Create Magic At Work®
Create Magic At Work® is a leadership podcast that explores spiritual intelligence, conscious leadership, and the future of work. Through conversations with visionary leaders, coaches, authors, and entrepreneurs, the show examines how leaders can navigate uncertainty, cultivate self-awareness, and create workplaces that are both high performing and deeply human. Episodes cover themes such as transformational leadership, intuition in decision making, organizational change, and the inner work required to lead well. The show introduces frameworks rooted in spiritual intelligence, including SQ21, the Archetypes of Change, and the Edgewalker philosophy.
Episodes
Success (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how success becomes more meaningful when we define it for ourselves. By celebrating our achievements and welcoming abundance in all its forms, we create space for a life that feels both fulfilling and deeply aligned.Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck: https://a.co/d/00i0R1EWStart your own journe
Soul Weary: When the Work You Love Starts Draining You | Margaret Benefiel, Ph.D & Margie Buchanan-Smith
What happens when work rooted in service slowly disconnects you from the very values that called you to it?For leaders working inside humanitarian crises, nonprofits, healthcare, education, business, and other demanding systems, exhaustion can become more than physical. Margie Buchanan-Smith calls it “soul weary,” the feeling of dragging yourself from one demand to the next while losing contact wi
Playfulness (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how playfulness is more than a moment of escape. It is a way of approaching life with curiosity, creativity, and perspective, allowing lightness to open possibilities that seriousness alone often cannot.Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck: https://a.co/d/00i0R1EWStart your own journey of ref
Reclaiming Modern Masculinity: How High-Performing Men Are Healing in Secret | Pat Smith
Why do successful men still struggle with burnout, anger, disconnection, and feeling unfulfilled?Amy sits down with men’s high performance coach Pat Smith to explore why professional achievement, physical fitness, and financial success do not necessarily create emotional well-being. Pat shares why many business problems are actually personal patterns showing up at work, and how perfectionism, grie
Productivity (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how productivity is about more than accomplishing tasks. When we celebrate the achievements of others and prioritize work that brings us energy and purpose, productivity becomes a source of fulfillment rather than obligation.Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck: https://a.co/d/00i0R1EWStart your o
Learning to Trust Your Inner Yes: Why Success Without Alignment Leaves You Feeling Empty | Chelsea Szabo
Why do high achievers still feel unfulfilled after reaching their goals?Amy sits down with executive coach and founder of Personal Energy First, Chelsea Szabo, to explore why professional success does not always create the fulfillment people expect. Chelsea explains how external expectations, learned definitions of success, and constant achievement can disconnect people from the internal signals t
The Spark Sessions: You Aren't Blocked (My Creativity on Fire)
Creative block feels eminently real: it feels like some magical channel closes and our creative ideas are nowhere to be found. But creative block is nothing more than a very tempting illusion. Really creativity is our natural state. When we aren’t creating, it means only that our creativity needs something from us.In this installment of The Spark Sessions: Resourcing for Creativity, creativity coa
Self-Awareness (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how self-awareness deepens when we intentionally create space to listen beyond our own thoughts. Reflection becomes more than looking inward. It becomes an invitation to receive guidance, ask meaningful questions, and trust the wisdom that quietly emerges.Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck:
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/produ
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 c
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://a.co/d/00i0R1
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 fi
Transformation (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how transformation begins when we loosen our grip on certainty and create space for change. By releasing the need to control every outcome, we become more open to the choices and possibilities that support meaningful growth.Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck: https://createmagicatwork.net/shop/o
What to Do When an Employee's Life Falls Apart: A Leader’s Guide | Matthew Efird
We like to believe that compassion comes naturally. Yet when someone we work with experiences unimaginable loss, many of us freeze. We worry about saying the wrong thing, crossing a boundary, or making an already painful situation worse. So we say less, do less, and hope time will somehow fill the silence.Amy's conversation with Matthew Efird challenges that instinct with extraordinary honesty. Af
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-deckStart your own journey of re
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://a.co/d/00i0R1EWStart your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the
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
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.
