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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Something You Should Know · How to Adapt When Life Throws a Curveball & Understanding the Flow of Time · 19 Jan 2026 podcast

Well, it turns out that I have been able to through my podcast, A Slight Change of Plans, where from the closet in my apartment,

I've been able to connect with people all over the world about their change experiences and to cut through all the platitudes and go straight to the deepest moments of their lives.

All of these pursuits have been anchored around this fundamental goal of feeling closer to other human beings.

And so I would urge everyone listening to ask themselves, what is their why?

What is the thing that makes them love what they do?

giving back to people?

Is it learning a new skill?

Is it witnessing progress because you've improved at a skill?

Is it expressing your creativity through some means?

And that why will remain even in the face of change.

And it's just a matter of finding new ways to express that why.

It can actually serve as a compass that helps guide you forward.

It's such an interesting question because the reality is that if you're living life, you're navigating change.

Those two things are intertwined in a way that's impossible to break, right?

That bond can't be broken.

And when I've been going through a hard experience, I've heard the mantra, the well-known mantra, you can't change what happens to you, but you can change your reaction to what happens.

And it is meant to be empowering, but in my moments of grief and frustration and anxiety,

it registered as a platitude i was like okay that sounds great but how the heck am i supposed to actually think and feel differently about the big changes in my life right how is that actually going to unfold and it's not like there's some sort of switch in my brain that i can flip on that will suddenly make me feel

more peaceful or more hopeful or filled with a greater sense of possibility about the road ahead.

And so my goal with this book actually was to give people a roadmap.

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