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Speaker 1: Pushkin. I think a lot of us have had a

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Speaker 1: moment that changes everything, that instantly splits our life into

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Speaker 1: a before and an after. Yeah, I want to know

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Speaker 1: what changed and that just rocked my world. Signed the

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Speaker 1: papers and that was it. Not morning. Totally changed my perspective.

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Speaker 1: It's twins, I know, and I know. I just know.

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Speaker 1: Change is like this ever present force shaping all of

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Speaker 1: our lives. But how does it really work. I'm Maya

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Speaker 1: Shankar and my life changed in a moment. I had

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Speaker 1: dreamed of being a concert violinist from the time I

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Speaker 1: was a little kid twelve years old from Cheshire, Connecticut.

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Speaker 1: We now have violinist Maya Shankar. Music was my life,

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Speaker 1: practiced for hours and hours after school, and my big

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Speaker 1: dreams were actually coming true. I was accepted at Juilliard

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Speaker 1: and my musical idol, It's a Perlman invited me to

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Speaker 1: be his violin student. So I hope to play with

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Speaker 1: every orchestra in the world, performed everywhere. One day, I

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Speaker 1: was rehearsing a challenging piece by Paganini, when all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, I heard a pop in my hand. The

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Speaker 1: doctor examined my injury and told me I'd never be

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Speaker 1: able to play again. Up until that moment, I was

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Speaker 1: a violinist, and then just like that, I wasn't. I

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Speaker 1: was heartbroken and anxious, but at the same time, I

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Speaker 1: was also a little excited by all the possibility. Fast

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Speaker 1: forward two decades and I'm now a cognitive scientist who

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Speaker 1: actually studies how and why we change. My work has

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Speaker 1: taken me to the Obama White House and the United Nations,

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Speaker 1: and what I've come to realize from all these experiences

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Speaker 1: is that there's this huge treasure trove of wisdom out

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Speaker 1: there on how to navigate change. And it's not in

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Speaker 1: a textbook. It's in people's stories. They're messy, complex and

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Speaker 1: sometimes magical stories. In this show, I'll have revealing, intimate

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Speaker 1: conversations with a bunch of people, some well known like

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Speaker 1: Tiffany Hattish, Hillary Clinton, and Casey Musgraves, and some whose

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Speaker 1: names you might not recognize, but all of them have

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Speaker 1: lived through extraordinary change in their lives. Do I believe

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Speaker 1: the truth because I know it is true and change

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Speaker 1: my direction, or do I continue living a lot. Everything

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Speaker 1: I had and everything I believed in, thought and experienced

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Speaker 1: was on the line. And I suddenly thought to myself.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you are telling people to do something that you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't do yourself. We'll be diving deep into the world

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Speaker 1: of change and hopefully come out thinking a bit differently

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Speaker 1: about change in our own lives. I'm Maya Shankar and

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Speaker 1: this is a slight change of plants from Pushkin Industries.

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Speaker 1: I like, told you guys shit that I haven't literally

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Speaker 1: haven't told anyone else. So