Focus (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how constant multitasking can become a quiet form of disconnection from the work, relationships, and inner priorities that matter most to us.Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck: https://a.co/d/00i0R1EWStart your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Ma
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 pl
Passion (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how passion is often the quiet recognition that the life you imagine for yourself is asking you to stop waiting for permission to pursue what truly moves you.Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck: https://a.co/d/00i0R1EWStart your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with t
Connecting (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how genuine connection begins when we move beyond difference and become willing to recognize ourselves in people whose experiences, cultures, and worldviews may not mirror our own.Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck: https://a.co/d/00i0R1EWStart your own journey of reflection, creativity, an
Fixing Women or Fixing the Room? Why We're Still Being Told How to Speak
What happens when the advice meant to help us succeed teaches us to distrust our own voice?In this conversation, Amy sits down with Create Magic At Work’s Resident Voice and Presence coach Sandra Bargman to explore a question that reaches far beyond communication skills. Are women being supported in finding their voice, or are they being taught to reshape themselves to fit environments that were n
Authenticity (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how authenticity begins when the life you present to others finally starts aligning with the values you quietly know are true within yourself.Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck: https://a.co/d/00i0R1EWStart your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic
Manifesting (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how the language we repeat internally can quietly shape our relationships, leadership, identity, and the realities we move through each day.Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck: https://a.co/d/00i0R1EWStart your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Mag
How Astrology Can Guide Your Leadership Path | Vish Chatterji (Encore)
Most people spend their lives trying to understand who they are through achievement, performance, personality labels, or external validation yet still feel disconnected from themselves underneath it all.Executive coach and Vedic wisdom teacher Vish Chatterji explores the hidden relationship between consciousness, karma, leadership, and identity through the lens of Jyotish, the ancient science of V
Preparation (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how preparation is often less about proving yourself and more about trusting that the version of you meant for what’s next is willing to keep learning, growing, and becoming.Bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck: https://a.co/d/00i0R1EWStart your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intention
The Slow Death of Success: How to Stop Faking It at Work When You’re Suffering Inside | Gina Cavalier
What happens when success becomes a performance of survival instead of a reflection of alignment? Gina Cavalier joins Amy for a deeply vulnerable conversation about workplace burnout, emotional masking, suicidal ideation, nervous system overwhelm, and the hidden cost of carrying unresolved trauma into high-pressure professional environments. After years working inside demanding entertainment indus
The Science of Wishing: How to Hack Your Brain to Manifest What You Want | Brownell Landrum
What if wishing is not just emotional or spiritual, but deeply connected to the way the brain processes possibility, creativity, and change? Amy sits down with storyteller, inventor, and author Brownell Landrum to explore the intersection of neuroscience, intention, leadership, and imagination through the lens of what Brownell calls “the art and science of wishing.” Together they unpack the differ
Why Am I a Leader at Work, but an Asshole at Home? Healing the Way We Love, Lead, and Fight | Dr. Pavini Moray
The way we love, fight, withdraw, and reconnect at home shapes how we lead everywhere else. Dr. Pavini Moray joins Amy to explore relational mindfulness, conflict patterns, leadership boundaries, shame, power dynamics, and the unconscious survival strategies that follow us from childhood into work, intimacy, and community. Together they unpack what happens when leaders overextend, when relationshi
Stop Being Sorry: How to Live an Unapologetic Life | Glenda Benavides
