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Magic Thread Media
by Conscious Voices for a More Connected World
A podcast network weaving conscious voices for a more connected world.
Episodes
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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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Healing Childhood Trauma: Harry Potter & Breaking Generational Patterns with Barbara Latinka
Where do Harry Potter and childhood trauma meet? For author Barbara Latinka, the connection is deeply personal. Growing up with Harry Potter, she saw more than a magical adventure. She saw a neglected, mistreated child discover that he had power—and that his beginnings did not have to determine…
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Drops of Light: When Mars Gets Triggered
What if the moment you feel most triggered is also an opportunity for wisdom to emerge? In this Drops of Light, Vish explores the tension between debilitated Mars and exalted Jupiter through Vedic astrology, sharing how a simple pause can interrupt reactivity and create space for a more…
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Why We’re Wired to Play with Mia Sundstrom, National Institute for Play
What if play belongs in your day before the work is done? Mia Sundstrom, CEO of the National Institute for Play, joins Amy Lynn Durham, founder of Magic Thread Media, to explore why we’re wired to play and what happens when we keep pushing that impulse aside. Carrying forward the work of her...
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Why We’re Wired to Play with Mia Sundstrom, National Institute for Play
What if play belongs in your day before the work is done? Mia Sundstrom, CEO of the National Institute for Play, joins Amy Lynn Durham, founder of Magic Thread Media, to explore why we’re wired to play and what happens when we keep pushing that impulse aside. Carrying forward the work of her...
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Autism Expert Dr. Kerry Magro on Defeating the Bully & Embracing Play
What happens to play when we feel pressured to fit in? Dr. Kerry Magro joins Amy Lynn Durham, founder of Magic Thread Media, to explore how making room for our differences can open up more opportunities for joy, creativity, and connection. An autistic speaker, best-selling author, and autism...
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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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05: What Happens When a Kid Doesn't Hear "I Love You"
What happens when pulling away becomes the way you learned to stay safe? After Kristien names the possibility that she may not be able to stay in the relationship if alcohol remains such a powerful presence, Stijn is left confronting something he has not fully considered before: his own choices...
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More Myself Than Ever: Insights from Peru
What happens when you step away from your everyday life long enough to see it differently? After two weeks in Peru, I returned home changed—but not in the way I expected. I didn’t feel like a stranger to myself. I felt more myself. In this solo episode of The Edge of Everyday, I reflect on what…
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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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Not Your Newspaper Horoscope: Vedic Astrology is More Than Your Sun Sign
What if astrology were less about predicting your future and more about understanding the deeper patterns shaping your life? Vish came to Vedic astrology as a skeptic. Trained as an engineer and grounded in data, he had little patience for newspaper horoscopes or broad personality descriptions....
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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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04: What is the Line Between Love and Self-Abandonment?
What happens when accepting the person you love starts requiring you to let go of too much of yourself? Kristien has spent years imagining a future where she and Stijn would eventually share a sober life. But as Dr. Pavini asks her to look more closely at that dream, a painful tension comes into...
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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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Drops of Light: Your October 2026 Vedic Planetary Weather Forecast
What happens when frustration is rising, but the conditions for reconciliation are there too? In this Drops of Light, Vish looks at the current Vedic astrology forecast and the tension between anger, wisdom, and diplomacy. With Mars stirring emotion and Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury supporting...
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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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03: The Hidden Cost of Sobriety
What if the thing creating distance in your relationship is also protecting you from getting closer? As Kristien and Stijn return to the conversation about alcohol, Dr. Pavini begins asking a different question: what role is alcohol actually playing between them? For Stijn, drinking has become...
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Good Brown Girls with Author Parul L. Bhandari
Between Worlds: Who Gets to Decide Who We Become? What happens when you grow up with one culture at home and another one outside the front door? Who do you know yourself to be? Today we are #LiveInTheHive with author and poet Parul L. Bhandari, a first-generation American, raised by…
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Interactive Podcast Experiences with Magic Thread Media
Welcome to the next evolution of your podcast experience with Magic Thread Media. Audio is just the beginning. We created these interactive experiences so you can connect deeper with your favorite shows, hosts, and personal development tools—taking the connection far beyond your earbuds. Whether...
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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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Karma isn’t Punishment: What Vedic Astrology says about Karma, Free Will, and the Patterns We Repeat
What if karma is not a cosmic punishment system, but a curriculum? Vedic astrology approaches karma less like a courtroom and more like an accounting system. Every action carries a consequence, every pattern tells us something, and every lifetime presents a particular set of lessons. Vish…
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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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Tiny Treasures: How to Feel Anger Without Becoming It
Anger is not the problem. What matters is what happens next. In this Tiny Treasure, Cari explores anger as a natural, healthy emotion and looks at what may be underneath it: unmet needs, wounded pride, crossed boundaries, and the longing to feel seen and valued. She shares five simple, body-based...
