Introducing: A Slight Change of Plans, Apple Podcasts' Best Show of the Year

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Pushkin is thrilled to announce that A Slight Change of Plans was named Apple Podcasts' Best Show of the Year! This week, we're sharing an episode with Revisionist History listeners. A Slight Change of Plans is all about understanding the science of change. That understanding, mixed with a healthy dose of compassion, has made the show a perfect antidote for the times we’re living in. Dr. Maya Shankar has interviewed celebrities like Tiffany Haddish and Kacey Musgraves. But she’s interviewed real-life inspirations, too. People who have dealt with cancer diagnoses or the loss of a loved one, and somehow managed to learn and grow from those hard experiences.

In this episode, Maya discusses a heartbreaking change she recently experienced in her personal life, while on her way to becoming a mom. Maya's producer Tyler interviews her about her own “Slight Change of Plans.”

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:11.4	Hello, hello, Revisionist History listeners.
0:13.6	It's a proud moment for all of us here at Pushkin Industries,
0:16.7	because our show, A Slight Change of Plans,
0:19.6	has been named Apple Podcasts Best Show of the Year for 2021.
0:25.6	We knew we wanted to make this show from the moment we heard the pitch.
0:29.6	How can science, married with storytelling, help us navigate life's changes?
0:35.4	Post Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist who studies how and why we change,
0:40.6	and her science bonafides are real.
0:43.7	A PhD from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and a BA from Yale,
0:47.6	where she was mentored by our very own Laurie Santos of the Happiness Lab.
0:52.6	She then applied behavioral science to public policy at the White House and at the United Nations.
0:58.7	Maya is no stranger to change.
1:00.7	Growing up, she trained as a classical violinist.
1:03.8	This was also no joke.
1:05.4	She was a private violin student of It's Sark Pearlman at Juilliard.
1:10.6	But a sudden injury ended her musical career and sent her down the path
1:15.2	of studying the science of human behavior.
1:18.3	In a Slight Change of Plans, Maya interviews famous people like Tiffany Haddish and Riz Ahmed,
1:24.2	and real life inspirations too, people who have lived through cancer diagnoses,
1:29.2	the loss of loved ones, and parting ways with their own families.
1:33.1	You're about to hear an episode in which Maya discusses the most recent change in her life,
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