Magic Thread Media
Magic Thread Media is a podcast network that brings together conscious voices from various creators. The network aims to foster a more connected world through meaningful conversations and storytelling. It features a collection of podcasts focused on mindfulness, personal growth, and community. Listeners can expect uplifting and thought-provoking content from a diverse range of hosts.
Episodes
Stay Curious (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores what can become possible when curiosity takes the place of quick judgment. By asking meaningful questions and being willing to explore the answers, we can discover new perspectives and possibilities within our work.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset
Not Your Newspaper Horoscope: Vedic Astrology is More Than Your Sun Sign
What if astrology were less about predicting your future and more about understanding the deeper patterns shaping your life?Vish came to Vedic astrology as a skeptic. Trained as an engineer and grounded in data, he had little patience for newspaper horoscopes or broad personality descriptions. That began to change when he started using Jyotish alongside Ayurveda and leadership coaching and repeate
When Getting Results Destroys Your Team, Top C-Suite Advisor Phyllis Sarkaria
What happens when the qualities that helped you succeed begin getting in the way of the leader you need to become?High performers are often rewarded for knowing the answer, moving quickly, and getting results. But as responsibility grows, leadership asks for something different. The work becomes less about proving what you can do and more about creating the conditions for other people to do their
04: What is the Line Between Love and Self-Abandonment?
What happens when accepting the person you love starts requiring you to let go of too much of yourself?Kristien has spent years imagining a future where she and Stijn would eventually share a sober life. But as Dr. Pavini asks her to look more closely at that dream, a painful tension comes into focus: Kristien loves Stijn deeply, yet some of what she wants most from their relationship may never ha
Connecting (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how meaningful connection grows when we approach difference with curiosity rather than distance. By valuing the uniqueness of others and remaining open to unfamiliar perspectives, we create opportunities to bring out the best in one another.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wi
Drops of Light: Your October 2026 Vedic Planetary Weather Forecast
What happens when frustration is rising, but the conditions for reconciliation are there too? In this Drops of Light, Vish looks at the current Vedic astrology forecast and the tension between anger, wisdom, and diplomacy. With Mars stirring emotion and Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury supporting perspective and communication, he reflects on why this may be a meaningful window to revisit strained relat
Your Clutter Is Costing You More Than You Think | Miriam Ortiz y Pino
What if the clutter surrounding you isn’t just taking up space, but also draining your time, attention, money, and ability to grow?Amy sits down with simplicity expert and longtime professional organizer Miriam Ortiz y Pino to explore the deeper connection between physical clutter, digital overwhelm, financial habits, and the way entrepreneurs run their businesses. Miriam challenges the idea that
03: The Hidden Cost of Sobriety
What if the thing creating distance in your relationship is also protecting you from getting closer?As Kristien and Stijn return to the conversation about alcohol, Dr. Pavini begins asking a different question: what role is alcohol actually playing between them? For Stijn, drinking has become increasingly compulsive and mentally consuming. For Kristien, watching and worrying about it has become al
Good Brown Girls with Author Parul L. Bhandari
Between Worlds: Who Gets to Decide Who We Become?What happens when you grow up with one culture at home and another one outside the front door? Who do you know yourself to be?Today we are #LiveInTheHive with author and poet Parul L. Bhandari, a first-generation American, raised by Hindi-speaking Indian immigrant parents, and her story lives in that fascinating space between heritage and identity,
Interactive Podcast Experiences with Magic Thread Media
Welcome to the next evolution of your podcast experience with Magic Thread Media.Audio is just the beginning. We created these interactive experiences so you can connect deeper with your favorite shows, hosts, and personal development tools—taking the connection far beyond your earbuds.Whether you tune in to Create Magic at Work, Circle's Edges, Finding Treasures in the Trash, Bending the Light, o
Going Within (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how moments of solitude can create the clarity we need to move forward. By making space to go within, we can listen more closely to ourselves and consider the decisions that may bring greater harmony and peace of mind.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker minds
Karma isn’t Punishment: What Vedic Astrology says about Karma, Free Will, and the Patterns We Repeat
What if karma is not a cosmic punishment system, but a curriculum?Vedic astrology approaches karma less like a courtroom and more like an accounting system. Every action carries a consequence, every pattern tells us something, and every lifetime presents a particular set of lessons. Vish explores how Jyotish, the Vedic science of illuminating the soul, helps us recognize the karmic terrain we are
The Spark Sessions: Your Creativity Knows More Than You Do - Dreams, Divergence, and Precognition
