Change Wired
By: Angela Shurina
Language: en-us
Categories: Education, Self Improvement, Health, Fitness, Mental, Business, Entrepreneurship
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...
Episodes
A 3-question filter for your bad ideas. How smart people fool themselves every day.
Jan 10, 2026Your sharpest ideas can still fool you into doing the wrong thing.
Today we unpack why smart, driven people overtrust their thoughts, and how a simple 3-question filter turns hunches into high-quality decisions. Instead of chasing certainty, we practice decision hygiene: use evidence, test small, and weigh real outcomes before you go all in.
We start with the cognitive traps that quietly steer choices: availability bias makes vivid stories feel true, while the halo effect lets first impressions spill into misplaced trust. From there, we shift to practical tools you can use...
Why you'll lose at most of your goals this year. The dark side of too much ambition. EAST framework for following through.
Jan 07, 2026Ready to stop sprinting into burnout and start winning your year with calm, focused momentum?
Focus not Frenzy?
We dig into why so many smart, motivated people fail on their goals and how a few design choices can flip the odds in your favor. Instead of spreading energy across a dozen ambitions, we show how to pick the one that matters most, translate it into daily behaviors, and engineer your environment so doing the right thing becomes the easy thing.
We unpack the EAST framework.
You’ll learn how...
Duration: 00:21:36Sleep, Sweat, and Smart Fuel: some health tweaks that high performers miss.
Jan 05, 2026Want steady energy without complicated biohacks?
We walk through the small, overlooked habits that create outsized gains - from underappreciated easy sleep hacks, to nutrition supplements and the science of drinking water. This is practical leverage for high performers who need clarity, energy, cognitive stamina, and mood stability to do their best work.
Choose your weakest link and start small. These simple shifts compound fast. If this helped you think differently about energy and focus, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs a boost, and leave a qu...
Why most New Year resolutions fail by Jan 15th. And how to make YOURS last in 2026.
Jan 03, 2026Resolutions don’t fail because you’re undisciplined; they fail because the system around you was never built to help you win.
Kicking off 2026, we get brutally practical about why goals crumble by mid-January and how to make behavior change stick using evidence, not hype. Drawing on research from behavioral scientists like Katy Milkman and hard-won coaching lessons, we unpack 7 common traps and turn each one into a simple, brain-friendly plan you can use today.
By the end, you’ll know exactly which bottleneck holds you back and...
How to stay cognitively sharp, without fatigue, reduce ovewhelm and ADHD without coffee. Peak Brain Performance by Design.
Dec 31, 2025What if your best ideas are getting crowded out by mental clutter, not a lack of talent or willpower?
We dive into simple, science-backed habits that free working memory, protect your peak focus hours, and turn effort into meaningful output without relying on endless caffeine.
We walk through practical tools you can use, then we map your day to biology to honor ultradian cycles with breaks that reset your brain instead of scrolling.
We also tackle the hidden costs of multitasking and the massive upside of a decluttered environment.
Fin...
Duration: 00:27:44Dealbreakers: how to make difficult life decisions simple and fast. Career, life partner, a place to live.
Dec 29, 2025Big decisions get heavy when our lives don’t match our values. We set out to change that by getting ruthless about clarity and gentle about self-honesty.
Think of this conversation as a blueprint for making choices that align with your best life you always think about: together we define deal breakers across career, relationships, and where you live, and we show how a short pause for reflection can prevent months of second-guessing. Instead of hoping the shiny option will evolve into your best-case scenario, you’ll learn to look for evidence, protect your daily non...
Duration: 00:11:38What would have to be true for your biggest goals to actually work? On strategy.
Dec 26, 2025Most big goals don’t fail because they’re impossible. They fail because people never set themselves up for winning.
They fail because the plan is vague, the timeline is short, and the strategy doesn’t fit the person.
We dig into a single question that changes everything: what would have to be true for this (for YOU) to succeed?
From there, we map a decade-long vision into near-term moves you can actually execute, and we show how to replace wishful thinking with a system that compounds.
This conversation is a p...
How NOT to set goals in 2026. Three researched-backed mistakes that drain your motivation for consistency.
Dec 25, 2025What if the motivation you need to reach your goals doesn't last because you don't know how to set your goals?
We dig into the goal gradient effect and the surprising lesson from elite marathoners who don’t stare at the finish line. That shift fuels engagement in careers, health, and creative projects.
Then we tackle 3 research-backed changes with outsized payoff. First, swap leap goals for stretch goals so effort reliably becomes progress. Second, trade blind positive thinking for mental contrasting: vividly imagine the outcome, then list likely obstacles and your if-the...
Real Progress VS Busy Work with Tim Herbig: how to connect strategy, the right metrics and discovery to build what you want - Impactful Products, Beach Body or Meaningful Life.
Dec 22, 2025Busy isn’t the same as better.
We sat down with product strategist, coach and consultant, and now a pubslihed author Tim Herbig to unpack a simple truth: real progress with impact that matters happens when strategy, metrics, and discovery align.
If you lead change across a product, a platform team, culture or your own habits - you’ll leave with a clearer way to choose what to focus on, what to measure, and what to learn.
Say no with confidence. Retire progress theater. And build momentum you can be p...
Duration: 01:03:18Define, Prevent, Repair: a practical path to turn anxiety, fear and worry into momentum.
Dec 20, 2025What if worry stopped being a wall and became an action signal?
Today we take on the everyday fears that stall big goals and break them down using a simple, repeatable framework that turns anxiety into momentum. Drawing from coaching work and the fear-setting method popularized by Tim Ferriss, we show how to move from vague dread to concrete action without pretending fear disappears.
You’ll leave with a t3-step tool you can use today: define the fear, prevent what you can, repair when needed. Apply it to outreach anxiety, high-s...
5 Pillars Of Infallible Follow-Through: driving consistency in yourself and high performance in people.
Dec 18, 2025What if follow-through wasn’t a willpower problem but a design problem you can fix?
We unpack a clear, 5-part system to create dependable action for yourself and your team. Drawing from behavioral science and real leadership practice, we show how uncertainty, skill gaps, weak rewards, and hidden blockers quietly kill momentum, not laziness, and how to replace them with simple, repeatable processes that make high performance the default.
By the end, you’ll have a straightforward playbook to design conditions where action is easy, results compound, and performa...
2-Pillar toolkit to consistently act when you don't feel like it. What most people don't understand about motivation.
Dec 16, 2025Waiting for motivation wastes the best hours of your day.
We break down a simple, reliable system to create more motivation on demand.
We dig into why discipline isn’t about loving hard work; it’s about doing the important thing when desire is missing. You’ll learn how behavioral activation flips your brain from rumination to action, why dopamine rises in response to movement, and how tiny, friction-free starts trigger the energy you thought you needed first.
We then share 3 prompts that sharpen your w...
Effortless Consistency: mental models for abs for life. How my clients ditch willpower AND finally get their goals.
Dec 13, 2025What if consistency were easy?
We pull back the curtain on how long‑term results come from better decision design, not iron will.
