Join me, Amy Lynn Durham with Mark Travis Rivera, The Professional Storyteller, Founder, and Consultant, in this 2 part podcast as he shares his story dating back to early childhood leading to him being the storyteller he is today. He shares where he got his courage and bravery and how he implements it in many aspects of his life, including his experiences in the corporate space.

We talk about what it's like to show up as your authentic self in the workplace, spirituality, inclusion and so much more! 

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• How to use fear as a compass
• Ways to show up as your full authentic self
• Transforming your fate into destiny 
• Religion in the workplace

Telling stories is at the core of Mark Travis Rivera’s purpose in life. He is an award-winning creative– founder + lead storyteller + consultant of The Professional Storyteller.

As a writer, Rivera’s bylines include The Bergen Record, Herald News, The Star-Ledger, Fox News Latino, and The Huffington Post. He was also a contributing author in the anthology, Crisis and Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic (PM Press, 2022), edited by Adrian Shanker. His debut collection, Drafts: An Imperfect Collection of Writing, was published in August 2017. He was also a contributing writer for Imagining: A Gibney Journal, where he shared his experience as a disabled choreographer and dancer.

Connect with Mark:

• https://linktr.ee/marktravrivera

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"Every day I get up and choose to be myself in any space I enter, whether I'm dressed up in fully femme gender conforming makeup, dress heels or I'm dressed down in yoga pants and a t-shirt with no makeup. I show up as myself and something that I've had to interrogate over the last couple of years, especially in the workplace, is yes, I show up at my full self all the time, but that's going to cost me opportunities. That's going to cost me not to be invited to certain boardrooms or meetings or companies to speak at because they don't like what I'm serving. Guess what? If you don't like what I'm serving, there's plenty of tea out there. If you don't like the tea that I’m spilling, they don't take a sip of it." - Mark Travis Rivera

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

Join me in today’s episode with Dr. Patricia Suggs as she takes us on her inspiring journey with the educational expertise that has gotten her to where she is today. She will take us through many topics related to conflict resolution, including techniques and tools, understanding team dynamics and how to compile this information for future success, and what it takes to be a quantum leader.

Dr. Patricia Suggs is an international speaker, consultant, conflict resolution expert, coach, trainer, and CEO of ARISE Leadership Consulting, LLC.  Education: Ph.D., M.Ed, M.Div.  She inspires and coaches high-achieving women, both corporately and individually, to step out of their comfort zone to be authentic and unapologetic leaders. Areas of leadership focused on include:  imposter syndrome; developing boundaries; becoming adaptable to change and learning techniques to deal with conflict effectively and with compassion.  Being unapologetically confident is key to being an authentic and compassionate leader.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• Conflict resolution 
• Importance of self-confidence
• Understanding team dynamics 
• Imposter syndrome and self-sabotage 

Connect with Patricia Suggs:

• LinkedIn: Dr. Patricia Suggs
• Facebook: Patricia Suggs

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"Clarity only comes through action, you have to do it because until you do it you're not sure, you don’t really know. Maybe there isn’t anything else you need to learn because you’ve realized, golly, I’ve got enough, I'm doing it. With doing it you improve yourself every time." - Dr. Patricia Suggs

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

Have you ever wondered what it would take to improve your team dynamic as a leader, or have you noticed a decline in your team? In this episode, I express my three tips on how you can become a wise and compassionate leader to get you on the road to success with your dream team. Next, I will take you through specific statistics on overall job satisfaction and what elements and characteristics contribute to this. Finally, we will discuss real situations that may contribute to burnout and overall work decline in your team. Are you ready to improve your leadership skills? If so, then this one is for you!

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• Tips on elevating your leadership skills
• Compassionate and wise leadership
• Leader characteristics that are detrimental to your team
• Productivity and profitability

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"Skill 19 of Spiritual Intelligence is making wise and compassionate decisions. That is one of my areas of practice as an executive coach is coaching one on one clients to the 21 skills of spiritual intelligence. Skill 19 is making wise and compassionate decisions, and all of my clients, I can’t think of one that I’ve worked with, has not in some way, shape, or form dove into that practice with me and really elevated their leadership skill set in that way." - Amy

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

Join me with Dr. Donte Vaughn as he shares his insights on the past few years surrounding how the pandemic, social justice movements, and the Great Resignation have affected the workplace.  

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• Data is discussed surrounding The Great Resignation
• How to be a leader that everyone wants to work for
• Why being a forward-thinking leader is important
• What is your Value System and can you live aligned in it?
• And so much more!

