Sarah Shahi - Part 1
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Shahi has spent years playing fearless, complicated women — but now, anticipation builds for the highly awaited premiere of Paradise Season 2, Sarah is telling her own story.
From the cultural roots that shaped her to the public heartbreak that forced a reinvention, Sarah gets candid about desire, motherhood, ambition, and what it really takes to stop shrinking. With her new book Life Is Lifey, she’s done playing it safe. This one is raw, revealing, and definitely spicy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
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| 0:34.0 | Visit rasmussen.edu. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi everyone. It's Sophia. Welcome to work in progress. |
| 0:52.3 | Hey, Wipsmarties. Welcome back to the podcast. Today we are going to interview an author |
| 0:58.1 | whose book I adore, who you probably know because she also happens to be an incredibly |
| 1:04.2 | accomplished actress with a fascinating story. Sarah Shahi is here today and she is not known for playing it safe. She is |
| 1:13.3 | an actor, an author, a former NFL cheerleader. She studied opera. She has built a career |
| 1:19.6 | pushing boundaries. She gravitates towards characters who hold power and vulnerability like the |
| 1:26.3 | incredible woman she played on sex life, her character in the |
| 1:30.3 | hit political murder mystery paradise, which is coming back for season two on February 23rd. |
| 1:35.4 | She's also managing to find the time to film the sequel to red white and royal blue and is |
| 1:41.8 | publishing her first book, Life is Lifey, that offers an unfiltered and laugh-out-loud |
| 1:48.7 | reflection on resilience, womanhood, sex, power, and the messy middle where real growth |
| 1:55.7 | happens. Let's dive in with Sarah Shahy. |
| 2:10.9 | Thank you. Let's dive in with Sarah Shahi. Hello. |
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