{"id":282337,"date":"2019-10-24T07:39:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1085883"},"modified":"2019-10-24T07:39:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:39:04","slug":"yara-shahidi-shares-her-moms-words-of-wisdom-and-they-will-empower-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/yara-shahidi-shares-her-moms-words-of-wisdom-and-they-will-empower-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Yara Shahidi Shares Her Mom&#8217;s Words of Wisdom and They Will Empower You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.234556848702\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019924\/rs_634x793-191024062627-634-yara-emd-102419..jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Yara Shahidi\" alt=\"Yara Shahidi\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Emma Summerton for <i>Glamour<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"27.511926605505\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/yara_shahidi\">Yara Shahidi<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s mom <strong>Keri<\/strong> gives the best advice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old actress&nbsp;shares her mother&#8217;s powerful words of wisdom in a feature for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/women-of-the-year-2019-yara-shahidi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Glamour<\/em><\/a> published Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She constantly says to me, &#8216;You deserve to be in the room,'&#8221; Shahidi&nbsp;tells the magazine. &#8220;One thing I&#8217;m still trying to figure out is how to advocate for myself as strongly as she advocates for me.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a commercial actress, the proud parent has helped guide the <em>Grown-ish<\/em> star through the industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important that women of color and anyone from marginalized identities understands that they will try to intentionally unsettle you,&#8221;&nbsp;Shahidi&nbsp;says when asked about different hurdles she&#8217;s encountered. &#8220;They&#8217;ll do this so that you&#8217;ll spend so much of your time trying to convince people you belong that you don&#8217;t get to dig in and do the work you were meant to do.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Keri has supported her daughter&#8217;s various endeavors and constant learning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always been curious,&#8221; Shahidi says. &#8220;My mother always says, &#8216;There&#8217;s nothing more interesting than an interested human.&#8217; And I&#8217;ve just always been interested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.192118226601\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.5320197044335\">\n<p>Shahidi is certainly busy these days. According to <em>Glamour<\/em>, she&#8217;s shooting the third season of her Freeform hit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/859518\/black-ish-s-yara-shahidi-is-headed-to-harvard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studying at Harvard<\/a> and working on her family&#8217;s new production company, Seventh Sun. She also makes time to support causes near and dear to her heart. For instance, the activist is the founder of Eighteen x 18\u2014a creative platform that encourages young adults to speak out, engage and vote.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.938547486034\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019924\/rs_634x793-191024062823-634-yara2-emd-102419..jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Yara Shahidi\" alt=\"Yara Shahidi\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Emma Summerton for <i>Glamour<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"11.664652567976\">\n<p>&nbsp;In addition, Shahidi is one of&nbsp;<em>Glamour<\/em>&#8216;s 2019 Women of the Year honorees.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/charlize_theron\">Charlize Theron<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Margaret Atwood<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Megan Rapinoe<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ava_duvernay\">Ava DuVernay<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Greta Thunberg<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Tory Burch<\/strong>&nbsp;and the women of The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services are also being honored.<\/p>\n<p>To read her full profile, head on over to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/women-of-the-year-2019-yara-shahidi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Glamour<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <i>E! 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Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Summerton for Glamour Yara Shahidi&#8216;s mom Keri gives the best advice.&nbsp; The 19-year-old actress&nbsp;shares her mother&#8217;s powerful words of wisdom in a feature for Glamour published Thursday. &#8220;She constantly says to me, &#8216;You deserve to be in the room,&#8217;&#8221; Shahidi&nbsp;tells the magazine. &#8220;One thing I&#8217;m still trying to figure out is how to advocate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 21:02:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}