Create Magic At Work®
by Amy Lynn Durham
Create Magic At Work® is a leadership podcast exploring spiritual intelligence, conscious leadership, and the future of work. Through conversations with visionary leaders, coaches, authors, and entrepreneurs, the show examines how leaders can navigate uncertainty, cultivate self awareness, and create workplaces that are both high performing and deeply human.Many episodes explore themes such as transformational leadership, intuition in decision making, organizational change, and the inner work required to lead well. The show also introduces frameworks rooted in spiritual intelligence, including SQ21, the Archetypes of Change, and the Edgewalker philosophy. These perspectives help listeners understand how people respond to transformation and support leaders in walking the edge into quantum leadership, where business decisions ripple outward for the greater good.Listeners of Create Magic At Work® are leaders who want to edgewalk rather than sleepwalk through their work and life. They wa
Episodes
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Productivity (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how productivity is about more than accomplishing tasks. When we celebrate the achievements of others and prioritize work that brings us energy and purpose, productivity becomes a source of fulfillment rather than obligation. Start your own journey of reflection,...
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Leading Through Loss: What Grieving Employees Need with Mindy Corporon
What happens when grief walks into work with us, but no one knows what to say? After Mindy Corporon’s father and 14-year-old son were murdered in a 2014 hate crime, she found herself carrying two realities at once. She was grieving an unimaginable loss while also leading a company, supporting...
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Passion (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how passion becomes more meaningful when it is connected to a clear sense of purpose. By recognizing our unique gifts and choosing to use them in service of something greater than ourselves, we create opportunities to bring lasting value to our lives and the world...
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Behind the Scenes of Salty Sweet: The Real, Raw Truth About Relationships with Dr. Pavini Moray - Magic Thread Media Podcast Collective
If you haven’t tuned into Salty Sweet—a standout relationship podcast on the Magic Thread Media network—you are missing out on some of the most honest, vulnerable, and transformative couple's work captured on air. In this special behind-the-scenes episode, network executive producer Amy Lynn…
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Be a Hope: Singing, Community, and Courage in Leadership | Benjamin Mertz
What parts of ourselves did we leave behind when we learned how to be professional? For some of us, it was singing. For others, creativity, play, vulnerability, or the willingness to connect with someone whose worldview looks nothing like our own. Somewhere along the way, being human can become...
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The Spark Sessions: My Friends Don’t Care About My Creative Work - The Six Relationships Your Creativity Actually Needs
When it comes to creativity, wonderful friends and a bustling social life aren’t enough. We need the six relationships most important for creative health. In her fifteen years of creativity coaching, Rachel Efron identified six creativity relationships: allies, mentors, role models, mentees,...
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Rest (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores what changes when we give ourselves permission to stop pushing and make room for rest. By considering what rest truly means for us, we can begin to recognize where greater ease and flow may be needed. Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional...
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The Art of Influence with Trial Lawyer Jennifer Gardner
What happens to your communication when someone pushes exactly the right button? Strategy can disappear quickly when the nervous system feels threatened. We become defensive, rush to prove our point, or get pulled into the emotional energy of the person across from us. The conversation may still…
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Vision (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how vision can emerge through presence and deep listening. When we slow down enough to notice what others may overlook, we create space to recognize possibilities, patterns, and guidance that can shape what comes next. Start your own journey of reflection,...
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Stay Curious (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores what can become possible when curiosity takes the place of quick judgment. By asking meaningful questions and being willing to explore the answers, we can discover new perspectives and possibilities within our work. Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and...
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When Getting Results Destroys Your Team, Top C-Suite Advisor Phyllis Sarkaria
What happens when the qualities that helped you succeed begin getting in the way of the leader you need to become? High performers are often rewarded for knowing the answer, moving quickly, and getting results. But as responsibility grows, leadership asks for something different. The work becomes...
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Connecting (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how meaningful connection grows when we approach difference with curiosity rather than distance. By valuing the uniqueness of others and remaining open to unfamiliar perspectives, we create opportunities to bring out the best in one another. Start your own journey...
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Your Clutter Is Costing You More Than You Think | Miriam Ortiz y Pino
What if the clutter surrounding you isn’t just taking up space, but also draining your time, attention, money, and ability to grow? Amy sits down with simplicity expert and longtime professional organizer Miriam Ortiz y Pino to explore the deeper connection between physical clutter, digital...
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Going Within (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how moments of solitude can create the clarity we need to move forward. By making space to go within, we can listen more closely to ourselves and consider the decisions that may bring greater harmony and peace of mind. Start your own journey of reflection, creativity,...
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The Spark Sessions: Your Creativity Knows More Than You Do - Dreams, Divergence, and Precognition
What if your creativity knows something before you do? In this month’s episode Rachel Efron’s asks her most provocative question yet: if dreams can reveal truths outside of our conscious understanding, can our creativity do the same? Inspired by an experience teaching dreamers in Delphi, Greece,...
