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  1. Introducing The Spark Sessions: Resourcing for Creativity Mini-series

    -2 j ·  Contenu boni

    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 listeners into an exciting new creativity chapter of the Create Magic at Work podcast. In this introductory episode, Amy sits down with your host for the series — creativity coach, songwriter, and Muzi founder Rachel Efron. Together, they explore the vision behind the sessions and the creative journey that lies ahead. They discuss why creativity is more essential to our wellbeing than we've been taught to believe, how people become disconnected from their creative nature, and what’s possible when we finally learn to tend to our creative health. Rachel offers a glimpse into the philosophy, tools, and practices, that will guide her future episodes, supporting listeners to understand creativity not as something reserved for the select few, but rather as a universal and vital part of being fully alive. Sparks of Insight: Why some of the most common beliefs about creativity might be limiting your potential.A surprising insight on what might be standing between you and the projects you long to get off the ground.An introduction to the five creative resources that will be a game changer for your creativity.A fresh way of thinking about rest that challenges conventional ideas about productivity and recovery.A preview of the practical Missions, Spark readings, and creative insights listeners will encounter throughout the series. Ready to discover your unique creative landscape? Download the Muzi app at http://itunes.apple.com/app/id6739667782 to take the Creativity Assessment, and uncover your Spark profile. Then email your Spark to Rachel at rachel@rachelefron.com for a chance at a Spark Reading on air, where Rachel will offer personalized insight into what your creativity most needs from you right now. About Rachel: Rachel Efron is an Oakland-based songwriter, producer, and creativity coach. She's released four full-length albums of original songs, plus written for such legends as Narada Michael Walden and Journey. Rachel is a premier songwriting coach for songwriters across the world, and has over fifteen years experience helping artists, leaders, and teams find their voice. In 2022, Rachel turned her methods into a comprehensive framework and groundbreaking app, Muzi, to help everyone —artists and non-artists alike—access greater creativity in their lives. email: rachel@rachelefron.com website: https://www.rachelefron.com/creativity Download the Muzi app at http://itunes.apple.com/app/id6739667782 Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you are enjoying the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Mentioned in this episode: This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

    24 min
  2. -2 j

    Choosing Heart Over The Transactional Life

    What happens when the most important moment of your day isn't the one you planned for? In a culture driven by speed, efficiency, and endless demands on our attention, it's easy to move through life treating people, conversations, and experiences as transactions. But some of the most meaningful moments arrive when we're forced to slow down and truly see the person in front of us. Through a series of unforgettable stories, Dr. Mark reflects on encounters that challenged his assumptions about success, leadership, and what it means to live with intention. From an unexpected friendship with an airport employee to stories of redemption, forgiveness, and extraordinary acts of humanity, a common thread emerges: the moments that change us most often happen when we choose heart and meaning over urgency and routine. The pressure to keep moving is constant. There is always another meeting, another deadline, another reason to hurry. Yet the stories shared here point in a different direction. They suggest that some of life's most meaningful opportunities arrive disguised as interruptions, and that the people who leave the deepest mark on us are often the ones we never expected to become our teachers. The Choreography Of A Connection: When Urgency Meets Humanity – A rushed airport encounter reveals how easily efficiency can blind us to the wisdom standing directly in front of us.Paying Attention to What Has Heart and Meaning – Leadership begins to change when we learn to recognize the moments that deserve our full presence.The Rules That Need Breaking – Sometimes the right thing to do requires stepping beyond policy, procedure, and convention.Redefining Success Through Service – The most meaningful measure of a life may be the difference it makes in the life of another person.Escaping Transactional Living – Freedom emerges when relationships stop being exchanges and start becoming opportunities for meaning. About the Host: Dr. Mark Rittenberg is a Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business, specializing in leadership communication and interpersonal dynamics. He is known for helping individuals and organizations develop authentic leadership presence through human connection and dialogue. With over three decades of global experience, he has worked with Fortune 100 companies, government institutions, and international organizations. He is also the founder of the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, where he trains leaders and executive coaches from around the world. At the heart of his work is a simple but powerful belief: leadership is rooted in love, expressed through presence, dialogue, and the courage to remain in human connection. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-rittenberg-bb90214/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you are enjoying the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Mentioned in this episode: This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

    45 min
  3. The Boundaries Blueprint: Read A Room Without Absorbing The Stress | Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller

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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 mistake constant rescue missions for true connection. The result isn't better leadership, it is exhaustion. In this episode, Amy sits down with global emotional intelligence and empathy expert Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller to map out a clear blueprint for protecting your energy without shutting out your humanity. Drawing from her raw pivot point out of a toxic workplace environment and later experiencing those same broken patterns in other work spaces, Dr. Melissa shares the definitive distinction between reading a room and taking responsibility for it. This conversation is a radical reframe on human connection. You will discover how to stand in your own power, deploy data-backed perspective-taking, and implement the boundaries necessary to stop treating everyone else's distress as your circus to fix. Moments That Create Momentum: The "Not My Circus" Rule: Why walking into a room and feeling everyone else's tension isn't a gift, it’s a boundary failure that is secretly draining you.The Revenue Shield: The deeply unsettling reason why elite organizations intentionally protect toxic high-performers and narcissists.The Empathy Illusion: Dr. Melissa shares why empathy is passive, and how jumping straight into "fixing" things actually triggers misplaced, destructive compassion.The Danger of Being "Nice": Why standard corporate manners are often just a mask for insincerity, and the reason true kindness requires telling the ugly truth.The Self-Rescue Mandate: Why launching into service for others before mastering self-empathy is a fast track to destroying your own career. About the Guest: As professional musician, Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller worked with major talent such as Ray Charles, David Ogden Stiers, and Mannheim Steamroller. But cold and toxic leadership eventually robbed her of a career that was 30+ years in the making. However, that incident inspired Dr. Melissa to transform leadership as we know it by redefining the one element that most leaders miss: empathy. Today, she’s an international bestselling author, Editor’s Pick TEDx speaker, EQ and empathy coach, and leading voice on emotional intelligence and empathy. She’s known for blending lived experience, academic depth, and a sharp, data-driven approach that not only makes sense but demystifies how empathy translates to better productivity, innovation, and profit. Her mission is to invite everyone to approach empathy as a strategic skill for every human-centric action, not only for others but also for ourselves, and to step up in the way the future of leadership demands. https://eqviaempathy.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-melissa-a-robinson-winemiller-author-speaker-trainer https://www.instagram.com/empathyqueen.eq https://www.youtube.com/@TheEmpathicLeader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaoXSEWeILo&t=63s https://geni.us/TheEmpathicLeader About Amy: Amy Lynn Durham, known by her clients as the Corporate Mystic, is the founder of the Executive Coaching Firm, Create Magic At Work®, where they help leaders build workplaces rooted in creativity, collaboration, and fulfillment. A former corporate executive turned Executive Coach, Amy blends practical leadership strategies with spiritual intelligence to unlock human potential at work. She’s a certified Executive Coach through UC Berkeley & the International Coaching Federation (ICF) In addition, Amy holds coaching certifications in Spiritual Intelligence (SQ21), the Edgewalker Profile, and the Archetypes of Change . In addition to being the host of the Create Magic At Work® podcast, Amy is the author of Create Magic At Work®, Creating Career Magic: A Daily Prompt Journal and the founder of Magic Thread Media™. Through her work, she inspires intentional leadership for thriving workplaces and lives where “magic” becomes reality. Connect with Amy: https://createmagicatwork.net/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/create-magic-at-work https://www.facebook.com/112951637095427 https://www.instagram.com/createmagicatwork https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnEm4h3fUgaq8qgvZpz6dGg Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you are enjoying the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Mentioned in this episode: This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

