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Change Wired
by Angela Shurina
Change Wired: change in days - not in years! If you are the kind of person who wants to explore the edges of your potential, while living your most extraordinary life, feeling, looking, doing your best, driven by impact beyond yourself - you'll love this pod! Change Wired is your new favorite podcast for practical, science-based insights into personal growth and change of behavior, 𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵, 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿, 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, diving into tools and strategies for meaningful productivity, mindset mastery, emotional regulation, stress management, sleep optimization and creating high-performing habits to 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹, 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁. 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗦𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮, 𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵, 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝗕𝗲-𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝗙𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝟭𝟴 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 now based in Cape Town, with her company Your Best Coaching. Each episode breaks down science-backed t
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Self-Coaching Motivation to Do Hard Things. A coaching question I ask my clients every week.
Most people do not fail from lack of potential. They fail because they never build a reliable way to act when the mood is bad, the weather is worse, and life is loud. I want to change that with one coaching question I have used for years with clients, and it takes less than five minutes to try.…
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Build The 10-Year You: the most lasting approach to achieve all of your goals.
If you’ve been stuck in a loop of big goals followed by burnout, there’s a good chance the problem isn’t your ambition, it’s the system underneath it. I talk through a simple but confronting idea: your current habits, actions, and mindset are perfectly optimized to produce the results you have...
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✅Get anything you want done: Barrier, Beacon, Backup.
You can want something for a decade and still not do it, and that does not mean you are broken. It usually means your plan is built on hope NOT systems: more motivation, more willpower, more discipline. I share a simple 3-part behavioral science system that finally flips the script, so the…
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Too Big To Start, Too Small To Skip: A Simple System To Stop Procrastinating on Foam-Rolling and Breathwork
You know the habit is good for you, so why do you keep putting it off? That pattern is not a character flaw. It is usually a design flaw. I break down a simple, research-backed approach to habit formation that works even when you are busy, tired, and not “feeling it,” using a concept I love: the...
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Why You Have Bad Habits: and how to make them disappear without struggle.
Your “bad habits” might not be bad at all. When you eat late at night, pour a glass of wine even though it wrecks your sleep, or end up scrolling and binge watching instead of resting, your brain is often doing its best to manage overwhelm, exhaustion, stress, anxiety, and worry. Those behaviors...
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The Dangerously Effective 7C Goal System: turn big goals into small daily actions that stick.
1,700+ episodes sounds like superhuman discipline, but it’s really a system. I'm sharing the “Dangerously Effective 7C System,” a goal achievement framework built for real life, where motivation dips, schedules get chaotic, and progress can feel painfully slow. If you’ve outgrown SMART goals and...
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A Better Adult Pacifier: how 10 years ago I broke up with emotional eating and have been in the best shape ever since.
A problem almost everyone recognizes but few people know how to solve well: emotional eating and stress eating. When anxiety, overwhelm, sadness, fear, or loneliness hits, it’s easy to reach for a quick pacifier, food, wine, late-night Netflix, scrolling, even relationship drama. I share how I...
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A 4-Lens Toolkit For Impossible Life Decisions: there's no best candy.
You can have a great life and still feel stuck when you’re surrounded by great options. That’s the modern trap: career opportunities, relationship paths, places to live, even “best” health choices can turn into analysis paralysis when there’s no clean yes or no. I’m Angela Shurina, and I’m…
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Brandon Fairweather's Anxiety Survival Toolkit and The Hell Inside Our Heads: why you can't beat anxiety and how to manage it well instead.
Brandon Fairweather was born with a heart defect doctors said he'd need to fix "someday." That someday came at 28 — heart surgery on his third wedding anniversary. Since then: 2 strokes, a near-fatal internal bleed, and a cancer diagnosis. Through all of it, a level of anxiety that, at its worst,...
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A 3-Step Mental Reset to Stop Procrastinating: what I teach to every one of my clients to stop stealing your own progress and growth
Procrastination can feel like a character flaw, but I see it as a predictable brain pattern, a bad mental habit and that means we can train our way out of it. If you’ve ever stared at a workout plan, a report, a nutrition goal, or a hard conversation and thought, “I’ll do it later,” this one is...
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Why your sleep supplement stack can’t fix your bedtime.
If you’ve been chasing better sleep, fat loss, or muscle gain with “perfect” supplements and still feel stuck, this episode will explain why. I’m Angela Shurina, Certified Sleep Coach, and I’m breaking down the coaching framework I use to help clients stop majoring in minors and start getting…
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1694 Podcast Episodes - how to build consistent creative output without waiting for inspiration. 3-step secret formula that every artist follows.
If you’ve ever said, “I just don’t feel like creating today,” this conversation challenges the assumption hiding inside that sentence. We’re talking about consistent creativity, deep work, and the unglamorous skill that separates people who finish from people who only plan. We connect the dots...