Have you ever felt a flicker of something greater inside you, just waiting for the right moment to ignite? In a world that often asks us to dim our lights or follow someone else's blueprint, it is time to stop apologizing for your power and start leading from your soul. In this electrifying episode of Create Magic at Work, Amy Lynn Durham sits down with Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and trans
Is 'Ghostly Residue' Killing Your Focus? 6 Ways to Clear Energetic Dust | K. Margaret Solorio
The energy of your environment is never passive; it is actively shaping how you think, feel, and lead. In this conversation, host Amy is joined by intuitive guide, energy mentor, and author of Make Ease Your Vibe, K. Margaret Solorio, creator of the Home Frequency Reset, to explore how the unseen dynamics of our spaces influence clarity, creativity, and emotional regulation. Together, they unpack
Behind the Glitter: Why the Coaching Industry Has a Reputation Problem
The coaching industry has grown quickly, but growth has created both opportunity and distortion. An industry that was created with the intention of guidance and transformation may often include noise, inflated promises, and misaligned practices that can leave people feeling confused or even taken advantage of. Through years of experience inside the industry, Amy shares a clearer pattern between wh
Beyond Linear Time: The "Quantum Anchor" Method For Deep Healing with Dr. Aaron Tabacco
Time may not be as fixed as we experience it, and the way we relate to it shapes how we heal, remember, and move forward. In this second part of a two-part conversation, Amy continues with returning guest Dr. Aaron Tabacco to explore quantum presence, a perspective that expands awareness beyond the present moment into a more interconnected experience of past, present, and future. Together, they ex
Empathic Distress, Identity, And The Hidden Cost Of Helping with Dr. Aaron Tabacco
There is a tension beneath helping others that most people never question. What feels like empathy can sometimes be driven by something deeper, a need to resolve our own discomfort, stabilize our identity, or feel whole through someone else’s experience. In this first part of a two-part conversation, Amy reconnects with returning guest Dr. Aaron Tabacco to explore empathic distress, the hidden pat
The Five Secrets to Effortless Creativity & Innovation with Rachel Efron
Creativity is not a talent reserved for a few, it is a resource that determines how fully we engage with our work, our ideas, and our lives. Amy is joined by songwriter, producer, and creativity coach Rachel Efron to explore a powerful shift from seeing creativity as something you either have or lack to understanding it as a relationship that must be resourced and tended. Through the lens of five
The Creation of Magic Thread Media and the Rise of Conscious Leadership
Recently I had the pleasure of joining Sandra Bargman on The Edge of Everyday for a conversation about voice, vision, and the courage it takes to bring ideas into reality.We explored the path that led from corporate leadership to founding Create Magic at Work and launching Magic Thread Media, a curated network created to support conscious voices and meaningful dialogue. Along the way we talked abo
Finding Light in Chaotic Times: A Conversation with Dr. Judi Neal
Sometimes the most powerful guidance arrives quietly through intuition, synchronicity, and reflection. Join Amy and Dr. Judi Neal, the Founder of Edgewalkers, as they give into the Edgewalker framework and the creation of the Edgewalker card deck, a tool designed to help people navigate change while staying connected to purpose and inner wisdom. Together they discuss how symbols, affirmations, and
Leaders Are Disengaging Faster Than Their Teams
Workplace culture did not disappear. It became disconnected from the systems meant to support it. When only 21% of employees worldwide report being engaged, and managers are disengaging faster than their teams, the issue is not motivation. It is a misalignment.In this conversation, leadership expert Tiffany Connauton challenges the outdated workplace systems, HR structures, and performance models
The Grief of What Isn’t Real: Proof of Life in the Age of AI (Part 2) with Bill Kirst
Something is shifting again, and this time it feels subtle enough to miss. We are using AI to negotiate our bills. To draft our emails. To guide our conversations. Scripts are talking to scripts while we sit in the middle, repeating words we did not fully form ourselves.Most of us have not stopped to ask what that does to us.In the second part of this AI conversation, Amy and guest, Bill Kirst, go
They’re Buying Our Breath: Proof of Life in the Age of AI with Bill Kirst
