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Change Wired

Angela Shurinayourbestculture.com

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!

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Episodes

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 ACADEMY Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. Sign up for the Brain Upgrades N...

Sep 13, 202221 min

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! #MondayMotivation BRAIN MASTERY ACADEMY Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. Sign up for the Brain Upgrades Newsletter HERE. CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACH Life...

Sep 12, 202222 min

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 impor...

Sep 08, 20229 min

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 COACH Nut...

Sep 07, 202216 min

🎯Tools to 2x your focus: your room, breathing, music, food, breaks, showers, time of the day - ALL OF IT!

TUNE IN TO LEARN: Do you think you are bad at focus? Do you need to get better at focused work ASAP to deliver results? This is what neuroscience research shows works to make you a focus jedi! Most of them work instantly! How cool is that? Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. Sign up for Brain Upgrades Newsletrer HERE. CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACH Nutrition + Neuroscience + Behavior Change I help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space de...

Sep 06, 202219 min

ONE question: consistency with exercise and not wasting time on the unimportant. Ask this first.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: I talked to many people last week, founders, entrepreneurs, they all said the same thing - when things get hard and challenging, they ask this question. This question also helps them to make decisions very fast and simple, so you don't waste your time on things that don't really matter. Time and energy are limited, we have one life - I invite you to look at your calendar often with THIS question. Especially each Monday. Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. Sign u...

Sep 05, 202214 min

This is Your Brain on Processed Food: anxiety, learning, stress, motivation, fatigue. Happy Brain Diet.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: How eating processed food affects your brain long-term; What processed food is; How much of processed food is ok; An easy way to eat a balanced diet that makes your brain and you happy. Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. Sign up for Brain Upgrades Newsletrer HERE. CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACH Nutrition + Neuroscience + Behavior Change I help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain g...

Sep 02, 202228 min

Erik Mut. From Canadian remote worker to hundreds of employees living in Belgrade as a nomad, side gig as a touring musician, millions of views on YouTube, nervous breakdown - one extraordinary, not-sugar-coated life adventure.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: Erik Mut one of the "founders" of the digital nomad, remote work scene - how it all began in 2007; How Erik made himself into a remote worker without telling his employer ; Why Erik ended up in Belgrade from all the places, becoming a citizen later; What drove Erik to leave Canada, what drives all of us nomads to leave the familiar with a one-way ticket? “My love for wine, women and song” - a soulful reason to choose a new home base; How Erik turned his job into a thriving, loc...

Aug 31, 20221 hr 5 min

How do I find my thing, my world-changing idea? One simple brain exercise that'll help.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: Scott Adams and his - 📚 "How to fail at almost everything and still win big" . I think only now I understood how to create and get known for "my thing" and how to connect it with something other people find useful. Tune in - let's talk about life-long careers, passion, calling, how I figured mine out and 1 simple exercise from coaching that will help you to figure out yours. Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. Sign up for Brain Upgrades Newsletrer HERE. CERTIFI...

Aug 30, 202225 min

Brain on Alcohol: gut, stress and dumber you. And how finishers don't get stuck on long-term projects.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: 🍷 You and Alcohol - not a good story. 7 drinks per week will do that. Poor gut health, less confident, anxious, with a smaller brain you. And it's just as bad as smoking (maybe even worse I'd argue). The choice is yours - how will YOU write your story in this world❓ 🧠 "LEAVE IT UNFINISHED" - might be the most controversial anti-procrastination brain tool that all long-term thinkers and doers with 10-year visions do unconsciously. Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call ...

Aug 29, 202225 min

Diet for Anxiety: new neuroscience study and what to eat now.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: According to new data analysis - this is what might be causing you feeling anxious , worried, not happy, edgy and stressed most of the time. Do you wake up happy❓ Are you optimistic most of the time❓ How does future look for you❓ Full of opportunities or problems❓ Are you looking forward to your day and morning❓ How to be more positive and chill by not eating this. Even changing your almond milk might help. Study: " Feeling Anxious or Blue? Ultra-Processed Foods May Be to Blame...

Aug 26, 202224 min

Building digital nomad communities and relationships, the challenges with entrepreneurial focus while traveling, and what being a digital nomad means with Johannes Voelkner, the founder of Nomadbase, the largest, lasting nomadic community.

TUNE INTO LEARN: The beginnings of Johannes’ nomadic adventure - from reading Tim Ferriss’ 4-hour Work Week, to building a few online businesses , to travels from the Philippines all the way through South America; What personal challenge made Johannes start a business to help nomads around the world to connect and travel together; Digital nomad beginnings - we couldn’t find each other because we didn’t know the name, the word, who and what to look for; What does it actually mean to be a digital ...

