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MAGICommons
by Dr. Jiani Wu
MAGICommons is a Re-Imagination Lab and global Commons empowering conscious change agents and organizations through research, incubation, and transformative experiences to co-steward life-affirming Regenerative Vitality for collective flourishing.Join the global commons: https://magicommons.org/
Episodes
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In Right Relationship with a Living Economy | John Fullerton
What would a regenerative economy look like if we designed it the way life works? In this conversation on the @MAGICommons Dialogic Lab, former Wall Street-er and modern regenerative economist @John Fullerton, founder of @Capital Institute and author of Regenerative Economics, explains why...
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Kindness in Action | Aaron Ableman
Ask most people the difference between kindness and compassion and you'll get a pause, then a shrug — they feel like the same thing wearing different clothes. But the distinction matters more than almost any other in how we actually live, because it explains why so much sincere feeling never...
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How Music Unlocks Human Potentials | Dr. Lana Israel
When we think of music, we think of it as a common type of entertainment. We listened to a song and vibe with it; had some fun and mission accomplished. However, a growing body of research on music, memory, and neuroplasticity suggests something more interesting: Music may tap into our whole…
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The Regenerative Vitality of Creativity | Dr. James C. Kaufman
What if creativity isn't something we spend, but something that regenerates vitality the more we use it? According to creativity researcher James Kaufman — co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity — creativity and mental health are more closely linked than most people realize. In this...
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Deep Connections Start with an Intentional Arrival | Abraham Burickson
Why do we stand in front of great art — in the world's finest museums, surrounded by masterworks — and feel absolutely nothing? The answer, according to experience architect Abraham Burickson, has nothing to do with the art. It has everything to do with how we arrive. Abraham unpacks what he…
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Rewriting Our Hidden Codes | Scott Silverston
Ever feel like we are living a life by a set of rules we didn't even actually write? In our latest conversation with Scott Silverston, a former corporate leader turned shamanic practitioner, he shared an interesting concept: "Invisible Agreements." These are the subconscious contracts we sign as...
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On Eating, Place, and Presence | Caroline Hobkinson
What if your morning coffee was actually a food ritual — and your relationship with food said more about your inner world than any personality test ever could? In this episode, we sit down with Caroline Hobkinson, food anthropologist, immersive artist, and one of the most original thinkers…
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Science of Internal Resilience | Dr. Rollin McCraty
We’ve long been taught that the brain runs the show, but modern psychophysiology is flipping the script. The heart actually sends more signals to the brain than the other way around. In our latest breakdown of heart coherence, featuring HeartMath Institute's Dr. Rollin McCraty, we explore how…
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What Is Essential Is Invisible | Gabrielle Senza
Have you ever walked into a room full of people and still felt completely invisible? Or longed to be truly seen and heard — while simultaneously wanting to disappear? You're not alone, and you're not broken. The tension between feeling invisible and the fear of being seen is one of the most…
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Why the Right Music Might Be the Best Medicine | John Stuart Reid
In this episode with CymaScope inventor John Stuart Reid to explore the science of sound healing, vagus nerve stimulation, and what it really means to use music as medicine. Music as medicine is not a new idea — Pythagoras proposed it 2,500 years ago. Reid is building the science to prove it and...
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How We Build Relationships Across Time | Michel Bauwens
What if the way humans have always organized — in tribes, in gift economies, in shared village commons — never disappeared? It just kept reinventing itself. In this episode of MAGICommons, we sit down with Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation and one of the leading voices in peer-to-peer...
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The Four-Core Drivers for Wellbeing Leadership | Julian Lorenzo Farrapeira
Burnout costs the global economy $1 trillion annually. Julian, Wellbeing Leadership founder and Marshall Goldsmith mentee, presents a proven four-core driver framework: self-awareness, emotional intelligence,, Sustainable Results Through Alignment, and Strategic Wellbeing Implementation. His...
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A Framework for Transformative Leadership | Maria Laws
Strengths-based leadership transforms how high-performing teams innovate. In this conversation, award-winning educator and VP of Learning Development Maria Lawsley shares the "close looking" framework—a practice borrowed from art-making that shifts leadership from gap-finding to…
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How Love Transforms Leaders | Marcel Schwantes
Decades of research reveal that great leadership isn't about strategy or charisma—it's about love. Marcel Schwantes unpacks loving leadership through the lens of agape love, the Greek concept of love as deliberate action. This conversation explores why love and leadership create sustainable...
