

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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Sep 22, 2022 • 23min
How junk food and sugar rewires base happiness, making you feel like your life sucks often, seeking easy instead of meaningful.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Processed food changes our brain chemistry in a way that makes everything else in life feel dull, uninteresting, too hard. - Welcome to mental health epidemic.Sugar rewires reward pathways not just for food - whole life! Maybe that's why people find it harder and harder to work for something for months and years? We need that pleasure high and we need it right now!We train brains here: BRAIN MASTERY ACADEMYProduced 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 genius and unlimited energy level, off-the-chart!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

Sep 21, 2022 • 24min
Boosting serotonin with 5 foods for confidence, screw-it-lets-do-it attitude and freeing yourself from self-doubts to live fully.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Why boosting confidence and reducing base level of anxiety and self-doubts is so important to live your life to its fullest, building your dreams;What serotonin has to do with anxiety;Behaviors and lifestyle that is bad for serotonin;Foods, exercise and lifestyle to raise your base serotonin levels, confidence and awesomenaseousness with it! Shine on!We train brains here: BRAIN MASTERY ACADEMYProduced 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 genius and unlimited energy level, off-the-chart!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

Sep 20, 2022 • 20min
Finding lasting motivation for hard things with navy SEALs. One mind hack that takes a minute.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:How to find motivation for challenging things that we need to continuously do? SEALs have the answer, that's grounded in Neuroscience.If you find yourself often quitting things when things get hard and boring - this what you do.In the words of Gary Vaynerchuk - "you got to love the game".Produced by Angela Shurina,We train here: BRAIN MASTERY ACADEMYCERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHText 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

Sep 18, 2022 • 1h 5min
Bal Sieber. Remote and nomadic creative director: strategic design of a meaningful career and fulfilling life, that you don’t need to take a vacation from.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:From art and creative director based in California to nomadic lifestyle, teaching and advocating remote work, why it all started in 2015;Mistakes Bal made going remote and nomadic and traveling to Hong Kong;The practicality, the workflow routines of asynchronous collaboration, while living a nomadic life, working with people in different time zones on any project;CareerAnywhere.co project - how to transition to a remote career to succeed long-term and make it a fulfilling and meaningful, integrated and holistic work-life experience;“Work and life - there’s no separation”, - how to create an integrated experience so you love, enjoy and develop both, how to start building that, where to start;Location, time and financial independence - how do you strategically start building these as a remote, nomadic professional;2 things that make or break your remote nomadic life and career - it’s not all eternal vacation, challenges will come up, how you gonna handle them mentally and emotionally - that really matters;How to design life and career you don’t need a vacation from, you don't need a sabbatical from;How to prevent overwhelm and get things done;How to build deep connections and friendships, not the surface-level ones, if you are always on the road, on the move, changing locations - the conversations to start, experiences and strategies to facilitate;How to meet and make good friends as a nomadic, remote-working adult; A fast track to building friendships and deeper, lasting connections;Health, lifestyle, and nutrition routines to keep a high level of productivity, energy, creativity and fitness of the body, mind and soul;How to choose your ideal location for productivity and health, research to do before going to a new place where you plan to stay for a while;Meal prep and eating routine of a very productive and fit digital nomad - making food help you keep your mind sharp and not sleepy, in the focused flow state, not overwhelmed with unnecessary decisions;Best foods to keep your energy and motivation high throughout the whole day that Bal loves;… and these are just the highlights! Tune in for an in-depth work-life guide of your fulfilling, remote and nomadic journey with Bal Sieber!Bal Sieber, BIO:Forbes featured Designer and a remote work advocate. Bal's work has been featured in The Washington Post, Fast Company, Entrepreneur Magazine among others.His career as a creative professional spans from an Art Director to a Creative Director, winning awards on projects for some of the most renowned brands in the world like Nokia, Disney, and Toyota, to name a few. Bal’s found his way to working remotely in 2015, and since then, he is now dedicated to training creative professionals who want to build a career that inspires them while living an abundant life.Bal believes our careers should support and enhance our lifestyles. Connect with Bal, his partner and their passion project:CareerAnywhere.coBal Sieber on Instagram @balsieberKaphryn Lee on Instagram @kaphrynleeText 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

