Owning It: Revisiting our childhood experiences with Disney Channel child star Alyson Stoner
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
For this episode I am joined by the wonderful Alyson Stoner. A super successful child star, Alyson appeared to have it all going on: she was the featured dancer (as a little girl) in the Missy Elliot Work It video. She was on several Disney projects, Cheaper by the Dozen franchise, the Step Up franchise and so much more. But with such a high pressure environment that was sent against the backdrop of a chaotic and turbulent home life, things were not as wonderful as they may have seemed. Alyson chats to me here about the trauma she experienced, how her anxiety manifested as an eating disorder, how and when she knew she needed some help, how she came through it, and how she now reconciles her childhood experiences so that they inform her life as a wellbeing and mental health advocate now. She's incredibly articulate and she's just launched a new positive mental health platform called Movement Genius which I urge you to check out.
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| 0:29.0 | Hello, dear listener and welcome to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin. Today on the series, I'm so happy to share an episode with you that I recorded with |
| 0:33.6 | the brilliant Alison Stoner. She's an actress, she's a dancer. You will know her from having appeared in the Missy Elliott Workit Video. |
| 0:40.5 | She also starred as Channing Tatum's Little Sister in Step Up, |
| 0:44.1 | and she appeared in Cheap-Up by the Dozen, she was one of the dozen, |
| 0:46.6 | and lots of other different movies and shows to date. |
| 0:50.3 | She's now 27. |
| 0:51.5 | She's very much moved on since those days and has now become a wellness advocate. She is an incredible speaker. The way she can articulate her experience of mental health, which she had a very hard time with as a child star in a very high pressure environment. And here she just so eloquently tells me her story, shares her experience, what she's learned, |
| 1:13.1 | what she's been through, and most notably she now in her new role is about to launch an |
| 1:19.3 | incredible movement called Movement Genius, which is a platform that connects people like you and I |
| 1:24.3 | who are maybe struggling with anxiety with these wonderful teachers and it's |
| 1:28.8 | a movement-based therapy. She explains it herself much better in the conversation, but I really think |
| 1:35.1 | you will enjoy this one. I could have talked to Alison all day long. She was incredible and such a sweet |
| 1:40.7 | girl and so self-aware and the kind of self-awareness that really unfortunately only |
| 1:45.8 | comes with sometimes having to go through a really hard time which she did but she's fantastic and |
| 1:51.1 | she's so willing to be vulnerable with me and I think the world of her having had the conversation |
| 1:56.0 | with her and I'm so grateful to have had the chance to connect so yeah yeah, enjoy this conversation. As always, appreciate |
| 2:01.7 | the reviews, the good feedback. And if you want to follow me on Instagram at Caroline |
| 2:06.9 | Foreign, I will post more anxiety related content you so, so much for joining me on owning it, the Anxiety Podcast. |
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