Change Wired

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. You’ll learn how to build a confidence stock—an ongoing log of small wins and improvements that counters your brain’s negativity bias and grows self-efficacy. We then pressure-test the stories you tell yourself with a clean filter: does this belief serve you? If holding it for a year shrinks your action and your world, it’s time to rewrite it toward utility, practice, and progress. Finally, we explore self-distancing—third-person self-talk that lowers emotional heat and boosts clarity. This simple shift moves decision-making into a calmer part of your brain, so you can see options, choose a next step, and act with less friction. Along the way, we highlight how modern, science-backed approaches deliver the predictability you need to navigate fast change without drowning in noise. The result: fewer yo-yo fixes, more consistent outcomes, and a sturdier path to the future self you’re building. If this resonates, share the episode with one friend who’s stuck in a limiting story, then subscribe and leave a quick review to help others find us. 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

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 gentler path to lasting growth. 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

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 prompts that work on Mondays, during setbacks, and when doubt is loud. Along the way, we share a client story, practical micro-steps, and ways to keep these prompts visible so they interrupt hesitation in real time. You’ll learn how the brain conserves energy with easy narratives, how to counter with better questions, and how two focused minutes can flip your state and protect your identity as a person of action. If you’re ready to spend less time arguing with yourself and more time taking steps that compound, this toolkit is for you. If this episode helped you move, share it with a friend who needs a gentle push forward, subscribe for more mental models and tools, and leave a review to help others find the show. Which question will you use first? 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

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 time. Expect practical, usable examples, how to keep the hike and the blanket, the ambition and the recovery, the treat and the training—without drifting into all-or-nothing thinking. This is about building a wider container for a whole life, where focus sharpens because you stop wasting energy denying parts of yourself that matter. If you’re ready to make choices that feel aligned instead of adversarial, press play, take notes, and try the questions this week. If the episode helps, share it with a friend who’s standing at a crossroads, subscribe for more tools, and leave a quick review to help others find the show. 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

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 like a movie, then reverse-engineer steps from that finish line. From there, we draw a hard line between planning and preparing. Planning is the checklist. Preparing is the logistics: what you’ll eat, when you’ll shop, where food will be stored, how you’ll handle late meetings, travel days, and mornings that go sideways. By stress-testing your plan upfront, you remove excuses before they appear. Next, we show how systems outperform discipline. You’ll hear simple ways to make the right action easy and the wrong action hard—staging tools where the behavior starts, preloading meals and shakers, and stripping out friction points that derail progress. We also get tactical about accountability, from enlist-your-team check-ins to light public commitments that raise the stakes just enough to double adherence, a pattern supported by health research. Finally, we walk through measuring what matters, reflecting on obstacles, and adjusting fast so momentum never stalls. If you’ve ever watched a goal wither after day 3, this conversation gives you a repeatable framework to protect your plan from chaos of daily life. Subscribe, share with a friend who’s stuck, and leave a review to help more people build systems that make success the default. 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

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. We look at how a single choice transforms eating habits without any extra effort. Then we jump to the desk: a client’s under-desk treadmill gathers dust until we this, turning intention into daily miles. Another leader’s “progress and purpose” team check-ins finally happen once we write a short script. Same people, same goals—new environments that make action obvious. You’ll learn practical ways to make good choices inevitable. By shrinking the setup and clarifying the first move, you eliminate decision fatigue and let systems do the heavy lifting. The result is consistency that feels natural, not forced. If you’re ready to trade heroic effort for smart design, this conversation will give you the playbook: reduce friction, set gentle defaults, and build surroundings that pull you forward. Listen now, try one change today, and tell us what you removed to make your next good choice automatic. If this helped, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who’s striving for better habits. 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

