Create Magic At Work®

Today’s Edgewalker card explores how passion becomes more meaningful when it is connected to a clear sense of purpose. By recognizing our unique gifts and choosing to use them in service of something greater than ourselves, we create opportunities to bring lasting value to our lives and the world around 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. You can find both at https://magicthreadmedia.com/experience

If you haven’t tuned into Salty Sweet—a standout relationship podcast on the Magic Thread Media network—you are missing out on some of the most honest, vulnerable, and transformative couple's work captured on air.In this special behind-the-scenes episode, network executive producer Amy Lynn Durham sits down with Salty Sweet host Dr. Pavini Moray for a candid conversation about what it really means to step inside the therapy room, confront the fears that block intimacy, and navigate the messy, beautiful reality of human connection.What Makes Salty Sweet Different?Unlike standard relationship advice or heavily edited reality TV, Salty Sweet invites listeners directly into a season-long deep dive with a single, brave couple willing to record their live therapy sessions. Blending somatic work, couples' counseling, and Relational Life Therapy, Dr. Pavini works alongside the couple to help them unmask unhealthy behavioral loops and embrace true healing.Inside This Episode: Sneak Peeks & TeasersWho’s Really Driving Your Triggers? Find out why your childhood "adaptive child" takes the wheel during a conflict—and how learning to cultivate your "wise adult" changes everything.The "Get Out of Jail Free" Card of Shame: Discover why falling into a shame spiral after a breach of trust actually suffocates your partner’s pain, and why true remorse requires a totally different kind of courage.What is Your Relationship Hiding Behind? Uncover the secret "third things"—from distractions to old habits—that couples unconsciously use as a volume dial for vulnerability when intimacy gets too terrifying.The Counterintuitive First Step to Healing: Before you try to banish your relationship's defensive patterns, Dr. Pavini explains why you actually need to thank them first.Season 1 Finale & Casting Call for Season 2!As Season 1 wraps up with some gorgeous breakthroughs around intimacy, casting is officially open for Season 2! Dr. Pavini is looking for tender, courageous couples who are willing to go deep—especially those navigating "impossible" situations, a space of heavy resentment, or queer relationships ready to model expansive, rule-breaking love.Listen, Rate, and Review:Listen to the Salty Sweet Podcast on your favorite podcast platform - https://salty-sweet.captivate.fm/listenListen to Salty Sweet on Magic Thread Media - https://magicthreadmedia.com/showsConnect with Dr. Pavini Moray and inquire about Season 2 casting at https://pavinimoray.com Share this episode with a friend, leave a review, and help us spread conscious voices for a more connected world!About Dr. PaviniDr. Pavini Moray is a somatic coach and Relational Life Therapy practitioner with a PhD in Somatic Psychology. For more than 15 years, Pavini has worked with couples navigating relationship crisis, intimacy challenges, rupture, and repair. Their approach blends Relational Life Therapy, somatic work, and trauma-informed care to help couples understand the deeper patterns shaping how they connect, communicate, and love.https://www.pavinimoray.com/About AmyAmy Lynn Durham, known by her clients as the Corporate Mystic, is the founder of the Executive Coaching Firm, Create Magic At Work®, where they help leaders build workplaces rooted in creativity, collaboration, and fulfillment. A former corporate executive turned Executive Coach, Amy blends practical leadership strategies with spiritual intelligence to unlock human potential at work.She’s a certified Executive Coach through UC Berkeley & the International Coaching Federation (ICF) In addition, Amy holds coaching certifications in Spiritual Intelligence (SQ21), the Edgewalker Profile, and the Archetypes of Change . In addition to being the host of the Create Magic At Work® podcast, Amy is the author of Create Magic At Work®, Creating Career Magic: A Daily Prompt Journal and the founder of Magic Thread Media™. Through her work, she inspires intentional leadership for thriving workplaces and lives where “magic” becomes reality.https://createmagicatwork.net/https://magicthreadmedia.com/