Something is happening in our lives, and we can all feel it. Voices can be cloned. Stories can be automated. Images can be generated. And most of us are moving through it without fully stopping to ask what that does to our humanity..In this first part of a two-part conversation, Amy sits down with returning guest Bill Kirst to explore what it means to live in a world where we are beginning to ques
Creating Space for Many Voices: The Birth of Magic Thread Media
Growth often begins the moment we admit the current container can no longer hold what wants to emerge. Amy shares the behind-the-scenes evolution of Create Magic at Work and the birth of Magic Thread Media, a podcast network created to give expansive voices the space they deserve. Rooted in spiritual intelligence, creative courage, and deep listening, the reflection honors what has been built whil
How Leaders Turn Their Expertise Into Opportunity with Shauna Van Mourik
Most professionals believe their work should speak for itself until they realize opportunity favors those who are understood, not just competent. In a grounded, candid conversation, Shauna Van Mourik explores why personal branding is no longer about self-promotion, but about clarity, connection, and translating internal value into external opportunity. Together, the discussion reframes personal br
Why the Crone Was Erased & Why She’s Rising at Work
Something breaks when devotion outpaces reciprocity, and many high-performing women do not realize the cost until the collapse is unavoidable. In this conversation, Alexandra Norris traces her journey from decades of HR leadership into a profound reckoning shaped by codependence, ambition, and identity loss. Together with Amy, she explores how care becomes self-erasure, why boundaries fail where s
Finding Treasures in the Trash - New Big Things
Finding Treasures in the Trash has always lived between what we hide and what saves us, and this moment marks its most honest turning point yet. Cari Jacobs-Crovetto shares why the show is stepping out on its own and moving to the newly formed Magic Thread Media, a network devoted to weaving conscious voices into business, creativity, and spiritual life. As she reflects on the early episodes, Cari
Trailer: Create Magic At Work
Welcome to Create Magic At Work®.This podcast lives at the intersection of leadership, spiritual intelligence, and quantum awareness — where leaders stop sleepwalking through inherited systems and begin leading from the edge.Create Magic At Work® explores:Leadership as a consciousness practiceSpiritual intelligence in real organizational lifeThe ripple effects of leadership on people, culture, and
Why High Achievers Keep Chasing and Still Feel Unsatisfied with Harper A. Bailey
Why high achievers keep chasing and still feel unsatisfied often has little to do with effort and everything to do with where attention is placed. In this conversation, Amy and Harper A. Bailey unpack how driven people become conditioned to equate movement with progress and achievement with worth, slowly losing connection to their internal signals along the way. They explore how performance mode,
The Joy Operating System: The Hidden Upgrade You’ve Been Missing w/ Kristin Joy Ekkens
Something shifts when joy stops being a side effect of success and becomes a conscious way of living and leading. In this episode, Amy explores the idea of Exponential Joy with Kristin Joy Ekkens, founder of Exponential Joy™ movement, and how choosing joy on purpose can transform the way we work, communicate, and show up in our lives. Together, they unpack how joy is not about bypassing difficulty
Voices From the Edge: Closing 2025 and Stepping Into 2026
This episode is a collective pause at the edge of 2025, gathering voices from across the year to name what is quietly changing in how we lead, work, and relate to one another. Through reflections on presence, play, courage, compassion, wisdom, and humanity, the conversation invites a different way of moving forward. One that values being grounded over being rushed, connection over control, and tru
Ferocious Compassion: Why It’s OK to Be Disliked w/ Communication & Presence Expert Sandra Bargman
In a world that often rewards silence over truth, this conversation invites us into the radical possibility that courage can be compassionate and compassion can be ferocious. Sandra Bargman joins Amy to explore how choosing authenticity over approval transforms the way we lead, speak up and refuse the quiet self-betrayal that so many of us have normalized. Together they peel back the layers of soc
Top Gen Z Expert Dr. Andrea Mata: Why Gentle Parenting Backfired On Today’s Workforce