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 how to move from lofty visions to daily behaviors that actually change outcomes. We'll chat about: "getting the right people in the right seats"rightstrategy that cascades down into chaosa simple tool to translate high-level strategy into real behaviors for every personWhy SMART goals aren't the answerconfidencebeliefculture and strategy aren't two separate thingsHow to help your team make better decisions in uncertaintyThe Undercover Boss moveWhat AI adoption really requiresThis one is for every leader, business owner, and striver who's tired of watching great plans go nowhere. Expect concrete language, role-level guidance, and a step-by-step way to cascade strategy without crushing initiative. Subscribe, share with a leader who needs a clearer path from plan to action, and leave a review telling us the one behavior you’ll change this week. Connect with Andrea: andreabelkolson.compragmadik.comAndrea Belk Olson Andrea's work: "Jargon is Hurting Your Strategy"What To Ask: How To Learn What Customers Need but Don't Tell You Execution Drift: The Invisible Forces that Derail Strategy Implementation and How to Fix Itandreabelkolson.comText 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

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, share it with a friend who’s stuck, and leave a quick review to spread the word. What’s the one habit you’ll redesign this week? 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

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 that helps you to live with unsolved issues peacefully without denying them. The deeper takeaway is that peace isn’t the absence of problems; it’s the presence of choice inside problems. By practicing this one question morning and night, you train selective attention, reclaim agency, and build a steadier baseline of happiness regardless of external chaos. If you’re ready to stop postponing joy until ... this conversation gives you a toolkit to do that. Listen, try the question for a week, and watch what shifts. If it helps, share the episode with a friend who needs it, and leave a quick review so we can reach more people learning to live with more calm, gratitude, and courage. 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

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 tight feedback loop builds lasting habits using your brain’s reward system. Beyond the core ritual, we dive into other practical tools you can use immediately to grow and improve. Feedforward replaces backward-looking critiques with future-focused guidance you’ll actually act on. The hero exercise turns admired qualities into your personal North Star. The wheel of change helps you decide what to keep, what to let go, and what to accept—so your motivation stops leaking into unwinnable fights. For teams, we outline a simple rollout: lightweight 360s to pick 3 behaviors, a shared cadence, and leaders modeling effort scores. Expect a clear, repeatable framework for personal growth and culture change, one that takes minutes, not meetings, and scales from individual habits to organizational norms. Ready to trade resets for lasting results? Subscribe, share this with a friend who wants to grow, and tell us: which 3 behaviors will you track this week? Short BIO: Lisa Broderick is a seasoned C-suite executive, corporate board member, and nonprofit founder with three decades of leadership experience across diverse industries, blending science with personal transformation. Author of the international bestseller All the Time in the World, which was translated into dozens of languages, and a frequent contributor to Psychology Today, Lisa distills human behavior, science, and systems thinking into complex organizational and behavioral insights. Her books deliver practical, results-driven strategies that empower individuals and organizations to achieve lasting success. Learn more about Lisa and get the book: https://permanencebook.com/ 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

Big goals fail for simple reasons: they’re fuzzy, they are not supported by consistent practice, and we forget to repeat what already works. We unpack a 3-question toolkit that turns foggy aspirations into clear, repeatable wins without demanding more willpower or a personality transplant. Along the way, we connect practice and fast feedback as the core loop of transformation, share concrete examples across health, writing, and workplace culture, and outline a simple rhythm to test, observe, and adjust each week. You’ll learn how to define outcomes you can see, fix the constraint that truly slows you down, and standardize the conditions that already help you win. No hacks, no heroics—just systems that make the right action the easy action. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who’s chasing a big goal, and leave a quick review so more curious minds can find us. Got a bright spot to share or a constraint you’re fixing this week? Drop me a note, I’d love to hear it. info@yourbestculture.com 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