Sep 15, 2022 • 24min
Mental fatigue? Crushed at the end of the day and end up binging Netflix instead of exercise? 3 simple changes to unfatigue your brain 🧠
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Very often you feel like you have no willpower to do anything good or start learning Italian or learn to dance, and all you have strength for at the end of the day is Netflix and food - mental fatigue might be your issue!You don't need a different brain or a different job, and you can handle your life, and do all the things you want to do like hobbies and exercise - you just need to do things differently!3 best ways to operate an unfatiguable brain - better resource management is your issue.We train here: BRAIN MASTERY ACADEMYProduced 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 genius and unlimited energy level, off-the-chart!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

Sep 14, 2022 • 17min
Forgot to meditate again? Change habits that you want to do but keep forgetting. Favorite mind hack of behavioral change experts.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:You want to meditate but you keep forgetting?You want to start stretching before bed but you keep forgetting?You want to start using duolingo to learn Italian or Spanish but you keep forgetting?You want to start Journaling but you keep forgetting?Here's a dear darling of behavioral change experts like Angela Duckworth that will cancel that forgetting from your life‼️*Only works for things you actually want to do.We train here: BRAIN MASTERY ACADEMYProduced 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 genius and unlimited energy level, off-the-chart!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

Sep 13, 2022 • 21min
Chicken - Brain and Soul Food. Why I prescribe chicken for motivation, confidence, anti-anxiety, goal achieving.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Here's why you can legitimately consider chicken 🐔 food for the soul - dopamine and serotonin booster.How to eat chicken to boost motivation, confidence, learning abilities, libido, resilience to pursue hard goals, maybe increase intelligence even? Here's some Brain Nutrition facts and eating tips that also might cancel your cravings for junk.Vegan supplement solution.BRAIN MASTERY ACADEMYProduced 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 genius and unlimited energy level, off-the-chart!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

Sep 12, 2022 • 22min
Limitless Motivation - where do leaders get it from❓How do some people manage to focus on JUST ONE THING for decades❓
TUNE TO LEARN:Where do leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes, actors, and people you admire find this limitless motivation that keeps them going decade after decade after one thing till they succeed?How can you tap into the same source with a simple exercise? Take time for it today - it'll be a life changer! #MondayMotivationBRAIN MASTERY ACADEMYProduced 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 genius and unlimited energy level, off-the-chart!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

Sep 8, 2022 • 9min
High-performing, fit and focused nomads: here's what they eat.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:A very recent interview I did with a very productive, high-performing digital nomad, designer, and evangelist for designing a holistic, well-rounded, location-independent career and lifestyle that seamlessly merge - when you don't need a vacation from work, it's part of life.No high performer leaves food to chance or thinks about every meal.Here's what I found many productive and fit nomads do - a very simple food routine that travels and keeps your brain focused on the important.Connect with Bal and his passion project:Bal Sieber on Instagram @balsieberCarreerAnywhere.coProduced by Angela Shurina,Schedule our call HERE.Sign up for Brain Upgrades Newsletrer HERE.CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHNutrition + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain genius and unlimited energy level, off-the-chart!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

Sep 7, 2022 • 16min
Caffeine: focus or anxiety❓Dose matters. My personal hacks to adjust your caffeine dose to work for you - you don't have to quit, the best is in the middle.
TUNE IN TO LEARN:Did you know they use caffeine to induce anxiety in people for studies? No wonder you might feel stressed as well!But they use a very specific dose. But your anxiety/caffeine threshold might be different. Here's how to figure out your ideal, "get focused" but calm dose. 2 hacks that I've been using at hone and in the coffee shops.Produced by Angela Shurina,Schedule our call HERE.Sign up for Brain Upgrades Newsletrer HERE.CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHNutrition + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain genius and unlimited energy level, off-the-chart!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