Aug 24, 20221 hr 4 min

Neuroscience of non-procrastination. "Wide Brackets" and how long-term thinkers view the world differently.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: "Clearer, closer, better: How successful people see the world" - a book written by Emily Balcetis, neuroscientist who studies motivation. Today, with the help of the book I'll answer your question, Why do I procrastinate on some things? How do I get better at not doing this? And I'll give you a very simple exercise to do every time you about to procrastinate . I'll also share with you how I apply the same thinking to keep building my 10-year vision of Brain Training empire, one...

Aug 23, 202223 min

🌞 Sun exposure for focus and motivation "hacked" - when you are remote or nomad this happens.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: High and Consistent levels of Motivation and Focus can't happen without Sun exposure but very often we forget to do it consistently, so what do you do to hack the process and help your brain to get yourself out at the right time and more often? One thing remote and nomadic life can do "for you" - less steps taken, less light in your day. How to not become an indoor creature. Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACH Nutr...

Aug 22, 202218 min

Neuroscience-based Weight Loss Breakfast: less hunger the whole day.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: Your brain controls your hunger. There are 3 nutrients the brain searches for in your meals to feel satisfied - your survival is no longer threatened. There's a big chance that the diet you tried that made you hungry all the time and craving anti-weight loss foods was simply very poor in those essential nutrients. Eat what your brain needs for breakfast - and weight loss and weight maintenance gets a ton easier automatically. Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. ...

Aug 19, 202222 min

🧠Brain Diet: list of foods to build your genius brain, and why the Dutch are the tallest nation.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: Nutrition is building blocks of potential encoded in your genes. If you dont eat building blocks to support the building, function and maintenance of a genius, high-performing brain - it's gonna be very hard to impossible to reach the potential you might have in your genetic Blueprint . It's like building a house. Have a plan but no materials - there's gonna be no house. The better your brain diet is - the easier it is to make your brain to deliver insights, focus and motivatio...

Aug 18, 202235 min

How caffeine lies to your brain, boosts anxiety, steals your insights. Other things that work better.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: I love coffee ☕ but I also love to feel balanced, alert and calm not anxious and jittery, I love having great sleep, waking up with my best ideas and ready to go - so I drink decaf, and take some matcha green powder 2-3 hours after waking. Today you gonna learn how caffeine works in the brain, how it can make your performance and life worse (and you'd think you are doing better) and how to quit caffeine but still get the focus, motivation and energy boost each morning and after...

Aug 17, 202225 min

An architect and a digital nomad - Adi Cohen from Israel. Inspired by travels, creating spaces that help you do and be well.

“Each design is an invitation” TUNE IN TO LEARN: Digital Nomads life and how it sparks creativity, especially for architects - the whole world is your school; How to be an architect as a digital nomad; What question drove Adi to become a nomadic architect VS staying in Israel, building her career in a firm, a path, that had success written on it; Rocky starts are often companions of the most exciting journey of our lives; One way ticket, Israel to Japan , and a new unexpected way to nomadic arch...

Aug 15, 20221 hr 1 min

Why weekend screws up all your progress: wanna change it? Neuroscience of weekend screw-ups.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: Why so many of us struggle with maintaining our best intentions for healthy habits over the weekend? It's a simple reason. And it has to do with you, the way you do the weekend. A simple hack to change it. Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACH Nutrition + Neuroscience + Behavior Change I help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain genius and unlimited ener...

Aug 12, 202212 min

Designing and choosing your space for analytical focus, creative innovation 💡 and big thinking, and personal wellbeing.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: A couple of well researched tools, concepts to design your space that improves your capacity to think creatively and come up with more innovative solutions, see different perspectives and horizons, to stay more focused and analytical and to just feel well, calm and welcomed in your space. We design our spaces and they design us back. Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACH Nutrition + Neuroscience + Behavior Change I h...

Aug 11, 202216 min

🌞Morning routine for 5Am-ers: no coffee, alert, awake and focused. 3-step no-cost routine.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: How to start your day according to neuroscience research without caffeine (that makes you crush, need more coffee and makes our sleep worse) - even when it's still dark outside. My routine this morning. POWERFUL MORNING WORKSHOP: https://club.digitalnomadsdaily.com/live-workshop-angela-aug15 Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACH Nutrition + Neuroscience + Behavior Change I help you use nutrition and lifestyle protoco...

