Speaker 1: Pushkin, Hey, Slight Changers, it's Maya. I'm so excited to
Speaker 1: be back with a new season of A slight Change
Speaker 1: of Plans. Many of us have experienced a moment in
Speaker 1: our lives that changes everything, a moment that instantly divides
Speaker 1: our life into a before and and after. On this show,
Speaker 1: we'll hear inspiring stories of change from people who have
Speaker 1: weathered these transitions, like my conversation with writers su Leka Jawad,
Speaker 1: her cancer diagnosis in her early twenties changed the way
Speaker 1: she thinks about survival.
Speaker 2: I realized it wasn't enough to just be alive. That's
Speaker 2: not why I had endured. What I had endured, it
Speaker 2: was to live a good life, a meaningful life, and
Speaker 2: I needed to figure out how to do that.
Speaker 1: We'll also hear from scientists, like psychologists Alison Gottnik, who
Speaker 1: does a deep dive on the creative genius of children
Speaker 1: and explains what we can learn from their approach to
Speaker 1: problem solving.
Speaker 3: Being noisy, both literally and metaphorically, doing lots of weird,
Speaker 3: random stuff right that doesn't seem to make sense. All
Speaker 3: these features of what children are like that we might
Speaker 3: have thought were signs that they were irrational or just immature,
Speaker 3: really are exactly the things that make them so good
Speaker 3: at learning.
Speaker 1: And we hear from clinical psychologists Becky Kennedy. Becky's known
Speaker 1: as the millennial parenting whisperer, and she offers a parenting
Speaker 1: philosophy that can radically improve the well being of both
Speaker 1: kids and their parents.
Speaker 4: Behavior is not identity, Like there's a good kid, a
Speaker 4: in pain kid, probably a smart kid, a freaking funny
Speaker 4: kid underneath these really difficult behaviors. And I think when
Speaker 4: you start seeing that, you intervene totally differently in a
Speaker 4: way that feels better to the kid and the parent,
Speaker 4: and honestly in a way that also is just much
Speaker 4: more effective for behavior change.
Speaker 1: And next week we kick off the season with a
Speaker 1: conversation with writer Laura Cathcart Robins. Laura struggled with anxiety
Speaker 1: as a new mom and developed an addiction to sleeping pills.
Speaker 1: The experience upended her expectation of being the perfect parent.
Speaker 5: All I think about, besides my kids, are these pills.
Speaker 5: How many can I take? When can I take them?
Speaker 5: Where can I get them? How can I keep it
Speaker 5: a secret? I was a full blown addict, and I
Speaker 5: was a full time mom.
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful to our guests this season for sharing
Speaker 1: their stories and hard won wisdom. New episodes will hit
Speaker 1: your feed on Monday, April first. All episodes of A
Speaker 1: Slight Change of Plans are free and you can listen
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. See you next week.