Speaker 1: Pushkin has stel Changers Maya here. I'm thrilled to share
Speaker 1: We've got new episodes of A Slight Change of Plans
Speaker 1: for you. You'll hear from guests who've navigated extraordinary changes
Speaker 1: in their lives, like John Elder Robeson, who undergoes experimental
Speaker 1: brain stimulation to increase his emotional sensitivity. The thing I
Speaker 1: had always wanted was to feel like I was a
Speaker 1: normal person. And Chaparral Wells a mom who takes on
Speaker 1: the role a private investigator to find out the truth
Speaker 1: about her son's death. It wasn't by choice, I had
Speaker 1: no other option. We'll hear from riz Ahmed, an Oscar
Speaker 1: nominated actor, on how finally playing a role based on
Speaker 1: his own life changed his understanding of himself. Up until
Speaker 1: his point as an actor, I'd become adept to molding
Speaker 1: mosques and wearing them for other people, and I realized
Speaker 1: the next stage of growth is about taking them off.
Speaker 1: An Amanda Knox, she was wrongfully accused of murder and
Speaker 1: is now trying to reclaim her identity. I continued to
Speaker 1: be defined not by the things that I've done, but
Speaker 1: instead by the one thing that I didn't do. We'll
Speaker 1: hear from experts about how the science of change can
Speaker 1: help us make better decisions and live happier, more fulfilling lives.
Speaker 1: And I'll also turn the mic around and share with
Speaker 1: you something that recently happened in my personal life. When
Speaker 1: I was thrown my own slight change of Plans, my
Speaker 1: heart sank. I was like, you have got to be
Speaker 1: kidding me, How is this happening again? It it didn't
Speaker 1: make any sense. I'm Maya Shunker, and this is a
Speaker 1: Slight Change of Plans, a show about who we are
Speaker 1: and who we become in the face of the big change.