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From 11 startups to Entrepreneurs' Organization Global Chair: Joaquin Cordero's unlikely climb through broken bones, bee attacks and buying failing companies.
Joaquin Cordero was 8 years old the first time he made money selling something — small wooden spinning tops to other kids in Guatemala City. Since then he's founded eleven companies, survived 2 broken necks, a bee attack 30 meters up a rock face, and a bone infection that hit the exact week he...
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Why you fail to do things you know you “should” do. And 2 steps to fix your discipline for fasting.
You can feel fully capable and still not follow through and that is not a moral failure, it is a signal. When we catch ourselves saying “I should” or “I could,” we’re hearing hesitant language out loud, and it usually means our brain is not convinced the goal is worth the cost. In this episode I...
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How to build habits when your life has no schedule, routine or consistency. Anchor Moments.
If your calendar changes every week, your habits can still stay rock solid and it starts with one surprisingly simple move: stop attaching consistency to a schedule and start attaching it to a consistent daily trigger that happens no matter what. We talk through why more than 80% of daily…
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The Sleep Doctor, Dr. Michael Breus will teach you how to get the best night of your life. And the one habit that beats 8-hour rule every time.
Dr. Michael Breus has spent 26 years studying why we can't sleep — and has helped everyone from Fortune 500 CEOs to Olympic athletes fix it. In this episode of Change Wired, "The Sleep Doctor" breaks down the one habit that matters more than eight hours, why every human on Earth wakes up between…
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Feeling Your Best for The Long Game: 8 evidence-based practices for whole body-mind vitality till the day you die.
Your body keeps score, but it also keeps receipts. If you are tired, stiff, or dealing with nagging pain, the problem is often not “age” or a lack of willpower, it is missing body maintenance habits that compound for years. After attending the Long Game Summit hosted by Dr. Kelly Starrett and his...
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1 Tiny Habit That Ends Procrastination
Waiting for “the perfect time” is a sneaky way to stay exactly where you are. Then I share one of the most underestimated tools in coaching and behavior change: Minimum Viable Habits. I tell you why this works so well psychologically: consistency builds self-trust, strengthens self-efficacy, and...
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Sleep is like weight loss, only possible when you consistently follow a set of rules. Here are the rules.
Great sleep isn’t magic, and it definitely isn’t “just luck” When I get a truly solid night, I feel it everywhere: better mood, better workouts, better focus, and a calmer baseline even after a brutal week. Today I’m giving you the exact framework I use as a certified sleep coach to help people...
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Rest Protocol to Beat Your Best: how elite performers match work with time off and breaks.
You can be incredibly driven and still be held back by the one thing you keep postponing: recovery. After DMing 50 founders, business owners, and leaders to ask what limits their performance, I got a surprisingly consistent answer: rest, recovery, and sleep. Not strategy. Not hustle. The basics…
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How to Make a Habit Automatic (Without Trying Harder)
Willpower isn’t your real problem. Your environment is. I’m Angela Shurina, and I’m diving into habit formation, aka your brain's automations, through the lens of high performance, neuroscience, and a simple principle I use daily: zonality, or assigning clear locations to specific behaviors so…
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Leading Success Without a Map: Rashid Toefy's wild journey from apartheid to government leader, entrepreneur, and CEO before earning a PhD at 50.
In 1985, a 13-year-old boy watched his father sell the family house, move them into a caravan, and start training to cycle around the world — at a time when South Africa was closed off from most of the planet. The trip never happened. But something about that audacity never left him. That boy is...
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Beat Your Internal Resistance with 6 Questions: what winners do when they feel like quitting.
Motivation is a terrible plan and most of us keep learning that lesson the hard way. When you’re tired, stressed, or not “feeling it,” the real challenge is not willpower, it’s the story running in your head and whether you know how to work with it without sliding into burnout. We get extremely...
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Stop Chasing Discipline and Start Copying Better People: how I wrote 801 blogs in a row.
Discipline gets all the credit, but your environment does most of the work. I’m Angela Shurina, and I’m unpacking a simple idea that can change your health, habits, and results fast WITHOUT more discipline. When you choose the right “everybody,” you stop relying on willpower to do hard things. If...
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Yaron Assabi: 8 thriving businesses, 3 cancers, the world's first mobile commerce transaction - and he's just getting started.
When your doctor gives you 3 months to live, what do you do with the company you spent 23 years building? What do you do with your life? What would crash most people resulted in another successful business venture for Yaron. What kind of person can do that? Let's find out! Yaron Assabi built 1 of...
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Pre-bed anxiety? Wired and tired and can't fall asleep? 3AM wake-ups? - 3 psycho-biological tools from sleep science to put your brain to sleep.
