Change Wired
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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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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 circle is your values and the other circle is how you live day to day. The overlap is peace, meaning, and that grounded sense of “my life fits me.” We walk through practical values discovery exercises you can do with a notebook in under an hour. When you know you...
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 intention-action gap and the knowing-doing gap. You'll learn about practical, behavior change tools used in coaching and backed by behavioral science, including motivational salience: you don’t do what’s most important to you, you do what you pay attention to. We ta...
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 relationships, or meaningful hobbies. It turns into more output and more complexity. The heart of sustainable success, fulfillment, and burnout prevention: designing your life on purpose instead of defaulting into what technology, culture, and convenience push you towa...
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. When “get healthy,” “become a better leader,” or “grow my business” is still a blurry vision, it’s almost impossible to know what to do on any day, let alone what to track, what to practice, and what to improve. And how to put the whole thing together. I w...
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 pulling back the curtain on the hidden reason so many nutrition plans fall apart: not a lack of willpower, but a handful of beliefs that quietly sabotage consistency, calorie balance, and long-term results. I walk through my own winding health journey, years of experimenting...
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 and behind - you’re not broken, you are human. You’re living inside a polarity and treating it like a problem to solve instead of a tension to manage. We walk through Polarity Mapping (also known as polarity management, based on Barry Johnson’s method) and show how “both and” think...
Text Me Your Thoughts and Ideas Support the show Brought to you by Angela Shurina Behavior-First, Executive, Leadership and Optimal Performance Coach 360, Change Leadership & Culture Transformation Consultant
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 thinking into workplace transformation and leadership: why telling a team to “use AI” or “give better feedback” rarely works, and what does work instead. Think: clear playbooks, tiny recipes, calendar time to practice, and scripts that remove hesitation so people can act ...
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 is the same: they stop when they no longer believe their effort will pay off. Today I share a practical framework inspired by Nir Eyal’s work, the book Beyond Belief: a 3-part motivation triangle. Remove any side and consistency collapses. If you want more dis...
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 Unit, to explore the science behind why people do what they do, and what it takes to shift it. Hengchen brings rigorous academic research published in Nature and other notable publications, and field experiments run inside hospitals, university health systems, and nat...
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. Today we unpack why evidence-backed tools make personal growth more predictable, less stressful, and far more sustainable, and we put 3 practical techniques in your hands so you can start reshaping your limiting thinking and story-telling right away. &nbs...
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 and consistent, making it feel less like a war with yourself and more like a rewarding collaboration. If you’re ready to evolve on purpose - this guide is your blueprint. Subscribe, share with someone who’s hungry for change, and leave a review to help more people find a ge...
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, and turn discipline into something you can do on cue. Starting with Newton’s first law, we connect the physics of motion to the psychology of habits, showing why starting feels hard and why it gets easier once you cross the first minute. No pep talks, no clichés—just clear prompt...
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 collide. Then we hand you a simple, powerful toolkit: 5 coaching questions to illuminate what each option protects, what the conflict says about who you’re becoming, how each path serves comfort and growth, and how to design decisions that honor more than one value at a ...
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 that shifts you from just planning to the right kind of preparing so your intentions survive real life. Using Navy SEAL-level readiness as a metaphor, we map the 5 moves that make change stick. You’ll learn how to define “done” so clearly you can describe it l...
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 starting. Along the way, we unpack real stories that show how visibility, proximity, and preloaded steps consistently beat discipline. Angela shares how a 25-year exercise streak survives busy seasons and travel by relying on zero-friction options. ...
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 - behavioral scientist, Harvard Business Review contributor, TEDx speaker, and founder of a change agency that works with companies from $300M to $36B. She's helped some of the biggest organizations in the world figure out why their strategy looks great on paper and dies in execution...
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 habits that work when life doesn’t. If you design the path so the right action is the easiest action, consistency stops relying on willpower and starts relying on structure. If this conversation helps you see change through a systems lens, follow the show, sha...
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 your life as it is today. We talk about the hidden cost of “I’ll be happy when,” why high achievers often suffer more when things won’t budge, and how to draw a clear line between what you can and can’t control. To keep your mind from spiraling, we share a visualization ...
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-achievers, leaders and teams start compounding wins into lasting change. We walk through the Daily Questions Method and the crucial shift from outcome obsession to effort tracking. Lisa explains why willpower collapses under stress, how comparison culture hijacks identity, and how a ...
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