Dr. Donte Vaughn, D.M., is the CEO and Managing Partner of CultureWorx, a company dedicated to providing Culture Performance Management™ solutions to help organizations measure, manage, and foster cultural change through "real-time" learning and practice. He is an expert in Organizational Leadership, Workforce Management, and Company Culture. He has over 17 years of senior-level executive experience driving results in the public and private business sectors, fostering the design and implementation of business growth and leadership strategies, and serving companies throughout the U.S. and globally. 

Connect with Dr. Donte:

• Twitter: @drdontevaughn
• LinkedIn: Dr. Donte Vaughn, D.M.

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"Initially, I'm drawn to them; they're confident they've sold me a vision. Over time, if my experience does not reflect what I've been told, I will feel misled and disrespected. And over time, the average old individual, as long as they have an ounce of their own self-confidence, will start to depress from that individual." - Dr. Donte

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

Join me with Martin Itzkow, a human value-centered, interpersonal neurobiological coach, and consultant as he shares his insights on how to lead from a neuroscience perspective, what it is, and how it affects companies. He also shares how to enhance our compassion by focusing on our own inner world. 

Martin has had a diverse career and background in the human service sector, government, and as a private Executive Coach and Organizational Development Consultant internationally. Over the last three decades, Martin has facilitated over 550 consulting and coaching assignments, including strategic and long-term organizational planning, developmental evaluation, change readiness and management, corporate renewal, development growth, measuring and shaping organizational leadership culture, values-based decision-making, community visioning, and executive leadership.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• Principles of a leader
• Ways to operate with compassion and kindness
• The importance of being a calming and healing presence
• How to focus on your five senses to enhance decision making
• And so much more!

Connect with Martin

• Visit his Website

Quote: “And it is about people first and foremost. So, to go there, you need to look at the fact that you are a human being with a nervous system. You are creating the way you view your future and how you understand yourself and how you act with people. Are you willing to go inside yourself and go through a range of processes to unpack who are you below the surface?” - Martin

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

Welcome to the 4th Season of Creating Magic at Work Podcast!

In today’s episode, I will share the three ways to be a calm leader in stressful times as well as my past experiences with other leaders on their ways to leading.  I also share my key observations and why some leaders are missing the mark, what is the perfect way to run a team, and how to do it under stressful times.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• How to be present at a high level
• Practicing detachment
• Quiet quitting
• How not to tolerate fake positivity
• And so much more

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“Do not create your leadership team in a way that they are not comfortable sharing information with you because you've created this culture or this environment where you only want to hear the good stuff.” - Amy

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

In the Season 3 finale, I’m joined by Maria Mayes and she is here to help you take your power back from anxiety by using Take 5 and setting intentions. We discuss unhealthy, unconscious habits, how to change them, and the power of setting intentions. 

Maria Mayes is a Well-Being Coach and teacher who helps her clients find the freedom that only inner peace can offer. As the founder of Take 5, she is on a mission to help working parents take their power back from anxiety. She specializes in simplifying techniques and ancient wisdom teachings into small digestible bites that are easy to apply. With decades of leading teams in the technology space, she is passionate about well-being in the workplace which inspired her to create her signature Take 5 Stretch & Breath Breaks and Wine & Well-Being Workshops. Maria is Certified through Chopra Global in Coaching, Meditation and Ayurveda and is an RYT200 Yoga Teacher with speciality training in mental health, neuroscience, applied poly-vagal theory and breathwork. As a working mom who understands the juggle of career demands while caring for children and aging parents simultaneously, much of her work is geared towards helping business owners, leaders and others with high stress occupations achieve a baseline of inner peace.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• What is Take 5 and how it came to life
• Unconscious habits that we use as a coping mechanism
• How to start shifting unconscious habits that don’t serve you
• How can leaders reduce anxiety in the workplace
• A Live Take 5 session with Maria

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

Connect with Maria:

• Website: www.take5.health
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/take5health
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/take5health
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/take5health

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“The intention that we can set after we have arrived in presence, can transform the outcome of whatever we are consuming.” - Maria

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

If you have heard about Executive Coaching before but are not sure what exactly it is, or what it looks like to work with an Executive Coach, this episode is for you! In this solo episode, I discuss all things Executive Coaching and how it can benefit your life and business.

