Yara Shahidi
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547 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 10 Apr
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I'm like, please write my cast up. They're brilliant humans. Zoe does not need to be in everything.
It's the opposite of what she needs to be in. And so, you know, it's nice to say that we hit a cadence. But then, of course, always seeking a challenge. Then I was like, great, I'll go to school. Now that my character's written down a little bit, I'll go to school full time. And I'd have to say I did not have a down pat what it looked like taking care of myself.
All of the above. I think I've always been a task-oriented person. And I think I put my own needs first. behind everything else, even when it's not being asked of me. Yeah, like oftentimes I say, the best way I can say is like, my goal is to take care of myself as well as the people around me take care of me.
Because I have such great examples around me of people that are like, yeah, you need rest and you need to rejuvenate. But I'm the first one to kind of throw that away and say, hey, I have a paper due, I have this due. So, you know, my grown-ish schedule became, oh, I'm pulling all-nighters. I'm filming, pulling all-nighters to do schoolwork, and then going back to set. Wow.
And I think at the time, part of it was just what the moment necessitated. I don't know if there would have been many other ways to accomplish that. But I think what was hard was that I also didn't have for myself a list of things to be doing to pour into myself, whether that be physically. Like as much as I look back at pictures of me in school, I was like, oh, I was ripped.
Girl, that's a calorie deficit. You weren't eating. I was like, that's not muscles. You're walking with basically a weighted vest, which is your backpack, and forgetting to eat all day.
Yeah. I was saying, yeah, I was saying.
Yeah. I think, I guess the way I'd put it is I know life consists of challenges. And at this point in my life, it's been a high priority to become friends with challenges because they don't excite me.
I think.
I think.
It's more so maybe another word is misalignment. Like I think to be a creative and to be in the production world, any kind of creative endeavor, obviously there's a lot of passion behind it, but there's a lot of business behind it. And there's so many times in which you hit bumps on the general road and – There's so many times I just get very disappointed.
It somehow feels like when we hit a challenge, let's say, with a partner of being like, why aren't we on the same page about this?
Out of alignment.
Yeah, when we're out of alignment, I think where I'm surrounded by people that are like, all right, cool, this is just a cue that we need to realign. I'm like, oh, Lord, what's happening? What's happening in the world? Why is this happening? This should be so simple. I think a lot of that is also the fact that
I love the creative industry, but in my mind, I'm like, what we do should be so straightforward. Out of all the life-saving things that people do in the world that really do require a lot of challenges, why is creativity so challenging?
And so it's part of what prompted the podcast because it was like, okay, a lot of the solves that I even experienced were just through conversations with friends, mentors, and peers in certain rooms where they would kind of contextualize is it a challenge or is it this? Is it a part of your personal alignment?
And just in them sharing personal stories, I think it gave me a lot more context for the idea that I was just taking it too seriously, taking the sign of a challenge too seriously versus being like, it's just kind of a part of life. It's just life. Yeah. It's going to happen. It's not that you've done anything wrong or could have done anything better. It's just the process.
That's a good question. I think You know, I think this is actually right now is the result of diagnosing the misalignment some months ago and being like, we're going to meticulously find alignment. And so I'd have to say what's been most inspiring about right now is that creatively we're working with people that we love.
On the business side, it's like, oh, we have a team where it's like we're all – even when we deal with the basic issues that kind of happen externally, as a team we're all such a united front that it's also made those moments easier to get through because –
Ooh, that's a great question. I think there are many different ways. I think for some of the bigger things, it really is...
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