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
1646 episodes
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...
Why most diets don't survive much past Monday, and strategic vision slowly fades into "business as usual".
What if your goals didn’t need more willpower, just better engineering? We break down a practical, client-tested system that helps hundreds of people to achieve the best shape of their life and keep it, a system ...
The Missing Skill In Behavior Change Globally
What if your habits didn’t rely on willpower at all? We dive into the overlooked superpower of behavior change. Instead of forcing motivation, we focus on removing friction: the tiny barriers that keep you from s...
From Lofty Visions To Daily Behaviors: the Behavior Change Blueprint every leader needs in 2026 to turn Strategy into Lived Results with Andrea Belk Olson, CEO of Pragmadik.
Big goals are easy to write and hard to live.When strategies promise transformation but leave people asking what do I do on Monday, momentum dies and the execution gap widens.We sat down with Andrea Olson - beh...
Why you fail with some habits and succeed with others. Lets fix it.
We unpack a simple, revealing contrast - the same person, the same goals, and the same low-energy, being sick week produced 2 outcomes: 1 habit failed, 1 succeeded - and the difference came down to this.Our goal is to help you build ...
One Question To Feel Happier Every Day: curing "I'll be happy when..." mind disease.
What if joy wasn’t something you earned after life behaved, but something you could create today?We explore a simple, repeatable tool that helps you stop waiting for perfect conditions and start building real happiness in y...
2-minute practice to make change last with Lisa Broderick, a co-author of Permanence: become the person you want to be and stay that way.
We sat down with Lisa Broderick, CEO of Marshall Goldsmith Advisors and co-author of a new book Permanence: Become the Person You Want to Be and Stay That Way, to unpack a 2-minute practice that helps high-achie...
