I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

Welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

Today we have somebody that's beyond Uber talented.

I don't know what that word would be but I'm gonna have to

Google it to get my thesaurus out. But Bashir Salahudin is joining us today. What's going on my brother?

Oh man, I'm so happy to be here. Thank you so much for having me.

No, I'm glad you're here. I am in doing some research and preparing for today. I was looking at the the arc of your career and I wanted you to

to kind of talk about that. You've been a paralegal, a waiter, a PA, a writer, and an

actor, as I'm actually recording this in my a writer and an actor.

I'm actually recording this in my law firm.

Sure.

You've been a lot.

Talk us through each of the career stops for you since finishing Harvard and how each of those experiences

shaped your orientation towards your craft today.

Oh, that's great.

To go even a little bit before that, you know, I'm from the south side, a big family. But you know, we think about a big family is sometimes like that's the first audience and you know, you just kind of like entertain each other. My mother was just telling me the other day about the time that I was like eight or nine. It was like running around a house pretending to be the family dog barking. She was like, all right, well, we're just going to keep an eye on that one and he'll be okay. But I'd always just enjoy, you know, entertaining my family. I was raised in the Muslim family actually and we used to do this thing when I was really

young we had to give these like you know we had to like read the holy book the Quran and then like

do be speeches about it and I was always in front of a lot of people I bring that up to say that I always loved the part of it where I got to be in front of other people and I didn't realize at the time that that was like my first, you know, kind of taste of like acting and then when I got to high school, I finally just did it and I went out for play and I got it and you know the bug bit me so then after of course I go to college now the rubber meets the road I have all these you know with the Harvard I have all these friends who've had all these like sort of things that we're going to do next which were building blocks to their specific career but when you go out to be an actor or writer there is no there is no there's no I mean you could go to grad school but like you know a lot of the folks who are a really

successful at this have never seen the inside of a graduate school it really is sort of like a kind of you know

so it's kind of a hustle thing you You got to just learn how to like survive and

figure that out. So I just moved to Los Angeles and then it was a survival mode for

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