Create Magic At Work®

What if wishing is not just emotional or spiritual, but deeply connected to the way the brain processes possibility, creativity, and change? Amy sits down with storyteller, inventor, and author Brownell Landrum to explore the intersection of neuroscience, intention, leadership, and imagination through the lens of what Brownell calls “the art and science of wishing.” Together they unpack the difference between goals, prayers, and wishes, the role of neuroplasticity and the reticular activating system in shaping awareness, and why peaceful, positive, purposeful intention changes how we experience momentum. The conversation moves through creativity, subconscious resistance, storytelling, workplace leadership, collective vision, and the emotional alignment required to move from longing into action. By the end, what emerges is a grounded reminder: the way we direct our attention shapes not only what we notice, but what becomes possible.Moments That Create Momentum:Why Wishes Need More Than Hope – Explore how neuroscience, ritual, and repetition transform wishing from passive thinking into intentional action and awareness.The Difference Between Goals, Prayers, and Wishes – Understand the emotional space between control, surrender, and collaboration with something larger than yourself.The Brain’s Hidden Search Engine – Discover how the reticular activating system begins identifying opportunities, patterns, and solutions once intention becomes clear.Subconscious Resistance and Inner Alignment – See how the disconnect between mind, body, and higher purpose can quietly sabotage forward movement and growth.Creativity as a Leadership Skill – Hear why daydreaming, imagination, and spacious thinking are essential for innovation, vision, and meaningful transformation.Why Shared Vision Creates Momentum – Learn how storytelling and purposeful leadership help people feel emotionally connected to change instead of resistant to it.The “Something Better” Philosophy – Reflect on why unanswered wishes are not always failures, but sometimes invitations toward deeper alignment and possibility.Peaceful, Positive, Purposeful Living – Explore the emotional framework Brownell believes creates more clarity, creativity, collaboration, and forward movement in both work and life.About the Guest:Brownell Landrum is a 📚 storyteller, 🎤 speaker, 💡 inventor, and ⚡change catalyst with an MBA from Georgia State University. She's the author of over a dozen books, including The Art & Science of Wishing and the upcoming The Art & Science of Wishing at Work. She got curious about the sciences involved in wishing while writing a novel entitled A Love Story to The Universe. Brownell combines her corporate and entrepreneurial background and logical, business-oriented skills with a compelling storytelling style. The motto for her stories is “Lose yourself in the fiction… Find yourself in the truth.”Connect with Brownell:https://brownelllandrum.com/https://www.facebook.com/brownell.landrum.authorhttps://www.instagram.com/brownelllandrum/https://www.tiktok.com/@brownell.landrumhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/brownelllandrum/https://cosmicwishexperiment.com/https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00JFHZSGAThe Art & Science of Wishing on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY3C574T/FREE Change Readiness Assessment: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/lf8peo2dirAbout 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.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/

