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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Jul 19, 2023 • 31min
Hacking your brain’s biases and shortcuts to stick with hard, long-term goals - business, health and fitness.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Did you know your brain plays tricks on you?The brain uses shortcuts to make faster, short-term decisions.And THIS might be the reason why you quit on your goals too early and too often - a business that needed a bit more work, health and fitness that take time to pay off.Are you quitting too early too often and it feels right?It might be the brain trying to do what it does best - saving you energy in the short term.Let's learn how to trick the trickster!Using brain's biases to help you stick with it instead. 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
Jul 14, 2023 • 28min
THIS will blow your mind! How to make your brain do what you want - get motivated to exercise, pursue challenges at work, EVEN control your appetite.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Why can't you get motivated to exercise, or stop procrastinating, or take cold showers and eat right?The answer is in DISSATISFACTION.Learn how the modern world steals it. And how you can control yours.Best tools from neuroscience labs to take control of the only thing that controls your life - your brain.Get under the hood!You are the boss!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
Jul 12, 2023 • 26min
How do I stop my mind from wandering and worrying when I'm trying to focus on work? There's a tool for that!
TUNE IN TO LEARN:How much time do you waste following another thought, idea, or "emergency" errand, exploring another rabbit hole?Instead of focusing on the important project that you need to finish?Are you still trying to make your mind think less?Getting frustrated that you can't just focus?THE WRONG APPROACH!Your mind will never shut up!But there's a simple, genius way to handle it - take care of all the things, put your worries down, AND focus on the important projects you planned.With this one tool!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
Jul 10, 2023 • 29min
How to Retrain Laziness and Stop Procrastinating with the skill of Reframing. Building the Mindset of a Winner 🏆
TUNE IN TO LEARN:How do we become less lazy? How do we stop procrastinating on hard work and complex projects? Reframing, this simple mindset tool, can give you the willpower of a Navy Seal to make yourself do pretty much anything. The problem is that most of us are taught to use it the wrong way. It's not about fooling your brain - you can't do this. It's about learning to see the hidden rewards of any challenging experience. There's only one thing you need to get clear on before using it. Tune in and learn what it is! 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
Jul 7, 2023 • 36min
How to get your brain focused to deliver work at 2-4X speed. RAS and reducing amount of data processed.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Do you want to get work done faster?Do you want to STOP feeling like you are drowning in your to-dos? Do you want to have time for hobbies, life, and learning VS barely making it through the tasks?Tune in and learn how to get into deep focus consistently, how to stay focused for hours - so you can finish work twice as fast and get on with your life VS losing sleep and mind over unfinished tasks.Neuroscience-based environment, psychology, biology of focus.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
Jul 5, 2023 • 39min
Simple formula to turbocharge your new habits - wire habits 90% faster than most people to get success and keep it - business, weight, relationships, skill acquisition.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Have you ever struggled with health or fitness habits?With "business habits" to grow your audience and client base?Everything we have consistently in life is the result of habits we form.Change is hard.It's challenging, uncomfortable and time-energy consuming.How do you make it easier? How do you speed it up?Here's a formula from behavioral neuroscience to build habits 90% faster than most people."One and Done" - as behavioral neuroscientist from Stanford, BJ Fogg, likes to say.Would you like to build habits THAT fast?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
Jul 3, 2023 • 36min
5-Bullet Brainy Monday: mysteries of coffee for performance, brain and weight loss relapses, changing your neurotype through food - the weekly roundup of everything neuroscience.
TUNE IN TO LEARN: Is chocolate a new probiotic? Can the diet change your brain's neurotype? Will your brain always fight your weight loss efforts?Do you need caffeine, OR decaf will do for cognitive performance?Loneliness and life purpose, autism and gut microbiome, and more fascinating brain news that you can use to change your life TODAY!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
Jun 28, 2023 • 36min
Lean Brain Framework: rewiring your brain for optimal weight, without carb and calorie counting.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Our brain is wired to seek food - otherwise, we'd die!Our brain is ALSO wired to keep our weight optimal for fitness and survival.The balance between the 2 is an easy task - after all, all animal brains do it just fine!So, where did it go wrong for humans?With over 39% of the population being overweight and growing?We don't exactly know how it started but we seem to get closer to the idea how to end it!Here's how you re-wire your brain to keep that balance between food and fitness.For more info read:"The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat""I'm So Effing Hungry: Why We Crave What We Crave – and What to Do About It"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
Jun 26, 2023 • 20min
The source of the strongest motivation and how to "hack" it. From Tony Robbins to Elon Musk - they all found it.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:What drives people who never stop the pursuit of excellence?You'd be surprised!It's the same thing that keeps Buddhist monks sitting in the mountains of Tibet meditating.If you want to be a monk - tame it.If you want to achieve great things - amplify it.The coolest part? - It's all in "how you think about it".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
Jun 23, 2023 • 24min
How to stop procrastinating on HARD projects, uncomfortable conversations and challenging workouts. A mind hack from ultra-marathoners.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Have you ever delayed a project, a conversation, a workout even though you knew that was EXACTLY what you needed to do?I definitely have!Have you ever wondered why some people seem to go through challenges so easily?Diving into each challenge without hesitation, seemingly enjoying it?You probably know - that's where and how you'd grow the fastest, that's THE WAY to your goals and success!So how do those people do that?How can YOU do that?Your brain has the answer!TUNE IN AND START PRACTICING the mission-critical skill of any high performer - in sports, business or on the battlefield!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
