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A podcast network weaving conscious voices for a more connected world.

  1. 4d ago

    Expansion (A Moment of Reflection)

    Today’s reflection explores how growth begins by recognizing the strengths that already exist within us. When we value our unique gifts and use them with confidence, we create opportunities that expand both our careers and our sense of purpose. Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your 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

    Expansion (A Moment of Reflection)

  2. 4d ago

    The Gift of an Interrupted Life with Jordan Kersten

    “Everything that we think we can hold onto is going to go. And isn't that freeing?” — Jordan Kersten Jordan Kersten has learned to greet life's interruptions differently than most of us. Again and again, her body has asked her to stop. A knee that no longer held her. A concussion that slowed her mind. An illness without answers. Another injury that made independence impossible. None of them were experiences she would have chosen. Yet each one became a doorway into a deeper way of being alive. As Jordan shares her story, it becomes clear that this conversation isn't really about injury. It's about what happens after the life we expected gives way to the life that's actually unfolding. The body changes. Certainty disappears. Something familiar is lost. And in the space that's left behind, another way of seeing begins to emerge. Cari and Jordan wander through questions of mindfulness, vulnerability, safety, expression, and what it means to find your voice when the ground beneath you keeps changing. Together they explore how compassion grows through lived experience, why receiving can be harder than giving, and how even the most painful interruptions can deepen our connection to ourselves and to one another. There is a quiet wisdom running through this conversation. Not everything that breaks us is asking to be fixed. Sometimes it's asking us to become more awake. The Treasures in the TrashThe reliable becomes unreliable. That isn't failure—it's part of being human. Our deepest growth often begins the moment certainty falls away.Compassion is rarely learned through ideas. It is learned through lived experience. Our own struggles soften us toward the struggles of others.Finding your voice begins with feeling safe. Authentic expression isn't something we force; it's something that naturally emerges when we no longer have to protect ourselves.Healing isn't always returning to who we were. Sometimes it's becoming someone we couldn't have become any other way.Sometimes the body interrupts us before the soul can. The moments that stop us often become the moments that awaken us. Every episode of Finding Treasures in the Trash explores the places we'd rather avoid—the losses, disappointments, fears, and moments that seem to break us—and asks a different question: What if the treasure is already hidden inside the trash? About the Guest: Jordan Kersten is a passionate and grounded health coach, voice teacher, and yoga teacher dedicated to helping people reconnect with their innate creativity, resilience, and capacity for healing. She works with individuals from all walks of life, with particular experience supporting those recovering from injury and navigating complex health conditions. Inspired by the mindfulness traditions of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Plum Village, Jordan brings a deeply compassionate and curious approach to her work. She is endlessly fascinated by the connection between the body, mind, and creative spirit, and believes that even life's greatest challenges can become opportunities for growth, self-discovery, and transformation. When she's not teaching or coaching, Jordan can often be found backpacking, watching sunsets, or singing. https://www.jordankersten.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-kersten-b3b3bb24/ https://www.instagram.com/jordanswellnessandperformance/ Interested in exploring work with Jordan, get $135 off her 6 week Summer Jumpstart, and $245 off her Summer Season Reset (3 months)! Email her at jordankersten@gmail.com for more info. 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/

    The Gift of an Interrupted Life with Jordan Kersten

  3. 6d ago

    One Diagnosis Away: Why Healthcare Is Failing the Middle Class with Adam Cunningham

