Maya Shankar

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1,518 appearances 8 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 5 Jul

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TED Talks Daily · Why you fear the unknown — and what it can teach you | Maya Shankar, Simone Stolzoff · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

And a lot of them entered subconsciously without even realizing it.

And we never thought to interrogate them or challenge those beliefs, right?

And it's not like any of us have time to wake up every day and say, hmm, let me think from the, you know,

Hundreds of thousands of beliefs that I carry, which one should I investigate today?

That's not reasonable to actually do.

And it's uncomfortable as well, because a lot of times our beliefs are entangled with our sense of self-identity, right?

So it can be a very uncomfortable process.

And so for me, change in serving as a moment of revelation also gives you a chance to revisit the story you're telling yourself about who you are and where your worth is, where your worth is coming from.

And I had to do a lot of unwinding.

um in that process of like why why do i feel that in the absence of children my life would be stripped of all of its color and meaning and purpose and that my value as a human being would be less and and slowly work through all that stuff and you know as i write at the end of the of the chapter you know in this moment i am child free and kind of unexpectedly i am the happiest most hopeful um

most grateful person and I never saw that coming.

We talked earlier about how change can transform us, but I wouldn't have believed that message.

I would have just thought of it as a platitude unless I had felt that similar transformation within me because

If you had asked me, you know, on the night where we found out we had lost identical twin girls, I would have been like, nope, nothing positive will ever come from this.

This is like a non-redemption, non-redemptive story.

And yet it inspired so much thinking and reflection and growth within me that I couldn't have anticipated.

And so all of this is to say, like, I love Kim's question because chaos, opportunity, right?

Revelation, upheaval, like,

Things are complicated.

Experiences are complicated.

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