

Change Wired
Angela Shurina
Change Wired: Change in days - not in years! Ready to ditch slow change and start thriving sooner?Change Wired is your new favorite podcast for practical, punchy insights into personal growth and about navigating career, life and business transitions, meaningful productivity, mindset mastery, and creating high-performing, purpose-driven, thriving cultures of growth. Hosted by Angela Shurina, an Executive & High-Performance Coach, Be-Sci Fueled Culture Transformation Strategist with 18 years of global experience (who now runs a culture transformation consulting & coaching firm). Each episode breaks down science-backed tools from biology, neuroscience, psychology of change, systems thinking and behavioral science into actionable tips you can start using today. Expect lively solo episodes, inspiring guests, and real-world strategies designed specifically for change agents, leaders, entrepreneurs, and growth-focused professionals eager to accelerate their evolution and impact beyond oneself - both personally and within their teams & communities. Tune in, wire your brain for change, and get ready to transform in days - not years!
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Dec 27, 2023 • 47min
Building Willpower Muscle for Weight Loss and Healthy Habits in 2024. 📚Book Study, “Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength”
TUNE IN TO LEARN: Do you want to improve your eating, exercise, sleep habits? Do you want to lose fat, make more money, change career, and study more? You’ll need willpower to do ALL of these, to reach any of your goals. In this episode you will learn: - How willpower works, when it’s strong and when it’s weak; - How to replenish your willpower the fastest and how to make it last longer; - How to strengthen your willpower to succeed with fat loss and other goals all through 2024 – make it stick this time! Want to know all of it? Pick up the book 📚, “Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength”. Claim your FREE 🎁Health and Weight Loss Strategy Session🎁 – brainbreakthroughcoach.com/freesession. Happy Holidays! Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First, Executive and Optimal Performance Coach 360, Change Leadership & Culture Transformation Consultant

Dec 20, 2023 • 29min
2024 Goals: how to prevent quitting and failing. Science-backed process to reach the goals you set, keeping yourself motivated.
TUNE IN TO LEARN: There are 2 reasons why goals don’t happen: You quit You fail. Here’s a goal-setting user manual that will help you to prevent both by guiding you through the process of: - Setting better goals; - Choosing the best plan for your goals; - Tracking the right things to keep yourself motivated and adjust the strategy as you go. This podcast will also help you to ask the most important questions before you set any goal to increase your success rate many folds. My 🎁 FREE sessions 🎁 to help you and your team tap into more of YOUR potential: 👉 Assess your health in 4 minutes. 👉 Effective Executive Test Drive. 👉 Effective Team Test Drive. Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First, Executive and Optimal Performance Coach 360, Change Leadership & Culture Transformation Consultant

Dec 18, 2023 • 25min
Hacking Health in 2024: exercise, nutrition, sleep – the simplest, fastest way to get most of the benefits with the least struggle and time.
TUNE IN TO LEARN: All people aspire to get healthier, fitter, more successful in the upcoming year. Very few commit to a course of action that’s effective and sustainable for them. This podcast episode will help you do exactly that. Learn what makes the biggest difference in your health, nutrition, fitness and how to make it happen without overwhelming exercise and diet programs, having to re-invent your whole lifestyle. 🎁GIFT INSIDE THE PODCAST🎁Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First, Executive and Optimal Performance Coach 360, Change Leadership & Culture Transformation Consultant

Dec 15, 2023 • 27min
Handling End-of-the-Year Procrastination: 3 most effective tools from psychology research to start taking action when everyone is taking it easy. It might be your lucky break!
TUNE IN TO LEARN: “I’ll start in New Year”. I hear it from so many people! But it’s 2 weeks of your life we are talking about. 2 weeks of opportunities you’ll never get back! How many of those you’ve lost in 2023? Whether you are a chronic procrastinator or someone who delays certain things more often – work, health, relationships related – procrastination has real effect of lost time and opportunities that you’ll never get back. Tune in to learn how to snap out of procrastination mode, get into action and get closer to the ultimate vision of your life every day. Instead of pushing it away further and further, and further… Need help to get started? Schedule your complimentary session now - let's put a solid plan of change for 2024 based on science together! https://calendly.com/angelashurina/health-360-strategy-call Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First, Executive and Optimal Performance Coach 360, Change Leadership & Culture Transformation Consultant

Dec 13, 2023 • 26min
Starting Hard Habits in 2024: the most effective strategy from psychology, coaching and elite performers.
TUNE IN TO LEARN: Change is hard. And I learned from 15 years of coaching people that most people make it even harder by taking the least effective road - just pushing through it. Did you know that the most disciplined people - Navy Seals, Olympic athletes, hardcore entrepreneurs - actually use the LEAST amount of willpower to get hard things done?Here's how they do it and how you can too build the hardest habits in 2024! Need help to get started? Schedule your complimentary session now - let's put a solid plan of change for 2024 based on science together! https://calendly.com/angelashurina/health-360-strategy-call Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First, Executive and Optimal Performance Coach 360, Change Leadership & Culture Transformation Consultant