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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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Drops of Light: Honoring the Ancestors Who Came Before Us
What do we carry from the people who came before us? In this Drops of Light, Vish explores the Vedic tradition of honoring ancestors during the fortnight known as Pitri Paksha, a time for remembrance, offerings, and reflection on the patterns that move through a family lineage. He shares a simple...
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Origin Stories (Encore) | 012
As Aaron prepares to enter the final three episodes of the season, he invites us to revisit Episode 004, “Origin Stories,” returning to the stories we inherit before exploring the longer, intergenerational arcs that shape our lives. There are moments when a stranger’s story feels like a mirror,...
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02: When Reconnecting Is Not the Same as Repairing Trust
What happens when trust is broken, love returns, but the rupture itself never really gets repaired? After Kristien accidentally discovers a pile of wine bottles on Stijn's boat, she realizes an agreement between them has been broken. At first, she pushes away the shock. Then the pieces begin...
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New Podcast! Welcome to Salty Sweet: The Healing Podcast for Couple on the Brink
Welcome to Salty Sweet, a podcast that takes you inside the real therapy sessions of one couple navigating intimacy, trust, drinking, betrayal, and the patterns shaping their relationship. With Dr. Pavini Moray as their guide, you’ll hear what happens when the surface story gives way to what is...
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01: When Trust, Alcohol, and Intimacy Collide
What happens when alcohol stops feeling like something outside the relationship and begins to feel like a third person inside it? At the beginning of Kristien and Stijn's journey, Dr. Pavini Moray starts by listening for what hurts, what each of them wants, and the patterns already shaping their...
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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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Welcome to Salty Sweet: One Couple. One Relationship. Nothing Hidden.
Welcome to Salty Sweet, a podcast that takes you inside the real therapy sessions of one couple navigating intimacy, trust, drinking, betrayal, and the patterns shaping their relationship. With Dr. Pavini Moray as their guide, you’ll hear what happens when the surface story gives way to what is...
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Drops of Light: AI, Pessimism, and the Choice to Hope
It is easy to encounter frightening headlines about AI and assume the worst about where the future is heading. In this Drops of Light, Vish reflects on our tendency to give more attention to bad news and considers what changes when we make room for hope alongside legitimate concern. Rather than...
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When the Story You’re Living Is No Longer True with Aaron Tabacco, PhD
What happens when the truth you have been avoiding becomes the only way forward? For Aaron Tabacco, PhD, that moment came in midlife, after years of trying to reconcile his identity, his faith, his marriage, and the family he loved deeply. In this deeply human conversation, Cari and Aaron explore...
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The Cost of Being Unheard: Power, Bullying, and the Repair of Trust
What happens to trust when power is used without empathy, and what does it take to rebuild it? David, a longtime friend of Mark’s who, carrying his story privately since his youth, brings a deeply reflective perspective shaped by faith, compassion, and a lifelong commitment to treating others…
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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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Dreams, Plant Medicine, and Sovereign Edges with Lynda Samphire
What if dreaming is one of the oldest technologies we have for accessing consciousness? What do we do when the usual ways of making sense of our lives stop working? And what might we discover at the edge between what we know and what we don't? Today we are #LIVEINTHEHIVE with Lynda Samphire, an...
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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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AI Can’t Meditate for You; AI & Consciousness
What happens when artificial intelligence becomes capable of doing more for us, but the most important work of being human still cannot be delegated? After returning from an AI and consciousness retreat at a yoga ashram in Germany, Vish considers this rapidly changing technology through the lens…
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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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Rituals, Rites, and Remembrances | 011
There are moments when the patterns of a life begin to feel less like repetition and more like an invitation. Join Aaron as he turns toward rituals and rites, asking what happens when the customs, ceremonies, and remembrances we inherit meet the person we are becoming. Through reflections on...
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Fixing Women or Fixing the Room? It's Time To Trust Your Voice
What happens when the advice meant to help us succeed slowly teaches us to distrust our own voice? This episode is a replay of a fantastic conversation I had with Amy Lynn Durham, founder of Create Magic At Work and Magic Thread Media. The conversation aired on HER hit podcast Create Magic at…
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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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Unsung Sacrifices: Lessons in Empathy, Leadership & Stories of the Mother
The deepest lessons in leadership may come from people who never asked to be called leaders. Through stories of mothers whose sacrifice changed the lives of their children, Dr. Mark explores what empathy looks like when it becomes action: standing by someone, creating possibility from scarcity,...
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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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Drops of Light: The Vedic Wisdom Hidden in Numbers
Have you ever wondered whether the numbers around you carry meaning beyond their practical use? In this Drops of Light, Vish explores the Vedic connection between numbers and planetary energies, from birth dates and addresses to the nine numbers we encounter every day. Get your Personal Karmic...
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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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The Moment the Illusion Breaks: Vish Chatterji on Samvega and the Wisdom of Disillusionment
What if the moments when your life stops making sense aren't interruptions in your path - but the very things pointing you toward it? There is a Sanskrit word for the experience of having the world you thought was solid suddenly crack open: samvega. It can happen when something falls apart. But…
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