Your sleep is not “just sleep. When nights get choppy, it is easy to blame stress, age, or bad luck. I see something else again and again: small, fixable habits that keep people stuck in a tired and wired loop, then they wonder why they wake up at 3 a.m. with a brain that will not shut off. I…
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5 steps to make progress in uncertainty of the world that's changing every moment: goal-setting is nonsense.
You can do everything “right” and still not get the result on your preferred timeline and that doesn’t mean you’re failing. Today I’m unpacking the mindset shift that removes so much goal frustration: outcomes don’t owe you a deadline. When you stop demanding that the scale, the KPI dashboard, or...
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Stop Falling Off The Wagon: how Mental Contrasting is the best kept secret of people and companies doing their best when sh*t hits the fan.
The moment you feel stressed, tired, or overwhelmed, do you suddenly “forget” all your healthy plans and slide back into old patterns? We’re tackling that frustrating loop of falling off the wagon and why it happens across nutrition, fitness, business, and relationships, even for smart,...
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Fitter, stronger, healthier under stress, pressure and with a busy schedule. The secret brain switch of high performers.
If your workouts vanish the moment life gets busy, it’s not because you’re weak, lazy, or “bad at discipline.” It’s because you’re treating exercise like a choice that requires motivation. High performers do something completely different. Do you need motivation to brush your teeth? We talk about...
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Willem Venter: on building successful business, great fitness and fulfilling life. The Balanced Entrepreneur Playbook.
Hustle is loud, but clarity is what lasts. We sit down with Willem Venter, founder of ZEDMEN - Men premium custom menswear with boutiques in Cape Town and Johannesburg, to unpack how Willem sustained a demanding entrepreneurial life for 20 years WITHOUT letting his health, relationships, or…
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How To Get Fit With Habits That Stick
Discipline gets all the credit, but it is the wrong tool for the job of getting you fit for the rest of your life. If you have ever tried to “just be stricter” with workouts, nutrition, sleep, or even scrolling, you already know how it ends: a strong start, a busy week, then a full stop. I share…
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You didn't fail - You chose a short runway for your goal. How to stay motivated for long-term goals and feel good while getting there.
Your goal might be real and deeply meaningful, but the timeline you attached to it could be the thing draining your energy. I’m sharing one quote that has repeatedly helped me drop the stress of trying to achieve something and return to motivation and peace. When I hold that frame in mind, I stop...
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From Thinking about it to Doing it with Sales Coach Charles Hsuan. How to drive sales and motivate people to say YES to change.
Waiting to “feel ready” is one of the cleanest ways to stay stuck. Angela Shurina sits down with sales coach and author Charles Hsuan to unpack the real reason people don’t change, and it has less to do with willpower than with decision mechanics. Charles shares how he left banking, stumbled into...
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How I stopped eating chocolate at night. What are you REALLY hungry for?
Chocolate at night can feel like a switch flips and suddenly you are “out of control.” I don’t buy that story anymore. What’s really happening is your brain and body are trying to meet a need the fastest way they know how, and sugar just happens to be the most available tool. We walk through a...
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🏄Fear To Purpose: unlocking your potential with Mindset Training Toolkit from Big Wave Surfer Matt Bromley.
What happens when the thing you're most afraid of is also the thing that gives your life the most meaning? Matt Bromley chases storms for a living. Literally. He tracks weather systems forming across the globe, and when the wave looks big enough, he flies in, straps on an inflation vest, and...
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40+ Happy Body Playbook. What every adult needs to have sorted for a good midlife.
Your body is the vehicle for everything you want to build, and after 40 it gets brutally honest about what you’ve been ignoring. I’m sharing a simple “Happy Body Playbook” I’ve seen again and again through 18 years of coaching high performers and through interviews with entrepreneurs and leaders...
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How To Stop Self-Sabotage At Night And Wake Up Proud: 2 questions from Future Self research.
Your hardest habits don’t usually fail in the morning, they fail at night. Don't they? When stress is high and energy is low, it’s easy to reach for quick comfort and then wonder why sleep, nutrition, and workouts never feel consistent. I’ve found a different lever that works WITHOUT motivation…
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Getting into the best shape with the busiest schedule: how Robbie Francis did it. He's making millions and not slowing down any time soon.
Today I’m joined by my client Robbie Francis, an entrepreneur who describes what life looked like before: crowbarring himself out of bed, dragging through mornings, grinding through work, and slowly losing the edge he used to have in his 40s. He wasn’t just uncomfortable in his body, he was…
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5 Nutrition Mistakes that make you lose drive, energy, sleep and play after 40. Learning from 18 years of nutrition coaching.
