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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The Genius Life · 542: The Science of Navigating Change, Grief, and Uncertainty | Maya Shankar, PhD · 14 Jan 2026 podcast

So to bring this back to my personal story, again, just a couple of years ago, I remember after finding out about the second miscarriage, I was laying in bed, like totally miserable, very despondent.

And my husband comes in, he's a software engineer.

So he unknowingly engaged me in the self-affirmation exercise.

But he was like, Maya, or Mai, that's his pet name for me.

He said, Mai, let's just name a couple of things we're grateful for.

And I was like, dude, no, that sounds like a terrible idea.

You take your toxic positivity to the corner.

You do the affirmation exercise.

I'm going to lay here with the covers over me, annoyed and engaging in a lot of self-pity.

For whatever reason, Max, you wore me down.

I was like, fine, fine.

I'll just get him off my case if I just do this thing.

So I started to list off a couple of things.

I was like, well,

I am really grateful that the same people I worked with 10 years ago, I'm still working with today.

What an honor to get to work with my best friends.

I feel so grateful that we're so close and that we still want to work with each other after all these years.

I love my Zoom workouts with my trainer, Matt.

We gossip about The Bachelor and Love is Blind while doing deadlifts.

That's super fun.

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