What to anticipate:

▪  Executive Coaching explained and defined
▪  What the difference is between working with an advisor, coach, and therapist
▪  What your experience is like working with an Executive Coach
▪  How Amy ties spiritual intelligence into her Executive Coaching

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

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“You are the one that steps into this space for the transformation, and I am just the guide that shows up along the way in your life journey to just help you move forward to that next stage.” - Amy

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

In this podcast episode, I’m joined by Gavin Conway. We discuss quantum leadership and quantum leaps in your life and business. Also discussed is how it translates into energetics in the sales process and how to use it to your advantage. 

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• What is a quantum leader and what does it mean
• How do you shift your identity into a quantum leap
• The downside of not moving into quantum leadership space
• What does quantum leadership look like in sales and business
• Tapping into energetics in sales
• How to empower ourselves and others

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

Connect with Gavin:

• Email: gavin@conway.consulting 
• Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/gavinpatrickconway
• Website: www.conway.consulting

Gavin is a sales and mindset mentor and coach with Conway Consulting,  a world class international sales and mindset company. Our motto is Manifest with Peace of Mind.  Gavin is on a mission to help entrepreneurs, sales, people, coaches, and consultants step into their most powerful selves and master the art of selling, Gavin's approach combines mechanics and harmonics - the believes that a true quantum leap happens as a result of a change in self-perception, identity and aligning yourself to a set of powerful universal laws and principles. 

Quote:  “If we're in a violation about what we know is most important to us and meaningful, and we're not expressing it, or being in an alignment with it, we start to shrink inside.” - Gavin

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

Seyyida and I discuss the importance of self-care, how lack of self-care influences our personal and work relationships, and how we can use those relationships to elevate ourselves to the highest level possible to learn and grow as leaders and people.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• Deterioration of relationships due to over-commitment to the job
• Activating your sense of self-awareness and self-reflection to improve your relationships
• Self-care doesn’t benefit just you, it benefits all your relationships
• The importance of being interdependent and collaborating with others
• What to do when you’re overworking to counterbalance somebody that's underperforming

Connect with Amy:

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

Connect with Seyyida:

• Website: www.sol-insight.com

Seyyida's approach to Executive Coaching is grounded in guided self-discovery animated by both the heart and mind. She is devoted to creating generative spaces safe enough for vulnerability and insights that lead to action.  Seyyida uses various modalities to support greater focus, clarity of purpose, strategic planning, effective goal setting, intentional action and execution.  She aims for her clients to more fully actualize and realize their highest hopes and aspirations, increase their genuine connections with others and purposeful contributions.  She strives to energize, inspire, activate self-reflection, intuitive/emotional/spiritual intelligence,and unveil hidden obstacles within to unleash potential and peak performance in all areas.  Ultimately, she seeks to support her clients in elevating their self-awareness, self-growth, self-acceptance, self-love, and the ability to cultivate healthy connections with others.

Resources from this episode:

• Can Venting About Work Ruin Your Relationship? w/ Raven Shamballa
• Leading Through Fear & Discomfort To Inspire Change w/ Brian McComak

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“You put yourself in the best position possible when you take care of yourself first.” - Seyyida

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

This episode is a special treat! You get a  peek behind the curtain to feel what it is like to be a private client of Amy’s.  She gets interviewed by Samm Smeltzer from - The HRart of It podcast who was generous enough to let this interview live on the Create Magic At Work podcast. Why spiritual intelligence is essential to up-leveling your life is discussed. The 21 skills of spiritual intelligence, increasing self-awareness, and ways to access your Higher Self to transform your life and leadership.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• What created Amy’s passion for spiritual intelligence 
• Real client stories of transformation
• Ways to recognize when your ego is running the show
• Benefits you achieve in your life by accessing your higher self

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

Connect with Samm:

•  The HRart of It
• Website HRartcenter.comResources from this episode:
• Listen to my first interview with Samm Spiritual Intelligence and the Ego With Amy Lynn Durham

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“Your higher self in SQ is that place within you. That comes from wisdom, compassion, and love, the unselfish, loving, and wise essence within you.” - Amy

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

In today’s podcast episode, I’m joined by a very special guest Rebeca Eigen. We talk about recognizing your "shadow" at work and ways to pinpoint it in your personal/work relationships, and much more!

What To Anticipate:

• Rebeca explains how to recognize your own "shadow".
• How to recognize if you are projecting parts of yourself onto another person.
• Practicing the pause to uncover and fix the real issue.
• How to accept others for who they are in order to bring change.

