Maya Shankar
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1,518 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Jul
Maya Shankar’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They are rarely just good or bad.
They're often multifold.
And if we are discerning enough to look for the opportunity that sits within the rubble, so much can be unlocked.
And I want to go to the next question, but I also just want to hear any reflections you have.
And by the way, Simo's his nickname, so I'm going by that on occasion.
I realize I'm flipping back and forth.
In which you talk about the uncertainty that came alongside your journey into becoming parents.
We talked about this on the phone last night.
My favorite quote from your book.
Yeah.
One of the questions from Anca A was around any specific tools that we would encourage people to use to increase their capacity to embrace uncertainty.
I'll share two really quickly, and then we can end with you, Simone.
The first is to do an exercise called affect labeling.
I have an entire chapter of The Other Side of Change devoted to rumination because I feel like I have a personal PhD in rumination.
I am a pro.
I can ruminate till the cows come home.
And so I have a whole set of strategies that I articulate for how to tame that inner chatter critic that can drive us absolutely nuts.
Affect labeling is when you simply give your negative emotions specific labels.
In the aftermath of a negative change, I might feel just a cloud of negativity, but identifying that the primary emotion I'm feeling is, for example, anger, envy, grief, sadness.
That can shift our focus away from being the emotion to simply having the emotion.
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