Jameela Jamil | On Adversity, Celebrity and Activism

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  My guest today is Jamila Jamil, who was a household name in the UK for years, hosting shows on T four and on BBC one, before launching into the spotlight in the US, playing the role of Tahani on the acclaimed tv show the Good Place.

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  What's so powerful about her story, beyond her life in the world of entertainment, though, is where she's come from and how she is choosing to use her notoriety for social good.

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  Growing up the daughter of indian and pakistani parents, she was often bullied and experience made tougher after being diagnosed with Ehlers Dano syndrome, which is a condition that affects the body's connective tissue and leads to chronic pain in so many, including her.

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  Through her teen years, she endured more trauma, anorexia and then a car accident that led to a spinal injury that would really profoundly change her relationship with her body.

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  Eventually finding her way into the world of work and then tv and radio in the UK, she headed over to the US after an awakening that we talk about in our conversation, but found herself in front of the camera performing on a set with her childhood heroes on network tv.

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  But it was her decision to speak truth to power and become an advocate for equality, inclusivity and self determination that has really become the center of who Jamila is and how she shows up in the world, a place she describes as being post shame.

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  And that led to the launch of social advocacy platform I weigh in 2018 on a quest to bring together and amplify the voices of changemakers, along with a new podcast by the same name, a video channel, and really a bigger social movement to change things at scale.

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  We dive into all of this in today's really eye opening and inspiring conversation.

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  So excited to share it with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.

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  I'm hanging out in New York right now.

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  You're in LA, which.

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  Where I guess you've been for a number of years, but originally came up in London.

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  That would have been what, probably like late eighties and nineties is when sort of like, you really were coming of age there.

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  Yeah, I mean, I sort of spent a lot of time in Pakistan and Spain in my most formative, like, early years, and then we kind of settled in London fully, fully after I was about probably eight years old.

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  So I was all over the place.

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  I was back and forth.

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  We basically went wherever the pound was strongest.

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  Got it.

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  What was that?

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