Dear Hollywood

By: Alyson Stoner
  • Summary

  • It’s time to expose Hollywood. Child stardom is a unique cultural phenomenon with a notoriously dark shadow. Precocious young talents skyrocket to success only to repeat horror stories of addiction, decimated fortunes, and suicide. What is behind the toddler-to-train wreck pipeline? Why hasn’t it stopped? How are you connected to it at home? Host Alyson Stoner reveals intimate firsthand accounts alongside comprehensive expertise & action plans to change entertainment and inspire your own life path and healing. Subscribe & follow @alysonstoner to join the conversation. For the FULL Story, pre-order Alyson's memoir "Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything" here: https://bit.ly/semiwelladjusted
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Episodes
  • The Game Plan to Change Hollywood
    Dec 1 2023

    For the FULL story, preorder my memoir “Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything” here: https://bit.ly/semiwelladjusted

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    Thanks for tuning into the first season of Dear Hollywood. As we deconstruct the toddler-to-trainwreck pipeline, what can we do to better support child performers in the entertainment industry? What role do you play? Alyson presents strategies for intervention and prevention at every level - the individual and family unit, production companies, union standardization, legislation, audiences at home, and larger cultural shifts. This is only the beginning of a movement. See you soon for season two.

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    Video filmed and edited by @crispychickenco.

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    17 mins
  • Creating a Celebrity Persona and Facing Stalkers
    Nov 24 2023

    For the FULL story, preorder my memoir “Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything” here: https://bit.ly/semiwelladjusted

    Alyson reveals some of the risks and dangers around becoming a child celebrity, including navigating superfans, stalkers and predators encircling their life. They explore the question of whether famous children automatically have a responsibility to be a role model. Further, they name the reality of losing fame and the inner tension of wanting to evolve while being memorialized as a younger version of themselves.

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    12 mins
  • The Psychology of Fame
    Nov 17 2023

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    If fame has addictive properties that mirror substance abuse, why would we hook a child to a “drug” that remaps their brain chemistry and alters their development forever? Alyson guides you through the psychological experience of experiencing fame firsthand as well as key elements that create a fame-obsessed culture, including the illusion of separation, parasocial relationships, and mass psychological projections.

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    23 mins

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Vulnerable, Honest, Hopeful

Loved hearing about the process of learning to advocate for yourself in rehab. You were so young. I'm proud of you!

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Very interesting and thorough

I came across this actress/dancer on an Instagram clip where she was trying to teach Ellen DeGeneres a dance routine from a Missy Elliott video. She looks to be about 8 years old but not only has grace and skill as a dancer but is really a top-notch communicator and performer-- spacing out her direction amongst studio audience laughs and interjected jokes by Ellen. At one point she smiles wearily at the camera and cracks a joke of her own about Ellen's skills, waiting perfectly for the laugh before she begins moving again. My daughter is the exact same age as her in the clip it turns out, and people were asking--where is she now? I'm almost 40 years old so I knew I didn't even have to guess--where's her podcast? Her story in particular, because of her age, because I want to know what happens to a little girl when all of her dreams come true. What becomes of her, both financially and mentally? I'm not sure her research or background on the subject of social development of teens other than her own personal experience, but just this episode has been extremely informative. she presents clear and concise information without a lot of flare and emotion, which I appreciate for a subject this delicate.

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Good listen

It hurts to hear, but we already knew HOLLYWOOD IS HORRIBLE. Especially for our young and impressionable.

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