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

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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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