What if your creativity knows something before you do?In this month’s episode Rachel Efron’s asks her most provocative question yet: if dreams can reveal truths outside of our conscious understanding, can our creativity do the same? Inspired by an experience teaching dreamers in Delphi, Greece, Rachel explores the intimate relationship between dreaming and creating, and the associative state of mi
Integrity (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how integrity is shaped by the ongoing practice of knowing what we value and choosing to live in alignment with it. When our words, decisions, and behavior reflect those values, accountability becomes part of how we lead and live.\Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom of th
Tiny Treasures: How to Feel Anger Without Becoming It
Anger is not the problem. What matters is what happens next. In this Tiny Treasure, Cari explores anger as a natural, healthy emotion and looks at what may be underneath it: unmet needs, wounded pride, crossed boundaries, and the longing to feel seen and valued. She shares five simple, body-based ways to slow the energy of anger down, create space around it, and respond with greater clarity instea
Drops of Light: Honoring the Ancestors Who Came Before Us
What do we carry from the people who came before us? In this Drops of Light, Vish explores the Vedic tradition of honoring ancestors during the fortnight known as Pitri Paksha, a time for remembrance, offerings, and reflection on the patterns that move through a family lineage. He shares a simple ancestral ritual as a way to honor those who have passed and acknowledge the connection between past a
Origin Stories (Encore) | 012
As Aaron prepares to enter the final three episodes of the season, he invites us to revisit Episode 004, “Origin Stories,” returning to the stories we inherit before exploring the longer, intergenerational arcs that shape our lives.There are moments when a stranger’s story feels like a mirror, quietly revealing something we’ve carried for years without naming. In this episode, Aaron invites us int
02: When Reconnecting Is Not the Same as Repairing Trust
What happens when trust is broken, love returns, but the rupture itself never really gets repaired?After Kristien accidentally discovers a pile of wine bottles on Stijn's boat, she realizes an agreement between them has been broken. At first, she pushes away the shock. Then the pieces begin falling into place. The distance she had felt, the questions she had been asking herself, and the sense that
New Podcast! Welcome to Salty Sweet: The Healing Podcast for Couple on the Brink
Welcome to Salty Sweet, a podcast that takes you inside the real therapy sessions of one couple navigating intimacy, trust, drinking, betrayal, and the patterns shaping their relationship.With Dr. Pavini Moray as their guide, you’ll hear what happens when the surface story gives way to what is really happening underneath, and what it takes to move toward greater honesty, connection, and intimacy.S
01: When Trust, Alcohol, and Intimacy Collide
What happens when alcohol stops feeling like something outside the relationship and begins to feel like a third person inside it?At the beginning of Kristien and Stijn's journey, Dr. Pavini Moray starts by listening for what hurts, what each of them wants, and the patterns already shaping their connection. Kristien longs for more emotional and sexual intimacy without constantly monitoring Stijn's
How to Style What You Own: Executive Wardrobe Tips with Celebrity Stylist JenniLee
What if getting dressed is less about fashion and more about the relationship you have with yourself?Our clothes communicate before we ever say a word. They can help us feel visible, confident, creative, and aligned with who we are becoming. They can also keep us connected to an older version of ourselves that no longer quite fits.Amy and celebrity stylist and image consultant JenniLee explore per
Welcome to Salty Sweet: One Couple. One Relationship. Nothing Hidden.
Welcome to Salty Sweet, a podcast that takes you inside the real therapy sessions of one couple navigating intimacy, trust, drinking, betrayal, and the patterns shaping their relationship.With Dr. Pavini Moray as their guide, you’ll hear what happens when the surface story gives way to what is really happening underneath, and what it takes to move toward greater honesty, connection, and intimacy.T
Drops of Light: AI, Pessimism, and the Choice to Hope
It is easy to encounter frightening headlines about AI and assume the worst about where the future is heading. In this Drops of Light, Vish reflects on our tendency to give more attention to bad news and considers what changes when we make room for hope alongside legitimate concern. Rather than seeing ourselves as powerless observers, he invites us to remember the personal and collective agency we
Partnership (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how meaningful partnerships are strengthened through support, trust, and reciprocity. When we become intentional about the relationships surrounding our work, we can create greater harmony while finding a healthier balance between giving and receiving.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring
When the Story You’re Living Is No Longer True with Aaron Tabacco, PhD
What happens when the truth you have been avoiding becomes the only way forward?For Aaron Tabacco, PhD, that moment came in midlife, after years of trying to reconcile his identity, his faith, his marriage, and the family he loved deeply.In this deeply human conversation, Cari and Aaron explore authenticity, self-acceptance, grief, family transformation, and the courage it takes to stop living ins
The Cost of Being Unheard: Power, Bullying, and the Repair of Trust
What happens to trust when power is used without empathy, and what does it take to rebuild it?David, a longtime friend of Mark’s who, carrying his story privately since his youth, brings a deeply reflective perspective shaped by faith, compassion, and a lifelong commitment to treating others with kindness and respect. Through his experience of bullying, disbelief, and an authority figure who refus