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Why We Need Less Talk, More Music | Gary Muszynski
For millennia, indigenous cultures have used music to create unity and shared consciousness. Now neuroscience confirms why: when we synchronize through rhythm, our nervous systems entrain together—the biological foundation of empathy and connection. Gary has invested 30 years exploring this…
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A Blueprint for Regenerative Leadership | Silke von Brockhausen
In a high-stakes UN meeting, numbers scrolled by: 125 missing children in Afghanistan. Just another statistic…until one person's tears stopped everything. That moment of authentic compassion sparked immediate action and revealed a truth: At the bottom of degenerative behavior is fear. If we start...
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Imagine Otherwise: Science of Creative Wellbeing | Dr. Tasha Golden
What if creative wellbeing isn't about constant happiness, but about learning to imagine otherwise? In this @MAGICommon’s conversation, @Dr. Tasha Golden challenges us to see the world like Lego bricks—deconstructible and ready to be rebuilt. The gap between what is and what could be might feel...
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Leadership & Teamwork Lessons from Toddlers | Dr. Hasan Merali
Discover how toddlers’ fearless curiosity and playful confidence reveal unexpected leadership lessons, a research-backed approach showing how childlike wonder sparks creativity, innovation, and teamwork. In this @MAGICademy conversation with @HasanMerali, we explore how embracing unstructured…
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Transforming Negative Self-Talk Into Leadership Magic | Dr. Suzy Burke
Discover how the 3C Method transforms negative self-talk into leadership magic—a neuroscience-backed approach that invites leaders to turn the inner critic into a pathway for confidence and growth. In this @MAGICademy conversation with @Suzy Burke, by catching, confronting, and changing…
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How Sound Helps Us Destress | Dr. Jeffrey Thompson
What if healing were as simple as listening to a note tuned precisely to your body’s natural rhythm? 🌊 Dr. Jeffrey Thompson’s work in sound healing, brainwave entrainment, and neuroacoustic therapy reveals how specific frequencies can reset the autonomic nervous system—activating the body’s…
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Immersive Play as the Future of Adult Healing | Strother Gaines
Untangling the Knots: Immersive Play as the Future of Adult Healing | Strother Gaines Are you ready to untangle the behavioral "knots" caused by rigidity and self-judgment? Many of us struggle with Personal Growth because we feel trapped, unable to shed the shame that accompanies failure. The...
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Non-anxious Leadership You've Been Missing | Dr. Nathan Brown
What is non-anxious leadership? What if true leadership begins from a non-anxious space—in the deeper awareness of your body and spirit? In this @MAGICademy episode on non-anxious leadership, clinical psychologist @Dr. Nathan Brown explores how tuning into your body’s early signals can help…
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Filmmaker's Eye: How to Take Perspectives through VR Storytelling | Carlos Austin
I still remember the first day VR filmmaker Carlos Austin guided me in this mesmerizing virtual world as our avatars swung together with dolphins in deep ocean waters~ Until this day, I can still “hear” the singing sounds, “touch” the smooth belly of a playful dolphin, and “see” the deep blue...
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Deep Understanding through Embodied Stories| Sebastiaan Smink
Do you know what it would feel like if you were a big whale hearing noises from big freighters deep in the ocean? Can you imagine yourself “hearing” the engine rumbling, horn blasting, and propelling churning? Can you “see” the bright lights constantly and unpredictably interrupt your soothing...
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The Three Pillars of Wise Leadership | Dr. Gregory Stebbins
The Three Pillars of Wise Leadership | Dr. Gregory Stebbins What if leadership wasn’t about the burden to be the smartest in the room with all the tactics and strategies, or having all the answers? What if leadership is simply a gentle start from the heart? Starting from the heart is to cultivate...