One small choice can flip your whole day, and your day is built from moments like that. If you want better focus, fewer injuries, more consistent workouts, and deeper sleep, the basics are done right are your edge. Most people skip them going for some "hacks". If this helped, subscribe, share it...
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5 Core Mindset Shifts that push your forward instead of keeping you stuck. Grit psychology 101 and lessons from 18 years of coaching high performers.
Your inner voice can push you forward or quietly keep you trapped in the same loop. What does yours do? We break down 5 mindset strategies I’ve seen work across high performers in all fields - athletes, executives, business owners, leaders, and everyday humans who are serious about growth, from...
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How I Help Clients to Quiet The Food Noise without Ozempic
Food shouldn’t take up this much mental space. If you feel stuck in cravings, late-night snacking, or constant second-guessing, this conversation will give you a clear, science-informed system that makes eating feel simple natural. We break down an 11-rule nutrition framework which I use in my...
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Overdrinking, overeating, overscrolling at night: a 5-minute fix every high performer needs.
Your late-night wine, snack spiral, or doomscrolling streak might not be a “discipline problem” at all. I’m Angela Shurina, and I’m digging into the surprising reason so many of us repeat self-sabotaging habits even when we know they wreck our sleep quality, mood, and next-day productivity. We...
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Buy Back Your Time: where you lose most of your earning potential and life's fulfillment and joy.
You can’t “manage time” if you refuse to learn to price it well. We’ve all done it: obsess over small savings, then burn an hour on chores, admin, or digital clutter that someone else or an AI assistant could handle faster and better. That trade feels harmless in the moment, but over weeks and...
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Stop Visualizing Success If You Want To Succeed: inside the new science of motivation.
Pure positive thinking sounds harmless, but what if it’s the reason you keep failing on the goals you care about most? I’m Angela Shurina, and I’m unpacking a counterintuitive finding from motivation research: when we only fantasize about future success, our bodies can relax as if the win already...
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STOP celebrating your goals if you want to achieve them.
Your biggest goals might be losing because your rewards arrive too late. If you have ever crushed a plan for a week, then slid back into old patterns, the issue is not that you are “lazy” or “not disciplined enough.” We are wired to repeat what feels good right now, and that wiring runs the show...
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3 Science Backed Ways To Quit Your Most Stubborn Habits Without Discipline
You’re not “undisciplined” you’re just bad at design. I’m Angela Shurina, and today I’m sharing 3 science-backed strategies for breaking hard-to-quit habits by design, not by disciplining your way through temptations. If you’ve ever promised yourself you’d stop something small but stubborn (like…
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Feel Good Every Day: a simple weekly habit that helps cultivate inner peace for life.
Today I’m sharing a simple, repeatable framework I use to feel good most days, even when plans fall apart, projects stall, or life throws the usual curveballs. Feeling better isn’t about pretending everything is great. It’s about building a steady inner state through repeated habits. What are…
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Regret-Proof Decisions: how to use your regrets to create a fulfilling, aligned life, better business and relationships outcomes.
Regret can feel like a punch to the gut, but it’s one of the most underrated decision-making tools we have. When a choice leaves that bitter, lingering “that wasn’t right” feeling, it’s often not random emotion. It’s a signal that something important in you just got ignored. I walk you through a...
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"What if I mess up?" 5 practices to silence self-sabotaging voice to do your best under pressure. Learning from Big Wave Surfing.
The moments that can change your life usually arrive with a racing heart and a loud inner voice that says, “What if I mess this up?” I want to show you a different way to meet that moment, using a 5-pillar high performance psychology framework inspired by big wave surfer Matt Bromley, a “storm...
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The Simple Hydration Habit That Ends Lower Back Pain. Solving loneliness and business challenges starts with the same practice.
Lower back pain can feel like a life sentence, but sometimes the fix is so basic it’s easy to ignore: water. We walk through why dehydration can show up as stiffness, spasms, and aching in your low back, and how spinal discs depend on steady fluid intake to stay resilient. If you’ve tried...
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Change Wired: change in days - not in years!
If you are the kind of person who wants to explore the edges of your potential, while living your most extraordinary life, feeling, looking, doing your best, driven by impact beyond yourself - you'll love this pod!
Change Wired is your new favorite podcast for practical, science-based insights into personal growth and change of behavior, 𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵, 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿, 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, diving into tools and strategies for meaningful productivity, mindset mastery, emotional regulation, stress management, sleep optimization and creating high-performing habits to 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹, 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁.
𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗦𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮, 𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵, 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝗕𝗲-𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝗙𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝟭𝟴 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 now based in Cape Town, with her company Your Best Coaching.
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Change Wired: change in days - not in years! If you are the kind of person who wants to explore the edges of your potential, while living your most extraordinary life, feeling, looking, doing your best, driven by impact beyond yourself - you'll love this pod! Change Wired is your new favorite...
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