The way we love, fight, withdraw, and reconnect at home shapes how we lead everywhere else. Dr. Pavini Moray joins Amy to explore relational mindfulness, conflict patterns, leadership boundaries, shame, power dynamics, and the unconscious survival strategies that follow us from childhood into work, intimacy, and community. Together they unpack what happens when leaders overextend, when relationships become competitive instead of collaborative, and why healing relational patterns may be the deepest leadership work we ever do. The conversation moves through vulnerability, compassion, emotional accountability, mentorship, and the possibility of becoming more grounded, relational humans both at home and at work. By the end, what emerges is a hopeful truth: awareness creates choice, and choice creates the possibility for transformation.Moments That Create Momentum:Why Home Relationships Shape Leadership – Explore how unresolved conflict and emotional patterns at home ripple directly into workplace leadership and culture.The Professional Paradox: Why is it that you can lead a team with total composure during an executive crisis, yet find yourself "acting like an asshole" the moment you walk through your front door?The "Juicy Energy" Drain: Are you accidentally starving your personal relationships by giving all your best, life-affirming energy to your company, leaving only the "leftover" conflict and divisiveness for your partner?The Corporate Affair Trap: Discover why high-pressure workplaces often become a "safe haven" while the home becomes a combat zone—and how this "reversal" is a leading driver of workplace infidelity.Understanding the Pursuer-Withdrawer Dynamic – See how common relationship cycles form and why interrupting even one small part of the pattern can begin healing.Conflict as a Pathway to Self-Awareness – Discover how shame around conflict can become an invitation toward growth instead of something to avoid.Holding Power Without Losing Humanity – Hear how conscious leaders balance compassion, boundaries, accountability, and healthy authority.About the Guest:Dr. Pavini Moray is the author of How to Hold Power: Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect and the Tending the Bones: Reclaiming Pleasure after Transgenerational Sexual Trauma. With over 30 years of experience as an educator, activist, and somatic coach, they help leaders and couples do the inner work that changes how they show up in every relationship they're in.Dr. Moray holds an M.Ed. in Montessori Curriculum Design and a Ph.D. in Somatic Psychology, and works at the intersection of the body, relational patterns, and conscious leadership. They use Relational Life Therapy and somatic approaches to help people move from adaptive survival strategies into the kind of grounded, boundaried presence that actually leads well.A queer, trans, nonbinary human walking the path of old magick and ridiculous delight, Pavini writes the Substack "Glitter Joyride" and believes that learning to be truly relational with the people we love most is the first step to learning how to do it everywhere.https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-pavini-morayhttps://www.instagram.com/pavinicoakwellmoraySubstack: Glitter Joyride - https://pavinimoray.substack.com/About 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.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/

Have you ever felt a flicker of something greater inside you, just waiting for the right moment to ignite? In a world that often asks us to dim our lights or follow someone else's blueprint, it is time to stop apologizing for your power and start leading from your soul. In this electrifying episode of Create Magic at Work, Amy Lynn Durham sits down with Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and transformational leader Glenda Benevides. Glenda shares her "Soul on Fire" philosophy, a movement designed to help you break through limitations and rise into the bold, unapologetic life you were meant to live. Through stories of resilience, rejection, reinvention, and artistic courage, Glenda offers a grounded invitation to become more unapologetic in the way we live, lead, and create. From journaling and reflection to music, storytelling, and community, this conversation becomes less about fixing ourselves and more about returning to ourselves and finding our soul's fire.Moments That Create Momentum:Burnout Often Signals Disconnection – Explore why depletion is frequently tied to resisting your deeper purpose instead of simply doing too much.The Courage To Be Unapologetic – Glenda reframes confidence as the willingness to stop seeking permission and approval from the outside world.Why Creativity Is Essential for Leadership – Discover how creativity reconnects people to meaning, energy, and emotional resilience in work and life.The Story Behind the Grammy Journey – Hear how rejection from the Recording Academy became a lesson in persistence, clarity, and authentic self-worth.Soul on Fire as an Immersive Experience – Learn how music, journaling, reflection, and storytelling create transformative experiences that reconnect people to themselves.Honoring Hidden Stories Through Songwriting – Glenda shares how uncovering forgotten historical figures inspires empowerment, courage, and artistic purpose.About the Guest:Glenda Benevides is a GRAMMY®-nominated singer-songwriter, award-winning artist, author, and transformational leader known for her powerful voice and electrifying presence. Through her music, books, and immersive live experiences like Soul On Fire, she inspires audiences to step into their courage, confidence, and full self-expression.Blending soulful storytelling, raw authenticity, and a deep commitment to personal transformation, Glenda’s work goes beyond entertainment. It’s a movement. Her mission is to awaken courage and the fire within, helping people break through limitations and rise into the bold, unapologetic life they were meant to live.YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/c/glendabenevidesW: https://glendabenevides.com or https://glendamusic.comIG: @glendabenevidesmusicLINKED IN: https://linkedin.com/in/glendabenevides/BUY MUSIC: https://glendabenevides.bandcamp.comAbout 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.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/

