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Yara Shahidi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
790 total appearances

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The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

Yeah.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

Yeah.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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...

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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...

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

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.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

And I think in many ways he helped set up the model by which we run our family, which is like there's a way to maintain being a high-level creative and pursuing your career, but also being so invested in and concerned about our family as the main unit. Yeah.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

And I think in many ways he helped set up the model by which we run our family, which is like there's a way to maintain being a high-level creative and pursuing your career, but also being so invested in and concerned about our family as the main unit. Yeah.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

Because I think it reflects the fact that, you know, my brothers and I, whenever any of us had a job, we were always on set for the other person just to be there, just to be like, I'm so excited for you.

The School of Greatness
Yara Shahidi Opens Up: How To Prioritize Mental Health & Overcome Self-Doubt To Achieve Any Dream

Because I think it reflects the fact that, you know, my brothers and I, whenever any of us had a job, we were always on set for the other person just to be there, just to be like, I'm so excited for you.