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

But I think the same goes for everybody.

I happen to be in this maybe exaggerated situation of being an actor and doing a lot of interviews where those things happen.

But so many of us are dealing with those moments of being like, even on a friend level, I didn't see you share about this.

And so I'm grateful that, you know, I was born into just kind of a family model where I was able to be all the things for a while, where my acting career didn't stop me from being in school or stop me from pursuing my love of history.

And then it really wasn't until I started Black-ish at the age of 14 where the first kind of sets of decisions had to be made because it was the first time in my career up to that point where I was filming a television show that was going to take up the majority of the year.

And...

Up to that point, I'd be in school, I'd pop out for a movie and I'd do distance learning or I'd do something like that.

Whereas this was the first time where it was like, okay, I'm kind of reconsidering and we're reconsidering what life is going to be configured and how...

Are we going to make space for all the things that we had made space for before?

And I'd have to say season one was a lesson in giving myself the space to be all the things because I came in season one ready to be an actor.

And I'd have to say I didn't do much acting season one.

And it could just be the way the universe worked.

And, you know, the audience may not know, but from an actor's perspective, you're sitting on set five days a week and you may only shoot a couple scenes.

But everything in your life has paused for this to be the thing that you're focusing on.

And so sitting here twiddling my thumbs a little like, well, I'm not doing the thing that I really want to do, which is act.

And so at that moment, mommy and I looked at each other and she just asked me the question, what else do you want to be doing?

By the time season two came along, it blossomed so many of my natural interests because it wasn't about going to pursue certain things at the biggest scale, but it's just giving myself the space to

pursue them in the first place.

For example, I'd have to say that's when a lot of my civic engagement work started because it was like, well, this is what's moving me right now.

And so how can I be in the right spaces just to learn from people?

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