Think your willpower is weak? It’s probably just untrained. We explore a practical, science-grounded path to stronger discipline by reframing willpower as a skill you can build, not a talent you either have or don’t. From late-night snacking to endless scrolling to skipped workouts, we map the moments that derail you and show how small, targeted shifts create big results. We start by redefining willpower, then we dig into 7 exercises you can use today that reset your nervous system and clear your mind. Along the way, we share practical examples you can copy. We close with a step-by-step way to apply these tools to one habit this week and measure real progress without relying on motivation. If you’re ready to align actions with values and train willpower where it counts, press play and pick one tool to try today. If this helped, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs their willpower to make a change, and leave a quick review so more people can build the discipline they want. EVENT: Mindset Gym is Open! Let's train your inner game. Save your seat here: https://mindset-gym-lets-train-y-6umh3qc.gamma.site/ 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

Plans don’t fail because you’re lazy; they fail because life pulls your attention away at the exact moment choices are made. Today we explore a practical, research-backed shift: deliver the right reminder at the right time so the goal you cared about is still vivid at action time. From slashing no-shows at early-morning events to nudging better hiring decisions and strengthening everyday habits, we map out how simple, timely cues can drive behavior change without adding complexity. You’ll learn how to build your own just-in-time nudges: short, identity-linked prompts before the moment of action. We also tackle why resolutions fade and how a daily why makes consistency easier than you think. Whether you lead teams, organize events, or want your personal habits to finally stick, these tools help you turn intention into execution with minimal friction and maximum effect. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with someone who needs a nudge that lasts, and leave a quick review so more people find these practical, science-backed strategies. 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

Pressure doesn’t make us superhuman; it exposes our defaults. Today we unpack why motivation evaporates on the hardest days and show how to build systems that hold when life gets loud. Drawing from executive coaching and leadership development, Angela breaks down 7 practical resilience tools you can train now so they become your automatic response later. We start with a candid look at why traditional leadership programs often fail. From there, Angela shares a coaching story about a client navigating a rough career transition. That story sets up the toolkit - the goal isn’t to feel amazing when things get tough, it’s to be proud of how you showed up. If you’re a leader, entrepreneur, or high achiever who wants resilience that actually works outside the workshop, this one’s for you. If the ideas land, share this with a friend who’s in a tough season, hit follow, and leave a quick review. Your support helps more strivers find tools they can trust when it counts. 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

What if the fastest path to high performance is learning to quit sooner? We challenge the “never quit” myth and replace it with a sharper rule: winners don’t quit the right things, but they quit the wrong things often and fast. Through a 24-hour race story, client case studies, and a simple question that filters good effort from wasted grind, we show how to align your time, energy, and identity so progress feels focused instead of frantic. We dig into the difference between productive discomfort and misaligned struggle, a distinction that shields you from burnout while accelerating results. You’ll hear how to choose your hard with intent, avoid the competence trap, and recognize sunk-cost thinking before it steals another month. Then we introduce the displacement principle, a practical way to make healthy habits stick by adding more of the right inputs first. Finally, we walk through a ruthless but freeing calendar audit. The goal is clarity: a schedule that tells the truth about your values and a week that compounds toward the person you want to become. High performance without burnout isn’t about adding more; it’s about putting the right things in first so the wrong things fall away. If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who’s drowning in commitments, and leave a review to help the show reach more people. What’s the first misaligned task you’ll cut today? 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

The grind feels right until it doesn’t. If you’ve been stacking wins yet sensing a misfit between effort and fulfillment, this conversation offers a fresh compass for your next chapter. We explore how to replace blind push with intentional pause through 3 precise questions that recalibrate your direction, clarify your target, and protect your time for what truly matters. We start by unpacking why high performers still hire coaches when results look strong from the outside. The truth: the same patterns that powered your early success often cap your next level. You hear how external validation can mask inner drift, why “what got you here won’t get you there” is not a critique but a signal, and how structured reflection creates space for new choices. From there, we introduce the 3-question framework. You’ll learn how to eliminate misaligned commitments before adding more, create empty space for mastery to take root, and structure thinking time that’s unrushed and uninterrupted. Whether you’re aiming for deeper impact, calmer days, or work that feels aligned, these tools help you lay the right bricks on the right path, step by step, without the fog of indecision. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who’s navigating change, and leave a quick review to help more high achievers find their compass. 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

