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

just spent so much time knowing that I'm going to have this thesis defense and defense of my major.

And then suddenly I'm like, when in the world am I ever going to talk about this again after graduating?

And so that was another real life moment that happened only a couple of years ago of like, okay, how am I going to define myself?

My show Grown-ish kind of came to a conclusion right around the same time.

And these were two anchoring things in my life for upwards of 10 years of

my academic journey, my TV journey.

And suddenly I didn't have grades and I didn't have classes and my time was really mine to define.

And that was really overwhelming because I think I found comfort in even being like, Yara is two things.

She's a student, she's an actor.

And there was a real moment that I'm still in of having to continue to define who is Yara day by day.

And it has gone back to the question of highest order of,

okay, if I'm not just going to anchor my life in school and work, what are those things that are moving me?

And one thing that's helped my journey is that I'm always in conversation with all sorts of people around me to realize we're hitting these life moments at every age.

You know, just the other day, me and my papa took Miami.

We took Miami by storm, which was very calm.

But it was so nice to have a granddaughter-grandfather weekend because so much of our conversation was about how we're kind of at the same stage of life, of figuring out what is my purpose and hitting this moment of why am I here?

Why are humans here?

And how are we bettering things?

It was so nice to be able to be in conversation with my papa, who, again, may not be able to say concretely, oh, no, we're here to do X, Y, and Z. But to say, how are we at least going to make it through this phase of life together with answers that feel sufficient for right now?

And maybe that's all we're looking for, something that's sufficient for right now.

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