impact on her mental health. Morgan shares the challenges of having her most personal moments broadcast to the world, her reaction to being pitched Battle Camp on Netflix, her favorite parts of filming, and the castmates she’s closest to. Finally, she shares what’s next for her, her favorite form of self-care, and the message she’d give to her younger self!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:04.4 | If you're going to go somewhere like, it's cheering like you need to go somewhere where they know what they're doing. |
| 0:08.2 | So I Googled, best places to cheer in the United States of America. |
| 0:11.0 | Navaral College pops up. |
| 0:12.1 | I watch a video and I was like, I'm going there. |
| 0:16.3 | Oh, let's go. |
| 0:17.2 | It's game time. |
| 0:17.9 | Like this is going to be iconic. It's like during track, I'm, like, doing cartwells and back flips when I should be running. I'm shocked right now. You haven't |
| 0:23.5 | been doing this your entire life. No. What? I just, like, didn't have the fear of, like, trying |
| 0:27.3 | anything. I was like, let's just flip of me that like I've hidden for so long, |
| 0:37.9 | terrified of what other people were going to think. You know, flip side of it, it's like the |
| 0:41.3 | complete opposite where I was like, I hit it forever. I don't want anyone to know about it. And now |
| 0:46.3 | it's like the world knows, but it's like helping others where I was like I would have never in a |
| 0:50.4 | million years would have thought sharing my story would have done that. |
| 1:09.4 | Yeah. in a million years would have thought sharing my story would have done that. Morgan, welcome to the squeeze. |
| 1:10.7 | Thank you. I am so excited because I've watched you on my TV |
| 1:14.7 | multiple times now. I just feel like we would be friends. Like, I just feel like you're so sweet, |
| 1:21.1 | but you have this like fun, silly, goofy side to you. Yeah. I enjoy watching all of your stuff that you post on social media makes me laugh. I'm like, oh, she's funny. Yeah, I'm like shy in the beginning, but then like once you like break my shelf and I'm like crazy. She can't be stopped. I love that. Okay. So we start each episode off with this jar. It's a game called Citrus Got Real if you want to pull a little piece |
| 1:44.3 | of paper out of there and read us that question. Let's see. I feel like I'm like secretive. |
| 1:53.5 | Yeah. Okay. This question. Favorite vegetables. Okay. Wait. That brings me to a topic that we were |
| 2:00.5 | definitely going to talk about because we'll get to battle camp. |
| 2:03.6 | But I need to know you don't eat food. |
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