
Change Wired
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, productivity, mindset mastery, and creating high-performing, purpose-driven, thriving cultures. Hosted by an Executive & High-Performance Coach with 15 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 and systems thinking into actionable tips you can start using today. Expect lively solo episodes, inspiring guests, and real-world strategies designed specifically for leaders, entrepreneurs, and growth-focused professionals eager to accelerate their impact—both personally and within their teams & communities. Tune in, wire your brain for change, and get ready to transform in days - not years!
Latest episodes

Dec 13, 2022 • 26min
Your brain can help you stay lean through any holiday. My simple brain-friendly eating rules.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:For me it's always been about simplicity - how do I help my brain to keep me fit?Especially as an entrepreneur, wearing many hats - I don't have the bandwidth for calorie counting and weighing my food, do you❓Here's my answer, coming from 17 years of nutrition coaching.Also remember, high quality food builds a strong prefrontal cortex that makes great long-term decisions, like prioritizing health VS snacks.Produced by Angela Shurina,Schedule our call HERE.Sign up for the Brain Upgrades Newsletter HERE.CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHLifestyle + Nutrition + Biohacks + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain's genius, unlimited energy and motivation levels - to change, evolve, make progress faster! Change in days - not in years!Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First Change Leadership & Culture Transformation ConsultantEXECUTIVE & OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE COACH

Dec 12, 2022 • 12min
Boost confidence when failing - you'll need it to succeed!
TUNE IN TO LEARN:You can't wait for external results to get your confidence up - you must have this confidence to move forward, get back on track and take bold and consistent action.Here's one of the most effective exercises to build your confidence up. It has to do with self-talk and switching focus.TUNE IN - GIVE YOUR CONFIDENCE A BOOST🚀 And get after it!!!Produced by Angela Shurina,Schedule our call HERE.Sign up for the Brain Upgrades Newsletter HERE.CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHLifestyle + Nutrition + Biohacks + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain's genius, unlimited energy and motivation levels - to change, evolve, make progress faster! Change in days - not in years!Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First Change Leadership & Culture Transformation ConsultantEXECUTIVE & OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE COACH

Dec 9, 2022 • 20min
Oxytocin - learn better, sleep better, live longer. How to build deep social connections fast and start loving sales.
TUNE IN TO WORK:Oxytocin. I believe this is the next molecule that will get popular. From recent studies on accelerated learning, to data on longevity and the role of social bonds - oxytocin might be the new "hack" for everything!TUNE in to learn how to get your Oxytocin fix daily, start loving your work, sleep better and change easier to make progress in life and while building your business in the most fast paced era for humanity.Produced by Angela Shurina,Schedule our call HERE.Sign up for the Brain Upgrades Newsletter HERE.CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHLifestyle + Nutrition + Biohacks + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain's genius, unlimited energy and motivation levels - to change, evolve, make progress faster! Change in days - not in years!Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First Change Leadership & Culture Transformation ConsultantEXECUTIVE & OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE COACH

Dec 8, 2022 • 16min
Increase cognitive and fitness performance with targeted caffeine scheduling. Great to study better too!
TUNE IN TO LEARN:How to use caffeine for an important event: like a public talk, or investor pitch to deliver your best performance; or to beat your personal fitness records - abstain, consume with perfect timing and personalized amount.Also, did you know caffeine can help you learn faster? Not in the way you think!Produced by Angela Shurina,Schedule our call HERE.Sign up for the Brain Upgrades Newsletter HERE.CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHLifestyle + Nutrition + Biohacks + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain's genius, unlimited energy and motivation levels - to change, evolve, make progress faster! Change in days - not in years!Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First Change Leadership & Culture Transformation ConsultantEXECUTIVE & OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE COACH

Dec 6, 2022 • 20min
The Caffeine Formula: consumption for optimal performance, applied neuroscience to help you get into "the zone" and start loving vegetables.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:How to get yourself into the zone for optimal performance with caffeine? Long-form writing or sales calls, or working out consistently or even loving your vegetables!Caffeine amount per kg of body weight and what it is in coffee cups;Timing of coffee;Increasing motivation but not stress and anxiety with coffee and so much more!*Yerkes-Dodson law, Huberman Lab podcast, "Trust Factor" book - some of the resources mentioned.Produced by Angela Shurina,Schedule our call HERE.Sign up for the Brain Upgrades Newsletter HERE.CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHLifestyle + Nutrition + Biohacks + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain's genius, unlimited energy and motivation levels - to change, evolve, make progress faster! Change in days - not in years!Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First Change Leadership & Culture Transformation ConsultantEXECUTIVE & OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE COACH

Dec 5, 2022 • 13min
Gain not Gap: a simple exercise, an instant boost to your performance, drive to achieve and well-being.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:I've been feeling a bit defeated and not accomplished lately - didn't hit it seems any of my business goals this year. I realized, while reading "Trust Factor: the science of creating high-performance companies" - it was a very wrong approach to boost my future accomplishments.Let's dig into the science of positive reinforcement and what Paul Zak (neuroeconomics studies) calls Ovation to start showing up with above average performance.Produced by Angela Shurina,Schedule our call HERE.Sign up for the Brain Upgrades Newsletter HERE.CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHLifestyle + Nutrition + Biohacks + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain's genius, unlimited energy and motivation levels - to change, evolve, make progress faster! Change in days - not in years!Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First Change Leadership & Culture Transformation ConsultantEXECUTIVE & OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE COACH