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Awakening the Inner Spiritual Technology: Indigenous Wisdom, Alchemy, and Human Potential with Tricia Eastman
Unlock the power within with Tricia Eastman on the latest episode of @MAGICademy Podcast. @Tricia Eastman, a global thought leader and initiated medicine woman, explores the transformative practice of inner alchemy—the process of turning fear, ego, and ancestral wounds into spiritual gold.…
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Can AI and VR Make Life More Fun & Abundant? | Alvin Wang Graylin
What if abundance wasn't just possible—but inevitable? In this MAGICademy conversation with VR/AI pioneer Alvin Wang Graylin sees AI productivity exploding so dramatically that we'll transition from fighting over resources to having more than we know what to do with. Think "universal high income"...
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The Origami Lesson: What One Simple Experiment Revealed About How We Learn | Dr. Mark Johnson
What if there's a different way to think about developing skills? In this @MAGICademy conversation, Dr. Mark Johnson shares some fascinating insights through a simple paper-folding exercise that reveals something surprising about how we master new abilities. We explore ideas like "latency"—the…
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Let MAGIC In: How Process-Based Creation Transforms Leaders | Judy Tuwaletstiwa
There was a moment when Judy Tuwaletstiwa stood crying in a Van Gogh exhibit, something cracking open in her heart that had been closed since childhood. She rushed home and made her first drawing in 20 years—launching a 50-year artistic journey that would take her from California studios to...
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Leadership Wellbeing Index: Co-Flourishing in the Future of Work | Caitlin Krause
In today's @MAGICademy episode, we dive deep into the essential concept of digital well-being with our guest, @Caitlin Krause, founder of MindWise and author of 'Digital Wellbeing.' Caitlin unpacks a timely framework that redefines well-being beyond traditional notions, revealing how leaders and...
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Sometimes You Have to Sit on a Pineapple: Rediscover Team Potentials through Collective Story Making | Richard Gold
🍍 "That's me sitting on a pineapple."A senior developer said this during a team workshop, holding up a LEGO model of a minifigure stuck on a spiky plant.The room went silent. Then something incredible happened.What started as one person's frustration became their team's secret weapon. "Sometimes...
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How Magic Teaches Us About Trust and Innovation | Mike Hruska
Why do you instantly trust your favorite actor... even though they've been lying to you for years? Here's the mind-bending truth: We don't just tolerate deception—we PAY for it. Movies, music, magic shows... we crave "beautiful lies" that expand our sense of what's possible. The kicker? The same...
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The MAGIC of Escape Games for Leadership | Dr. Rachel Arpin
Traditional leadership training often relies on slide presentations and theoretical discussions, but what if leaders could develop critical social, emotional, and even spiritual skills through immersive, hands-on experiences? According to Dr. Rachel Arpin, escape games designed for leadership...
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Metadelics: Deep Journey into Consciousness through Spirit Tech | Simeone Scaramozzino
This profound MAGICademy conversation explores the intersection of consciousness, leadership, and transformation through the lens of Simeone Scaramozzino's unique journey as a facilitator who integrates neuroscience, virtual reality, plant medicine, and ancient wisdom traditions. Following a...
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Magic Formula: Art + Leadership = Transformation | Adam Rosendahl
In an era where executives communicate primarily through screens and organizational hierarchies create invisible barriers, traditional leadership development may be missing something fundamental: authentic human connection.Adam Rosendahl's work addresses this gap through an unconventional...
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Unleashing Creativity: Robotics as a Catalyst for Joyful Learning | Tom Lauwers
In an era where artificial intelligence dominates headlines about the future of work and learning, Tom Lauwers presents a different perspective in this MAGICademy episode: educational technology focused on amplifying rather than replacing human creativity. As founder and CTO of BirdBrain...
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Game of Life: Transform Your Reality through Gamification |Yu-kai Chou
Imagine for a period of life, spending 90 hours in one week playing a video game—while still maintaining a full-time job, family responsibilities, publishing books that would be sold over 100,000 copies, founding multiple successful companies and consultling for organizations like Google, Tesla,...
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Gamification Embodied: Beyond Points and Prizes with Dr. Karl Kapp
In this robust exploration of modern gamification principles, international expert Dr. Karl Kapp challenges conventional understanding of game-based learning. Moving far beyond simplistic point systems and digital badges, Dr. Kapp reveals how gamification taps into fundamental aspects of game...