Gen Z was never the problem child of the workplace as much as a mirror showing leaders how our parenting and leadership habits shaped the next wave of employees. In this conversation, Amy talks with psychologist and author Dr. Andrea Mata about why the gentle parenting movement has unintentionally fueled the youth mental health crisis and how that shows up as “the American corporate tsunami” insid
Dr. Shonna Waters on What Employees Need Most to Feel Safe and Supported at Work
Workplace angst is rising, even among high achievers, and Dr. Shonna Waters is here to explain why so many people feel unsafe, unseen or stuck in their growth. You’ll hear how security, significance and growth shape our wellbeing at work and why leaders must design cultures that support those needs. Together, we explore the risks of altitude sickness in leadership, how power can pull leaders away
You're Making Culture Too Hard with Todd Wuestenberg
What if the strongest culture strategies aren't crafted in boardrooms, but in breakrooms, maintenance closets, and one-on-one hallway conversations?In this episode, Amy Lynn Durham is joined by Todd Wuestenberg, Chief Culture Officer at Haverkamp Properties, to explore how culture becomes tangible when ordinary people are empowered to create extraordinary impact.Drawing from his agricultural roots
Finding Treasures in the Trash: From Denial to Self-Devotion with Trudy Goodman
Ever ignored your gut and paid the price?Cari sits down with beloved teacher and mindfulness pioneer Trudy Goodman for a soul-stirring conversation about intuition, trust, and healing the parts of ourselves we've hidden away. Trudy vulnerably shares the ways denying her intuition led to deep personal pain, and how reclaiming it helped her rebuild a life of wisdom, creativity, and self-love. 🌱The e
Reimagining Work Beyond Time and Hierarchy with Brian Gorman
In a world obsessed with artificial intelligence, what if the future of work actually belongs to authentic intelligence?In this episode, Amy Lynn Durham sits down with Brian Gorman, author of Leading Into the Age of Wisdom: Reimagining the Future of Work, to explore how leaders can reclaim humanity at the heart of business.Together, they unpack three essential shifts:💡 Reclaiming the Human Core: W
Stop Fixing Everything: The Courage to Let Go and Lead with Ashley Cox
What does it really mean to lead without falling into burnout?In this episode, Amy connects with Ashley Cox, leadership mentor, author of "Transform Your Stories", and host of the Impact Ripple podcast, to unpack three common leadership traps that quietly sabotage even the most well-intentioned leaders.✨ In this conversation, you'll hear about:The "worker bee," "niceness," and "helicopter" traps t
Why HR Isn't the Enemy with Jenn Ayala
What does it really mean to be a human-first leader in HR?In this episode of Create Magic at Work, Amy connects with Jenn Ayala, a seasoned HR executive with over 25 years of experience, to explore what it takes to transform HR from a rule-enforcer role into a people-empowering force for good.✨ In this conversation, you'll hear about:Why Jenn believes kindness is the core of effective leadershipHo
One Conversation Away: Hope for Gen Z with JC Carr
What does the future of leadership look like through Gen Z eyes?In this episode of Create Magic at Work, Amy sits down with JC Carr — an Territory Account Manager at World Emblem, entrepreneur, and social media influencer — to explore how the next generation is reshaping business, philanthropy, and work culture.✨ In this conversation, you'll hear about:How JC built a successful exotic car brokerag
Finding Treasures in the Trash: Leaning Into the Pain with Lisa Danylchuk
What if the parts of yourself you've tried to hide are actually the keys to your healing? 🌱Cari sits down with her longtime friend and trauma therapist Lisa Danylchuk, founder of the Center for Yoga and Trauma Recovery and author of "Yoga for Trauma Recovery." Together, they dive deep into the messy, magical process of turning life's pain into purpose.Lisa opens up about her experience with grief
Your Story Matters: Love Notes for Leaders with Cynthia Gregory
We've all read the data on how storytelling drives connection and empathy. But what happens when people go beyond storytelling and put their most vulnerable, transformative experiences on the page?In this episode, I sit down with Cynthia Gregory—award-winning writer, journaling advocate, and publisher of "Love Notes from the Soul" and the upcoming "Love Notes 2.0"—to talk about how personal narrat
Is Money Mindset Coaching Empowering Women… or Exploiting Them? with Suzanne Longstreet
We've all seen the programs promising to "fix" your money mindset. But are they truly helping women step into power, or just selling us the same story in a shinier package?In this conversation with Suzanne Longstreet, master mindset coach, NLP trainer, and co-author of The Millionaire Codes, I ask the questions many of us are secretly thinking:✨ Do women actually need more money mindset coaching,
