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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I knew that it wasn't supposed to be this.
I tell a story in the book where I talk about, I was, I became a member of the board of the Kennedy Center back in the Obama administration.
And I arrived for like the first big event.
And they informed me that I was sitting with the president, the first lady who I'd never met.
And I remember panicking on all levels and then going and having an amazing time and then realizing if they had asked me, not told me, but if they'd asked me if I'd wanted to sit with the president and first lady, I would have absolutely said no.
Like the panic, the stress of the idea would have been too great for me to actually say yes for myself.
I only did it because they said that was what was happening and I couldn't really say no to that.
Like there they are, we're going.
Yeah, this is what's happening.
And I realized that I would have missed out on this sort of once in a lifetime, insanely amazing event because I was too scared to say yes to stuff.
It really struck me as I am harming myself.
What's the very first yes you said yes to?
The very first yes I said yes to was speaking at our alma mater.
They called me and asked me to give a commencement speech at Dartmouth College.
And you're a 90, I'm a 91.
And I said, yes, I would do it.
And I only said yes because I had just made this rule for myself.
And tell the person listening, what is the rule?
The rule was, is that I was going to say yes to everything that scared me for one year.
And that seemed very terrifying, but it was also six months away.
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