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

Connect with Rebeca:

• Website shadowdance.com
• The Shadow Dance & the Astrological 7th House Workbook

Rebeca Eigen is an Astrological Marriage & Relationship FIXER for 25+ years and author of The Shadow Dance & the Astrological 7th House Workbook. Her in-depth study of Astrology and Jungian psychology has given her invaluable insights to help you see how the unconscious plays an important role in your relationships. Visit her website for a list of consultations available for individuals, couples, parent/child, friends — any relationship that you are trying to understand. On shadowdance.com, Rebeca has a ”Membership Portal” called Shadow Work & Your 7th House with a 1x fee for life (6 Modules) designed to help you do your own Shadow Work using your birth chart to see your specific 7th house requirements. The planets in, or ruling the 7th house, and in aspect to your Venus, will give you details of what you are missing in yourself. 

Resources from this episode:

• Book by Carl Joung The Undiscovered Self
• Can Venting About Work Ruin Your Relationship? w/ Raven Shamballa

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“Is this person giving you an emotional charge? Are you getting super annoyed? Because that is a real clue that something has gotten projected.” - Rebeca

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

Today we are celebrating the one-year birthday of the Create Magic At Work® podcast! And what is a better way to celebrate this anniversary than bring you the best out of the best? Tune in to listen to a compilation of the top three most popular episodes over the past year.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• Raven Shamballa shares her insights on what venting does to your relationship, your workplace, and how to set boundaries around venting
• Attunement and how it influences your workplace 
• Samm Smeltzer speaks about holistic healing with Qigong, how it's becoming more accepted in corporate culture, and the results that companies have seen
• Importance of being mindful of how you spend your time and where you put your energy
• Aaron Tabacco gives advice on how to practice presence at a high level and what it looks like in a workplace

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

Listen to the previous episodes:

• Can Venting About Work Ruin Your Relationship? w/ Raven Shamballa
• How To Get Rid Of Burnout & Exhaustion w/ Samm Smeltzer
• How To Practice Presence At a High Level w/ Aaron Tabacco

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“It is so important for leaders to do the inner work and growth and continue to better themselves because the people around you are attuned to who you are. The better you are, the better the people around you are gonna be.” - Amy

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

In today’s podcast episode, I’m joined by Emily Sander. We talk about how failure can actually move you forward and reframing failure into a positive experience. We also discuss hiring, recruiting and how you might make the process easier for yourself.

Emily Sander is a C-Suite Executive and Founder of Next Level Coaching. As an ICF-Certified Coach, Emily guides clients towards new perspectives that enable them to adapt and evolve as leaders. She is the author of the book, Hacking Executive Leadership.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• Tips you can put into practice from Emily’s book Hacking Executive Leadership
• What is the failure loop
• Viewing failure from a different perspective
• What is more important when hiring, Aptitude or Attitude?
• Emily’s take on Quantum Leadership
• How to make work relationships harmonious

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

Connect with Emily:

• Website: www.nextlevel.coach
• Twitter: @NextLevelEmily
• Book: Hacking Executive Leadership

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“Open yourself to things that you perceive as, oh, that's negative, that's a setback. It could very well be a setup for a next step that you haven't even conceived of yet.” - Emily

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

Welcome to the final episode of the Summer Solo Series! 

For the past two seasons, I have asked my guests what servant leadership means to them. This episode is a compilation of some of those answers and is one of the most inspirational and motivational episodes you will hear on servant leadership. These voices are shared as a tribute to all of the leaders that want to create and support healthy leaders and workplaces. 

Create Magic At Work is leveling up! Season three and beyond will move from servant leadership to quantum leadership and every guest will be asked, “What does quantum leadership mean to you?”

Press Play and be inspired to uplevel your business and life!

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• Multiple voices and perspectives on how to be a servant leader
• What is a Quantum Leader?

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

Listen to the previous episodes:

• Is It Possible To Be Your Authentic Self At Work w/ Sean Moore
• Tips on Team Collaboration and Strategic Alliance w/ Bo Brabo
• Can Venting About Work Ruin Your Relationship? w/ Raven Shamballa
• How To Practice Presence At a High Level w/ Aaron Tabacco
• Leading Through Fear & Discomfort To Inspire Change w/ Brian McComak
• Empowering Leaders To Make the Right Decisions w/Tim Cakir
• How To Be A Leader With Courageous Clarity w/Phyllis Sarkaria

Resources from this episode:

• Book by Danah Zohar: The Quantum Leader: A Revolution in Business Thinking and Practice

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“A servant leader aims to share power with others and encourage the development and growth of others.” - Amy

