The busy mom's guide to making 5+ extra hours a week: deals closed, kids fed, time for meditation.

You can’t “hustle” your way into more time, and you definitely can’t steal it from sleep without paying it back with interest. We’re making a different case: time is the ultimate leverage, and the real secret is building simple systems that run for you. When you buy back even 10 minutes a day, you suddenly have room for the habits that actually move the needle - like training your attention, removing inner chatter with meditation, taking care of your body, spending extra minutes with your kid...

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  Hey guys and welcome back to another episode of Change Wired Podcast. My name is Angela Sharina. I'm your host. I'm your partner in personal and collective transformation, your master health, sleep, stress management, executive self-actualization coach, and just someone who is really obsessed with helping ambitious, driven, motivated people to feel their best, look their best, achieve their best, live their best life possible and create the most positive impact. You see, I'm a huge believer in this idea that when you feel your absolute best from

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  inside out, you become this beautiful human who just wants to help others, improve the world and make a difference, live in a better place. And that is why I'm so dedicated to helping more and more people to feel their best. And well, let's jump into today's podcast episode where you're gonna learn where to make more time, how to create more time in your life with simple systems, and why it matters. Because time is the ultimate leverage.

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  The more time you can invest into meaningful things, whether that's things in your self-care, in your self-growth, self-development, or time with others and developing others and making the world a better place, time is the ultimate leverage that you can invest into all of that. Or you can waste it by sifting through emails, you can be losing the time or organizing your computer and Google Drive and trying to keep up with all of these messages or with all the people that need things from you and you feel like you don't even have time to breathe, literally. Have you ever found this way, right? So time is the

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  ultimate leverage and you need to learn how to create more of it, how to buy back more time often, again, in order to improve anything else, your health, your well-being. Hey, if you have chatter in your head and meditation is the best tool, but guess what? It requires time to invest into that. And you can't invest the time if you don't have time to breathe even. That's why it's important to understand that systems, those small things done on repeat in your life, they can be life transformative. And those small things that we're gonna talk about today, you might think, oh, they don't really matter. It doesn't really matter what

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  I cook with. It doesn't really matter what I have for breakfast. It doesn't really matter what I use for organizing my Google Drive or how to, how I check my email or how I deal with my messages and how I communicate with people. We're gonna talk about all these smaller systems that are super simple to install and run on repeat. They're gonna huge, they're gonna make a huge difference because they will give you time to work on you, the one who, you know, does all the other things, helps others and makes a difference, make things better. If you're passionate about your work, who makes your work happen in order to do your best work, you need to feel your best, period. You can't do your

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  best on an empty battery. So time is the thing that you need to learn how to create more of. And you can't just create more of it by trying to sleep less or, you know, sleeping less is definitely not gonna make you feel better. But also, it will not help you to create time because actually what research shows, when you don't sleep well, you don't make the good decisions, you make more errors and what you end up doing in the first place, very often end up not being the right things because it's very hard to prioritize on a brain that doesn't work well, which happens with sleep deprivation. So all of that to say, I'm explaining why it's so important to look into all those systems that might on the first glance look trivial, but actually create time to work on you,

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  give you time for better, deeper thinking, better decision-making, that then manifest creating breakthroughs in your life, business, in your family life, and in the difference that you make in the world. But before we jump into all of that, guys, my newsletter is out. The Thursday Unlock. Each Thursday nowadays, the newsletter signup is linked in the show notes. Check it out, guys. So every Thursday, you're gonna repeat four tips, four simple systems or habits, research-backed, real people, tested and proven, life transformative,

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  four things for your body, for your mind, for systems, for your why or vision, your values, meaningful stuff in life. So four systems to help you to change, upgrade, improve your body, your mindset, your systems, your why. So then you build in those smaller systems into your life. So you create more time. So you get to do better thinking and investing in more in you and people around you, the world. So you get to live the most extraordinary life and create the most positive impact. So the signup form, the signup link

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  for my newsletter, the Thursday Unlock, I promise you guys, it will be a life-expanding, life-transformative. So the link is in the show notes, absolutely free. And that's gonna be a thing that's gonna run just like this podcast for the next 10 years. So please check it out, share and sign up. And now back to our today's episode. Let me tell you this story first. A quote from a client's session. You don't have a multi-cooker yet? It's gonna be a game changer for you. So that was a part of the conversation. My client

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  is a mom. She has two young kids, two girls. She runs also two businesses or helps to run two family businesses. Like your cup is full. Most days, it feels like it's overflowing, like she literally doesn't have time to think or even pee. Have you ever been in this situation? Like, I gotta finish this. I don't have time to breathe, pee or do anything right now. I definitely know how it feels. That's the season when you realize how much systems matter. When your cup is already overflowing, you start understanding, hey, I cannot do any major progress or all of it. I'm just drowning in trying to juggle all of these balls and I don't even know which ones I, I need to be juggling in the first place,

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  right? It can be a life-changing, time-saving, life-transformative when you install those small systems, again, that on the first, at the first glance seemed trivial. Those small things that you do every day on repeat, that you think don't matter, actually can create major life business and family and world, your positive impact breakthrough. Like getting a multi-cooker. You might look at me like Angela gun crazy, multi-cooker, life-changing system. Well, it might be. Here is how. This genius device, multi-cooker,