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Collective Super-Intelligence: Reimagining Human Decision-Making | Dr. Louis Rosenberg
The MAGICademy podcast with Dr. Louis Rosenberg dives into the inspiring idea of boosting group intelligence by tapping into the wisdom of nature! It's all about creating spaces where people can truly connect and make decisions together, just like a school of fish moving in perfect harmony.…
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Wheel of Belonging: Building a World through Deep Empathy
In this episode with Naomi, we went into a deep meditative state to explore how belonging serves as a fundamental human need with measurable impacts on well-being, productivity, and collective success. Through thoughtful research and frameworks like the "Wheel of Belonging," we discuss how...
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Do it Messy: Childlike Wonder Meets Artificial Intelligence
Story Overview In this MAGICademy podcast episode, we dive into the realm of creativity and artificial intelligence with Dr. Robin Sargent, founder of IDOL Instructional Design Academy. Dr. Sargent shares her journey from running a niche recruiting agency to establishing a full-fledged vocational...
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The Story of Immersion: Tracing the Brain's Social-Emotional Pathways
Story Overview In this MAGICademy podcast episode, neuroscientist Dr. Paul discusses his research on "immersion" - a measurable data stream from the brain that indicates how we value social-emotional experiences. He explains how immersion happens when we're both present and emotionally engaged,...
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Create a Company Anthem: Unlock Potentials through Neurosomatic Leadership
Story Overview In this episode of the MAGICademy Podcast, we welcomes Genein Letford, a national thought leader and creator of "Lyrics & Leadership." This innovative program combines music, neural somatic leadership concepts, intercultural creativity, and prismatic leadership to help us unlock…
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Art of Social Immersion: Transforming Digital Spaces into Social Catalysts
Welcome to S6E1 of the @MAGICademy Podcast! Today, our guest is Jasmin Jodry, an award-winning creative director based in New York, renowned for crafting transformative immersive experiences. She specializes in merging art and entertainment to create shared 'Story-living' concepts that foster...
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Beyond Command: The Architecture of Generative Leadership
On S5E10 of the @MAGICademy Podcast, we give a warm welcome to Robert Dunham! Bob is an expert in leadership development and founder of the Institute for Generative Leadership (IGL). We had an amazing conversation about generative leadership and what it truly means, how it generates positive…
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Space as Teacher: The Hidden Language of Authentic Connection
Welcome to S5E8 of the @MAGICademy Podcast! Today we welcome Lorenz Sell as a guest for the show. Lorenz is a notable engineer recognized for his contributions to the electrical and mechanical systems fields, and building spaces and software to advance and help human connections. The developer…
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Scent of Serenity: Mastering the Stress Olympics through Multisensory Healing
On S5E7 of the @MAGICademy Podcast, we give a warm welcome to Sarah Hill! She is the founder and CEO of Healium, a company specializing in interactive media and mental fitness solutions. Aside from that, Sarah is an accomplished journalist with 12 Emmy awards under her hat, having dedicated over…
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Building a Sustainable Company Culture through the Magic of Awe
Welcome to S5E6 of the @MAGICademy Podcast! Our guest today is Megan Powell Cuzzolino, who is a prominent educational researcher and a project director at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She studies the role of awe in learning and development, and how emotional experiences can enhance...
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Radical Emotional Intelligence: The Cornerstone Intelligence of Future Leaders
On S5E5 of the @MAGICademy Podcast we welcome Dr. Britt Andreata to the show! She is a thought leader and expert in brain science, leadership, and education, with experience developing brain science-based training programs for organizational effectiveness and personal growth. We had a great...
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Mindful Desk Warriors: Wellness Movement to Boost Focus & Resilience
Welcome to a new episode of the @MAGICademy podcast! Today on S5E4, our guest is Lisa Cannata, a leadership development expert currently associated with The Blanchard Companies, with over 27 years of diverse experience under her hat in developing new and interesting learning strategies. We talk a...
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MAGICommons is a Re-Imagination Lab and global Commons empowering conscious change agents and organizations through research, incubation, and transformative experiences to co-steward life-affirming Regenerative Vitality for collective flourishing.Join the global commons: https://magicommons.org/
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