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Integrity (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how integrity is shaped by the ongoing practice of knowing what we value and choosing to live in alignment with it. When our words, decisions, and behavior reflect those values, accountability becomes part of how we lead and live.\ Start your own journey of...
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How to Style What You Own: Executive Wardrobe Tips with Celebrity Stylist JenniLee
What if getting dressed is less about fashion and more about the relationship you have with yourself? Our clothes communicate before we ever say a word. They can help us feel visible, confident, creative, and aligned with who we are becoming. They can also keep us connected to an older version of...
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Partnership (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how meaningful partnerships are strengthened through support, trust, and reciprocity. When we become intentional about the relationships surrounding our work, we can create greater harmony while finding a healthier balance between giving and receiving. Start your own...
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The Invisible Work of Middle Management | Doug Barna
What happens when the job everyone assumes is becoming obsolete is actually where some of the most human work is happening? Middle managers live between pressure and people. They translate expectations from above, absorb problems before senior leaders ever see them, and help teams move through...
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Self-Awareness (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how self-awareness deepens when we become intentional about where we seek inspiration and guidance. By tuning into something beyond ourselves, we create space to better understand our thoughts, values, and the way we move through the world. Start your own journey…
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Break the "I'll Be Happy When" Trap: Building Habits for Inner Peace | Michele Phillips
What if the life you keep working toward is already asking to be noticed? For high achievers, happiness can become conditional. The next promotion. The next revenue goal. The end of the chaotic month. Peace is always waiting somewhere beyond the next finish line, while the finish line keeps…
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Finances (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how financial success can grow from intentional decisions, thoughtful leadership, and clearly defined goals. By considering where we direct our support and attention, we create space for greater confidence and possibility around our finances. Start your own journey of...
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The Unpaid Caregiver Crisis: The Hard Truth Workplaces and Families Ignore | Monica Vest Wheeler
What happens when taking care of someone else slowly requires you to disappear from your own life? Family caregiving rarely arrives according to plan. A diagnosis changes. A parent declines. A spouse becomes dependent. Roles reverse, schedules collapse, and someone quietly becomes responsible for...
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The Spark Sessions: Sorry, You Have to Be Yourself - The Courage to Create
What if courage in creativity has nothing to do with feeling brave and everything to do with being willing to be unmistakably yourself? In this latest episode of The Spark Sessions: Resourcing for Creativity, Rachel begins with a song she did not want to write. After forcing herself through three...
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Sensing The Future (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how the future is shaped by more than careful planning alone. When we remain open to both practical insight and intuitive guidance, we begin to recognize possibilities that invite us to create what has not yet come into view. Start your own journey of reflection,...
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Success (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how success becomes more meaningful when we define it for ourselves. By celebrating our achievements and welcoming abundance in all its forms, we create space for a life that feels both fulfilling and deeply aligned. Start your own journey of reflection, creativity…
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Soul Weary: When the Work You Love Starts Draining You | Margaret Benefiel, Ph.D & Margie Buchanan-Smith
What happens when work rooted in service slowly disconnects you from the very values that called you to it? For leaders working inside humanitarian crises, nonprofits, healthcare, education, business, and other demanding systems, exhaustion can become more than physical. Margie Buchanan-Smith…
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Playfulness (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how playfulness is more than a moment of escape. It is a way of approaching life with curiosity, creativity, and perspective, allowing lightness to open possibilities that seriousness alone often cannot. Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and...
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Reclaiming Modern Masculinity: How High-Performing Men Are Healing in Secret | Pat Smith
Why do successful men still struggle with burnout, anger, disconnection, and feeling unfulfilled? Amy sits down with men’s high performance coach Pat Smith to explore why professional achievement, physical fitness, and financial success do not necessarily create emotional well-being. Pat shares…
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Productivity (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how productivity is about more than accomplishing tasks. When we celebrate the achievements of others and prioritize work that brings us energy and purpose, productivity becomes a source of fulfillment rather than obligation. Start your own journey of reflection,...
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Learning to Trust Your Inner Yes: Why Success Without Alignment Leaves You Feeling Empty | Chelsea Szabo
Why do high achievers still feel unfulfilled after reaching their goals? Amy sits down with executive coach and founder of Personal Energy First, Chelsea Szabo, to explore why professional success does not always create the fulfillment people expect. Chelsea explains how external expectations,...
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The Spark Sessions: You Aren't Blocked (My Creativity on Fire)
Creative block feels eminently real: it feels like some magical channel closes and our creative ideas are nowhere to be found. But creative block is nothing more than a very tempting illusion. Really creativity is our natural state. When we aren’t creating, it means only that our creativity needs...