After years of yo‑yo attempts, I found three frameworks that made health, work, and daily choices surprisingly easy to sustain—even through parties, vacations, and stressful seasons.
If you are ready to stop white‑knuckling and start designing for habits that stick, this conversation gives you the playbook to build automaticity, instead of training willpower.
Subscribe, share this with a friend who is stuck in...
Duration: 00:18:25Breaking through your limiting patterns and seeing your blind spots - 1 research-backed tool that works across business, health, relationships
Dec 11, 2025Ever notice how easy it is to diagnose everyone else’s mistakes while your own patterns stay stuck on repeat?
We dive into a simple, research-backed tool that cuts through bias fast: self-distancing. By stepping just a little outside your story, you cool emotional heat, spot blind spots, and see the strategic move that’s been hiding in plain sight.
We start with the core problem of the inside view—how ego, fear, and history warp our decisions—and show why clarity comes from changing the frame, not collecting m...
The planning mistake that kills your daily motivation. 12 000 work diaries can't lie.
Dec 10, 2025What if the real reason your motivation fades isn’t what goals you achieve, but the way you plan your days?
We open up a counterintuitive truth: the way to lasting motivation is understanding that your brain rewards visible progress toward meaningful goals, not big payoffs.
Using the Progress Principle research on 12,000 work diaries, we break down why tracking inputs you control, reps, learnings, foundation work, creates renewable motivation, while fixating on outcomes you can’t control drains it fast.
We get practical and specific.
You’ll hear...
Duration: 00:17:59How to maximize your performance and escape over-planning and under-doing. Designing systems for your biological peaks and dips.
Dec 07, 2025What if the real problem isn’t your willpower, but your timing?
Today we dive into a very practical exploration of how your brain shifts across the day, and how to design a life that cooperates with those shifts instead of fighting them.
From the morning’s high executive function to the evening’s predictable crash, we unpack why your 9 a.m. self feels like a sharp CEO while your 9 p.m. self behaves like a tired intern, and how to use that predictability to your advantage.
We break...
Systems Beat Willpower: the quiet secrets of high performance. Do less hard - Accomplish more awesome.
Dec 03, 2025If doing the “right thing” still feels like a daily arm wrestle, you don’t need a pep talk - you need better systems.
Today we dig into systems that make good choices easy and consistent, drawing on Angela Duckworth’s research on grit and practical behavior change to show how environment, routines, and scheduling can carry the load so willpower doesn’t have to.
We start with a simple truth: humans, young and old, choose the path of least resistance.
Phones win when they’re within reach. Late nights win when nothing remin...
Duration: 00:20:32The obsession with the finish line is what holds back your progress. The goal-setting mistake most non-coaches do.
Dec 01, 2025The finish line is seductive and often the very thing that stalls progress.
We take you inside a behavior-first approach that replaces outcome anxiety with clear, repeatable actions you can control today.
Speaking from nearly two decades of coaching, we break down why revenue targets, weight goals, and follower counts are lagging indicators that reflect the past, and how leading indicators—your consistent behaviors—are the true drivers of future results.
We map the mindset shift from chasing to creating, showing how to use vision as a compass while buil...
Designing the body you want by beating food cravings for good. Your willpower called: it wants Protein, Fiber, and a Nap.
Nov 29, 2025What if the best shape of your life has little to do with the willpower problem?
And more with a system design problem.
We break down a practical, science-backed framework that turns cravings from a daily fight into a reliable signal you can trust, that works FOR your health and fitness, not against it.
Drawing on my 10+ years of weight loss and health, coaching and evidence-based nutrition, plus a guided AI co-host experiment, we map out 6 simple, actionable pillars that align biology, behavior, and environment so the right choices feel easy<...
Duration: 00:19:014 Invisible forces quietly dictate your choices and how to rewrite them. Changeable things we rarely think of changing.
Nov 26, 2025What if the real barrier to change isn’t willpower but the context you live in?
And what you could design it but rarely do?
Today we unpack 4invisible forces—systems, social norms, flexible framing, and co‑design—that quietly steer your decisions, emotions, and actions. Drawing on a fresh conversation with behavioral scientist Michael Hallsworth of the Behavioral Insights Team, we translate big‑picture insights into daily moves that make change feel natural instead of forced.
We start by challenging the myth of pure personal agency. Sy...
3 Sleep myths that turn high performers into poor sleepers. And a simple 3-step solution that I use to get my clients to 85%+ sleep quality.
Nov 24, 2025If there was a pill that consistently and instantly boosts your cognitive and physical performance - it would contain sleep!
If peak performance starts to slip, don’t blame your willpower - look at your sleep.
We dive straight into the 3 levers that consistently turn “I’m fine” into focused, calm, and energetic: the stories you tell yourself, the routine you follow, and the environment you live in. From caffeine myths to all-nighter bragging rights, we call out the habits that quietly wreck deep sleep and show a clear path to bett...
Duration: 00:23:343 coaching questions to re-start fading motivation.
Nov 20, 2025We explore how the questions we repeat shape our focus, emotions, and results, and how a small shift in wording can turn stuck energy into practical motivation.
Drawing on coaching sessions and real-life experiments in fitness, business, and habit building, we show why your brain reliably hunts for whatever you ask it to find, even while you sleep, and how to use that fact to your advantage.
We walk through a simple 3-question sequence that helps you get back on track with your goals.
Along the way, we unpack common traps like...
Duration: 00:14:29Changing your life and business overnight: just one insight can do that. Phill Agnew the host of UK's #1 marketing podcast will tell you how.
Nov 18, 2025If you’ve ever wondered why people do the strange things we do, this episode is your new favourite rabbit hole!
Today we have Phill Agnew on the show, the mind behind Nudge — the UK’s #1 marketing podcast, downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.
But today?
You get Phill unplugged — telling stories, breaking down psychology, and showing you how a few behavioral science principles can transform your business, your life, your TikTok following and even your marathon time.
🎧 What you’ll hear inside (and w... Duration: 00:53:01
Master Body-Mind Attention Shifting: to beat food cravings, impulsive shopping and become better communicator.
Nov 15, 2025What if the fastest way to beat cravings, cool heated words, and stop impulse buys is as simple as changing what you pay attention to?
In today's episode we explore a practical, science-informed method for redirecting focus and shifting body state so urges lose their grip and better choices get easier.
Along the way, we share real examples from coaching and daily life that show how quickly a craving fades when you anchor your mind elsewhere.
The same playbook helps in relationships and money choices. Train these skills like reps i...
A simple 5-step Work-Life Integration process for ambitious people, living an unbalanced life.
Nov 12, 2025If your calendar predicted your future, would you like what it shows?
In today's episode we'll walk through a clear, 5-step work-life integration system designed to turn values and your future self visions into the life you live daily. Instead of chasing someone else’s idea of balance, we strip away borrowed goals and define a good life in your words, for this season, starting now.
It's a realignment process.
We create a match between what you want in life and what you do every day.
If this...
Duration: 00:17:05The Consistency Code: from spark to sustainable change. My full interview on the Lekker Network.
Nov 10, 2025What if consistency isn’t about willpower but about design?