    30 min
  4. When the Life You Planned Falls Away with James Rosser

    18 juin

    When the Life You Planned Falls Away with James Rosser

    "As long as you're still harming yourself, how much kindness can you put out there? How much compassion can you put out there?" — James Rosser What happens when the life you built no longer feels like your life? For James Rosser, the question arrived through an unimaginable moment. In his late twenties, during the height of the AIDS epidemic, James was mistakenly diagnosed with a terminal illness and told he likely had eight months to live. Then, after repeated testing, he learned the diagnosis was wrong. But something had already shifted. What began as a confrontation with mortality became something more surprising: a confrontation with exhaustion. Exhaustion from carrying a life that looked successful from the outside but no longer felt true on the inside. Exhaustion from perfection. Performance. Hiding. Becoming someone instead of being someone. In this deeply personal conversation, Cari and James explore the unexpected ways suffering can become a doorway—not because pain is inherently noble, but because turning toward suffering instead of reacting against it can reveal who we are and what matters most. Together they unpack the difference between mindfulness and meditation, the hidden aggression inside self-improvement, the origins of the inner critic, and why compassion is not softness—it is courage. James shares how Buddhist practice, self-compassion, and years of learning to stay with difficult experience transformed his relationship with himself and ultimately changed the direction of his life—from finance to therapy, teaching, healing, and service. This episode is an invitation to pause long enough to ask: What if your pain isn’t asking you to become someone else? What if it’s asking you to become more fully yourself? The Treasures in the Trash: Suffering can become a doorway — Sometimes the moments we would never choose reveal the values and truths that quietly shape the rest of our lives.Reactivity and response are not the same thing — The space between what we feel and how we respond may be where freedom begins.Self-improvement can hide self-rejection — The drive to become better can sometimes be fueled by the painful belief that we are not enough as we are.Compassion changes everything — When we stop treating suffering as failure and begin meeting it with care, healing becomes possible.The inner critic often began as protection — What feels harsh today may once have been trying to keep us safe.Looking for the good is a practice — Our minds naturally scan for danger, but kindness and awareness help us remember what else is here.Your heart already knows something — Sometimes the most important question isn’t “What should I do?” but “What does my heart need to hear?” Learn more about the Sacred Pause Retreat at https://www.bravedirections.com/a-sacred-pause About the Guest: James Rosser has been meditating since 1987, beginning his journey with Spirit Rock co-founder James Baraz. Today, he serves as a Dharma teacher and Board Member at InsightLA, and co-leads retreats at the Big Bear Retreat Center. His extensive training includes graduations from InsightLA’s Facilitator and Dedicated to the Dharma programs, Spirit Rock's Dedicated Practitioner Program, and the inaugural class of the Kornfield-Brach Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP). James integrates deep spiritual practice with clinical expertise. He is a Mentor at Kristin Neff’s Self-Compassion Institute, a Trained Teacher for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, and an intensively trained Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) clinician. Currently, he works as an LCSW at UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, designing and growing intensive outpatient programs. He holds a Master’s in Social Welfare from UCLA and a Bachelor’s in Finance from the University of Tennessee. https://www.instagram.com/bluesuitbuddha/ About Cari: Cari Jacobs-Crovetto is an executive and leadership coach and the founder of Brave Directions, where she works with senior leaders and C-suite executives to strengthen interpersonal and team relationships, navigate conflict skillfully, and deepen self-awareness, influence, and confidence. Before becoming a coach, Cari spent three decades in marketing and product leadership roles across Fortune 100 companies, media networks, consulting firms, and venture-backed startups. In 2019, she was named one of Forbes’ Top 50 Chief Marketing Officers. Cari brings together decades of operating experience with more than 45 years of Buddhist meditation study and practice, integrating deep inner work with practical leadership development. She facilitates the renowned Interpersonal Dynamics (“Touchy Feely”) course at Stanford Graduate School of Business where she also coaches grad school students, leads meditation classes and leadership workshops, and hosts the podcast Finding Treasures in the Trash. Her mantra: Fierce Heart — where compassion meets bold, badass leadership. https://www.bravedirections.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/carisf/ https://www.instagram.com/cari_bravedirections/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you are enjoying the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Mentioned in this episode: This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

    53 min
  5. Why Your Brainstorms Fail: The 3 Pre-Meeting Magic Secrets   | Michael Brian Lee

    16 juin

    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% of a company’s value is driven entirely by intellectual property and average business lifespans have plummeted to just five years, innovation is no longer a luxury, it is a mandatory action. As quantum leaders, we often demand innovative solutions from our teams without realizing we are skipping the energetic prep work required to get them. Michael breaks down Innotivity, the ultimate cycle of adapting who you are being, shifting your identity, and then taking action to drive measurable business results. Together, they unpack the exact 3-step checklist leaders must complete before a brainstorming meeting ever starts. If you are ready to stop forcing stagnant ideas into the world and start orchestrating true innovation that ripple outward to your team and beyond, this episode is your blueprint. Moments That Create MomentumThe Brutal Math of Modern Business Survival: Discover why collapsing business lifespans mean your current innovation strategy is already outdated.Innovation is the Action: Understand why trying to innovate with old, default thinking is a recipe for failure, and why implementation requires an identity shift first.The 3-Step Pre-Brainstorm Checklist: A breakdown of Safe Space, Integrity, and Identity—the foundational SQ pillars required before your team steps into the room.Solving the Wrong Problem with Integrity: How rushing to a quick answer causes organizations to waste massive energy executing the wrong questions.The Live Innovation Experiment: Watch quantum leadership in real-time as Michael pushes Amy through a mind-bending exercise to expand past default, logical boundaries into pure potential. About the Guest: Michael Brian Lee excels as a transformational coach, trainer, teacher, speaker, writer, and an expert in the mindsets of Creativity, Innovation, and Adaptability. With over two decades of experience in the film and TV industry across the US, Europe, and Africa, Michael is a seasoned creative professional. His TV productions have earned him 5 South African Film & TV Awards (SAFTAs), showcasing his exceptional talent. Founding both the Innotivity Institute and the Academy of Television and Screen Arts in Johannesburg, Michael demonstrates his commitment to fostering creativity and excellence. He has taken the TEDx stage twice, delivering impactful speeches that have reshaped the perspectives of his audiences. His keynotes and workshops are widely recognized for dismantling barriers and empowering individuals to effectively change their mindsets and achieve their goals. https://www.michaelbrianlee.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelleecreativity Book - World Innovator’s Cup: History’s Greatest Minds Take the Field - https://worldinnovatorscup.com/ About Amy: Amy Lynn Durham, known by her clients as the Corporate Mystic, is the founder of the Executive Coaching Firm, Create Magic At Work®, where they help leaders build workplaces rooted in creativity, collaboration, and fulfillment. A former corporate executive turned Executive Coach, Amy blends practical leadership strategies with spiritual intelligence to unlock human potential at work. She’s a certified Executive Coach through UC Berkeley & the International Coaching Federation (ICF) In addition, Amy holds coaching certifications in Spiritual Intelligence (SQ21), the Edgewalker Profile, and the Archetypes of Change . In addition to being the host of the Create Magic At Work® podcast, Amy is the author of Create Magic At Work®, Creating Career Magic: A Daily Prompt Journal and the founder of Magic Thread Media™. Through her work, she inspires intentional leadership for thriving workplaces and lives where “magic” becomes reality. Connect with Amy: https://createmagicatwork.net/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/create-magic-at-work https://www.facebook.com/112951637095427 https://www.instagram.com/createmagicatwork https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnEm4h3fUgaq8qgvZpz6dGg Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you are enjoying the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Mentioned in this episode: This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

