How Tiffany Haddish Found Her Superpower (A Slight Change of Plans)
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Maya Shankar completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at Stanford, after receiving a Ph.D. from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and a B.A. from Yale in cognitive science. She is currently the Senior Director of Behavioral Economics at Google. Previously she served as a Senior Advisor in the Obama White House, where she founded and served as Chair of the White House's Behavioral Science Team and as the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations under Ban Ki-moon.
On her podcast A Slight Change of Plans, a production of Pushkin Industries, she aims to hold intimate conversations that give an unvarnished look into how people navigate changes of all kinds and use that change to ultimately grow. Maya uncovers little-known personal stories and reflections from familiar names, like Hillary Clinton, Tiffany Haddish and Kacey Musgraves, and extraordinary stories from real-life inspirations, like a young cancer researcher in the throes of a stage 4 diagnosis and a Black jazz musician who convinced hundreds of KKK members to leave the Klan.
Sponsor: https://www.pushkin.fm/show/slight-change-of-plans/
Guest: Maya Shankar | https://www.instagram.com/aslightchange/
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| 0:00.0 | In this, we hear how Tiffany Hattish found her superpower. |
| 0:07.0 | Get excited because this is tiny leaps. |
| 0:11.0 | Big J- leaps. Big change. Big. |
| 0:13.0 | Big. Big changes where I share simple research-backed |
| 0:30.3 | strategies you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg |
| 0:35.5 | Clunis and today's episode is a treat. So this past Tuesday on the 20th of |
| 0:41.0 | July I had an awesome conversation with Dr. Maya Shanker. |
| 0:46.9 | She is just a phenomenal, phenomenal person all around, but she also happens to be a legitimate expert in the world of change. |
| 0:56.5 | She is an actual behavioral scientist. |
| 0:59.5 | She's the Global Director of Behavioral Science at Google. |
| 1:02.6 | She founded the Behavioral Science team |
| 1:04.4 | at the White House during Obama's tenure. |
| 1:07.0 | She is phenomenal. |
| 1:08.4 | And she hosts this great podcast |
| 1:10.0 | called a slight change of plans. |
| 1:12.2 | It's over on the Pushkin Industries Podcast Network and she's doing great, great work there. She's interviewing regular people as well as major names. People like Hillary Clinton and Tiffany Hattish and talking to them about |
| 1:26.3 | what happened in their life, what that change looked like, how they pivoted or |
| 1:32.0 | dealt with it and where they are today as a result. how they |
| 1:35.0 | are they pivoted or dealt with it and where they are today as a result. And so they reached out to me, the Pushkin team reached out to me |
| 1:39.0 | and thought that you guys would enjoy their podcast. |
| 1:41.0 | And I've got to say I 100% agree I've been |
| 1:44.7 | binge listening to it ever since I heard about it and I know you're going to love |
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