Shonda Rhimes
speaker
1,129 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 10 Apr
Shonda Rhimes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No cell phone, no laundry, no anything.
You have a busy life, you have to get dinner on the table, you have to force them to bathe, but you can do 15 minutes.
My kids are my happy place, they're my world, but it doesn't have to be your kids, the fuel that feeds your hum, the place where life feels more good than not good.
It's not about playing with your kids.
It's about joy.
It's about playing in general.
Give yourself the 15 minutes.
Find what makes you feel good.
Just figure it out and play in that arena.
I'm not perfect at it.
In fact, I fail as often as I succeed.
Seeing friends, reading books, staring into space.
When a play starts to become shorthand for indulging myself in ways I'd given up on right around the time I got my first TV show, right around the time I became a titan in training, right around the time I started competing with myself for ways unknown.
Fifteen minutes, what could be wrong with giving myself my full attention for 15 minutes?
Turns out, nothing.
The very act of not working has made it possible for the hum to return, as if the hum's engine could only refuel while I was away.
Work doesn't work without play.
It takes a little time, but after a few months, one day the floodgates open, and there's a rush, and I find myself standing in my office filled with an unfamiliar melody, full-on groove inside me and around me, and it sends me spinning with ideas, and the humming road is open, and I can drive it and drive it, and I love working again.
But now, I like that hum, but I don't love that hum.
I don't need that hum.
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