Red Flags, Green Flags, and Grace at Work with Kaitlyn Rios
Red flags. Green flags. And the invisible signs of a toxic workplace that too many of us ignore until it's too late.This episode brings you the powerful story of Kaitlyn Rios — her journey through burnout, the near-breaking point that changed everything, and the creation of Faced With Grace, her nonprofit dedicated to helping women navigate toxic work environments with courage and clarity.🎧 Listen
Finding Treasures in the Trash: The Journey to Wholeness with Henry Most
What if the parts of yourself you've spent years pushing away are actually the keys to your biggest growth? 🌱Cari sits down with Stanford professor, executive coach, and therapist Henry Most for a deep yet playful dive into shadow work. Together, they explore Carl Jung's framework for how we become our truest selves, why anxiety might just be a sign that hidden treasures are knocking at the door,
Behind the Mic: 4 Years of Magic and a Bold Future
Four years. 80+ countries. Countless conversations that have changed the way we think about leadership.This episode takes you behind the mic — celebrating four years of Create Magic at Work®, the sparks that started it all, and where we're heading next.🎧 Listen in as I share:The story of how this podcast was born.Favorite moments and guests who brought chills and tearsWhy the human voice is more p
How To Get Rid Of Burnout & Exhaustion - A Conversation with Samm Smeltzer
Is HR missing its heart?For years, HR has been viewed as a rule enforcer, but what if it could be a source of healing and transformation instead?Samm Smeltzer, HR Intuitive, visionary, and healer, joins Amy to share her journey from corporate frustration to founding The HRart Center, a restorative community reimagining the role of HR. Through her unique blend of intuition, Qigong, and leadership d
From Career Trauma to Career Healing with Dr. Marie Gervais
Is your workplace silently wounding your people?From subtle exclusions to outright abuse, most professionals carry career wounds, but rarely have the language or tools to name them. The result? Burnout, disengagement, and nervous systems stuck in survival mode.Dr. Marie Gervais, leadership coach, author of "The Spirit of Work," and host of the Culture and Leadership Connections podcast, joins Amy
The Secret Ingredient You're Missing with Samm Smeltzer
Are your top leaders quietly burning out?They may not say it — but you're seeing the signs: checked-out energy, decision fatigue, disengagement. And replacing them? Costs more than you think.In this powerful episode, returning guest Samm Smeltzer, founder of The HRart Center, joins Amy to unveil a groundbreaking leadership development experience: Energetic Alignment for Leaders — a transformative
Finding Treasures in the Trash: Making it Real with Cari Jacobs-Crovetto
What if the parts of yourself you've been avoiding are actually the keys to your next big breakthrough? 🌟 In this episode, Cari takes you beyond the theory of self-discovery and into the how with a playful yet powerful five-step practice for "inner truth work."Inspired by the mesmerizing wire sculptures of Ruth Asawa, where light and shadow merge into one stunning whole, Cari shows how embracing e
You Can't Buy Your Way to Wellbeing at Work with Chase Sterling
What if the reason your wellbeing program isn't working… isn't the strategy, but how your people relate to wellbeing at work?In this episode, Amy sits down with Chase Sterling, founder of the Wellbeing Think Tank and one of the most respected voices in organizational wellbeing. With over 20 years of experience, Chase breaks down the myths, missteps, and magic behind what actually makes workplace w
The Leader Paths Oracle: Where Leadership Meets Synchronicity with Traycee Mayer
Executive coach Traycee Mayer returns to share the story behind her new oracle deck. A leadership tool born from 17 years of travel, reflection, and synchronicity.What started as a collection of paths from hikes around the world became a deck used in executive coaching rooms, leadership retreats, and company workshops. And yes! Even the most skeptical teams are responding to it.In this episode, yo
How Smart Teams Do Change
What if the reason your change initiative isn't working… isn't the strategy, but how your people relate to change?In this final episode of the Archetypes of Change™ Solo Series, Amy wraps the entire framework with real coaching stories, team data, and a call to action for every leader.🎙 What's inside:A quick recap of all 5 archetypesHow one team discovered their blind spots using AOC dataA private
They Can See the Future—But Are You Listening?