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  if you don't know what it is, look it up. You put in the raw ingredients, like veggies, salmon, whatever foods you like, you set the program and that multi-cooker, depending on the kind of multi-cooker, if you need to be cooking, you know, a few items and they need to be cooking, cooked differently. So the device does the job. It's genius. I don't know who invented it, but it's genius. So you put the raw ingredients in, you set the program, you set the timer, and it turns itself on when you need it. It cooks the way you want it in a programmable, very reliable way. It turns itself off and keeps everything

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  warm for you or your kids or your husband or like anyone who you need to take care of. Meanwhile, you, the busy mom, the entrepreneur, are spending time with your kids, getting the work done, doing the workout instead of watching the pots, right? Pot watching. I hated it when I had to do that. I hated it. I love cooking, but I hated it. It felt like such a waste of my time when I could be doing other things that are more important than watching the pots, like investing in my well-being or even doing more meditation that helps you to remove that chatter in your heart that prevents you from doing so

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  many things in a more meaningful way or eliminating that self-doubt. Meditation helps you, it's a training for your mind. It's not about clearing your mind. It's a training for your mind that helps you to train the focus, refocus muscle and helps you to become more aware of your chatter. And then after a certain period of time, you're not even gonna have that chatter. It works like magic, but you need to do the training. By the way, waking up app is a really good app. I've shared it with so many of my clients and I give them a 30-day trial. I have like a secret thing. So if you want that, reach out to me. But anyhow, it trains your mind and then you have less chatter, more focus, you're

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  more in control of your attention and you just do better with everything in life that requires thinking. But anyhow, watching the pots, I hated it. And instead now, I could be, I could invest in my meditation and more fitness, more reading, more actually talking to my parents while I'm doing that, investing in my well-being and productivity and other people and my work in so many different ways.

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  My sister, I have a five-year-old sister, she lives in, back in Russia, in St. Petersburg. She has three kids, a single mom, working, so as you can imagine, like her hands and cup, several cups, a pool. So she uses hers on days when she's out with clients and the kids still need to be fed. She loads all the ingredients in the morning before she leaves, the projects need to be turned, to turn on by itself in the afternoon. And by the time the kid's home, mom's cooking is warm, delicious and ready. And the mom is coming back home soon as well, right? Like, best of all the worlds.

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  And then my sister can spend time with kids, not watching the pots, telling them that she's busy. So what, what magic, just genius device. Deals are being closed, kids are being fed and taken care of. But one small thing can transform someone's health, because now mom can have some time for her fitness, help them enjoy life more, invest in kids, free up some energy and time to invest back into herself, family, community, business. That one small thing can change someone's world on so many levels, because,

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  because it changes how they use their time and time is everything in our lives. Because whatever you want to work on, improve, time is what you need. So where are you still watching the pots? Because this pot is just an example, just one small thing. Where are you still watching the pots when you don't have to? You know, there is this thing AI. Time you might be losing looking for things on your computer, on your Google Drive, or whatever drive, or when you could connect an AI tool and let it do the search for you and just ask in seconds and let it tell you where exactly the thing is and what's in it.

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  I was blown away and bought into the whole AI thing when instead of spending a couple of hours cleaning and organizing my computer, downloads folder well, where I put just a lot of random stuff. And after a while, it ends up a lot of random stuff. And a lot of that random stuff I actually need to find and share with other people and use in my work, right? I would usually spend once a season, a couple of hours on it. And then Claude did it in under like 10 minutes and it was so perfect and so well done, so much better than I could ever dream of. So at that moment, I was bought into the whole AI thing, because I love my time. I do not love watching pots and doing stuff that is not related directly to my work well-being

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  or the difference in people's lives that I can make, right? Time you might be losing organizing documents, when again Claude can nearly arrange, neatly arrange all the folders, so you know exactly where everything is for your project, so to share with your team in seconds instead of minutes. Time you might be losing sifting through countless emails, making decisions which ones to open or which ones to ask Pam, when you could set up an agent, which also Claude can help you do that. And there is Muse and there are like, oh, so many things are coming up right now, to bring only what's important to your attention, not everything. And it means a lot. That's why so many of you have so much chatter, because you get so much input.

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  Now Claude, Claude or whatever agent you choose can help you with that. Time you might be losing thinking about and making breakfast every morning. Like who does that, guys? When you could make the decision once for a whole year. I've had the same breakfast for the past three years. I'm just every year, I'm like, is it working? It's working, then fine. Two eggs, salmon or sardines in a can, banana and either kiwis or oranges or some other vitamin C fruit that I buy once for the whole week. My coffee, supplements and I'm done. Cook, cooked and prepped once a week and your whole morning becomes non-stop flow,

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  not a single decision to make. A bonus, no food noise, better eating habits and your genes feed a whole lot better. Those small things you believe don't matter, like choosing what to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner, or your exercise routine, or when you go to bed, or when you wake up, when you use your phone, how, how many times you check it, how many times you check your email, when other people get to get in touch with you and collaborate with you. Those small things you believe don't matter, done on repeat, they take the whole day, the whole life. Done on repeat, they make or break your entire life. They might even create a major breakthrough.