The Invisible Work of Middle Management | Doug Barna
What happens when the job everyone assumes is becoming obsolete is actually where some of the most human work is happening?Middle managers live between pressure and people. They translate expectations from above, absorb problems before senior leaders ever see them, and help teams move through conflict, uncertainty, and burnout. Much of that work is invisible until it stops happening.Amy and Doug B
Dreams, Plant Medicine, and Sovereign Edges with Lynda Samphire
What if dreaming is one of the oldest technologies we have for accessing consciousness?What do we do when the usual ways of making sense of our lives stop working?And what might we discover at the edge between what we know and what we don't?Today we are #LIVEINTHEHIVE with Lynda Samphire, an Intuitive and transformational Guide who explores that very territory through dreamwork, plant medicine, em
Self-Awareness (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how self-awareness deepens when we become intentional about where we seek inspiration and guidance. By tuning into something beyond ourselves, we create space to better understand our thoughts, values, and the way we move through the world.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wis
AI Can’t Meditate for You; AI & Consciousness
What happens when artificial intelligence becomes capable of doing more for us, but the most important work of being human still cannot be delegated?After returning from an AI and consciousness retreat at a yoga ashram in Germany, Vish considers this rapidly changing technology through the lens of Vedic wisdom. The question is not simply whether AI is good or bad. It is whether the way we use it m
Break the "I'll Be Happy When" Trap: Building Habits for Inner Peace | Michele Phillips
What if the life you keep working toward is already asking to be noticed?For high achievers, happiness can become conditional. The next promotion. The next revenue goal. The end of the chaotic month. Peace is always waiting somewhere beyond the next finish line, while the finish line keeps moving.Amy Lynn Durham and Michele Phillips explore the emotional cost of conditional happiness, high achieve
Finances (A Moment of Reflection)
Today’s reflection explores how financial success can grow from intentional decisions, thoughtful leadership, and clearly defined goals. By considering where we direct our support and attention, we create space for greater confidence and possibility around our finances.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom
Rituals, Rites, and Remembrances | 011
There are moments when the patterns of a life begin to feel less like repetition and more like an invitation.Join Aaron as he turns toward rituals and rites, asking what happens when the customs, ceremonies, and remembrances we inherit meet the person we are becoming. Through reflections on identity and belonging, uncertainty, and the quiet human need to mark change, he considers how ritual can ho
The Unpaid Caregiver Crisis: The Hard Truth Workplaces and Families Ignore | Monica Vest Wheeler
What happens when taking care of someone else slowly requires you to disappear from your own life?Family caregiving rarely arrives according to plan. A diagnosis changes. A parent declines. A spouse becomes dependent. Roles reverse, schedules collapse, and someone quietly becomes responsible for another human being twenty-four hours a day.Amy and Monica Vest Wheeler explore the realities behind ca
Fixing Women or Fixing the Room? It's Time To Trust Your Voice
What happens when the advice meant to help us succeed slowly teaches us to distrust our own voice?This episode is a replay of a fantastic conversation I had with Amy Lynn Durham, founder of Create Magic At Work and Magic Thread Media. The conversation aired on HER hit podcast Create Magic at Work back in June. And I’ll tell you, this one really hit a nerve with her listeners so I knew I had to sha
Unsung Sacrifices: Lessons in Empathy, Leadership & Stories of the Mother
The deepest lessons in leadership may come from people who never asked to be called leaders. Through stories of mothers whose sacrifice changed the lives of their children, Dr. Mark explores what empathy looks like when it becomes action: standing by someone, creating possibility from scarcity, offering forgiveness, and choosing human connection over fear. From a Department of Energy leader transf
The Spark Sessions: Sorry, You Have to Be Yourself - The Courage to Create
What if courage in creativity has nothing to do with feeling brave and everything to do with being willing to be unmistakably yourself?In this latest episode of The Spark Sessions: Resourcing for Creativity, Rachel begins with a song she did not want to write. After forcing herself through three lifeless love songs, she finally surrendered to the one that felt too personal, too strange, and too ex
Sensing The Future (An Edgewalker Message)
Today’s Edgewalker card explores how the future is shaped by more than careful planning alone. When we remain open to both practical insight and intuitive guidance, we begin to recognize possibilities that invite us to create what has not yet come into view.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom of the Edge
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.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset
The Moment the Illusion Breaks: Vish Chatterji on Samvega and the Wisdom of Disillusionment
What if the moments when your life stops making sense aren't interruptions in your path - but the very things pointing you toward it?There is a Sanskrit word for the experience of having the world you thought was solid suddenly crack open: samvega.It can happen when something falls apart. But it can also happen when everything goes according to plan. You get the title. The money. The relationship.
