Do You Want to Be a Podcast Host?

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i think there's probably a fair number of people who were listening who are thinking about those kinds of transitions in their own professional livesd and actually, i think specifically around pod casting. And i wonder how you approacheid actually doing the work yet. I mean, again, similar to that white house interview, i called smart people. So i remember what you told me is, just get started. Just do an interview. That was so interest to me,. Cause that felt again, like the order of operations was off. It was like waiting o now i thought i'd have to like convince the company to want to work with me., she says.

Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host of A Slight Change of Plans.

”I am a type A person through and through. I love having the five-year plan and the ten-year plan, and mapping it all out. By nature, that's what I'm like. And I think the series of pivots that my life has naturally taken, or I've had to take, has kind of soured me on that whole way of thinking. […] Maybe it's also that I'm a more grateful person than I used to be. Like, I feel more gratitude, and so part of my orientation now is, well, how lucky am I that I even stumbled upon something?”

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