Dec 2, 2022 • 20min
Food to help entrepreneurs achieve goals and endure hard times
TUNE IN TO LEARN:How I use food to make myself feel motivated and confident when things get hard in my entrepreneur journey;The difference between emotional eating and emotional regulation with food to make progress VS distracting yourself with food;The best foods/the meal I have to raise dopamine and serotonin levels for drive to act and confidence that you'll figure it all out.Produced by Angela Shurina,Schedule our call HERE.Sign up for the Brain Upgrades Newsletter HERE.CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHLifestyle + Nutrition + Biohacks + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain's genius, unlimited energy and motivation levels - to change, evolve, make progress faster! Change in days - not in years!Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First Change Leadership & Culture Transformation ConsultantEXECUTIVE & OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE COACH

Dec 1, 2022 • 19min
Emotional regulation with neuroscience: a stop to emotional eating and snapping at people, a start to consistent habits.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:5 most effective tools to change how you feel, how you think and what you do at ANY moment!Wouldn't it be cool if you could control your emotions instead of them controlling your life?It would be and it can be - TUNE IN and LEARN!Produced by Angela Shurina,Schedule our call HERE.Sign up for the Brain Upgrades Newsletter HERE.CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHLifestyle + Nutrition + Biohacks + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain's genius, unlimited energy and motivation levels - to change, evolve, make progress faster! Change in days - not in years!Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First Change Leadership & Culture Transformation ConsultantEXECUTIVE & OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE COACH

Nov 30, 2022 • 25min
Emotional Eating - why your brain does it, how I stopped mine after 15 years.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Why do so many people eat emotionally?Why do people often eat to the point of getting sick?I struggled and lived with emotional eating and weight loss roller-coaster for about 15 years of my life (stopped 8-9 years ago) - I learned these skills and took this challenge that forever changed my relationship with food and stopped all weight loss struggles.Food is no longer interesting to me - even though I love and enjoy it!TUNE IN! Perhaps it's time to separate food from emotions and start dealing with the real problem❓Produced by Angela Shurina,Schedule our call HERE.Sign up for the Brain Upgrades Newsletter HERE.CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHLifestyle + Nutrition + Biohacks + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain's genius, unlimited energy and motivation levels - to change, evolve, make progress faster! Change in days - not in years!Text Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First Change Leadership & Culture Transformation ConsultantEXECUTIVE & OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE COACH

Nov 27, 2022 • 57min
Neuroscience of Immersion with Dr Paul Zak: neuromarketing with CTAs that work, designing education that transforms, experiences that change minds and make life meaningful.
Or biology of persuasion and why movies make us cry. TUNE IN TO LEARN: How Paul got to measure pro-social chemical aka oxytocin;How oxytocin makes us more persuasive and affects our decisions in the real world;How measuring a combination of signals in the brain can accurately and consistently predict what people and markets would do after a message or experience with 85-95 % accuracy;Attention + Emotional Connection = Immersion;Technology to measure immersion wirelessly with an algorithm applied to smartwatches;Formula to design for immersion and people taking action in response to your pieces of content or experiences you design;SIRTA - the no-tech formula to design for maximum immersion AKA people taking action;Is immersion the key to being present, the key to emotional well-being and long-lasting, deep, meaningful connections, and even happiness?Immersion as a hack to memorable experiences, becoming unforgettable and improving people’s lives through the work you do in the world;Optimizing the workplace to help people do more of what they love;Immersion as a key to better meetings and why we should ditch introductions;Immersion and education: how to become an impactful educator by optimizing for immersion;Better education: shorter is better, 20-20-20 rule, speak-participatory tasks-debrief;… and so much more! TUNE IN for an immersive episode of Your Brain’s Coach podcast with Dr Paul Zak! It will transform you!CONNECT WITH PAUL'S WORK:https://www.getimmersion.com/https://pauljzak.com/Immersion Book on AmazonTwitter @pauljzakLinkedInPAUL'S BIO:Dr. Paul J. Zakis a Professor at Claremont Graduate University and is ranked in the top 0.3% of most-cited scientists with over 180 published papers and more than 19,000 citations to his research. Paul’s two decades of research have taken him from the Pentagon to Fortune 50 boardrooms to the rainforest of Papua New Guinea. Along the way he helped to start a number of interdisciplinary fields including neuroeconomics, neuromanagement, and neuromarketing. He has written three general audience books and is a regular TED speaker. His newest book is Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and Source of Happiness.Paul is also a four-time tech entrepreneur; his current company, Immersion Neuroscience, is a software platform that allows anyone to measure what the brain loves in real-time to improve outcomes in entertainment, education and training, live events and to help people sustain emotional wellness. He frequently appears in the media in such places as Good Morning America, Dr. Phil, Fox & Friends, ABC Evening News, and his work has been reported in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, The Economist, Scientific American, Fast Company, Forbes, and various podcasts. Fun fact: he is a memberText Me Your Thoughts and IdeasSupport the showBrought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First Change Leadership & Culture Transformation ConsultantEXECUTIVE & OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE COACH