Ever notice how a new habit feels great for a week, then suddenly turns into an impossible grind? We dig into the 2 hidden reasons change collapses, and show how to flip both. Using intermittent fasting as a working example, we unpack what’s really happening in your brain when routines shift: the nervous system flags big change as threat, stress hormones surge, and your mind rushes to restore safety by pushing you back to old patterns. That’s not failure; it’s biology doing its job. From there, we build a better playbook. We lean into kaizen, small, steady steps that fly under the brain’s alarm threshold, until 16 feels normal. We talk practical sequencing. We also show why design beats discipline: aligning your fasting hours with your calendar, planning meals in advance, stacking cues like “tea at seven means kitchen closed,” and choosing low-friction activities on tougher days. The same system applies to sales outreach, workouts, writing, and any skill that looks intimidating until repetition normalizes it. You’ll learn how to reduce friction, add supports, and use the environment as your silent coach. When obstacles hit, you’ll know whether to lower the load or improve the design instead of blaming motivation. By the end, you’ll have a stepwise method to make fasting and other goals sustainable, joyful, and resilient under real-life stress. If this helped, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s wrestling with change, and leave a quick review so more people can build habits that last. 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

The ground keeps shifting, but your core doesn’t have to. We dive into the art of evolving your identity without feeling lost, using one deceptively simple question to turn uncertainty into clarity. When we anchor to purpose and let the packaging change, we gain freedom to pivot, experiment, and still feel like ourselves. We start by dismantling the end of history illusion, that sneaky belief that who we are today is who we’ll be forever. You’ll hear how Maya Shankar reframed a lost violin career into cognitive science by following her values, and how Vera Wang translated the drive of elite skating into world-changing fashion. Those stories aren’t fairy dust - they’re blueprints. If your why is service, creation, truth, or potential, there are many hats that can honor it, even as technology and markets evolve. Walk away with a simple, repeatable practice to keep your core steady while your tools, titles, and tactics evolve with the times. If this sparked something for you, follow the show, share it with a friend or your mastermind, and leave a quick review so more people can navigate change with clarity and courage. 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

Forgetfulness isn’t a character flaw - it’s a design problem. When your mind is crammed with small reminders, you burn the fuel needed for creativity, focus, and complex thinking. We walk through a simple, 3-step blueprint to make good habits effortless and free up your best mental energy. The key is treating habits like brain software: write a clean script and it runs without fail. Ready to build habits that don’t fail and reclaim your focus for high-impact work? Share this episode with someone who needs a better system, and leave a quick review so more people can unlock their best thinking. 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

Overwhelm doesn’t come from having no options. It comes from having too many options, and feeling like the “right” one is always out of reach. Today we open up a grounded way to choose when the stakes are high and the clock is ticking, using a 4-lens framework that cuts through noise and surfaces what actually matters for the life you have right now. With that foundation in place, we walk through the 4 lenses: Values, Joy, Success, and Impact, borrowed from Decisions That Matter and refined through coaching experience. Values asks what truly matters this season, not in theory but in practice. Joy identifies the energy sources that keep you moving under pressure, enjoying the journey no matter what. Success demands a clear target. Impact clarifies who you want to reach and how your environment either enables or blocks that reach. By scoring options against these lenses, trade-offs stop feeling like failure and start looking like strategy. There’s no perfect world, only the world you’re building from where you stand. The easy choices are gone; what remains are the ones that shape trajectory. This conversation helps you act with alignment and peace of mind. Listen, apply the prompts, and pick the best available choice for who you’re becoming, not the imaginary version of you with endless time and resources. If this resonates, tap follow, share the episode with someone stuck at a crossroads, and leave a quick review so more people can find tools that move them forward. Your next aligned step starts here. My Daily Blog on Substack: https://yourbestcoaching.substack.com/ 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