In this final profile of our Archetypes of Change™ Summer Series, Amy Lynn Durham explores what it means to be an Edgewalker… and why your team needs them now more than ever. Edgewalkers are the visionaries who walk between worlds—grounded in reality, guided by intuition, and driven to shape the future before anyone else sees it.You'll hear:Why Edgewalkers often feel like outliers (and how to supp
Finding Treasures in the Trash: The First Piece of Trash with Cari Jacobs-Crovetto
What if the parts of yourself you've been hiding—your fears, your shame, your past—are actually your greatest source of power? In this episode of "Finding Treasures in the Trash," Cari Jacobs-Crovetto takes us on a deep dive into the shadowy stuff we usually try to ignore: shame, fear, and those not-so-glamorous childhood memories.Cari shares her own journey from debilitating panic attacks to powe
The Person Holding Your Team Together (And Burning Out Quietly)
Every team has one.They don't chase the spotlight. They don't demand recognition. They just quietly carry everyone — while no one notices how much they're carrying.They're the reason birthdays aren't forgotten. They're the one who stays late to make sure it all works. They're the first to ask: "How is this really impacting people?"👉 But when change hits, their invisible labor stacks up… fast. 👉 An
Who's Protecting the Soul of Your Company?
Ever felt like your team is moving so fast you're forgetting why you started?This week on Create Magic at Work®, Amy introduces you to the Flamekeeper—a powerful Archetype of Change™ who protects meaning, mission, and memory during transformation. Flamekeepers aren't afraid of change—but they are deeply committed to keeping the soul of an organization alive.You'll meet Layla, a nonprofit leader wh
Before You Call Them Negative… Listen to This
Ever worked with someone who seems to always spot the risks before you do?Maybe you've even labeled them negative, paranoid, or too intense—but what if they were actually the Guardian of your team?In this episode, Amy breaks down the Guardian Archetype—the ones who scan the horizon for danger, ask the hard questions, and protect people and systems from harm before the rest of us know it's coming.🛡
Introducing Finding Treasures in the Trash with Cari Jacobs-Crovetto
Welcome to the first episode of "Finding Treasures in the Trash" 🗑✨—a brand new mini-series on Create Magic at Work!Host Cari Jacobs-Crovetto kicks things off with her incredible story: from being nearly blind as a child, to growing up in chaos, to becoming a Forbes-recognized CMO, and ultimately turning inward to do the real work. Cari unpacks what "inner truth work" really means and why digging
"We Tried That and It Didn't Work": The Power of the Placeholder
Ever been told: "We tried that and it didn't work"?Most people hear that as resistance. But what if it's something else entirely?In the 2nd episode of the Archetypes of Change Summer Series, Amy Lynn Durham introduces you to the Placeholder archetype—a vital, often misunderstood role in the workplace. You'll meet Teresa, a steady leader who held her team together during a messy system rollout—not
Rethinking Change: What Your Team Wishes You Knew
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