The energy of your environment is never passive; it is actively shaping how you think, feel, and lead. In this conversation, host Amy is joined by intuitive guide, energy mentor, and author of Make Ease Your Vibe, K. Margaret Solorio, creator of the Home Frequency Reset, to explore how the unseen dynamics of our spaces influence clarity, creativity, and emotional regulation. Together, they unpack how stagnant energy forms in both physical and virtual environments, how emotional residue from conversations and stress lingers, and how leaders can begin to shift their surroundings with intentional awareness. Through a blend of grounded spiritual insight and practical tools, K. Margaret offers accessible ways to reset energy using light, air, nature, and intuitive practices, while Amy bridges these ideas into the realities of leadership, decision-making, and workplace dynamics. The result is a deeper understanding that when you align your environment with your inner state, you create the conditions for clarity, ease, and meaningful momentum.Moments That Create Momentum:1. The Reality of Stagnant Energy – Learn what environmental factors impact focus, mood, and performance.2. Small Shifts, Big Impact – Discover how subtle changes in lighting, air, and sensory input can transform your workspace experience.3. Emotional Residue in Spaces – Learn the impact of arguments, meetings, and stress and the reason why they leave energetic imprints that influence future interactions.4. Intuition as a Leadership Tool – A secret tip on how to tune into your body and environment in order to strengthen decision-making clarity.5. Time as an Energetic Experience –A new reframe of productivity you haven’t heard before that involves shifting from time scarcity to energetic alignment and flow.6. Creating a Personal Sanctuary – Recognize how intentional environments support creativity, calm, and sustained momentum.Sign up for K. Margaret’s Spring Energy Refresh at https://deliciousease.com/springAbout the Guest:K. Margaret Solorio is an intuitive guide, energy mentor, and author of Make Ease Your Vibe. She is the creator of the Home Frequency Reset, a transformative approach that helps people clear energetic clutter and realign their spaces to support clarity, ease, and personal growth.Through her podcast Intuitive Wisdom, her 1:1 work, and her teachings on energy and environment, K. Margaret blends grounded spiritual insight with practical energy work—helping conscious individuals understand how their surroundings directly influence their emotions, choices, and sense of self.Her mission is to help people feel energetically at home—both in their physical spaces and within themselves.Website: deliciousease.comEmail: [email protected]: deliciousease.com/linkinbioInstagram: @deliciouseaseYoutube: @intuitivewisdompodcastInsight Timer: @deliciouseaseLinkedIn: @KMargaretSolorioAbout 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.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/

The coaching industry has grown quickly, but growth has created both opportunity and distortion. An industry that was created with the intention of guidance and transformation may often include noise, inflated promises, and misaligned practices that can leave people feeling confused or even taken advantage of. Through years of experience inside the industry, Amy shares a clearer pattern between what is real, sustainable change and what simply sells the idea of it. Ethical coaching is grounded in presence, training, and a genuine commitment to the client’s experience, not in urgency, pressure, or guarantees. When you understand how to recognize both the red flags and the green flags, you move from uncertainty into discernment, and from searching into choosing support that actually meets you where you are and helps you move forward with clarity and trust.Moments That Create Momentum:1. The Reality Behind a $5 Billion Industry – Understand what rapid growth has created beneath the surface of coaching and why discernment matters more than ever.2. The Credentials vs Experience Debate – Explore what each actually provides and how combining both creates a stronger coaching relationship.3. Predatory Marketing Patterns to Watch – Recognize subtle tactics that create urgency, shame, or false promises so you can protect your investment.4. The Power of Ethical Coaching – See what becomes possible when coaching is grounded in integrity, presence, and client-centered focus.5. Why Unattached Coaches Create Better Results – Learn how detachment from outcomes opens space for deeper, more meaningful transformation.6. Practical Questions That Change Everything – Discover how asking the right questions upfront can completely reshape your coaching experience.About 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.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/