Dec 11, 2023 • 32min
How to exercise every day: the science of forming a life-long habit. Get off the wagon, and make the most important mindset shift.
TUNE IN TO LEARN: How do people keep exercising every day? For YEARS?!I’ve exercised for more than 23 years now never skipping even a week! And it wasn’t because I’ve always lived by the gym – I lived in 15 countries and moved countless times. And it wasn’t because I always did it first thing in the morning – I went for months, sticking exercise in random places of my day. And it wasn’t because I stuck with the same activity – in fact, the opposite. It was more subtle things that on the surface looked like complete randomness but in fact, THESE were the key factors that kept me going. Key factors, that, it turns out, are based on very good science of how our brain🧠 works and how we form and keep habits. Tune in, get the best tools – and take the 2024 challenge! Keep moving. Are you up for it? My workshops to help you and your team tap into more of YOUR potential: 👉 Assess your health in 4 minutes. 👉 Effective Executive Test Drive. 👉 Effective Team Test Drive. Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First, Executive and Optimal Performance Coach 360, Change Leadership & Culture Transformation Consultant

Dec 7, 2023 • 38min
A Practical Guide to Your Full Potential: “Hidden Potential” by Adam Grant, book study.
TUNE IN TO LEARN: Have you ever felt like there’s more in you than the world can see? More than even YOU can see, or showed by now? Have you ever wondered, “How can I tap into more of who I truly am? How can I unlock, find, show in the world more of the mastery I’m capable of?” Then tune in to our podcast where I share book stories that made me cry, stories of people who against all odds became the world's greatest. Not only that, I’ll share practical tools, strategies they used to overcome obstacles within and in the world to get their 💎diamond💎 seen by the whole world. Obviously, pick the book when done listening - maybe a few for all the friends, undiscovered diamonds. Apply what you learn. "Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things" by Adam Grant. And if you are in Capetown join our new book club where we’ll definitely talk about the book in one of our upcoming meetings. My workshops to help you and your team tap into more of YOUR potential: 👉 Assess your health in 4 minutes. 👉 Effective Executive Test Drive. 👉 Effective Team Test Drive. Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First, Executive and Optimal Performance Coach 360, Change Leadership & Culture Transformation Consultant

Dec 4, 2023 • 24min
#1 Mistake of ambitious entrepreneurs and my lesson from the ducklings. How to tame entrepreneurial ADD to maximize results.
TUNE IN TO LEARN: Do you ever wonder, “Maybe I’m aiming too high? Maybe it IS impossible for me?” Here’s a practical solution to this dilemma. Don’t aim lower – get smarter about jumping higher. Research discovered: ” These results, published in the journal Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, suggest that serial entrepreneurs possess greater cognitive flexibility, enabling them to alternate effectively between exploration and exploitation, a balance that is crucial to their success.” Don’t lose your ADD (your exploration superpower) – learn to control the switch between explore and focus/exploit.This exercise will help. 👉 Assess your health in 4 minutes. 👉 Effective Executive Test Drive. 👉 Effective Team Test Drive. Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First, Executive and Optimal Performance Coach 360, Change Leadership & Culture Transformation Consultant

Dec 2, 2023 • 34min
Work-Life Balance Tracker AKA mathematics of a happy, successful life: how to build a priority-based life you love living.
TUNE IN TO LEARN: If you cringe when you hear the phrase work-life balance – this episode is for you!A driven entrepreneur, professional, a captain of your ship who doesn’t believe in or have time for balance. You’ll learn how to calculate your personalized formula for happiness and success.Yes! There’s such a formula and I teach it to all of my clients. It’s based on the best practices of people who: a) Achieved what they wanted b) Built a happy lifeAnyone can learn it, anyone can do it! Tune in, take notes, build the life you want. 👉TAKE YOUR HEALTH 360 ASSESSMENT Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First, Executive and Optimal Performance Coach 360, Change Leadership & Culture Transformation Consultant

Nov 29, 2023 • 26min
4 silent Ss: it’s not food that makes you fat, makes you eat more.
TUNE IN TO LEARN: Have you ever wondered why your 🧠brain🧠 makes you want to get fat? Why are ALL our brains making the whole society obese? Let’s start to dispel the “magic”. Research-based causes of overeating that have nothing to do with food. The latest research found a molecule that activates overeating during stress. Most people use ZERO tools to regulate stress throughout the day – in the environment with food all around, it’s a sure way to get a bit fatter every day. But there’s a quick solution to fix this. and the rest of silent Ss. that make us fat when we do nothing to correct them. 👉TAKE YOUR HEALTH 360 ASSESSMENT Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First, Executive and Optimal Performance Coach 360, Change Leadership & Culture Transformation Consultant