Episode 7: Jeremy Miller's Story of Emancipation at 15

In today's episode, Eve Richards, the host of The Discovery Pod With Eve, and Melissa Niece Smith, the cohost of this episode, are joined by Jeremy Miller, an American actor known for his portrayal of Ben Seaver on the Growing Pains and its two reunion movies. He was also a voice actor for the show Happy New Year! Charlie Brown! He also appeared in commercials for McDonald's, where he voiced a parody of VH1's "Best Week Ever" promotion. He was also the star of a 1990 Hanukah episode of "Shalom Sesame", an American/Israeli co-production of Sesame Street. He has also been seen in Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down!

In this episode, Jeremy Miller shares his valuable insights on his experience when he auditioned for the role of Ben, the insecurities he dealt with as a child, his emancipation when he was just 15 years of age, his drinking problem, and advice to parents with children who want to get into acting. Jeremy also sheds more light on his relationship with Leonardo Di Capri, how we can protect people in the film industry, his book “When I Wished Upon A Star,” cooking for the Black Eyed Peas, how he does his outreach to homelessness, his current projects and who he would have dinner with and why. Tune in for more!

Notable Quotes

(16:57) “Things get bad quickly, once you cross that line whether it’s alcohol, drugs whatever it is, once you cross that line things go downhill really rapidly.”

(22:27) “There are going to be predators in any environment where you have children who are lightly supervised.”

(27:29) “The amount of info you get online now is scary.”

(32:22) “God is always working in our lives even when we don’t see it.”

(33:39) “If you want to help people, you’ve got to be as honest as you can and you’ve got to just bear as much of it as you can.”