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Speaker 1: Pushkin, Hey, Slight Changers, it's Maya. I'm so excited to

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Speaker 1: be back with a new season of A slight Change

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Speaker 1: of Plans. Many of us have experienced a moment in

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Speaker 1: our lives that changes everything, a moment that instantly divides

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Speaker 1: our life into a before and and after. On this show,

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Speaker 1: we'll hear inspiring stories of change from people who have

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Speaker 1: weathered these transitions, like my conversation with writers su Leka Jawad,

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Speaker 1: her cancer diagnosis in her early twenties changed the way

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Speaker 1: she thinks about survival.

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Speaker 2: I realized it wasn't enough to just be alive. That's

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Speaker 2: not why I had endured. What I had endured, it

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Speaker 2: was to live a good life, a meaningful life, and

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Speaker 2: I needed to figure out how to do that.

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Speaker 1: We'll also hear from scientists, like psychologists Alison Gottnik, who

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Speaker 1: does a deep dive on the creative genius of children

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Speaker 1: and explains what we can learn from their approach to

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Speaker 1: problem solving.

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Speaker 3: Being noisy, both literally and metaphorically, doing lots of weird,

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Speaker 3: random stuff right that doesn't seem to make sense. All

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Speaker 3: these features of what children are like that we might

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Speaker 3: have thought were signs that they were irrational or just immature,

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Speaker 3: really are exactly the things that make them so good

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Speaker 3: at learning.

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Speaker 1: And we hear from clinical psychologists Becky Kennedy. Becky's known

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Speaker 1: as the millennial parenting whisperer, and she offers a parenting

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Speaker 1: philosophy that can radically improve the well being of both

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Speaker 1: kids and their parents.

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Speaker 4: Behavior is not identity, Like there's a good kid, a

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Speaker 4: in pain kid, probably a smart kid, a freaking funny

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Speaker 4: kid underneath these really difficult behaviors. And I think when

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Speaker 4: you start seeing that, you intervene totally differently in a

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Speaker 4: way that feels better to the kid and the parent,

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Speaker 4: and honestly in a way that also is just much

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Speaker 4: more effective for behavior change.

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Speaker 1: And next week we kick off the season with a

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Speaker 1: conversation with writer Laura Cathcart Robins. Laura struggled with anxiety

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Speaker 1: as a new mom and developed an addiction to sleeping pills.

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Speaker 1: The experience upended her expectation of being the perfect parent.

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Speaker 5: All I think about, besides my kids, are these pills.

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Speaker 5: How many can I take? When can I take them?

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Speaker 5: Where can I get them? How can I keep it

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Speaker 5: a secret? I was a full blown addict, and I

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Speaker 5: was a full time mom.

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Speaker 1: I'm so grateful to our guests this season for sharing

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Speaker 1: their stories and hard won wisdom. New episodes will hit

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Speaker 1: your feed on Monday, April first. All episodes of A

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Speaker 1: Slight Change of Plans are free and you can listen

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. See you next week.