    32 min
  6. 16 juin

    Asherah, Anat, and The Recovery of Goddess Traditions with Trista Hendren

    Asherah, Anat, and the Recovery of Goddess Traditions with Trista Hendren of Girl God Books | June 16, 2026 Who – and what – is The Goddess? "The Great Goddess Asherah, the sacred tree, Mother-Goddess of all of the gods..." — Miriam Robbins Dexter, Preface to Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree We can all agree that we are living through a time of immense grief, polarization, and moral exhaustion. And beneath our political events we find deeper stories about power, sacredness, domination, and what we believe about human life. Today’s conversation explores one of those forgotten stories through the figure of Asherah and the recovery of goddess traditions. Today we are #LiveintheHIve with Trista Hendren, author, speaker, visionary founder of Girl God Books and ONE POWERFUL voice and leader in the dismantling of the patriarchal mindset and the remembrance and return to the wisdom and mystery of the Divine feminine, and to the ancient truth of kinship, reciprocity, and inter-being. I’ve had Trista on before for the episode What Will It Take to Know The Girl God – listen HERE for that episode. I wanted to have her back to speak about her anthology, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree, to expand on reclaiming the Goddess traditions, and share what is alive in her work today. We touch on… I met Trista at The Goddess Conference: The Crone (2023) in Glastonbury. The information got a bit lost in some technical glitches in our conversation. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI6PGa6n4Gg6l77LkruIJGXwpoT8LzQHiSpoiler alert: We talk about Dr Lynne Sedgemore and her upcoming book, "The Goddess Enneagram", endorsed by Trista, and to be published by ChangeMakers Books. Dr Lynne will be guesting in the fall.Whether a novice or a well-seasoned Goddess lover, this book, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree is for you, with academic research, creative writing, poetry and art.Trista shares who – and what – is the goddess, and how she discovered the goddess coming from a very devout Christian upbringing.Resource: author Burleigh Muten and her well-known book about the divine feminine, The Return of The Great Goddess.The story behind the creation of Girl God Books.Trista converted to Islam – the extraordinary story as to why?The power of art! Trista has a HUGE statue of the Venus of Willendorf on her property: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_WillendorfGirl God Books has produced over 50 books and anthologies, primarily by female authors.Spirituality and politics? Trista weighs in on abortion, female sensuality and Female RAGE (and who is the Goddess Anat).Resources: Women Who Run with The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes and The Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo, Barbara Mor.Resource: Wizard Bisan | https://www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan1/?hl=enThe call to The Mother from the Palestinians.The Goddess Anat: The primal rage of the Mother. An upcoming anthology on ANAT, stay tuned.I LOVE THIS! Trista asks: Before Patriarchy did we NEED warrior goddesses?Trista is a PRO-Palestine activist. Her family is in Lebanon. The failings of our news.In honor of Father’s Day, Trista weighs in on Sacred Masculinity.Resource: Upcoming Girl God Book on Healing Spells and Rituals : https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/ Perhaps Asherah's greatest gift is not simply that she was remembered, but that her roots remained alive beneath the surface all along waiting for us to remember that we, too, belong to the Mother Tree. Enjoy this episode. #TheEdgeofEverydayPodcast #TheEdgeofEveryday #ThePowerofStorytelling #Solstice #Juneteenth #FathersDay #TheGoddessMovesMe #Asherah Find Trista: ww.TheGirlGod.com Find Sandra: www.SandraBargman.com @SandraBargman Review us in Apple Podcasts@ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-edge-of-everyday-with-sandra-bargman/id1740861679 Mentioned in this episode: This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

    58 min

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