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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

After returning from a meditation-filled journey along the Adriatic, Cari found herself asking whether ancient wisdom still has a place in a world increasingly captivated by neuroscience, energy, physics, and consciousness. Her answer was a deeper yes. In this Tiny Treasure, she reflects on Buddhism as a form of “ancient intelligence,” a practice that understood the mind, suffering, attention, and transformation long before science had language for them. This is a reflection on what becomes possible when timeless wisdom and modern understanding begin to meet.About Cari:Cari Jacobs-Crovetto is an executive and leadership coach and the founder of Brave Directions, where she works with senior leaders and C-suite executives to strengthen interpersonal and team relationships, navigate conflict skillfully, and deepen self-awareness, influence, and confidence.Before becoming a coach, Cari spent three decades in marketing and product leadership roles across Fortune 100 companies, media networks, consulting firms, and venture-backed startups. In 2019, she was named one of Forbes’ Top 50 Chief Marketing Officers.Cari brings together decades of operating experience with more than 45 years of Buddhist meditation study and practice, integrating deep inner work with practical leadership development.She facilitates the renowned Interpersonal Dynamics (“Touchy Feely”) course at Stanford Graduate School of Business where she also coaches grad school students, leads meditation classes and leadership workshops, and hosts the podcast Finding Treasures in the Trash.Her mantra: Fierce Heart — where compassion meets bold, badass leadership.https://www.bravedirections.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/carisf/https://www.instagram.com/cari_bravedirections/Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!Subscribe to the 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.

What if your birth chart is not something happening somewhere far away in the sky, but something expressing itself around you all the time?This episode moves beyond the familiar idea that each person is simply “a Leo,” “a Gemini,” or “an Aries.” In Jyotish, every sign exists somewhere in the chart, influencing a different area of life. Behind each sign is a planet, and behind each planet is a particular quality of consciousness trying to express itself.The Sanskrit language makes the relationship especially vivid. A planet is a graha, something that grasps. A sign is a rashi, a field of energy. A house is a bhava, the area of life where that energy takes form. The planet becomes the actor, the sign becomes the clothing, and the house becomes the stage.But the deeper invitation is to notice these energies beyond the chart itself. Construction may carry Mars. A foundation may evoke Saturn. Nurturing may reveal the Moon. Expression may carry Mercury. Wisdom may arrive through Jupiter.Jyotish becomes more than interpreting symbols. It becomes a practice of attention.Perhaps the chart does not simply tell us who we are. It teaches us how to recognize the divine intelligence already moving through the ordinary moments of our lives.Points of Light:You Are All Twelve Signs: Identity becomes more expansive when each sign is understood as an energy expressing through a different area of life.The Planet Is the Actor, the Sign Is the Clothing: A sign cannot be fully understood without recognizing the planetary energy expressing through it.The Chart Is Not the Only Place Astrology Happens: Planetary archetypes can appear through people, events, environments, and seemingly ordinary moments around us.Synchronicity Can Become a Form of Attention: When the construction began and ended with a client reading, Vish interpreted the timing as a nimitta, a meaningful sign.Jyotish Is Ultimately About Seeing the Divine: The deeper practice is not memorizing astrology, but noticing how consciousness and planetary energy reveal themselves throughout everyday life.Get your Personal Karmic Blueprint Reading - https://www.vishchatterji.com/karmic-snapshotAbout the Host: Vish Chatterji is an executive coach, Vedic Astrology teacher, author, and former business executive who helps people bridge ancient wisdom with modern life. After a career spanning engineering, entrepreneurship, and corporate leadership, he now guides leaders, founders, and seekers toward greater clarity through the traditions of Yoga, Meditation, Ayurveda, Vedic Philosophy, and Jyotish, the ancient science of light.Through his coaching practice, Head & Heart Insights, Vish combines practical business experience with timeless spiritual teachings, inviting people to lead and live with greater awareness, purpose, and presence. He is the author of The Business Casual Yogi and Astrology Decoded, and serves as a Faculty Coach and Educator with the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute at UC Berkeley.https://www.vishchatterji.com/Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!Subscribe to the 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.Mentioned in this episode:This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

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.