Yara Shahidi

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547 appearances 4 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 10 Apr

Yara Shahidi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The School of Greatness · The 4-Step Practice That Heals What Blocks Manifestation · 9 May 2025 podcast

But I think the thing that I see is like, oh, their world is so busy all the time that I can't even blame the feeling of distraction because I'm like, between all the news that's being intaken and between the fact that I feel like when I was growing up, I was only preoccupied with the life that I was living.

Yeah, and there was also no way of seeing the life that even my friends were living, except for the handful of times we were having a play date.

Yeah, I'm like, there was just no way of checking in on that.

And I think even creatively, I've had the privilege of being in all these luxury fashion spaces, but that was all tied to work. I did not find myself in any of those stores prior to working with these brands. Right. Because it just wasn't on my radar.

The way my brother has friends where it's like, oh, they know all of it all the time. They're tracking Fashion Week. Really? And I was like, I think I learned what Fashion Week was when I got an invite to attend because I was working in this space. I didn't have, again, all these worlds I was checking in on that didn't have anything to do with me right now.

And so I do feel like there's a particular challenge. And I have a lot of empathy for just generationally that feeling of what are we going to do with this world? information overload where it's even hard to parse apart what do I need to intake?

I'm a severe over news listener and I think my task has been listening to a little less news because it's like there's only so much you can do about it and it pushes, at least for me, I think it pushes me into a space of feeling very overwhelmed versus feeling activated. So I've been trying to be like, okay, what amount of news makes me feel activated but not overwhelmed?

Yeah, and some of it is a great point because some of it was that I've always been an audiophile. We grew up in a house where we didn't watch TV except for Saturdays for an hour, which I love. But it meant that I love audio. That is my form of entertainment. And so you're absolutely right.

There was a time, even though I don't know if I would call it that while I was listening, that it was more so like, oh, I'm listening to NPR.

You're listening to NPR so much that they're sending you free merch. That may be a cue. That may be a cue that you're listening to too much NPR. Because I was like, I have the app on my phone. I'm not even waiting until I'm in the car. I'm listening all the time. I'm waiting for the midday update. I'm waiting for the end of the day update. I'm cycling through local news.

I'm typing in local stations. And so I think changing that, because then I was listening to political podcasts at night. I was falling asleep to them. I was like, oh, bedtime. Time to turn on.

I love NPR because it is pretty straightforward, but I think for me, the amount I was consuming of every podcast available again was fulfilling more of an entertainment side. So it's been nice to literally reintroduce. I have those moments where I'm like, okay, time to get updated here. I want twice a day. Maybe I'll get to a once a day person. I'm a twice a day person.

But in between, I'm back to listening to old time radio shows. Johnny Dollar is my favorite insurance investigator played by Bob Bailey. And so I'm like, oh, if this is fulfilling the need to be listening to something, what else can I be listening to? Back to This American Life, back to just like...

Yeah, well, like you said, I come from two really wonderful, thoughtful parents, Afshin and Carrie, who I call Bubba and Mommy, but really wonderful people that have their own global background. So, you know, my bubba moved to the States from Iran when he was eight, comes from a very global service-minded family.

My mama comes from a family where it's like my papa and nana, my papa in particular was really involved in the civil rights movement. So that very direct idea of what it is to be of service, to sacrifice kind of your own comfort for the greater good.

And so much of the dialogue around being of service just happened at the dinner table, happened in a very natural way where I don't think I even realized, oh, I'm having these heady conversations. Hear me. And I think there were also things that they did that were very supportive of

of that of going to schools that had volunteer requirements, whether that was the Montessori or the public school or the Catholic school I went to, they all had volunteer requirements. And so I think it was also being modeled for me in every environment I was in of not just how money is a resource, but how your time is a resource.

The idea of giving as being just a part of the fabric of life and not as something that you wait to do once you have quote unquote made it. Even when they were giving me and my brothers just allowance, again, having really thoughtful parents, what mommy had done was we'd put all of the money that we made from acting right into savings, but they'd give us an allowance for being on set.

And from that allowance, from those 10 bucks or however much we decided, they had the save, spend, and donate bucket. And we got to choose how much are we donating, how much are we saving, how much are we spending. And, again, I say this all as a foundation of saying I had a great foundation of ways in which being of service can be integrated into our day-to-day life.

And I think even still, having Lami as a business partner, one trait I think I admire most that many people can attest to. I was in a room she wasn't in. I'm talking about something random. And literally somebody else, another actress paused to be like, can we talk about Carrie Shahidi?

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