FIRESIDE CHAT

Moderator:

Kara Mayer Robinson

Guest:

Jameela Jamil

  • Maintaining Authenticity

    April 16, 2024, Las Vegas Main Stage

    Discover how being authentic fuels success as a content creator. One-of-a-kind multi-hyphenate, Jameela Jamil, shares how she maintains authenticity while working as an actress, writer, host, and activist. Jamil will divulge the freedom and power of identity and how she uses different mediums to share her values and how you can do the same.

  • Kara Mayer Robinson

    Kara Mayer Robinson is a celebrity interviewer, licensed therapist, journalist, TV and film consultant, celebrity confidante and host of Really Famous with Kara Mayer Robinson. After graduating from Columbia University, Kara built a thriving private therapy practice in New York while writing extensively for outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and WebMD.

    Now based in Los Angeles and New York, Kara has become a go-to for Hollywood talent and creatives. She’s on speed-dial for many Hollywood insiders and brings A-listers onto her podcast and YouTube series, Really Famous with Kara Mayer Robinson, where celebrities can be themselves and often open up about things they have never revealed publicly. Kara is also a TV and film consultant. Before, during and after filming, Kara keeps an eye on everyone’s mental health to make productions run more smoothly.

    A trusted friend and confidante, Kara lives by the words “Tell me everything—from the beginning.”

  • Jameela Jamil

    Jameela Jamil is a one-of-a-kind multi-hyphenate who works as an actress, writer, host, and activist. Jameela was first seen on American television starring as Tahani in Mike Schur’s Golden Globe-nominated NBC sitcom The Good Place, opposite Ted Danson and Kristen Bell. The Good Place went on to win Critics’ Choice Television, AFI, Peabody and Television Critics Association awards. Jameela is the host of all three seasons of the TBS game show The Misery Index and served as one of the judges for three seasons of HBO Max's hit competition show, Legendary.

    Of-screen, Jameela is a powerful mental health activist. In 2018, Jameela launched a movement and allyship platform called I Weigh — a platform and community of change makers who come together to share ideas, experiences and ultimately mobilize activism; exploring social issues that stem from mental health to climate change to the representation of marginalized groups. I Weigh publishes original content featuring interviews, editorial stories, BTS, mini docs, round- table discussions, informational assets and more across Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

    In April 2020, the I Weigh with Jameela Jamil podcast launched with Earwolf in which Jameela speaks to a variety of thought- leaders, performers, activists, infuencers, and friends about their own experiences and stories with their mental health.

Highlights

Kara and Jameela took to the main stage to talk about authenticity, but the audience received so much more.

They entertained an enthusiastic crowd with secrets to authenticity while sharing insights on mental health, human connection, social media, filters, AI, overcoming struggles, perfectionism, criticism, failure, aging, evolving, growth, positivity, therapy and comedy.

Never a dull moment with these two hosts and mental health activists, the audience received gem after gem with levity, laughter and light.