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

In today’s podcast episode, I talk about what leadership presence is and what it is not. Additionally, I share ways you can exhibit leadership presence in a lasting and impactful way.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• What makes someone a leader
• Misleading qualities that might be perceived as leadership presence
• Tips on how to model true leadership presence

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

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“You don't have to have a title to be a leader. Anyone can be a leader in their life, no matter what.” - Amy

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

In today’s podcast episode, I share ways you can elevate your business and life by becoming a wise and effective change agent.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• The definition of a change agent
• How to integrate transformational change in your leadership
• How to aim for win-win solutions

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

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“I used to sit in these corporate executive rooms and I would hear a lot of catchphrases or buzzwords kicked around a lot. And I often could tell that the people that were saying these things didn't deeply know what they meant. And it really isn't their fault. ” - Amy

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

In today’s podcast episode, I talk about what it looks like to be a leader that maintains a calming and healing presence. I share tips that you can immediately put into practice to be a calm leader during stressful times.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• You don’t need to have all the answers
• Ways to feel more inner peace in your leadership
• Benefits of participating with detached involvement
• Celebrating the different pathways people take to achieve desired results

For more on being a calm leader during stressful times check out Amy’s latest publication as an Executive Contributor to Brainz Magazine 3 Ways To Be A Calm Leader During Stressful Times.

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

Resources from this episode:

• Listen to the episode with Aaron: How To Practice Presence At a High Level w/ Aaron Tabacco
• Listen to my previous episode: Summer Solo Series: Three Ways To Be A Quantum Leader

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“There's so much pressure on leaders to always come up with the answer. When we force solutions onto problems, we create more problems potentially.” - Amy

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

Welcome to the first episode of the Summer Solo Series from Create Magic At Work! I share three leadership hacks that will enhance your leadership, life, and business from an Executive Coaching and Spiritual Intelligence lens. 

Today on Create Magic At Work™:

• How to envision mistakes and failure as positive growth
• Why perfectionism is really procrastination
• Why making decisions solely on data is not holistic

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

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“When a mistake or failure occurs, try utilizing that energy in your leadership. Have a meeting and say, "I want to celebrate the failures that happened here. I want everyone to share what they learned from this and what they got out of it.” - Amy

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork

In this podcast episode, I’m joined by Phyllis Sarkaria, the author of the book Courageous Clarity. A book geared toward leaders in the workplace. I invited Phyllis to share her thoughts on navigating the way forward in your leadership journey.  Guiding leaders who want to inspire, influence, and engage their teams for greater results. 

Listen as we discuss problem-solving from a place of inner curiosity and a desire to learn more rather than what's been ingrained in us from the past - that we must have all the answers.

With more than 30 years of leadership experience, Phyllis is a certified coach, facilitator, and trusted adviser.  Before founding The Sarkaria Group, Phyllis served as an internal adviser and coach to C-level executives and other key employees at Quidel Corporation, a leading medical diagnostics manufacturer. Phyllis currently works with clients in a wide range of industries, serving as a catalyst to help leaders and teams gain fresh perspectives and elevate their performance by building capacity within themselves to solve problems. Author of Courageous Clarity: Navigating The Way Forward On Your Leadership Journey, the essential guide for leaders who want to inspire, influence, and engage their teams for greater results, Phyllis is also a published scholar on authentic leadership. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• Tips on how you can get courageous clarity as a leader. 
• How the spirit of discovery opens up magic possibilities for leaders.
• Ways to recognize nonverbal indicators that help you navigate their workplace.
• How to know when it’s time to leave a toxic workplace.

Resources from this episode:

• Win a free download of the Courageous Clarity book. To enter the drawing email me your feedback about this episode at amy@createmagicatwork.net
• Get your copy of the Courageous Clarity book 

• Book - Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

Connect with Phyllis:

• Send an email to phyllis@sarkariagroup.com
• Visit sarkariagroup.com
• LinkedIn

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“As a leader, you need to know yourself. Self-awareness is absolutely key. Once you have a better sense of yourself, it's easier to then engage and use tools to build trust, learn more about others and collaborate in a productive manner.” - Phyllis Sarkaria

Connect with Amy: 

• Sign up for: Create A Burnout Free Team & Workplace
• Free Activity: Three Steps To Love Your Job & Life Today
• Work With Amy
• Instagram: @createmagicatwork
• Website: https://createmagicatwork.net/

Connect with Amy:

• https://msha.ke/createmagicatwork