Aug 10, 202221 min

Tony Robbins calls this HUNGER - neuroscientists call it dopamine. Essential practices for the molecule of Over Achievers in sports and business.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: I was walking yesterday and it dawned on me that's Tony Robbins' coaching is all about this one mighty molecule of achieving - Dopamine . The molecule of leaders, world changing missions and rockets to Mars - it's all in this molecule. On today's podcast I'm sharing essential lifestyle and food practices to raise base level of your dopamine - in our world it's all the opposite - I believe that's why so many people don't have that much drive 🤷🏼‍♀️ #BrainCoach Produced by Angel...

Aug 09, 202219 min

Remote Done Well: Dr. Tricia Berry shares her 16-year journey of remote work-life balance. Leadership of people, positive-intent email communication, family, fitness, food and productivity guide!

TUNE IN TO LEARN: The leadership of people that we all can learn from working remotely, in the office or hybrid; Remote makes the world more inclusive, more diverse, bigger, and more connected with many more opportunities to look at life and work from many more perspectives - people bring their culture, their background, their experience to the remote world from everywhere without the need for us to relocate; Physical and psychological boundaries at home to make work-life balance work , from phy...

Aug 08, 202254 min

Harder, bigger goals with neuroscience - why some people keep going and some quit.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: Why some people are natural BIG VISION thinkers and some aren't, and how to help your brain start thinking bigger and more creatively ; Essential routine for achieving long-term, hard, big goals without losing momentum and with all the intensity you got; Boosting focus for long-bouts of work or long runs; Not losing motivation, not burning out pursuing longer goals is about this practice. Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMA...

Aug 04, 202221 min

Your Full Potential: a simple tool to know if you are doing it. And consistent focus simplified.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: A simple tool to know where you are with your energy reserves that allow you to go full in and deliver your full potential every day; Simplifying focus for deep work: a simple ratio and how you can change it through design of your mental and physical workspace. Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACH Nutrition + Neuroscience + Behavior Change I help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design...

Aug 03, 202220 min

Motivation is a brain state you can train for. Do this and never feel de-motivated to work out or do cold calls.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: Motivation is VERY simple. Even mice have more of it at certain conditions. Today we will focus on the simplest, one and only skill you need to master to never lose motivation again - for things you enjoy and for things you don't like that much but need to do them, like exercise, eating healthy, learning sales scripts or doing cold calls and emails. Know your brain - the rest is history. Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMAN...

Aug 01, 202217 min

Digital Nomad, Astro Coach, Psychologist. Mariana combines the science of human behavior with yet-to-be-explored human/cosmos connection to shortcut your path to discovering your brightest talents and biggest business and career opportunities.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: This was one fascinating conversation we did in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, with one-of-a-kind human, astro coach Mariana, from Peru that taught me quite a lot about what astrology can do for personal and professional development. During our chat we realized that we do the same thing, using a different approach - helping people to express their full potential. Isn’t this what drives us all? Be everything we can be while still here? We’ll chat about: What astrology and your birth ...

Jul 29, 20221 hr 4 min

Less anxiety - More confidence for breakfast. 4 brain nutrition breakfast tips to maximize your powerful state for epic mornings.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: What most people do wrong for breakfast that causes anxiety and steals your confidence. Its a simple equation: More Anxiety = Less Confidence. In this episode I'm sharing brain nutrition breakfast principles to switch that around. More Confidence = Less Anxiety. Produced by Angela Shurina, Schedule our call HERE. CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST, BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACH Nutrition + Neuroscience + Behavior Change I help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space desig...

Jul 28, 202222 min

Radical adaptability for your startup depends on this food. So does your personal ability to open your mind to new ideas.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: Startups team, while growing and scaling often ask me, "How do we preserve our startup culture? Where we change rapidly?" - I'd say keep your team eating THIS to make the brain "plastic", rapidly learning , adjusting to new demands as needed. Stubbornness isn't a virtue in the environment where change is accelerated. One molecule the brain depends on to open up the gate of learning, brain plasticity. Most people don't eat enough, maybe that's why vegans are so "hard headed" (I'...

Jul 27, 202220 min

I took ice 🥶bath for my birthday - the most essential skill for entrepreneurs to train. Why Navy Seals go through cold water exposure.

TUNE IN TO LEARN: Not for everyone - but then again, life of challenges and growth - not everyone chooses it either. Nothing like cold exposure to test this one skill that's essential to grow in health, business, relationships, nothing like cold exposure to test if you gonna quit when things get uncomfortable. Most of us run from the discomfort searching for a space where the grass os greener - I did that for most of my life. But the change, the progress, actually comes from those experiences wh...

Jul 26, 202223 min
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