What parts of ourselves did we leave behind when we learned how to be professional?For some of us, it was singing. For others, creativity, play, vulnerability, or the willingness to connect with someone whose worldview looks nothing like our own. Somewhere along the way, being human can become something we carefully manage rather than something we fully inhabit.Amy and Benjamin Mertz explore what happens when we bring those parts of ourselves back into the room. Drawing from the Black spiritual and civil rights music traditions, Benjamin describes how communal singing can dissolve defenses and reconnect people to joy, courage, and one another.Their conversation expands into dialogue across differences, the importance of community when we feel stuck, making “good trouble” at work, and what it means to protect our humanity as AI becomes more present in our lives.Hope, Benjamin suggests, does not have to be something we wait to feel. It can become something we practice through service, creativity, connection, and the way we treat the people around us.Perhaps staying human is not something we accomplish alone. It is something we keep reminding one another how to do.Moments That Create Momentum:We Were Made to Create – Explore why singing, dancing, and making art still matter even when no one is performing, competing, or trying to be the best.Freedom Is Not Individual – Discover how community can help us remember who we are when our own thinking has left us feeling stuck.Disagreement Is Not Danger – Hear how to stay expansive and hold space for our differences. Good Trouble Builds Resilience – See why speaking up in small ways can strengthen a team before a much larger storm arrives.Be a Hope – Recognize how hope becomes more tangible when we practice it through service, connection, creativity, and integrity.About the Guest:BenjaSoul is a composer, pianist and song leader who has led music of the Black Spiritual tradition for 20 years. He leads music at benefit concerts, protest actions, sacred services, and Black History workshops. He is currently the board chair of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, an immigrant rights and anti-incarceration nonprofit organization. He has worked in the Civil Rights space his entire life.Benja is also a certified executive coach through the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute. He helped develop BEC's inclusive leadership programs and teaches Leadership presence with Dr. Mark Rittenberg's team at the Haas School of Business. He has facilitated leadership workshops across many industries, including healthcare, education, and tech. He is currently pursuing a Master's in History, focusing his thesis on the history of the Civil Rights movement.When not teaching, performing, or causing good trouble, Benja is at home being the proud father of Isaiah, Sammy, and baby Amarachi.https://benjaminmertz.comhttps://benjasoul.comInterfaith Movement for Human Integrity: htpps://im4humanintegrity.orgAbout Amy:Amy Lynn Durham, known by her clients as the Corporate Mystic, is the founder of the Executive Coaching Firm, Create Magic At Work®, where they help leaders build workplaces rooted in creativity, collaboration, and fulfillment. A former corporate executive turned Executive Coach, Amy blends practical leadership strategies with spiritual intelligence to unlock human potential at work.She’s a certified Executive Coach through UC Berkeley & the International Coaching Federation (ICF) In addition, Amy holds coaching certifications in Spiritual Intelligence (SQ21), the Edgewalker Profile, and the Archetypes of Change . In addition to being the host of the Create Magic At Work® podcast, Amy is the author of Create Magic At Work®, Creating Career Magic: A Daily Prompt Journal and the founder of Magic Thread Media™. Through her work, she inspires intentional leadership for thriving workplaces and lives where “magic” becomes reality.Connect with Amy:https://createmagicatwork.net/https://www.linkedin.com/company/create-magic-at-workhttps://www.facebook.com/112951637095427https://www.instagram.com/createmagicatworkhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnEm4h3fUgaq8qgvZpz6dGgThanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!Subscribe to the podcastIf you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app.Leave us an Apple Podcasts reviewRatings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you are enjoying the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts.

When it comes to creativity, wonderful friends and a bustling social life aren’t enough. We need the six relationships most important for creative health.In her fifteen years of creativity coaching, Rachel Efron identified six creativity relationships: allies, mentors, role models, mentees, collaborators, and nature/spirit. If you have a couple of these, your creativity will thank you. If you have many of them, you’ll feel a synergy between your creatiivty and the world around you. If you have all six of them, god help this world handle everything you’re about to create!Rachel explains the six relationships with personal anecdotes: her first experiences with each one of the relationships. Hear about her verbose first mentor. Hear about her shoddy piano teaching practice. Hear about her realization that she and the Pacific Ocean are both sparkly and salty. And discover the amazing power of each of the creativity relationships in your life.A creative ally is a fellow traveler on the creative road. A mentor guides with the wisdom of experience. A role model gives you a map to your becoming.. Mentees remind us of how much we have to offer. Collaborators locate new aspects of our creative voices, and spirit/nature teaches us that when we create, we belong to the world around us.The deeper invitation is not to surround ourselves with more people. It is to notice what our creativity needs relationally. Because sometimes the missing resource is not another idea, more discipline, or greater confidence. Sometimes it’s learning how to involve others in our creative process.Sparks of InsightCreative connection has very little to do with popularity or social skill. What matters is whether the relationships in your life actually support your creativity.Six different relationships nourish six different dimensions of creative health: allies, mentors, role models, mentees, collaborators, and nature or spirit.Rachel’s first creative ally showed her what happens when two people become enchanted by each other’s creative process.Mentees may be one of the most overlooked creative resources. Serving someone is a straight line to our self-worth.It’s a beautiful thing to let the people in our lives be exactly who they are to us… to let our friends be friends and our parents be parents, and to seek creative connection in the six relationships where we know it will be.Ready to reveal your creative Spark?Download the Muzi app at http://itunes.apple.com/app/id6739667782 to take the Creativity Assessment, and uncover your Spark profile. Then email your Spark to Rachel at [email protected] for a chance at a Spark Reading, where Rachel will offer personalized insight into what your creativity most needs from you right now.About Rachel:Rachel Efron is an Oakland-based songwriter, producer, and creativity coach. She's released four full-length albums of original songs, plus written for such legends as Narada Michael Walden and Journey. Rachel is a premier songwriting coach for songwriters across the world, and has over fifteen years experience helping artists, leaders, and teams find their voice.In 2022, Rachel turned her methods into a comprehensive framework and groundbreaking app, Muzi, to help everyone —artists and non-artists alike—access greater creativity in their lives.email: [email protected]: https://www.rachelefron.com/creativityDownload the Muzi app at http://itunes.apple.com/app/id6739667782Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!Subscribe to the podcastIf you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app.Leave us an Apple Podcasts reviewRatings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you are enjoying the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts.

Today’s reflection explores what changes when we give ourselves permission to stop pushing and make room for rest. By considering what rest truly means for us, we can begin to recognize where greater ease and flow may be needed.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. You can find both at https://magicthreadmedia.com/experience