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  1. Sensing the Future (An Edgewalker Message)

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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 Deck: https://createmagicatwork.net/shop/ols/products/the-edgewalker-card-deck Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal: https://a.co/d/06N0Hypc 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/

    2 min
  2. Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign: Interpreting the Wisdom of the Universe

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    Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign: Interpreting the Wisdom of the Universe

    Every journey begins with a moment that asks us to trust something we cannot yet explain. In this inaugural episode of Bending the Light, Vish shares the unexpected story behind the podcast itself. As he reflects on turning fifty, an encounter with a stranger in a mountain café becomes the catalyst for exploring intuition, synchronicity, and the quiet ways life invites us toward our next chapter. Drawing from the Desiderata, Vedic astrology, yoga, and decades of spiritual practice, he considers how slowing down allows us to recognize meaning where we might otherwise see coincidence. Rather than asking us to believe in signs, Vish offers a gentler invitation. What changes when we become more attentive to the patterns, people, and experiences already surrounding us? Ancient wisdom is presented not as an escape from modern life, but as a way of seeing it more clearly. At its heart, this opening conversation reminds us that life may be speaking far more often than we realize. The question is not whether the signs are there. The question is whether we have slowed down enough to notice them. Points of Light: Awareness Comes Before Understanding — We often search for certainty while overlooking the subtle moments that invite greater clarity and self-awareness.Meaning Is Created Through Attention — A simple encounter becomes transformative, not because it proves anything, but because it invites deeper observation and reflection.Aging Invites Wisdom, Not Resistance — Growing older becomes an opportunity to embrace perspective and purpose rather than resist the natural rhythm of life.Ancient Practices Sharpen Modern Awareness — Meditation, breathwork, and Vedic wisdom are explored not as escapes from reality, but as practices that help us experience everyday life more fully.Intuition Is Strengthened Through Presence — The more we slow down and notice what surrounds us, the more confidently we can respond to life's unexpected invitations. About the Host: Vish Chatterji is an executive coach, Vedic teacher, author, and former business executive who helps people bridge ancient wisdom with modern life. After a career spanning engineering, entrepreneurship, and corporate leadership, he now guides leaders, founders, and seekers toward greater clarity through the traditions of Yoga, Meditation, Ayurveda, Vedic Philosophy, and Jyotish, the ancient science of light. Through his coaching practice, Head & Heart Insights, Vish combines practical business experience with timeless spiritual teachings, inviting people to lead and live with greater awareness, purpose, and presence. He is the author of The Business Casual Yogi and Astrology Decoded, and serves as a Faculty Coach and Educator with the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute at UC Berkeley. https://www.headandheartinsights.com/ 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/

    39 min

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    White Indoctrination with Kimberly Palermo

    White Indoctrination with Kimberly Palermo | July 2, 2026 Race is a HUMAN CONSTRUCT. Racism is REAL. What truths are hiding in plain sight because we've been taught not to see them? Today we're diving into a conversation that asks us to look closely at the stories we've been taught about history, race, identity, and ourselves. We are #LIVEINTHEHIVE with Kimberly Palermo, author of Indoctri-NATION, a book that challenges us to examine the ways we have been shaped by cultural narratives and omissions of historical facts = AND - to consider what it means to take responsibility for creating a more truthful future. In this episode we discuss… Kim’s childhood awakening to racism – a story most white people can relate to – the intuitive tug that all was not right or fair, but witnessing no one speaking out.At 17, Kime discovered Jane Elliot, the American diversity educator who debunks “the rightness of whiteness”, famous for her Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes experiment, created to teach students about discrimination and racial stereotyping.Denial + racism as identity.“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." – Lyndon B. JohnsonKim lays out examples of unexamined systemic racism ex: redlining, Jim Crow laws, Mass incarceration as modern enslavement, slave patrols as the origin story of our present day police force.What is the difference between indoctrination and education.The remembrance we’ve inherited a racist culture.Resource: Race@Dinner.com with Regina Jackson + Saira RaoResource: Ote Benga – a Congolese human who became an attraction in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.The most powerful myth Americans have been taught about race.Kim shares the story of adopting a child from Ethopia.How to respond to the statement: “I don’t see color”.All this and so much more. Kimberly Palermo holds an undergraduate degree in Applied Behavioral Sciences from UC Davis, with a focus on multiculturalism, and a master’s degree in special education, with extensive training in group behavior and learning. Kim began her teaching career as an elementary school teacher in Compton Unified School District during the Rodney King civil unrest, where she witnessed firsthand how historical erasure, systemic inequality, and trauma shape communities, and how education can either reinforce myths or interrupt them. That experience profoundly shaped her approach to teaching truth with clarity, empathy, and accountability. For over twenty years, Kim has worked with people at the earliest stages of learning, including those who have received incomplete or oversimplified versions of history, helping guide them from uncertainty toward deeper understanding and personal responsibility. She is the author of Indoctri-NATION 365 which reflects Kim's lifelong work at the intersection of education, behavioral science, and history, designed not to shame readers, but to give them the tools they were never taught. Find Kim: https://indoctrination365.com/about https://www.linkedin.com/in/synergyunlimited/ 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/

    57 min
  4. Expansion (A Moment of Reflection)

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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. Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck: https://createmagicatwork.net/shop/ols/products/the-edgewalker-card-deck Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal: https://a.co/d/06N0Hypc 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/

    2 min
  5. Introducing The Spark Sessions: Resourcing for Creativity Mini-series

    25 juin ·  Bonus

    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

  6. 25 juin

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

    23 juin

    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

  8. Bande-annonce

    Welcome to Bending the Light: Vedic Wisdom for a Brighter World

    Bending the Light explores the timeless wisdom of the Indian spiritual tradition through a modern lens. Hosted by Vish Chatterji, a former engineer turned "karma mechanic," this podcast blends karma, dharma, meditation, Ayurveda, Vedic philosophy, and Jyotish with practical insights for everyday life. Through stories, conversations, and bite-sized spiritual teachings, you'll discover how ancient wisdom can help you navigate life's challenges, understand the forces shaping your path, and bring more clarity, purpose, and light into your world.

    2 min
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