Jameela Jamil-Actress on The Good Place & Creator of “i Weigh”

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jameela Jamil is an actress, journalist, DJ, Model and activist. In 2009, Jameela’s life changed dramatically as she went from an English teacher, to hosting T4, the most popular Youth TV program in the UK. Ever the boundary-breaker, Jameela became the first female presenter to host BBC Radio 1’s Official Chart Show. After a health scare she had in her late 20s, Jameela decided to completely restart her life: she quit her radio job and moved to the United States. Within a short amount of time, she had come upon a career she never expected: Acting. Jameela can currently be seen starring in Mike Schur’s series for NBC, The Good Place, where she acts opposite Ted Danson and Kristen Bell. Activism is also huge to Jameela. She recently launched a body positivity movement on instagram called “i weigh”. Today, Jameela is here to talk about how to attain positive body image, how to gain the courage to take a major leap and how to manage all your side and front hustles.

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0:00.0	Hey guys it's Sophia we have something really exciting that's coming soon just before we get into
0:04.5	Girl Boss radio it's kind of mysterious it looks and smells like a community it hasn't
0:10.7	launched yet but I want you to be the first to sign up for early access.
0:14.7	You can do that at the future. Girl Boss.com.
0:17.6	That's the future girl boss.com.
0:19.2	We've got a great guest coming up today. She spoke at the most recent Girl Boss
0:25.4	rally. She's fucking hilarious. Actress, journalist, model, DJ, and activist
0:32.3	Jamila Jamil.
0:34.0	But first, let's talk about Blinkist.
0:36.7	I'm a subscriber of Blinkist, and it's such an interesting platform
0:41.7	if you're a reader. So we have these lists of books we want to read and
0:45.8	you know there's always people suggesting books or asking like what's the best book I should be reading next and so blink is the solution to your
0:54.8	long list of must reads and it's really the only app that takes thousands of the best-selling
0:59.5	non-fiction books which is like my favorite because non-fiction means you're like learning things
1:04.3	that like are actionable which is so important to our community and it distills
1:09.0	them into the most impactful elements so you can read or listen to them in under 15 minutes all of your phone so it's really micro learning you can learn everywhere
1:17.8	Which is like what's better than learning anywhere you go? I listen to Blinkist when I'm driving to the office on walks or
1:26.0	when I'm painting with watercolors as you might have seen in my Instagram
1:28.9	recently and my favorite kind of it's not that new of book, but I've just been getting into it is the subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson.
1:37.0	Oh my gosh, there's five million people.
1:40.0	If we can get five million people on a platform, that is no small feat.
1:44.0	And it's a subscription community, which is even harder to do.
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