Shonda Rhimes

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TED Talks Daily · Talks to Motivate You Playlist (1/10): My year of saying yes to everything | Shonda Rhimes · 10 Apr 2026 podcast

I was the hum, and the hum was me.

So what do you do when the thing you do, the work you love, starts to taste like dust?

Now, I know somebody's out there thinking, cry me a river, stupid writer titan lady.

But you know you do.

If you make, if you work, if you love what you do, being a teacher, being a banker, being a mother, being a painter, being Bill Gates, if you simply love another person, if that gives you the hum, if you know the hum, if you know what the hum feels like, if you have been to the hum, when the hum stops, who are you?

What are you?

What am I?

Am I still a titan?

If the song of my heart ceases to play, can I survive in the silence?

And then my southern waitress toddler asks me a question.

I'm on my way out the door, I'm late, and she says, Mama, want to play?

And I'm just about to say no when I realize two things.

One, I'm supposed to say yes to everything.

And two, my southern waitress didn't call me honey.

She's not calling everyone honey anymore.

When did that happen?

I'm missing it, being a titan and mourning my hum, and here she is changing right before my eyes.

And so she says, Mama, want to play?

And I say yes.

There's nothing special about it.

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