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, science-based insights into personal growth and change of behavior, navigating career, life and business transitions, meaningful productivity, mindset mastery, and creating high-performing, purpose-driven, thriving cultures of growth.
Hosted by Angela Shurina, a Master Health, Executive & High-Performance Coach, Be-Sci Fueled with 18 years of global experience now based in Cape Town.
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-applicable strategies designed specifically for change agents, leaders, entrepreneurs, and growth-focused professionals eager to accelerate their evolution and impact beyond oneself.
Tune in, wire your brain for change, and get ready to transform in days - not years!
Episodes
1652 episodes
The surest path to your everyday bliss. The right amount of Omega 3s and nutrition for your wellbeing.
Happiness isn’t a nonstop high. For us, the real win is an elevated baseline: that steady, grounded sense of wellness that makes you more resilient, less reactive, and far harder to knock off course when a day goes sideways.We un...
Fixing stress eating and stress drinking with 5 science-backed strategies. How I stopped my emotional eating.
Your cravings might not be “a you problem” at all. They might be a lack of nervous system training problem.I’m Angela Shurina, Master Health Coach 360 and stress and sleep management coach, and I’m sharing the five simple strategies that...
How I structure my meals for energy, ideal body weight and long-term health as a Master Health, Fitness and Nutrition Coach.
The quickest way to feel better isn’t a trendy meal plan, it’s making food choices you’ll still be grateful for tomorrow.I walk you through my personal, real-world nutrition routine as a master health coach and nutrition coach,...
Can't sleep at 3AM? Worry Window exercise (CBT) can help. Real-life stress management that works.
Your stress does not politely wait for your meditation cushion. It hits when the day is already going sideways and your brain starts doing that late night replay at 3 a.m. Today we talk about what real stress management looks like when life ...
Why most people's sleep sucks and how to fix it. Yes, it's possible to have great sleep every night.
I’m Angela Shurina, master health executive coach, and I’m making the case for sleep as the most underrated high performance tool: it sharpens decisions, steadies emotions, improves workout recovery, reduces cravings, and lowers the risk...
The 7-Step Behavior Change Process: all the things you don't do when you fail to change habits
Willpower gets all the credit, but it rarely does the heavy lifting.Today I’m sharing the exact behavior change process I’ve used for years with clients to help them build habits that stick, whether the goal is better sleep, less ...
How To Manage Your Emotions So They Don't Manage You
Your emotions don’t just happen to you like the weather. They follow a path, and once you learn to shape that path, everything changes: your decisions, your relationships, your focus, and the life you’re building.I walk through a pra...
Break The All-Or-Nothing Trap that Keeps Your Progress Stuck: 3 coaching tools that help my clients to break this vicious cycle.
One “bad” meal. One skipped workout. One night of doom scrolling. Then the familiar thought hits: I blew it, so why bother?That is not a personality flaw. It is black-and-white thinking, a common cognitive bias that kills more pro...
5 steps to make stress your superpower. Bio-psychological toolkit to improve your performance and health under pressure.
Stress is going to show up if you are doing anything that matters. The real question is whether it turns you into a sharper, healthier version of yourself or whether it drags you into dread, overthinking, and burnout.You wi...
Why "New Life from Monday" always fails. What Fresh Start Effect got wrong - and how to fix it.
Monday motivation is one of the most expensive lies we buy.It feels like a reset, a clean slate, a brand new you, but nothing about your skills, schedule, or stress load upgrades overnight. So when reality hits, the plan collapses...
The Highway to Happiness: the values-bridge exercise and what to do every day to increase your happiness.
That quiet, persistent thought, “My life is pretty good, but something is missing,” can be one of the most useful signals you get.I’m unpacking why that feeling so often comes from a values gap: what you truly care about versus...
Creating a Fulfilling Life Step 1: finding your values.
Fulfillment is not a prize you earn by checking the right boxes. It is a feeling that shows up when your life matches who you actually are.We use a simple idea to guide the whole conversation: imagine a Venn diagram where one circ...
How to finally start waking up early and go to bed on time. Attention Design over Willpower.
Your aspirations to wake up or go to bed on time aren’t failing because you’re “undisciplined” or broken.Most of the time, your attention is simply getting pulled by whatever is loudest in the moment - the real engine behind the i...
If your to-do list grew longer with more AI in your life - listen to this to claim back the life you want with 2 coaching exercises.
AI keeps promising to save us time, but a funny thing happens when our tools get faster: our lives often get busier, not freer.We start with a simple idea: without intention, extra capacity doesn’t become rest, health, better ...
How to Achieve Long-Term Goals: #1 technique every coach uses.
Most people fail to achieve long-term goals because their goals stay foggy, vague, not deconstructed, sequenced, selected and kept accountable.Achievement that lasts has very little to do with talent and everything to do with the process...
3 useful beliefs that helped 500 clients to lose stubborn weight for life.
If you’ve ever said “I eat pretty healthy, so why isn’t this working?” this one is for you. But it also goes a lot beyond weight loss attacking unhelpful beliefs that keep you stuck in other areas of your life. I’m p...
Navigating Life's Competing Priorities: polarity mapping and going beyond unsustainable balance.
Balance isn’t the goal. Integration is.Not Either/Or but Both/And.If you’ve ever gone all in on hustle and deep work only to feel isolated, or filled your calendar with people and meetings only to feel scattered a...
🍍The Cut Pineapple Principle: how to do the right thing without discipline
A whole pineapple can ruin a perfectly good habit. Today we start with a real coaching case study on nutrition habits and why “I’ll just do it” collapses under real life. Then we translate the same systems thin...
Why you keep quitting your diet after day 3. The missing piece of your lasting motivation.
Quitting isn’t always a character flaw. A lot of the time it’s a belief problem. When I see people stall on a healthier diet, regular exercise, better sleep, a bold career move, or the messy work of improving relationships, the pattern i...
Why you know what to do and still don't do it — with UCLA Nudge Unit Co-Director Hengchen Dai.
What does it truly take to change what we do — for yourself and at scale, sustainably in the real world?In this episode, Angela sits down with Hengchen Dai, Associate Professor at UCLA Anderson and co-director of the UCLA Nudge...
Rewiring Limiting Self-Belifs with Science-Backed Methodology. Book study: Beyond Belief.
Proof changes everything. When the world serves you endless "hot takes" about health, habits, and mindset, we need to slow down and build on what actually holds up—methods that work across people and across time. &...
Lower resistance to change, beat self-sabotaging habits, and create progress that lasts in yourself and when helping others.
Big transformations don’t come from heroic sprints; they come from steady steps that respect how our brains and bodies adapt to change.We unpack the ABC coaching tool, a simple, repeatable way to make progress effortless an...
3 coaching questions that end excuses and get you off the couch every time.
Feeling flat, unmotivated, or stuck in your head? We walk through a simple, science-backed way to get moving again: 3 precise questions that flip inertia into momentum, replace vague drama with evidence, ...
Comfort or Growth? I want X but I also want Y - navigating competing priorities with 5 coaching questions.
Ever feel split between the warm safety of what you know and the cold thrill of what could be? We unpack how competing priorities like comfort, growth, belonging, ambition, and health can collaborate instead of col...