How To Rewire Your Subconscious, Escape Hustle Culture & Build a Life By Choice

S7E97 - How To Rewire Your Subconscious, Escape Hustle Culture & Build a Life By Choice

Published: February 25, 2026

Duration: 21:55

What if 95% of your life is being run by programs you didn’t choose?

In this episode of Hacks and Hobbies, Junaid Ahmed sits down with Irina Alexander, professional mental trainer and founder of the Academy of Motive, Action. With 20 years in neuroscience, entrepreneurship, and global wisdom traditions, Irina has helped hundreds of high-stress professionals step out of autopilot, dismantle hustle culture, and rebuild a life that actually feels like their own.

Irina shares the moment she broke down on the highway, called her mother, and realised the successful life she’d built… wasn’t actually her...