In this special crossover episode, Angela flips seats and becomes the guest. Interviewed by Kevin Joseph from the Lekker Network, I unpack how small, deliberate system changes can unlock unstoppable performance in individuals, teams, and entire organizations.
Angela shares her journey from health and neuroscience to behavioral science and leadership transformation, and the practical insights that help people stay on track long after motivation fades.
💡 In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
The hidden code of consistency<... Duration: 00:37:29From Stuck To Momentum, Overwhelm into Motion: the rule of one thing. How to make progress with complex goals, with challenging client cases, or when stuck.
Nov 06, 2025Feeling stuck while juggling big, messy goals? We’ve all been there.
Today we talk about a simple, coaching-proof, reliable way to turn overwhelm into motion: after years of coaching complex client cases, one thing never fails - oversimplification outperforms overcomplication when you need momentum and progress.
You’ll hear practical examples across domains: a single rule that quietly drives weight loss, a daily recognition habit that nudges culture toward engagement, and a no‑frills sales sprint that outperforms complex business strategies. Each tactic is intentionally small, easy to track, a...
The Billion-Dollar Power of Motivation — inside some of the world’s largest business gamification cases with Ricardo Lopes Costa, founder of Funifier, a globally recognized corporate gamification platform.
Nov 04, 2025Most teams, people and companies don’t have a motivation problem - they have a design problem.
In this episode I sit down with Ricardo Lopes Costa, founder and CTO of Funifier from Brazil and the author of "The Fantastic Engagement Factory: how to motivate people on a large scale with gamification". We uncover how gamification, psychology, and smart feedback loops can turn apathetic workflows into performance engines people actually want to use.
Ricardo’s company, Funifier, has worked with global brands like Co...
A simple rule for lifelong habits: how I stuck with writing for 3652 days.
Nov 02, 2025Habits don’t fail you because you’re weak.
They fail because they’re stuck in the wrong place.
Let me explain...
Today we unpack a simple, powerful rule for consistency: put each habit where it naturally fits your life so it stops feeling like work.
Think of your day like a kitchen - your daily coffee maker sits by the water and the mugs, not in the back of a cabinet. Your routines deserve the same thoughtful placement.
Years of weekly training, hundreds of days of writing...
How to travel light towards big, hard, long-term goals: leaving the wrong scorecard behind. High performance psychology 101.
Oct 30, 2025Big goals shouldn’t feel like hauling a suitcase of rocks up a hill.
We’re talking about how ambitious people accidentally strap on extra weight with the wrong scorecard - chasing outcomes, timelines, and approval - when the real leverage lives in daily process, commitment to daily work, clear systems, and consistent action.
Today, I'm walking you through a practical high-performance exercise that reframes control, so you can stop measuring what you don’t own and start optimizing the inputs you do.
We dig into concrete exampl...
Be Yourself At Work: how emotional optimism, bravery, and efficiency drive real performance - with world's first Chief Heart Officer Claude Silver
Oct 27, 2025In this special episode of Change Wired, I sit down with Claude Silver, the world’s first Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX, to celebrate the launch of her new book, Be Yourself at Work: The Groundbreaking Power of Showing Up, Standing Out, and Leading from the Heart.
Together, Angela and Claude unpack how to build cultures of belonging -where people don’t just fit in, they flourish.
🔑 Episode Highlights
Why “fitting in” is outdated and how belonging unlocks performance.Claude explains tha... Duration: 01:01:13
Rewire Negative Self-Talk in 60 Seconds for Unstoppable Success: I've built my first custom GPT and we are testing it out.
Oct 24, 2025When a tough week whispers “You’re a failure,” what do you do next?
We dig into a fast, 4-question CBT flow that turns harsh self-talk into a clear plan you can act on in minutes feeling confident, empowered, hopeful and motivated again - we demo a custom Self-Talk Trainer that guides the process and exports a one-page PDF you can use as a mental training log.
We start with a core premise: thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are linked, and high performers are often tripped up not by skill but...
How to sleep better 101. Transform your decisions, learning, leadership and give your full potential a fair chance.
Oct 22, 2025Ready for a life boost that doesn’t require another app, hack, or supplement?
Today we unpack why sleep is the hidden engine behind emotional stability, sharper decisions, and real learning, and how a few consistent habits can transform your days by fixing your nights.
We start with the brain, how chronic restriction (yes, even 1-2h a night) quietly erodes attention, working memory, processing speed, and reasoning. If you lead teams, negotiate deals, parent, or simply want to grow faster, “sleep on it” isn’t a cliché; it’s a strategy...
Psychology Updated: how to program your brain 101. Follow through on what you said you would do.
Oct 19, 2025Ever notice how big goals melt into "some day land" when the day gets messy?
On today's episode we break down a simple, evidence-backed tool that turns “I should” into “I did,” replacing fragile motivation with clear cues and automatic actions. Instead of relying on willpower, we show how to script your behavior like software: a specific trigger, a concrete next step, and a defined finish line that delivers a quick reward your brain actually remembers.
Who does what, when, where, how often, and with whom? ...
Duration: 00:23:36The Law of 72 Hours: engineering your last 3 days to feel clear, energized, and intentional today
Oct 15, 2025What if feeling your best days weren’t random at all but designed by what you did over the past 3 days?
We break down a simple, repeatable system to engineer energy, calm focus, and confident decisions by auditing the last 72 hours of sleep, food, movement, people, media, and thought patterns. Instead of chasing motivation, we build fertile “soil” so your potential has a fair shot to grow and your good choices become the default, not the exception.
Along the way, I share my own checklist for feeling and doing my best. ...
TOP coaching practice to make progress on ANY of your goals.
Oct 13, 2025Growth doesn’t vanish because we lack motivation; it stalls because we never gave it a place to live on our calendar.
Today we dig into the most unglamorous yet powerful practice that top coaching schools use to build mastery: making the time.
I share how small, protected commitments beat bursts of inspiration every time.
We walk through concrete examples - from a daily 30-minute fitness slot that compounds strength, to relationship check-ins that turn intentions into trust, to a personal miss on public speaking that proved how plans without...
Optimism Gym: 3 questions that cut procrastination and expand your future potential🌱
Oct 12, 2025What if optimism isn’t personality but practice?
And what if it's the best practice to unlock your full potential?
We dive into a simple, repeatable way to build a more optimistic outlook—without fluff, forced positivity, or ignoring reality. Think of it like strength training for your mindset: small, consistent reps that shift how you see options, make decisions, and take action. Along the way, we connect the dots between optimism and procrastination, and why believing your effort matters is the difference between starting now an...
Duration: 00:17:34Turn emotions into moments you are proud of. 6 foundational tools for applied emotional regulation.
Oct 09, 2025Strong emotions can be fuel or friction. Which one is it for you?
We walk through 6 practical tools - from CBT reframes to visualization - that help you stay steady in hard conversations, handle feedback without spiraling, and turn “I blew it” into “that was a rep.”
We get tactical with spatial distancing to cool heat in the moment, temporal distancing to choose what future you will respect, and distancing self-talk to access the clear advice you’d give a friend. Each tool lowers emotional noise and raises cognitive control, so you...
