I'm Maya Shankar, host of the Slight Change of Plans, which Apple chose as the best show of the year.

In our new season, we'll explore how the science of change can help us better navigate change in our own lives.

And we'll hear stories from people like Ruby Bridges, who at age six became one of the first students to desegregate an all-white elementary school,

and Kristi Warren, a firefighter who saved others for decades before finally seeking out help for herself.

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I had never defined what I wanted on my own terms.

How many of our goals that we're working towards are actually defined by us from our lived experience,

like things that we know add value to our lives, things that we know make us curious and engage us.

For me, the answer was not much.

I had inherited my goals from, if you will, the media from my culture.

And in some cases, sure, that's fine, but you know, it's like, get a million dollars or even worse.

When you're rich, you'll be happy, right? It's like, okay, let's play that out for a second.

How do you define rich? What amount of money is that?

No, no, we have these cookie-cutter ideas of what happiness is, and I found that that was very dangerous,

because we spent so much time working towards these goals just to find them to be empty.

I'm Sreeni Rao, and this is the unmistakable creative podcast,

where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds

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Rider, welcome to the unmistakable creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Thank you for having me.

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