Yara Shahidi

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333 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 31 Jul

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10% Happier with Dan Harris · When You Don't Know What You Actually Want: How To Say No, When To Say Yes, and The One Question That Cuts Through It | Yara Shahidi · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

And...

There was a moment just personally where it was like, first of all, some things started happening that I didn't have thoughts on.

Yeah.

And I started to become comfortable, one, in saying just like when I look at the people that I look up to, they're extremely well studied.

And not just well studied in that, oh, they have certain degrees.

Even if it's the school of life, they –

are thinking about the thing that they're speaking about they're grappling with it regularly and so part of why I went to school and part of even kind of my the way I'm now approaching how I speak about things a little differently was because I was like more than more than thinking about what my audience deserves I deserve the right to be well studied on things that I'm moved by and because I was 14 and I was on a show that was unabashedly taking on these big topics it meant that I

had a mic and had people asking me about what is my take on police brutality.

And while I'm so grateful for the audience that's created for me, it meant that

There was still so much life for me to live to really develop full opinions.

And when I became a student, I don't think I suddenly came out with a degree and all the answers by any means.

But it gave me the space to actually dive deep into the things that I really cared about and to learn about life.

I've, whether intentionally or not, been speaking about things that certain movements have been addressing for decades, generations.

How am I fitting into that picture?

What do I think my role is in that?

And my role keeps changing.

But when I came out of school and when I was then thinking about reintroducing my own voice, some of it came from in order for my voice to have impact,

it's important to be a little granular about what you speak on.

And it's okay to say, oh, I don't have much information on that.

Or, oh, I defer to this person who I think has a really well-formed opinion on the matter.

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