    What happens when the system designed to care for you requires you to become your own advocate, negotiator, researcher, and risk manager? For millions of people, illness is no longer only a physical crisis. It is a financial and emotional one, intensified by opaque prices, delayed treatment, insurance denials, and the quiet fear that help may never arrive. Amy and Adam Cunningham explore the human cost of a healthcare system that often leaves patients and families navigating alone. Adam’s work with Sylk Health began with a friend’s suffering and grew into a larger question: what changes when people can see real prices, compare international options, and act before waiting becomes deterioration? Their conversation reaches beyond medical tourism or employee benefits. It asks what responsibility looks like when institutions become difficult to trust. For individuals, that may mean seeking a patient advocate or looking beyond familiar systems. For employers, it may mean treating affordable care as a human obligation rather than an expense to absorb without question. Sometimes agency does not arrive as confidence. It begins with the quiet recognition that waiting is also a choice. When people can see their options clearly, they are no longer only reacting to a system. They are participating in the future of their own care. Moments That Create Momentum: The “You’re on Your Own” Threshold: Why accepting that the system may not rescue you can be the first step toward reclaiming control of your care.The Navigation Trap: How years spent waiting, appealing, and decoding healthcare bureaucracy can quietly become part of the harm itself.The Price Blindness Machine: Why medical costs remain hidden until after treatment, and how that secrecy keeps patients powerless when they are most vulnerable.The Credible Threat: How simply having a legitimate international healthcare option can force domestic providers to reconsider prices, even when no one gets on a plane.The Employer Accountability Question: Why offering health insurance is not the same as protecting employees, and what responsible leadership demands when care becomes financially destructive. About the Guest: Adam Cunningham is the lead founder of Sylk Health, a company providing direct access to accredited international hospitals and freely publishing healthcare prices. https://sylkhealth.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/

    One Diagnosis Away: Why Healthcare Is Failing the Middle Class with Adam Cunningham

  4. Jul 16

    Drops of Light: Meditation, Breath, and the Space Between Thoughts

    Many people believe they cannot meditate because their minds are too busy. In this Drops of Light, Vish reframes meditation not as stopping thought, but as learning to rest beneath its surface, using the breath as a simple path toward awareness, focus, and peace. Get your Personal Karmic Blueprint Reading - https://www.vishchatterji.com/karmic-snapshot

    Drops of Light: Meditation, Breath, and the Space Between Thoughts

  5. Jul 16

    Risk-Taking (An Edgewalker Message)

    Today’s Edgewalker card explores how meaningful growth often begins with the willingness to trust what cannot yet be proven. Risk-taking is less about certainty than having the courage to follow your inner knowing, even when the path ahead has not been walked before. 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

    Risk-Taking (An Edgewalker Message)

  6. Jul 16

    Compassion Levels You Up with Amy Quesenberry

    What if compassion isn't soft at all, but one of the bravest choices we can make? What if the thing most missing from our workplaces, relationships, and communities isn't more productivity or better communication—but a deeper capacity to care? And what if true compassion sometimes asks us to set boundaries, speak difficult truths, and lead with courage rather than comfort? Today, we are #LiveInTheHive with Amy Quesenberry, organizational coach, best-selling author and the creator of Start With Compassion, her signature framework. Amy works with leaders and organizations to create cultures where people can thrive, bringing compassion out of the realm of theory and into the daily practice of leadership, accountability, and human connection. In a world that often celebrates speed, achievement, and constant doing, Amy invites us to consider a different starting point: compassion. But as we'll explore today, compassion is far more than being nice. It can be courageous, challenging, and even—dare I say—FEROCIOUS. In this episode, we explore… What compassion actually is – and – how do we find it?What do you do when you feel helpless in the presence of suffering? Whether your own or someone else’s, how can you move into action to address the suffering?Amy’s burnout story and how it led her to compassion.Amy’s top 3 method examples of her work with clients.“Shit rolls down the hill”. - Organizational change starts at the top.Her new book: It Starts with Compassion: Meaningful Change Begins Within.Transforming self-betrayal.What is the difference between compassionate leadership and leadership that seeks to avoid confrontation?What is your personal relationship with confrontation?All this + much more! Full bio + resources: www.StartWithCompassion.com Infuse Compassion Podcast https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-quesenberry/ Find her latest book HERE Find Sandra: www.SandraBargman.com Ferocious Compassion HERE @SandraBargman @SandraAmazon 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/