Matt Wallaert: Behavioral Science isn’t just for customers — it’s for redesigning culture too. A smarter way to build talent and inspire people's growth.
Oct 07, 2025Why do we invest millions changing customer behavior but ignore how people behave inside companies?
In this thought-provoking conversation, behavioral scientist and author Matt Wallaert returns to Change Wired to explore the next evolution of behavioral science: internal change.
We discuss why most organizations treat employee behavior as fixed or random — and what it takes to build systems where people grow continuously, without relying on luck, politics, or the next big program.
🔍 In this episode:
The economic bias behind why compa... Duration: 01:08:56From feeling "off" → to "on track" and clear what to do next: 1 question to FEEL your way forward.
Oct 05, 2025Ever felt “off” without a clear label? That unsettled itch - not sure what it is or what to do with this feeling?
We unpack 1 question that flips the script from vague discomfort to decisive action.
The shift from analyzing your current mood to aiming at a target feeling - confident, capable, empowered, which opens a practical path you can actually walk.
air it with one follow-up question, that naturally comes to you - and you’ve got a daily operating system for momentum for the last 90 days of the year...
Duration: 00:12:46A note from a recovering overcommitter: a 2-step process to say NO like a pro, so you can deliver work that people remember.
Oct 03, 2025What if the difference between busy and brilliant is one decision - choosing what feels right over what feels good?
Today, together we build a practical system for high performance: map your peak cognitive hours, defend them with clear boundaries, and feed them your most important task so your best thinking meets your highest leverage.
We walk through an elegant 2-step method for turning down distractions and saying no without drama.
We'll learn how to prevent burnout, often coming from over-committing, trying to look good o...
Duration: 00:25:41BS At Work with James Healy: designing work that works for humans. Rethinking culture, change and human behavior.
Sep 29, 2025Ever felt like so much of what happens at work is utterly meaningless, wasteful and backwards?
You're not alone.
In this eye-opening conversation with James Healy, founder of Behavior Boutique and author of "BS at Work," we dive deep into why modern work often feels like bullshit.
What if the biggest problem in modern work isn’t lack of effort, technology, strategy, or "better humans" but the simple fact that we keep designing for humans as if we were some logical machines… instead of messy, emotional, social creatures we are...
Duration: 01:22:16Designed for Humans: research backed "brain hacks" for greater work performance, better eating and smarter choices.
Sep 26, 2025Ever wonder why you can't just willpower your way to better habits, doing better work and making smarter choices? The answer lies not in trying harder, but in understanding how your brain actually works.
The most powerful force shaping our behaviors isn't conscious decision-making—it's our environment.
Research consistently shows that what surrounds us impacts our choices far more than we realize.
This environmental influence extends to every aspect of our lives. Researchers have identified the "zip code effect"—the remarkable finding that where you live predicts your health...
3 Steps to Decisions You Won't Regret: a simple framework to simplify life's big choices
Sep 24, 2025Decision regret doesn't have to be your default state.
Whether you're choosing shoes, supplements, a new career path, or a life partner, the quality of your decisions dramatically shapes your life satisfaction and success.
Drawing from Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman's work on dual thinking systems, this episode reveals why we make poor choices when stressed or overwhelmed. Your brain switches to autopilot (System 1) when resources are limited, falling back on habitual patterns that might not serve your current goals. The solution? A simple yet powerful decision-making framework that works even when yo...
Innovation you can rely on with Alex Osterwalder, CEO of Strategyzer and top 10 business thinker: from guesswork to strategic exploration that pays off. Tools for reinvention in the AI age.
Sep 21, 2025Whether you’re a business leader, entrepreneur, or someone reinventing yourself, the way you think about innovation will shape not just your future.
Innovation isn’t about guessing or chasing shiny ideas. It’s about having a process, the right tools, and the discipline to test, learn, and scale what creates value.
In this episode, I sit down with Alex Osterwalder—one of the world’s most influential strategy and innovation thinkers, inventor of the Business Model Canvas, bestselling author, and CEO of Strategyzer. Alex has changed...
Duration: 01:19:29Intentions → Actions. Meet JITAIs - the best type of reminder to help you take consistent actions on your goals.
Sep 17, 2025Have you ever wondered why so many of your meaningful intentions never transform into actual behaviors?
That language you want to learn, the presentation skills you hope to develop, the health habits you wish to build - all sitting in a metaphorical bucket of good intentions that rarely see the light of day.
The gap between intention and action represents your untapped potential, dreams that slowly fade as urgent (but perhaps less meaningful) tasks continuously take priority.
But what if behavioral science could offer a solution?
In thi...
Duration: 00:24:45Hacking Self-Mastery: don't skip these 3 pillars if you want to get great at self-transformation or helping others change
Sep 14, 2025What makes some people capable of extraordinary consistency while others struggle to maintain even basic positive habits?
The answer lies in 3 foundational pillars that shape all human behavior. A framework so powerful it can transform not just individual actions, but entire organizational cultures.
The first pillar, stories, operates as the foundation of all behavior change. As your host Angela Shurina reveals through compelling personal examples, the narratives we construct about our circumstances directly impact our capacity for action.
The second pillar, incentives, addresses the fundamental truth that...
Practice: how to create sustainable achievement without burnout and getting bored. Personal agreement exercise.
Sep 10, 2025Do you find yourself grinding through tough projects, just waiting for them to end so you can finally enjoy life? Do you quit things often because you get bored or tired?
What if sustainable high performance didn't require sacrificing your wellbeing or joy of living?
This episode tackles the critical challenge many ambitious professionals face: how to achieve difficult goals without burning out. We'll explore the missing skill that separates sustainable achievers from those caught in burnout cycles.
Most people don't burn out because their work is too demanding; they bu...
Behavioral Science in Business: Scott Young on closing intent-action gap in business, AI and culture strategy. And why people don't do what they say.
Sep 07, 2025Why do well-intentioned initiatives so often fail to deliver results?
The answer lies not in strategy but in execution - specifically, in the gap between what people intend to do and what they actually do.
Scott Young has spent his career at the intersection of behavioral science and business transformation, advising Fortune 500 companies and teaching at institutions like the London School of Economics. His mission: helping leaders apply behavioral science ethically and effectively to drive real change.
In this illuminating conversation, Scott reveals:
• Behavioral science offers unique value in helping...
Duration: 00:56:38Brain Biology: your secret weapon to unlock your most productive, high-performing self.
Sep 03, 2025Ever wonder why willpower fails you more at night? Why some days you're laser-focused and others you can't concentrate for five minutes?
The answer lies not in psychology, but in biology.
Your brain chemistry literally transforms throughout the day.
That morning brain, charged with cortisol and dopamine, is a focus machine ready for complex work. By evening, different neurochemicals dominate, making discipline nearly impossible but creativity more accessible. Fighting these natural rhythms is like swimming upstream – exhausting and counterproductive.
This episode unpacks the science behind working with your brain's biology ins...
A scientist’s guide to career and life pivots with Dr Anne-Laure Le Cunff and "Tiny Experiments". How to move forward and build success when you don’t know the goal and don't have a plan.
