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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

And I think it's those little things that have made the experience so enjoyable generally was like, oh, I never had to sacrifice a distance from family or this feeling that this was a solo journey in order to be doing this. And so, yeah, I think that's something he modeled very, very early on. That's cool.

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

And I think it's those little things that have made the experience so enjoyable generally was like, oh, I never had to sacrifice a distance from family or this feeling that this was a solo journey in order to be doing this. And so, yeah, I think that's something he modeled very, very early on. That's cool.

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

Mm-hmm.

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

Mm-hmm.

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

It's audio primarily, but there will be a video component that we're launching, which we're excited about. But yeah, it's with SiriusXM, but you can find it everywhere.

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

It's audio primarily, but there will be a video component that we're launching, which we're excited about. But yeah, it's with SiriusXM, but you can find it everywhere.

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

Yeah, and I think true to our business relationship, we've really co-conceptualized it behind the scenes. I'm hosting it. So we're both in the room, but I'm hosting and interviewing.

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

Yeah, and I think true to our business relationship, we've really co-conceptualized it behind the scenes. I'm hosting it. So we're both in the room, but I'm hosting and interviewing.

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

And it's some of what we teased and talked about throughout this conversation of it started from the conversations that her and I would have of one, these kind of more existential conversations of where we're both at in our lives and what are the questions that wanted to be answered.

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

And it's some of what we teased and talked about throughout this conversation of it started from the conversations that her and I would have of one, these kind of more existential conversations of where we're both at in our lives and what are the questions that wanted to be answered.

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

But also a lot of it was both of us being very lucky to be in these exclusive rooms, finding ourselves just the nature of our community to be like, we're at a small get together with friends. every major politician and every major collected artist. Or we're at the TED conference, which has a barrier to entry of X amount thousand to get a ticket.

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

But also a lot of it was both of us being very lucky to be in these exclusive rooms, finding ourselves just the nature of our community to be like, we're at a small get together with friends. every major politician and every major collected artist. Or we're at the TED conference, which has a barrier to entry of X amount thousand to get a ticket.

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

And so many times the conversations that were really insightful to us were happening in these exclusive rooms. Right. And it was really a matter of accessibility. Like, there's so many questions we got answered not even realizing that that's what was going to happen, just the nature of having conversations with people.

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

And so many times the conversations that were really insightful to us were happening in these exclusive rooms. Right. And it was really a matter of accessibility. Like, there's so many questions we got answered not even realizing that that's what was going to happen, just the nature of having conversations with people.

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

And so for us, we curated a guest list of the people that โ€“ many people that we've already talked to privately and personally of being like, no, let's make this official. There's so many gems in how they've shared their stories. And I think โ€“

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

And so for us, we curated a guest list of the people that โ€“ many people that we've already talked to privately and personally of being like, no, let's make this official. There's so many gems in how they've shared their stories. And I think โ€“

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

There are so many messages of optimism just through people's journeys of them sharing how they've overcome certain challenges, what their current takeaways are. So it's been a very exciting process because we do a lot of brain work behind the scenes. And then by the time I get out here to ask questions, the conversation always flows in very interesting ways.

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

There are so many messages of optimism just through people's journeys of them sharing how they've overcome certain challenges, what their current takeaways are. So it's been a very exciting process because we do a lot of brain work behind the scenes. And then by the time I get out here to ask questions, the conversation always flows in very interesting ways.

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

But luckily, it has served its initial purpose, which was for us to be able to have really fulfilling conversations with people and realize... Many times I was always the youngest person in this room, and sometimes that can be mistaken for being the only young person interested, which is far from true.

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

But luckily, it has served its initial purpose, which was for us to be able to have really fulfilling conversations with people and realize... Many times I was always the youngest person in this room, and sometimes that can be mistaken for being the only young person interested, which is far from true.