What Has Changed Since You Don't Want to Talk About It?

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Max Allan: I feel like going to talk in thi about your identity and how it has changed and shifted. The decision to do that felt like evidence of a shifta, i think that's completely right. And maybe this is the time to talk about this episode you did that was about you. So rdy mentioned that we had a pregnancy lost with our surrgate in february of 20 20. And then i'm making the show in 20 21. And in late summer, we go through another embryo transfer with our circuit haley, and this time she's pregnant with identical twin girls so our embryo split. We later learned that hailey likely had an auto immune response

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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