Yara Shahidi
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547 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 10 Apr
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And again, I think these were – 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 – That's cool.
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, talking about something random, and literally somebody else, another actress paused to be like, can we talk about Carrie Shahidi?
Because what she is is so deeply tapped into the world around her and so deeply curious that I think she is constantly of service by giving kind of her mind as a resource. We will see someone at the airport who says off randomly, oh, I really want to start this... shirt company. She'd be like, oh, that's interesting.
I've cataloged, oh, I met this one entrepreneur that makes shirts that I would love to connect you. She's connected authors with lawyers for their multi-million plus book deal and not realizing that's what it was for, but just being like, oh, you're an interesting person. This is another person that's interesting. You guys should be connected. That's cool.
But it comes from just being so deeply attuned and paying attention in spaces that we're in the same rooms. And she's picking up on things where I'm like, huh? Oh, yeah, I guess that did happen. But I say that to say I feel like. It's an example of what it means to be attuned towards service. And it's not even necessarily, oh, I'm working with this organization or this foundation.
It's truly I'm operating from an anchoring place of how can I be of value to you, even if it has nothing to do with me. Most of these things never circle back. It's a thank you that you may get. But to answer even your question on being of service and then receiving, I think it's
I've had a lot of examples of how things, time, resources that I've given have come back around in ways that I could never expect. I wasn't expecting it when I gave. And I think even in our starting our production company, we were both astounded by how many people wanted to work with us when we were just opening our doors.
Had yet to prove ourselves as producers because they knew what it was like to be in a relationship with us.
Yeah.
And the things that we'd give generally without saying, hey, we're going to circle back around in a couple of years when we have our own offices. And so I think a lot of what I've received has been the result of giving. And I think I've learned so many lessons about how that happens.
My papa has this great term, he uses relationship equity, which is one, just logistically, especially for us 20 year olds, call between needing things, especially from the people around you. It's okay if you need things and you need to call people, but call between, see how they're doing.
Not just when, not, hey, how are you by the way?
But more than just calling between needing things, I was raised on relationship equity, which is the priority in this world is building relationships with the people around you. It's not building networks. It's not building contacts. It's building relationships.
Yeah.
I was going to say it's so much about trust of both who you let in and building something, but also people coming to you and having a trust. So, yeah, I'd have to say I think trust is the resource that is given when you give.
Ooh, that's a good question. I think I said some of it for mommy, but just to double down, I really am so moved by how moved she is by the world, by how much she cares about the people around her, whether it's the people in this room we'll never be in again, whether it's the people that have been in our lives forever. She has a want to be a value add to somebody's life. And it could be
It could be in a very small way, in a very big way, but I think, I don't even know. It feels almost subconscious. There's an ease in which she does it. It's not like, oh, she's thinking about, oh, what can I do to benefit? But it's really inspiring how naturally that comes.
Because I think it's something that reminds me too of the power of being present, of what I was missing out on when I was so in my head, or like all the things that can happen when you're right here with somebody in a room. And I think from my Bubba, I feel like, I think there's, I mean, there's a lot.
Not only is he the reason that I'm a foodie and have a very wide-ranging taste in music, but I think he's also one of the first people that modeled the idea that being a family and being creative can really go hand in hand because he was the first one in our family. He was Prince's photographer for 10 years. And I think that was always such a...
family-oriented environment in which we were on tour with him. Wow. And would hop in and out, not the whole time, but we'd hop in and out of tour stops. We'd go to his house when he was dropping off film.
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