  7. Jul 15

    The Neuroscience of Spiritual Intelligence | Dr. Dawson Church

    What if the greatest shift in how you lead, work, and live isn't about learning another skill, but about changing the way your brain experiences the world? Amy sits down with Dr. Dawson Church, award-winning science writer, researcher, and author of Spiritual Intelligence, to explore the growing body of neuroscience revealing that emotional regulation, attention, compassion, and presence are not fixed personality traits. They are trainable capacities that reshape the brain over time. For years, spirituality has often been dismissed as something personal, abstract, or impossible to measure. Dawson challenges that assumption by sharing the research behind the four neural circuits that support spiritual intelligence and why strengthening them can transform everything from workplace performance to relationships and overall wellbeing. Together, Amy and Dawson also unpack why traditional meditation doesn't work for everyone, how evidence-based practices like EFT tapping and Eco Meditation accelerate change, and why cultivating inner awareness may be one of the most practical leadership skills available today. If you've ever wondered whether there's a science behind feeling calmer under pressure, responding with greater compassion, or unlocking more creativity without pushing harder, this conversation offers a compelling new perspective on what becomes possible when we intentionally train the brain that shapes every experience of our lives. Download your free copy of Dr. Dawson Church’s The EFT Mini-Manual and bonus EcoMeditation at https://dawsongift.com/ Moments That Create Momentum: The Brain You Practice Becomes the Life You Experience: Discover why spiritual intelligence isn't a personality trait you're born with, but a set of neural pathways you can intentionally strengthen.The Four Circuits Behind Calm Under Pressure: Explore how emotional regulation, attention, compassion, and self-awareness shape the way you lead, respond, and connect long before a stressful moment arrives.Why Meditation Doesn't Work for Everyone: Learn why quieting your mind isn't the goal, and how science-backed practices can make inner transformation more accessible.Performance Begins Long Before Productivity: Understand why your greatest breakthroughs may come from changing your internal state instead of pushing yourself to work harder.Training the Brain for Something Bigger Than Success: See how developing spiritual intelligence can shift not only how you perform at work, but how you experience your relationships, purpose, and everyday life. About the Guest: Dr. Dawson Church is an award-winning science writer, researcher, and bestselling author whose work explores the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, and human potential. Through more than 100 published clinical studies and collaborations with researchers from institutions including Harvard Medical School, Duke, Emory, and Columbia, his research has examined how meditation, emotional regulation, and self-transcendent experiences can reshape the brain and improve wellbeing. He is the author of The Genie in Your Genes, Mind to Matter, Bliss Brain, and Spiritual Intelligence. Beyond his research and writing, Dawson is the founder of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare and the Veterans Stress Solution, a nonprofit initiative that has provided free PTSD treatment to more than 22,000 veterans and their family members. He also developed EcoMeditation, an evidence-based practice designed to make meditation accessible to beginners, and continues to share research-backed approaches that help people reduce stress, cultivate resilience, and unlock their full potential. https://dawsonchurch.com/ https://www.facebook.com/dawsonchurch https://www.youtube.com/@EftuniverseEFT https://twitter.com/EFTUniverse https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawson-church-68b4a8/ https://www.instagram.com/theeftuniverse/ 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/

    The Neuroscience of Spiritual Intelligence | Dr. Dawson Church

  8. Jul 9

    Drops of Light: The Wisdom of a Birthday Candle

    A simple birthday tradition carries a deeper meaning than many of us realize. In this Drops of Light, Vish explores the Vedic wisdom behind birthday candles and how each flame can become a reminder to honor your own inner light along with the sun that sustains all life. Get your Personal Karmic Blueprint Reading - https://www.vishchatterji.com/karmic-snapshot

    Drops of Light: The Wisdom of a Birthday Candle
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    Magic Thread Media
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    Conscious Voices for a More Connected World
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
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