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  Because, guys, and here is one major point. Because the time you save, you can invest in better thinking. And better thinking cannot be done in a rush, not while you're watching the pots and the stuff, rushing from one errand to the next, feeling like you have no time to take a deep breath even. Better thinking is the only thing that has ever, ever, guys, for everything, for everyone, produced the insights with the potential to change your or anyone else's entire life. Heck, Einstein invented the whole theory of relativity, because he had the time.

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  No problem can be solved at the same level of thinking, Einstein once said, some of the smartest men in the world. But thinking, thinking time is what is required to make any major breakthrough in your life, in your business, in anything. And if you have no time to do that thinking, guess what? Those breakthroughs will not come. Let the small things eat all your thinking time and you'll be running in circles your entire life, bumping into the same problems, thinking, how do all the other people get to do all of those things and figure things out when I'm barely keeping my head above water?

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  Now, here is how the small things, the small systems that you think are trivial, that's what making a whole lot of difference and breakthroughs. So look at your day, guys. Right now, look at your day, take the freaking time. I know you say you don't have it, but if you don't make it, if you don't take it, you're going to be running in circles for the rest of your life, never realizing your potential to, to even like being close to that. Look at your day, find the pots you're still watching, right? Pots is a metaphor, find the pots you're still watching. And I'm hunting for mine all the time as well, right?

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  I outsource my breakfast and my routine and my decisions about waking up and what I'm dressing, how I make my makeup, et cetera. I don't think about any of that. And when I see women every morning deciding what they're gonna wear, what makeup, what hair, I'm like, when do you have any time for anything else? And that's why a lot of me, women don't, they just find time to, you know, juggle the balls and that's it, while the guys get out there and do all the leadership and breakthroughs. It's, you know what I often find, it's specifically for, for women, ladies, if you're on the other side of this podcast, then tune in. You know why guys sometimes seem like they have a lot more things figured out

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  and they just make one stride after another, making major breakthroughs? It's because they choose not to juggle a lot of balls that you choose to. Because you do choose to think about your makeup, your wardrobe and your hair and million other things on a regular basis. And guess what? That thinking does not go into your career. So you want to make a major breakthrough in your career? You gotta figure out how to juggle less balls. So then you get to think better, so then you come up with great ideas. And so then you can apply your female genius, and you have one, to the things that you want to move forward.

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  But besides that, I'm also again hunting for those small parts, small systems all the time. Like this week, three hours for looking into AI tools and agents to optimize my email work, my messages, my video editing, my presentations. There are also some other things, like putting into my Claude more context about my life goals, about my career goals, about just giving Claude more context about me. So then when Claude makes any suggestion or advice or goes into my email, she can spot some things, some opportunities for me to make more progress on anything that is important in my life, not just work, but life overall, right?

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  I'm also going to be looking into Muse, Insightful, which is like AI assistant, or post the clip for a video editing. Again, looking forward to figuring out how to optimize my emails, so I don't have to look into that at all. So then I have more time to think better, deeper about things that matter. So what is your multi-cooker in your life? The small system that already buys back your time? But most importantly, what is the next one for you? What's the one you really need to create, to make time, just like we do with my clients,

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  buying multi-cookers and using AI and all kinds of small adjustments to their thinking and decision-making in their day-to-day life? So then, again, that mom with two kids and two businesses has time to think, to take care of herself. So then she can make major breakthroughs and forward movement in your life as well. Those small things, guys, they make big things happen. Or not, depending on how much you decide to look into them and invest. So your assignment for today, before the assignment, don't forget that there is a newsletter, sign up, where's, where I talk about things like that every week.

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  Very small, very simple, under five minutes of reading, which has the potential, just like this podcast, to transform your life, in your body, in your mindset, in your systems, in your why. So every Thursday, you're gonna get that newsletter, sign up link is in the show notes. Use and share absolutely free and I'm gonna over-deliver in value. And every single week, guys, I promise you, you're gonna get some major breakthrough. Whether that's your body, whether it's your mindset, whether that's the systems around you, whether that's your life's purpose and aligning everything better with what truly matters to you. So the link to sign up is in the show notes.

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  And your assignment for right now, take five minutes and look, think through your day and choose one system, one small thing, one small thing that you do on repeat and you know that doing it better or installing a system or automating it or just a freaking boil eggs for the whole week, instead of every day making your eggs. You think it doesn't matter? It does, it saves you at least 10 minutes and quite a few decisions. And that you can invest into talking to your next client or you spending those 10 minutes with your kid in the morning, huh? So think through your day, think about one small thing that you do on repeat

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  that will buy you time and take time today to actually change it. Or make a plan and put it on your calendar to, to do it when, you know, it's more appropriate and fits into your day. So buy, create time, buy back your time to think, to spend time with your loved ones, to change your career, that how you truly change, transform, breakthrough your life. Thank you, guys, for tuning in. Sign up for the newsletter in the show notes. And till next time, keep growing.