Moment 33 - Reggie Yates on How Self-Awareness Changed His Life

Uh When you look at your career you you are That's very kind, thank you. And then then you trace it back and go, you've came from a a counselor state not too far from here, for you to have I always I always think there must have been certain factors in those early years

That made you take a different course to those friends that might still be on the estate now. Yeah it might have been, you know, we talked a little bit about values there. It might have been, you know, I don't know, something someone said to you, an experience you had, or just the conditioning that I whatever it is. But my question is do you and do you know what the those factors were that made you An outlier. Uh I mean uh you sound as though you've done a lot of work on yourself and in the little bit that I know about you. I get to meet people and ask so I learn so much from these kinds of answers. Right. And I've made documentaries for over ten years. So it's the same thing, you know, you learn so much from your environment if you're willing to drink in the information. Yeah. And I just in thinking about between therapy and also being um

present in moments like this, you know, yes there are cameras, but I'm having a conversation with you and I'm learning from you. And that certainly was the case in ten years of making films, you know, for the BBC. Um So when it sort of comes to me looking at how I've become the person I am and how my journey has played out the way that it has done. It's an amalgamation of different moments and instances, but fundamentally it comes down to

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