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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832 - How to Make Life Easier
831 - Easier is Better (Debunking Jim Rohn)
830 - Should You Hire a Coach? (feat. Devon Brooks)
829 - Is Coaching Worth It? (feat. Devon Brooks)
828 - Why Coaching is Broken (feat. Devon Brooks)
827 - The 7 Fs (feat Lynn Rae)
826 - Navigating Bipolar Disorder (feat. Lynn Rae)
825 - Self Care vs Self Help
824 - How to Build a Morning Routine
823 - 9 Self-Care Tips
822 - Life Design and Roe v Wade
821 - Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation (Motivation 101)
820 - RFA: How do you practice self-care?
819 - Personal Development is Broken (Here's the Solution)
818 - TDODAR: A decision making model
817 - The Truth About Habit Building
816 - 3 Tiny Leaps That Will Change Your Life
815 - Two Steps to Find Happiness
814 - How to Find Your Passion
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