And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

Today I have a very, very exciting guest, Condola Rashad.

How are you feeling today?

What's up?

I'm feeling sunny today.

I don't know, it was amazing.

As soon as we start talking, I don't know if it's the show or just my voice

or what it is, but the lighting just hit you perfectly right there,

did it. I mean what it is what it is but the lighting just hit you perfectly right there. I know I mean what is to do it's like oh here we are we have arrived.

Yeah it's like that what do they call it that golden hour my wife always trying to

take pictures at five o'clock for I. G anyway.

We start each one of our conversations on my show by helping our listeners

understand how the individual we're talking to got to where they are.

So we like for you to walk us through the arc of your career,

and you've had well over a decade of steady critically acclaimed

performances on stage and television.

At what point did you realize that acting was your passion?

Well, I've always known. I was born a storyteller.

Storytelling runs in my family. It's something that just genetically flows through

us starting with my grandmother Vivianaires Allen. So I've always known I was a storyteller and you know as a young person actually my first expression and even now is music

but I was always with my mother

mother, you know, not only filming a television show,

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