Aug 31, 2025What if there's never gonna be a perfect plan and total clarity?
On today's episode Dr. Anne-Laure Le Cunff, the author of "Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World", shares how tiny experiments can transform our approach to life, work, and meaningful change without rigid goals or predetermined paths. Her experimental mindset offers a powerful alternative to traditional planning - designing low-risk experiments to uncover your path one step at a time.
We will touch on:
Fro...
Fall in love with the problem: Netflix's secret to success and your path forward. Your "perfect" plan is holding you back.
Aug 29, 2025Have you ever felt stuck in life or business, unable to make progress despite having what seems like a perfect plan?
This espisode is definitely for you then!
The problem might not be your goal, but rather your attachment to how you think you should get there.
Life isn't a clearly mapped journey but more like walking through fog - we can glimpse our destination in the distance, but the path only reveals itself as we take each step forward. This insight transformed how I approach challenges, from person...
How in just 1 day I stopped a bad habit I had for 10 years: we are what we design for, not what we think about
Aug 27, 2025What if everything you thought about changing habits is backward?
Most of us believe high performance comes from discipline, willpower, and pushing ourselves harder. But what if your environment shapes your behavior far more than your intentions ever could?
What if high performers are just better at putting themselves in a situation to win?
Drawing from recent conversations with behavioral scientists and my own experience as an executive coach, I've discovered something revolutionary: the secret to lasting behavior change isn't trying harder, it's designing smarter systems around you.
Hu...
Duration: 00:21:17Your greatest strengths might be holding you back: Blindspotting with Dr Martin Dubin.
Aug 24, 2025What if your greatest strengths are secretly holding you back as a leader?
In this illuminating conversation with Dr. Martin Dubin, we uncover the hidden blind spots that prevent even the most successful leaders from reaching their full potential and making forward progress.
We all have blind spots, patterns we don’t notice in ourselves that limit our growth.
In this episode of Change Wired, Dr. Martin Dubin, clinical-psychologist-turned-entrepreneur-turned-leadership coach, and author of Blindspotting: How to See What’s Holding You Back as a Leader, shares why blinds...
Duration: 01:10:54Unlocking the missing link between intention and action, knowing and doing, goals and habits through 1 simple practice.
Aug 23, 2025Why do our intentions so rarely transform into consistent actions? What prevents our aspirations from becoming achievements?
The answer lies not in willpower or knowledge, but in a crucial missing link that's often overlooked in our pursuit of consistent behavior change.
In this enlightening exploration of human motivation, we uncover the fundamental truth about why behavior doesn't stick until we see the connection between what we need to do and what we deeply care about.
While Simon Sinek popularized "starting with why," we rarely apply this principle to the small, daily action...
Duration: 00:18:50Metacommunication and the secret to make your message land: the 5-point checklist for clear, effective communication that moves projects forward
Aug 20, 2025Ever feel frustrated when people don't seem to "get" what you're saying? The gap between what you mean and what others hear isn't about your words - it's about metacommunication, the powerful yet often overlooked dimension of human connection.
This episode unveils the science behind why we're frequently misunderstood.
Astonishingly, research shows only 10% of our meaning comes from our actual words, while 30% derives from tone and a whopping 60% from body language. When I deliver feedback like "Your presentation lacked technical depth," the way I frame it completely tr...
Duration: 00:21:47What if your Superpowers are secretly sabotaging you? The dark side of your strengths and how to work with it to achieve goals.
Aug 18, 2025What if your greatest strengths are secretly sabotaging your success?
This eye-opening exploration delves into the fascinating paradox at the heart of personal development - how our natural talents, when overused or misapplied, become the very blind spots holding us back.
We'll explore the concept through analyzing my CliftonStrengths 34 report - not just learning to see how your blind spots can hold you back but also how you can build simple systems to prevent that from happening.
Drawing from Martin Dubin's groundbreaking book "Blind Spotting" and my personal revelations from the Clifto...
Choice Architecture: why smart people end up wasting so much of their potential and where you have the most leverage to change that.
Aug 14, 2025Have you ever found yourself wondering why you keep making choices that don't align with your goals, despite your best intentions? The answer might surprise you. And it's not about willpower or discipline.
What happened when my family's Wi-Fi unexpectedly died during my parents' visit revealed a profound truth about human behavior. My father, who had been refusing physical activities for days due to arthritis, suddenly suggested a bike ride.
Behavioral scientists have a term for this phenomenon: choice architecture. Research shows that modifying your environment is dramatically more effective at ch...
Matt Wallaert on how to design the future you want (and actually get there). Applied behavioral science to go from insight to impact: leadership, profits, your life.
Aug 10, 2025Ever wondered why changing habits feels like an uphill battle?
Behavioral scientist Matt Wallert pulls back the curtain on how human behavior can be systematically designed and changed – not through wishful thinking, but through a scientific process.
What if culture change, product design, or even personal transformation wasn’t guesswork but a process as reliable as engineering?
In this episode of Change Wired, I sit down with behavioral scientist, author, and “empathetic scientific activist” Matt Wallaert to talk about the science - and the humanity - behind designin...
Duration: 01:12:19Unlock Your Mind: great sleep, learning and brain's ability to change itself. The best tool from psychology.
Aug 08, 2025The ability to adapt and change has never been more critical than in today's rapidly evolving world. Yet most of us unwittingly sabotage our own cognitive flexibility through one common mistake: keeping yourself stuck in unhelpful thought patterns.
And it starts with sleep...
Sleep isn't merely rest, it's when your brain performs its most sophisticated work.
During those precious hours, your neural networks physically restructure, processing new information and connecting it with existing knowledge. Research consistently shows that sleep-deprived individuals significantly underperform on learning tasks, regardless of whether they involv...
Duration: 00:26:56Energy Is Everything: how to fix your "up and go" in the morning and strong sleep drive at night. Hacking cortisol.
Aug 06, 2025Let's unlock the secret relationship between your biology and psychology that determines your energy levels, mood, and ability to create meaningful change in your life.
How's your energy each morning? Before coffee? Your ability to have a great sleep most nights? Without meds, Netlix or booze?
THAT determines your quality of life more than anything.
Discover the science-backed morning ritual that naturally optimizes your energy without caffeine or sugar. This simple practice signals your brain's internal clock to produce the perfect cortisol pattern: high in the morning for su...
Thriving cultures that deliver performance by design with Anish Padinjaroote from Fractal AI. The Secret OS of Great Companies.
Aug 03, 2025You can't force humans to thrive—you have to design for it.” ~ Anish Padinjaroote
What if the secret to building a thriving workplace culture that builds great companies and humans wasn't about control, but about intentional design and extreme trust, spreading things that work like a virus?
Welcome to a fascinating conversation with Anish Padindrarote, a workplace architect with 23 years of global experience.
Anish shares a revolutionary formula for culture change: daily behaviors multiplied by leadership actions, divided by system friction. This simple equation unlocks profound insights into why som...
Lost in your career? These 4 questions from a behavioral scientist are your GPS.