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Self-Awareness (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how self-awareness deepens when we intentionally create space to listen beyond our own thoughts. Reflection becomes more than looking inward. It becomes an invitation to receive guidance, ask meaningful questions, and trust the wisdom that quietly emerges. Start...
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Expansion (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how growth begins by recognizing the strengths that already exist within us. When we value our unique gifts and use them with confidence, we create opportunities that expand both our careers and our sense of purpose. Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your...
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One Diagnosis Away: Why Healthcare Is Failing the Middle Class with Adam Cunningham
What happens when the system designed to care for you requires you to become your own advocate, negotiator, researcher, and risk manager? For millions of people, illness is no longer only a physical crisis. It is a financial and emotional one, intensified by opaque prices, delayed treatment,...
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Risk-Taking (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how meaningful growth often begins with the willingness to trust what cannot yet be proven. Risk-taking is less about certainty than having the courage to follow your inner knowing, even when the path ahead has not been walked before. Start your own journey of...
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The Neuroscience of Spiritual Intelligence | Dr. Dawson Church
What if the greatest shift in how you lead, work, and live isn't about learning another skill, but about changing the way your brain experiences the world? Amy sits down with Dr. Dawson Church, award-winning science writer, researcher, and author of Spiritual Intelligence, to explore the growing...
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Transformation (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how transformation begins when we loosen our grip on certainty and create space for change. By releasing the need to control every outcome, we become more open to the choices and possibilities that support meaningful growth. Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset...
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What to Do When an Employee's Life Falls Apart: A Leader’s Guide | Matthew Efird
We like to believe that compassion comes naturally. Yet when someone we work with experiences unimaginable loss, many of us freeze. We worry about saying the wrong thing, crossing a boundary, or making an already painful situation worse. So we say less, do less, and hope time will somehow fill…
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Sensing the Future (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how intuition often speaks quietly beneath logic, inviting us to trust the inner knowing that keeps calling us toward a future we cannot fully explain yet. Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card...
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Expansion (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how expansion often begins the moment you stop minimizing the gifts that come naturally to you and allow your unique strengths to create new possibilities. Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or...
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Introducing The Spark Sessions: Resourcing for Creativity Mini-series
What if creativity isn't something you’re born with or you’re not — but rather your birthright, your natural state, and your most fundamental relationship to the world? In this first installment of The Spark Sessions: Resourcing for Creativity—a special monthly bonus mini-series—Amy welcomes...
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The Boundaries Blueprint: Read A Room Without Absorbing The Stress | Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller
What happens when walking into a room means absorbing every ounce of tension, distress, and unsaid emotion inside it? Many of us are taught that great leadership requires carrying the emotional weight of our teams. We step in to smooth things over, fix conflicts that aren't ours to solve, and...
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Focus (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how constant multitasking can become a quiet form of disconnection from the work, relationships, and inner priorities that matter most to us. Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring…
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Why Your Brainstorms Fail: The 3 Pre-Meeting Magic Secrets | Michael Brian Lee
What if the biggest barrier to your company's growth isn't a lack of good ideas, but how you setup the room before innovation even begins? Amy sits down with Michael Brian Lee, founder of the Innotivity Institute, to decode the high-stakes reality of modern corporate survival. In an era where 80%...
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Passion (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how passion is often the quiet recognition that the life you imagine for yourself is asking you to stop waiting for permission to pursue what truly moves you. Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal...
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Connecting (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how genuine connection begins when we move beyond difference and become willing to recognize ourselves in people whose experiences, cultures, and worldviews may not mirror our own. Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the...
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Fixing Women or Fixing the Room? Why We're Still Being Told How to Speak
What happens when the advice meant to help us succeed teaches us to distrust our own voice? In this conversation, Amy sits down with Create Magic At Work’s Resident Voice and Presence coach Sandra Bargman to explore a question that reaches far beyond communication skills. Are women being…
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Authenticity (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how authenticity begins when the life you present to others finally starts aligning with the values you quietly know are true within yourself. Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the...
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Manifesting (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how the language we repeat internally can quietly shape our relationships, leadership, identity, and the realities we move through each day. Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the...
About this show
Create Magic At Work® is a leadership podcast exploring spiritual intelligence, conscious leadership, and the future of work. Through conversations with visionary leaders, coaches, authors, and entrepreneurs, the show examines how leaders can navigate uncertainty, cultivate self awareness, and create workplaces that are both high performing and deeply human.Many episodes explore themes such as transformational leadership, intuition in decision making, organizational change, and the inner work required to lead well. The show also introduces frameworks rooted in spiritual intelligence, including SQ21, the Archetypes of Change, and the Edgewalker philosophy. These perspectives help listeners understand how people respond to transformation and support leaders in walking the edge into quantum leadership, where business decisions ripple outward for the greater good.Listeners of Create Magic At Work® are leaders who want to edgewalk rather than sleepwalk through their work and life. They wa
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