Drops of Light: The Vedic Wisdom Hidden in Numbers
Have you ever wondered whether the numbers around you carry meaning beyond their practical use? In this Drops of Light, Vish explores the Vedic connection between numbers and planetary energies, from birth dates and addresses to the nine numbers we encounter every day.Get your Personal Karmic Blueprint Reading - https://www.vishchatterji.com/karmic-snapshotAbout the Host: Vish Chatterji is an exec
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
The Capital S Story: Why Storytelling Matters in Business, PR & Marketing with Paul Furiga
What if marketing—something so many of us resist—isn't really about selling at all, but about helping people recognize themselves in a story that speaks to their hopes, to their fears, and to their longings?Today, we're talking about Story—story with a capital "S." Not simply storytelling as a communication skill, but Story as the invisible thread that shapes our identities, our relationships, our
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.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into yo
Drops of Light: The Vedic Wisdom Behind the Days of the Week
Why does a week have seven days? In this Drops of Light, Vish explores the Vedic connection between the days of the week and the seven visible planets, revealing how each day carries a different quality. From courage on Tuesday to wisdom on Thursday, the week becomes an invitation to notice the rhythms already woven into everyday life.Get your Personal Karmic Blueprint Reading - https://www.vishch
Times and Seasons | 010
There are seasons when time seems generous, opening around us with enough room to notice where we are, and others when every hour feels like pressure. In this quiet exploration of our relationship with time, Aaron moves between memory, philosophy, family, and the rhythms of the body to consider how deeply our stories about time shape the way we inhabit a life. From the measured world of chronos to
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.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom of the Edgewalke
When Career Success Feels Empty: The Four Aims of Life in Vedic Astrology
What happens when the future you spent decades building finally arrives, only to ask you to become less of yourself?Purpose is often treated like a hidden sentence we must uncover. Find the right career, name the perfect calling, and everything will fall into place. But that expectation can turn an intimate human question into another performance problem. It can also make a successful life feel li
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 Bones Remember: Pavini Moray on Ritual, Ancestry, and Remembering Who We Are.
Today, we are #LiveInTheHive with Dr Pavini Moray to explore the powerful intersections of embodiment, ancestry, ritual, and belonging.In a culture that teaches us to think our way through life, Pavini invites us to listen to something older, something wiser—the intelligence of the body. Their work bridges somatic psychology, trauma healing, consent, leadership, and ancestral practice, reminding u
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
Ghosted, Cancelled, Disconnected: Is Love Welcome in Leadership?
What happens when love is treated as too soft, too personal, or too uncomfortable for leadership? This shared recording comes from Dr. Mark Rittenberg’s interview with Amy Lynn Durham on the Create Magic at Work podcast. Together, they explore what ghosting, cancellation, and disconnection reveal about the way people avoid conflict, vulnerability, and responsibility in the workplace. Through stori
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.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal
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
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 KerstenJordan 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 expe
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.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom of
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 #LiveInTheHiv
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-snapshotAbout the Host: Vish Chatterji is an executive
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
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-snapshotAbout the Host: Vish Chatterji is an exe
The Places We Seek, The Places We Return To | 009
The places we long for, the places we revisit, and even the places we avoid all have something to say about who we are. Aaron gently explores what those landscapes ask of us in return. Through stories of family, travel, memory, and the restorative pull of nature, he reflects on how our relationship with place reveals our deepest longings, our need for belonging, and the subtle ways our environment
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
White Indoctrination with Kimberly Palermo
Race is a HUMAN CONSTRUCT. Racism is REAL. And it's a whiter person problem.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 365, a book that challenges
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. D
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.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Ca
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
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
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.
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 w
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.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker Card Deck.
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 RosserWhat 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
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
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, 2026Who – 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 TreeWe can all agree that we are living through a time of immense grief, polarization, and moral exhaustion.And be
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.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your own copy of the Edgewalker
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.Start your own journey of reflection, creativity, and intentional growth with the Create Magic at Work Journal or bring the wisdom of the Edgewalker mindset into your daily life with your
The Waking Hours: Everything Everywhere | 008
There are moments in life that seem to disappear as quickly as they arrive. A conversation, a season, a feeling, the weight of a child asleep on your chest. We experience them as fleeting because we experience time as a line. But what if time is something more expansive than that? In this special Circles | Edges episode, Aaron shares a conversation from his appearance on the Create Magic At Work P