Aug 01, 2025Feeling stuck in your career or business path? Or unclear? That frustrating thought, "I want to work on interesting projects, and I'm not doing that right now" - might be your wake-up call for change.
This episode unveils four powerful questions from behavioral scientist Matt Wallert that will transform how you approach your next professional chapter. Rather than randomly trying new opportunities, these questions create a framework to filter what truly matters to you. I walk through each question while sharing my personal answers to show how this process works in practice.
Finding Direction in the Midst of Transformation: how to move forward when you don't know where you are going. Pacts, not goals.
Jul 30, 2025Have you ever felt that nagging urge to grow and transform without knowing exactly where you're headed?
That uncomfortable space between knowing you need change and not having a clear destination can feel like being lost at sea – eager to move but unsure which direction leads to land.
Drawing from my coaching experience and personal journey, this episode unveils a powerful alternative to traditional goal-setting that works brilliantly during times of transition and uncertainty. Rather than forcing yourself to define an end destination you genuinely can't envision, I share how cr...
How to lead and make decisions when you have no map. Confidence without Certainty with Dr Brooke Struck.
Jul 26, 2025Theme: Decision-making, leadership, behavioral science & leading change through uncertain times
🔍 What you’ll learn from this episode
Why most organizations fail at evidence‑based decision-making — the difference between gathering data to justify an outcome versus following a robust method without attachment to conclusions. (Discovery VS Confirmation Bias) The paradox of positive outcomes — how positive results can mislead us just as much as failures, and why leaders need to focus on process quality instead of just the results What real confidence in leadership looks like today — the power to say “I don’t know... Duration: 01:09:34How obsessing over problems makes us miss solutions: diet, starups, changing the world. Inattentional blindness.
Jul 22, 2025What happens when we become so fixated on our flaws that we miss the strengths hiding in plain sight? For years, I've watched people struggle with change not because they weren't trying hard enough, but because they were looking in the wrong direction.
The science of "inattentional blindness" explains why we miss critical solutions when we're hyper-focused on problems.
Just like participants who fail to spot a gorilla walking across a basketball court because they're busy counting passes, we miss our own strengths and resources when we're fixated on fixing what's brok...
Duration: 00:20:27Why you don't do what you know you "should do". The Explorer and the Maintainer: understanding your brain's competing drives.
Jul 20, 2025The universal tension between seeking comfort and pursuing growth creates an internal tug-of-war we all experience. What if this conflict isn't a flaw, but a feature of our neurobiology designed to serve our triving?
Drawing from insights by neuroscientist Andrew Huberman and personal development pioneer Tony Robbins, this episode reveals how our brains are simultaneously wired for 2 opposing forces: homeostasis (maintaining balance and comfort) and reward-seeking (driving us toward exploration and growth). This biological reality explains why we can genuinely want two contradictory things at once -
Duration: 00:26:08
How to motivate kids, yourself and your team long-term. Beyond carrots and sticks - the power of the 3rd drive.
Jul 17, 2025Have you noticed how traditional carrots and sticks often fail to inspire true commitment?
There's a reason.
When leaders, parents, coaches, or anyone trying to motivate others relies solely on external rewards or threats, they might gain compliance but never excellence.
Through compelling research and practical examples, we uncover why questions that speak to identity ("Do you want to be a good helper?") dramatically outperform task-focused commands ("Can you clean your room?"), and how great leaders like Steve Jobs and innovative companies like Google apply these principles to bring...
Duration: 00:19:08Hacking Discipline: make your hardest goals addictive with world-known gamification wizard Yu-Kai Chou.
Jul 13, 2025Have you ever wondered why you can spend hours playing video games but struggle to work on important life goals for even 30 minutes? What if you could harness that same engagement for your most meaningful pursuits?
In this captivating conversation with gamification pioneer Yu-Kai Chou, we uncover the hidden psychology that makes games so irresistible and learn how to apply these same principles to transform our work, habits, and lives.
Yu-Kai shares his remarkable journey from being a self-described "nerdy student" who spent thousands of hours leveling up game ch...
Duration: 01:05:39What's slowing your progress down? And one question to figure it out.
Jul 11, 2025You're stuck. You've been working hard, putting in the hours, reading the books, and yet... there's no meaningful progress toward your goals. What's going on?
The answer lies in a powerful concept from systems thinking that could completely transform how you approach any challenge.
Every system, whether it's your business, health journey, or relationship, has one critical bottleneck that's holding everything else back. This is your "number one constraint," and until you identify and address it specifically, all your other efforts might be wasted energy.
SO, how do you figu...
Duration: 00:24:12The Decade-Long Fitness Game: 7 principles for lifelong best shape of your life. Psychology, behavioral science, discipline.
Jul 09, 2025What if the key to permanent fitness isn't found in extreme workouts or restrictive diets, but in understanding the psychology behind sustainable change?
After a decade coaching executives, entrepreneurs, and high-performers on health transformation, I've discovered that most people approach fitness backward, focusing on short-term tactics rather than building systems that last a lifetime.
This episode reveals the 7 evidence-based principles that determine whether you'll not only achieve your fitness goals but maintain them effortlessly for years to come.
We explore why exercise should never feel like punishment, how making you...
How to use chatGPT to find your genius and build systems for success. Strengths + Blind Spots.
Jul 07, 2025What happens when you stop trying to be good at everything and instead design your life around what you're naturally brilliant at?
Today we dive deep into the revolutionary concept of knowing your genius and strategically organizing your life around it to achieve success that only few can dream of - empowered by AI genius.
Breaking coffee plungers might seem like clumsiness, but what if these "flaws" are actually signposts pointing to your natural strengths? The traits that make us "elephants in china shops" in some contexts are often the very same qu...
8 Steps to Master Strategic (Macro) Focus: curing "too ambitious and spread too thin" disease of your brain.
Jul 04, 2025Strategic focus might be the most underrated superpower in our full of opportunity world.
While most of us understand the importance of avoiding momentary distractions, few master what I call "macro focus" - the discipline of channeling your energy toward one strategic priority until meaningful progress is achieved.
Drawing from Alex Hormozi's insights on entrepreneurial success, this episode reveals a pattern I've observed across high performers: the biggest obstacle to extraordinary results isn't lack of ambition but ambition spread too thin.
How do you fix it? (Spoiler ale...
Duration: 00:26:57How to pursue multiple goals at once - fitness, business, relationship. 3 shortcuts to rewiring your brain's automation system.
Jul 02, 2025Ever feel like your life is a juggling act of career, fitness, relationships, and personal growth with too many balls in the air and not enough hands?
You're not alone. And this podcast is designed for you.
The struggle to make progress across multiple life domains simultaneously leaves many of us exhausted, overwhelmed, and on the fast track to burnout.
The solution isn't choosing between your goals or waiting for that mythical "perfect time" to focus on self-improvement. Instead, it's learning how to run more things on autopilot.
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Why no one reads your email. "Cognitive Budgeting" and how to pitch, sell and make people listen.
Jun 30, 2025Ever wonder why your brilliant emails go unread or your fantastic ideas seem to fall on deaf ears?
The answer lies in cognitive budgeting - the brain's ruthless allocation of its limited energy resources.
