Hosted by Yara Shahidi · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 29 episodes
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Host Yara Shahidi sits down with incredible changemakers to unlock their secrets to conquering life, love, career, and everything in between with unwavering confidence and hope. We often discuss joy and happiness, but this podcast goes deeper. Optimism is where the magic happens! Join us as we find ways to cultivate the practice of optimism in our own lives.
Yara Shahidi hosts The Optimist Project with Yara Shahidi, a society show with 29 episodes published.
🎬 Storytellers, Builders, and Believers—This One’s for the Architects of Culture Who Speak Truth and Shape Tomorrow. This week on The Optimist Project, Yara Shahidi welcomes Emmy-winning screenwriter, producer, and trai
🎨 Creators, Visionaries, and Changemakers—This One’s for the Revolutionaries with a Paintbrush. This week on The Optimist Project, Yara Shahidi welcomes celebrated artivist, author, and concept artist Nikkolas Smith for
🎶 Creators, Dreamers, and Artists—This One’s for the Light Shining in You. This week on The Optimist Project, Yara Shahidi sits down with Grammy Award-winning musician Estelle for an intimate conversation on purpose, pr
✨ Writers, Seekers, and Tender Truth-Tellers—This One’s for You. This week on The Optimist Project, we’re joined by writer, poet, and spiritual curator Cole Arthur Riley, author of This Here Flesh and creator of the tran
🌈 Artists, Seekers, and Boundary-Breakers—This One’s For You. This week on The Optimist Project, I’m joined by the brilliant and genre-defying artist, writer, and performer Alok Vaid-Menon, whose work invites us to embr
✨ Food Lovers, Dreamers, and Anyone on a Journey Toward Self-Mastery—This One’s for You. This week on The Optimist Project, we’re joined by classically trained chef, self-taught baker, and founder of Bad Ash Bakes, Ashle
🌟 Deep Thinkers, Creative Leaders, and Purpose-Driven Souls—This Episode Is for You. This week on The Optimist Project, I had the honor of sitting down with multihyphenate creative strategist and cultural force, Mir Har
🌊 Truth Seekers, Legacy Builders, and Lovers of Deep Stories—This One’s for You. This week on The Optimist Project, I had the absolute joy of sitting down with award-winning storyteller, explorer, and changemaker Tara R
🚀 Visionaries, Space Dreamers, and Changemakers—This Episode Is for You. This week on The Optimist Project, I had the privilege of sitting down with Anousheh Ansari—engineer, explorer, entrepreneur, and the first female
💆♀️💆♂️Taking a break but we’ll be back! What an amazing journey it’s been, diving into the power of optimism and creating space for the big ideas that keep us inspired! With that same spirit, we’re taking a little ti
🎨 Creative Souls and Dreamers, This One’s for You! This week on The Optimist Project, I sat down with the wildly inventive fashion designer Colm Dillane — aka KidSuper. Known for his unforgettable Paris Fashion Week sho
✨What is happiness, really? And are we looking for it in all the wrong places? This week on The Optimist Project, Yara Shahidi sits down with sociologist Dr. Becky Yang Hsu to explore how different cultures define happin
🎙 The Optimist Project Podcast: Bisa Butler – Giving Our Past a New Life Through Art Today, I’m in conversation with the extraordinary Bisa Butler—artist, educator, visual historian, and creative futurist. Through her b
Ready for a dose of inspiration? This week on The Optimist Project, Yara Shahidi sits in conversation with Gen Z global phenom, educator, author, and activist, Dr. Vee Kativhu, about chasing dreams, facing challenges, an
This week’s episode of The Optimist Project is for my Gen Z peers and all those who love and support us. 💫 So many of us are battling self-doubt and navigating the complexities of mental health—a double whammy that can
Grammy award-winning rapper Rapsody shares how optimism allows her to "stay in the light," the power of learning when to say 'no' and how to create purpose driven art. Also, she shares how her community is pivotal in sha
Jaylen Brown – 2024 NBA Finals MVP, philanthropist and entrepreneur – shares how he maintains his spiritual hygiene through mediation, sound frequencies and stoicism. Plus, he reveals the defining moment that made him ch
Prentice Penny joins the Optimist Project sharing the important lessons he’s learned from the many “L’s” he’s experienced throughout his life and his writing, directing and producing career. Plus, I invite you to plan a
Christine Platt. author of The Afro-minimalist's Guide to Living With Less, explains how we can all rethink our living spaces, which helps to declutter our minds. She lets us in on the inspiring twists and turns with her
I'm in conversation this week with actor Courtney B. Vance, who shares how life's ups and downs have conditioned him to lean into optimism. He opens up about how grief and a mother's prodding nudged him into therapy, and
Lena Waithe
Emmy-winning writer, producer, actor, playwright
1 appearance on this show
Nikkolas Smith
artist
1 appearance on this show
Estelle
Grammy-winning international superstar
1 appearance on this show
Cole Arthur Riley
writer, poet, and spiritual curator
1 appearance on this show
Alok Vaid-Menon
cultural theorist
1 appearance on this show
Alok Vaid-Menon
cultural theorist
1 appearance on this show
Tara Roberts
award-winning storyteller, Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year, author of Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging · National Geographic
1 appearance on this show
Anousheh Ansari
engineer, explorer, entrepreneur, first female private space traveler · XPRIZE
1 appearance on this show
Jaylen Brown
2024 NBA Finals MVP
1 appearance on this show
Christine Platt
author of The Afro-minimalist's Guide to Living With Less · The Afrominimalist
1 appearance on this show
Courtney B. Vance
1 appearance on this show
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