Meet Lara Shah
August 14, 2024
We were lucky to catch up with Lara Shah recently and have shared our conversation below.
Lara, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
At the risk of sounding cliché, it was love at first sight as I locked eyes with my purpose from across a dimly-lit bar.. it felt like we knew each other from different lifetimes.. like my purpose and I were old soulmates. The year was 1988, I was four, the setting was a pre-school in Jupiter, Florida. There was a stage in the cafeteria turned all-purpose room, and I was in its very center. Cut to: my (very cute) outfit of cat ears and whiskers in my role as “Mother Cat” in “The Three Little Kittens” and, as the words “You naughty kittens, you’ve lost your mittens!” poured from my mouth, I was absolutely and irrevocably hooked. Storytelling as an actor became the vehicle through which I felt most alive. For years, I fought it and tried everything else – radio hosting, journalism, news anchor, domestic sales and publicity at Warner Bros. and MTV, etc. – but nothing felt as right as being in the driver seat of a story and playing in my imagination. When a series of life choices led me to play a background detective on One Tree Hill in Wilmington, NC, there was nothing else I could dream of as a better fit for me than to be an actor for the rest of my life. Twenty-three years after the bug first bit, it was love at re-sight and I didn’t look back as I fell hard – again. By the time I “restarted,” I also realized that using my voice and my platform as an artist could also lend to my other passions – being a voice for endangered elephants, being an activist, and emulating my incredible parents and ancestors in making the world a slightly better place.
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