Your brain is remarkably hungry, consuming over 20% of your daily energy despite being just 5% of your body weight. As we're bombarded with more information than ever before, our brains have become increasingly selective about what deserves attention. Like picky eaters at a buffet, we carefully choose where to spend our precious cognitive resources.
This episode dives...
Developing the Right AI-First Mindset Habits: how to get smarter, not dumber with AI. 4-step framework.
Jun 27, 2025The technological landscape is transforming at breakneck speed, but what determines your success in this new world isn't your mastery of the latest AI tools - it's your AI-first mindset.
While everyone's focused on which AI applications to learn, we're neglecting something far more fundamental: the mental habits that will either propel us forward or anchor us in the past.
Your AI mindset, the questions you habitually ask, the stories you tell yourself, and the thoughts you cultivate, it shapes your preparedness for an AI-first future more than any te...
5 steps to build systems that prevent self-sabotaging, "bad" habits
Jun 25, 2025Ever wonder why it's so easy to fall into habits you know aren't good for you? The answer lies in the Law of Least Effort, a fundamental principle governing not just human behavior but systems throughout nature.
The Law of Least Effort explains why we naturally choose "the bad thing", even when it doesn't serve our long-term goals.
This isn't a character flaw; it's hardwired into our biology.
The challenge?
We've created a world perfectly designed to exploit our lazy brain.
Food companies formulate pr...
Duration: 00:26:51The Goal-First Life-Work Design Framework: why your efforts don't pay off much
Jun 23, 2025Why do we so often work incredibly hard without seeing the results we want?
The answer lies not in our effort, but in how we design that effort.
Drawing from an insightful MIT Sloan Management Review study on leadership development programs, this episode reveals 3 critical mistakes that prevent both organizations and individuals from achieving meaningful growth. These same principles explain why many of us struggle to reach personal and professional goals despite genuine commitment.
The first fatal flaw?... tune in to find out!
With this...
Finding Your Edge: 5 questions to help you stand out in the world of limitless options.
Jun 21, 2025Feeling lost in the noise of a hyper-connected world? Too many things to do, to learn, to try, and seems like every place is taken and everything you want to do is done?
Actually, it's the best time to be uniquely you!
The secret to standing out in a noisy world isn't shouting louder, it's communicating clearer.
Be different.
This podcast is about HOW to actually do it.
What makes you uniquely you in a sea of sameness?
When everyone shares similar titles, credentials, or designations, how do you d...
Duration: 00:22:21The Mathematics of Change: how to create predictable outcomes in health or business.
Jun 19, 2025We're obsessed with outcomes but rarely talk about the engine that creates them: consistent, tracked actions.
This transformative episode challenges the magical thinking around results. Every meaningful change, from fitness transformations to business growth to cultural shifts, follows the same fundamental principle.
Results aren't random; they're mathematical.
The episode explores how this principle applies across domains: business leaders tracking client conversations rather than just hoping for growth; cultural transformation requiring observable behavior changes; health improvements demanding sustainable daily practices. We examine how the "repeatable" aspect is often overlooked, causin...
Duration: 00:17:13First Principles Thinking: why your last diet & business plan failed and how Elon Musk's thinking can help you fix it.
Jun 16, 2025Ever wonder why diets fail, business strategies collapse?
The answer lies not in the approach itself, but in how we think about implementing change.
Thinking in first principles, Elon Musk's favorite mental model that helped him build seemingly impossible businesses, transforms how we approach challenges across all domains.
When we stop following rules and shortcuts we don't understand and instead dig into the foundational elements of how things actually work, we create sustainable systems that adapt as our lives evolve.
Consider the difference between "thinking in diets...
Relationships Matter Most: breaking down silos in modern worplace one interaction at a time with Bryan Miller
Jun 15, 2025Imagine organizations where relationships aren't just an afterthought but the foundation of everything. Where performance, innovation, and well-being flow naturally from meaningful human connections. That's the transformative vision Bryan shares in this profound conversation.
Drawing from 30 years of talent management experience across five continents, Bryan reveals why focusing on relationships is the key to thriving workplaces.
He makes a compelling case backed by science: "If anything you can die from, you die earlier if you're lonely." This biological imperative for connection extends directly to our work lives, where relationship quality...
Duration: 01:09:39Breaking free from busyness and firefightening: how being busy makes you a bad time manager
Jun 13, 2025Ever feel trapped in a cycle of perpetual busyness?
Wonder why, despite your best efforts, you never seem to have enough time to create better time management systems? The answer lies in what behavioral scientists call "the scarcity tunnel", a fascinating cognitive phenomenon that explains why the busier we get, the worse we become at managing our time.
When we're short on time, our brains enter a survival mode where only immediate tasks matter. Like a jar filling with pebbles, each small task occupies precious mental space, leaving no room for st...
🕹️The lie about willpower and discipline: 8 core drivers from applied gamification to get yourself write books, eat healthy, and overdeliver at work.
Jun 11, 2025Willpower is a lie that's been sold to us for generations.
The truth?
Even Elon Musk doesn't wake up every morning relying on "discipline" to build rockets and trillion-dollar companies. Something far more powerful is at work.
Gamification expert Yu-kai Cho has identified 8 core drivers that move humans to action. This stuff make us want to do hard things consistently without the struggle of forcing ourselves through sheer willpower. When Yukai needed to write his book despite a packed schedule, he didn't set calendar reminders or try to "...
Never feel overwhelmed & like wasting time again. Horizon Planning Methodology: from vision to fulfilling days.
Jun 09, 2025Ever feel like you're constantly busy but not making real progress toward what matters most?
That's the frustration horizon planning solves.
Your time is the only truly finite resource you have, 24 hours a day that, once spent, you never get it back. While the demands and options competing for your time multiply endlessly.
Without a clear framework connecting your daily actions to your life's purpose, even the most productive days can leave you feeling empty.
Introducing Horizon Planning Methodology.
Horizon planning creates that ...
When the Going Gets Tough: building systems that prevent failure, and scaling living to 100 and doing the right thing.
Jun 04, 2025What truly determines success in creating lasting change?
Contrary to popular belief, it's not motivation, willpower, or even your inherent abilities. The research reveals something far more fundamental: your ecosystem shapes your outcomes far more than your genetic makeup.
Your zipcode matters more than your genetic code.
How do we shape ecosystems that bring the best in us?
From Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ecosystems to Blue Zones where centenarians thrive. The social dimension of change proves particularly powerful, with studies showing proximity to high performers can boost...
How to be happy with your imperfect life. The Frustration List technique - path to inner peace and meaningful productivity.
Jun 02, 2025Is this feeling of never catching up normal? What if nobody, not even that person you admire who seems to have everything together, has actually figured it all out?
This episode introduces a powerful 3-step Frustration List Technique that transforms how we handle the anxiety of unfinished tasks and unrealized potential.
Drawing from well-researched strategies in stress management, wellness, and productivity science, this approach creates immediate relief and sustainable progress.
The freedom comes not from completing everything, but from making peace with the unfinished nature of life while focusing your energy whe...
Reps In, Goals Out: a 3-step system to turn falling short into future results
May 30, 2025Ever catch yourself frustrated by a lack of progress despite feeling like you're working hard?
You're not alone. It's the most common reason for quitting ... early.
The disconnect between effort and results often comes down to a simple truth: we expect extraordinary outcomes from ordinary input.
Looking at myself in the gym mirror recently, I realized something powerful. I've achieved better physical results than most gym-goers not because I've obsessively chased fitness goals, but because I've consistently shown up for an hour every day.
This pattern holds true across all...
Duration: 00:22:02The Gamification Advantage: how to make discipline fun to make it last. Build abs, business, better future you.
May 28, 2025Ever wonder why thousands of people willingly sign up for grueling marathons and obstacle courses, yet struggle to maintain basic health habits?
Games!
The answer lies not in the level of difficulty, but in how our brains perceive challenges when they're framed as games rather than obligations.
In this fascinating exploration of gamification, we decode the psychological techniques that companies like Facebook use to keep you hooked, and how you can harness these same powerful tools to achieve your personal and professional goals. When you transform mundane tas...
The Impatience Paradox: how to develop more patience for getting results when progress is almost invisible
May 26, 2025Have you ever felt that nagging impatience when working toward an important goal? That almost physical itch wondering why success isn't happening faster?
You're not alone.
The truth is that transformative change rarely feels significant in the moment. While we expect to see daily improvement, real progress accumulates invisibly, only revealing itself after consistent effort over extended periods.
What do you do while waiting for progress to show up? How do you stay consistent? How do you know it's working?...
When we examine the journeys of those we a...
How to develop your character strengths. Or what to do when you get your next personality assessment or Enneagram.
May 23, 2025TUNE IN TO LEARN:
How to you practically become a better you?
You got your Enneagram, or results of StrengthsFinder, what's now? How do you develop new habits of being you... just different you?
This episode explores the disconnect between how we approach career development versus character development, and why that gap keeps us from becoming who we truly want to be.
What if the same systems that helped you excel professionally could transform your character?
Drawing from coaching experience with high-performing leaders, this episode unpacks a pra...
Duration: 00:22:53Breaking Free from the 75% Thought Loop: and building habits for your future self faster
May 21, 2025Do you ever feel like you're stuck in a loop, making the same decisions day after day despite your best intentions to change?
You're not alone.
In this episode we'll explore this fascinating fact how 75% of our daily thoughts are nearly identical to yesterday's, creating a cycle that keeps us living in our past rather than growing into our future.
Discover groundbreaking research that shows people with a close, friendship-like relationship with their future self make demonstrably better decisions today. Brain scans reveal that different neural pathways ac...
The Mattering Deficit with Zach Mercurio. Communication masterclass to create workplaces where people thrive, and build relationships that fulfill.
May 18, 2025What if could upgrade performance at work, build deep relationships at home and in the workplace, heal loneliness everywhere by communicating 3 simple things?
We're facing a crisis that's hiding in plain sight.
It's not just loneliness or disengagement - it's what researcher Zach Mercurio calls a "mattering deficit." Despite our hyper-connected world, people simply don't feel seen, heard, and valued in their everyday interactions.
The statistics are striking: one-third of people report persistent loneliness, 70% feel emotionally uninvested in their work, and half of students don't...
Self-care when you feel like it the least. 3-part emotional resilience script that helps you make better choices when feeling low.
May 14, 2025TUNE IN TO LEARN:
Ever noticed how hard it is to make healthy choices when you're feeling sick, tired, or overwhelmed?
That's exactly when self-leadership matters most - and precisely when it feels most challenging.
This episode reveals a research-backed emotional regulation technique that transforms how you care for yourself during difficult times.
Learn the powerful three-step process that helps you make better choices when your energy is low but the stakes are high. By shifting how you talk to yourself (hint: third-person self-talk is scie...
Duration: 00:14:46Why you're still disorganized (EVEN with all the AI)
May 12, 2025TUNE IN TO LEARN:
What if the solution to your productivity struggles isn't found in the next AI tool, but in mastering something you already possess?
This episode explores a simple truth about personal growth and leadership: we've mistakenly believed that better tools, more knowledge, or the perfect system will finally help us get organized and reach our potential. Yet despite having access to all the knowledge we need to live better lives, most of us still struggle with consistency and follow-through.
Why is that?
The real operating syste...
How to never forget to do things. A 4-step system to manage an overwhelmed mind.
May 09, 2025TUNE IN TO LEARN:
Every day we wake up to expanding to-do lists, countless open tabs, and the gnawing feeling that we're falling behind. Sound familiar?
It's not just you - it's the natural result of living in an accelerating world where AI, content, and expectations multiply faster than we can keep up.
But what if your frustration with "not getting things done" isn't a personal failure but simply the result of working against your brain's natural wiring?
In this episode we break down the behavioral science behi...
Duration: 00:15:48Mind Over Pain: how I used mindful self-relaxation to eliminate back/hip pain I had for a year
May 07, 2025Have you ever wondered if your mind could actually heal your body?
Not through some mystical force, but through simple, deliberate attention?
Pain had become my unwelcome companion.
Despite no obvious injury, a nagging pain in my hip forced me to move differently, think differently, and ultimately feel different.
And through a very simple mindfulness practice I got rid of it.
The experience revealed a profound truth about our bodies: we're integrated ecosystems where everything connects.
As someone who battled frequent illness in younge...
Duration: 00:19:06How I use questions to stay disciplined with eating & fitness.
May 05, 2025TUNE IN TO LEARN:
What if the secret to consistent healthy habits isn't iron discipline but simply the art of asking better questions?
This episode we dive into the science of strategic questioning that can completely bypass your willpower and naturally guide you toward choices that serve your highest goals.
I'm sharing my personal journey as someone with an intense sweet tooth (once consuming over a kilogram of chocolate in a single day!) - and I still manage to maintain fitness-magazine-ready physique 365/year. The magic lies not in superhuman res...
How to reprogram your brain to make the right choices. Implementation intention.
May 02, 2025TUNE IN TO LEARN:
Have you ever felt frustrated by your inability to follow through on things you genuinely want to do?
That gap between intention and action isn't a character flaw - it's neurobiology at work.
What if you could reprogram your brain to automatically do the things that align with your goals and values?
In this episode, we dive deep into implementation intentions, a powerful psychological tool that creates neural pathways for better follow-through. This isn't about willpower or motivation; it's abou...
Duration: 00:16:34Energy over strategy: what keeps discipline strong to do the hard things. And how I've worked for 100 days with ZERO days off. And loving it!
Apr 30, 2025Ever wondered why some people seem consistently productive and energized while others constantly bounce between burnout and recovery?
The answer isn't superhuman genetics or fancy supplements - it's understanding the fundamental science of energy management.
After working for 100+ consecutive days without a traditional day off, I've discovered something counterintuitive: sustainable productivity has nothing to do with motivation or willpower. It's about aligning with our biological design rather than fighting against it. Weekends are social constructs, but rest is biological. When you implement strategic, science-backed rest protocols throughout your day, you can mai...