Create Magic At Work®

Join me, Amy Lynn Durham, with Consuela Munoz, a Gallup Certified Clifton Strengths Coach. as we discuss why focusing on your strengths improves motivation and increases focus in your work and life. Utilizing this in leadership, can maximize, build, and enhance the potential of your teams. Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• How to get past "shiny object syndrome"
• Why strength-based leaders and teams get better results
• Effective goal-setting that truly aligns with your vision

Quote "The most important place to start is your goals. Now, you've probably been to a session where they're like, okay, if you want to do this, you set your goals, but are you owning them? So you want to make sure that, that goal is tied and aligned to the vision and that each person truly owns that goal as their goal." - Consuela Munoz Connect with Consuela:

• https://www.ownyourconfidence.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/consuelamunoz
• https://www.facebook.com/consuelatheconfidencecoach
• https://www.instagram.com/consuela_munoz/

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Join me, Amy Lynn Durham, with Denise Belisle, founder of In-Motion Coaching. She is a serenity expert and positive intelligence specialist. In addition, she is an international speaker, online TV show host, functional medicine health coach, and Reiki master. In this episode, we discuss positive intelligence (PQ), which is a concept that emphasizes the importance of cultivating a positive mindset and reducing negative thinking patterns to improve one's well-being and performance. In spiritual intelligence, we understand the importance of this improvement in the workplace and its impact on quantum leaders and their teams. Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• What is Positive Intelligence (PQ)
• Separating your reaction from your response
• Energy field emotions in the workplace
• Ways to express emotion from a PQ perspective
• Dealing with self-blame and shifting to compassion for self

Over the last 40 years, Denise has been immersed in all areas of health and wellness. She has been practicing mindfulness and meditation since she was a teenager and has developed great skills in the discipline of emotional and mental fitness. She is extremely excited to be working in the mental fitness and positive intelligence field, having a deeper understanding of people's mindsets and how her clients can gain better control over their emotions and behaviors. Quote "Decide for our own how we want to move forward, how do we want to continue living our life? Do we want to live in uncertainty and crisis? Or do we want to go into thriving and be in the oasis? So that's why I help people transition from crisis to oasis and find that spot that is, like, rocking your life, and it's like, I'm good no matter what. I'm moving forward. Bring it, adversity. I can handle it, and I'm going to rock this life." - Denise Belisle

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• http://tiny.cc/TalkWithDenise
• GIFT for the listeners!

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Join me, Amy Lynn Durham, with Vish Chatterji, an accomplished executive-turned-coach with a spiritual twist, and author of The Business Casual Yogi. In this episode, we discuss how to find meaning and purpose behind where you are in your career. Learn ways you can release suffering within yourself and exercise wisdom and compassion towards yourself and others while navigating corporate life. Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• Why you will experience karmic patterns in the workplace and what to do about them.
• Ways to exercise self-compassion and forgiveness as a leader
• How the planetary energies can lead to a deeper understanding of self
• Why leaders benefit from going beyond EQ (emotional intelligence)

In parallel to his twenty-year leadership career spanning the automotive, technology, and startup industries, Vish has studied and practiced yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda (mind-body medicine). He coaches and advises corporate leaders, blending Western management thinking with Eastern wisdom traditions, and speaks on a variety of topics at the intersection of business and personal development. Quote "In the yoga system, you practice these things in order to connect your inner wisdom. You also practice self-compassion. Can you be compassionate to yourself? And usually, when we're not compassionate to others, it's because of something in our own lives that we haven't learned to forgive ourselves for. If you can't forgive yourself for something, chances are you're not going to forgive somebody else for it." - Vish Chatterji Connect with Vish:

• https://www.headandheartinsights.com
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/vish-chatterji-b3b2681/
• https://www.facebook.com/businesscasualyogi
• https://www.instagram.com/thebusinesscasualyogi/

The Business Casual Yogi: Take Charge of Your Body, Mind, and Career - Book

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Join me, Amy Lynn Durham, with Norman Wolfe, a fellow SQ 21 Certified Coach, Founder and CEO of Quantum Leaders, and a leading voice in bringing about the transformation of the core paradigm of business. In this episode, we discuss extensively how a leader relates to a parent that can develop and nurture the capabilities of others in a compassionate way to build the confidence needed to succeed. Furthermore, by ensuring we allow the growth of turning mistakes and life experiences into learning and teachable opportunities, we can build trust within our teams. Confidence will enable open-minded, innovative opportunities to grow for all. Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• The evolution of Quantum Leadership
• How To Delegate as a leader
• Compassionate leadership to inspire a positive response
• Accepting mistakes as growth opportunities
• How to maintain a proper balance between efficiency and chaos.

Norman is a 15-year veteran of Hewlett Packard, has lead companies large and small, been a public company director, and has over 30 years consulting and mentoring leaders in a wide range of industries.

He is the author of The Living Organization, an application of the core principles of how the world works, to how organizations and individuals create their results. It is a new way of thinking and being that can create extraordinary positive impact for an organization and society.

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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolfe
• https://www.facebook.com/norman.wolfe.5
• https://twitter.com/nswolfe
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQyCdGssTxT16WapAL278xQ

Quantum Leaders:

• www.quantumleaders.com
• [email protected]
• (949) 689-2158

Norman's Book - The Living Organization:

• https://www.amazon.com/Living-Organization-Transforming-Business-Extraordinary/
• Chapters 1-3 GIFT!

Quote "Compassion means to suffer together. Com means together. Passion, suffer. That's where the root of that word comes from. So being compassionate has that sense of, yeah, I know it really feels shitty. I've been there, done that. What are we learning from it? How can we expand our awareness, our consciousness, our ability to grow?" - Norman Wolfe

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Join me, Amy Lynn Durham, with Nenuca Syquia, the CEO and Co-Founder of Better Organizations by Design, BOxD, a BIPOC, a women-owned and led firm that makes the people-side of business growth less chaotic and more efficient. In this episode, we discuss great insight on transforming chaotic situations and energy into an opportunity for quantum leaps within your company. We also discuss how to be a wise and compassionate leader while recognizing how to lift those we lead to excel in their expertise.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• Methods to lead when experiencing massive changes
• Leading through a change curve
• Traits of a wise and effective change agent
• How your energy as a leader can affect team morale and innovation

Nenuca has transformed businesses large and small - from Sanofi to The San Francisco Ballet. She was born and brought up in the Philippines and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She proudly leads a diverse team of consultants, coaches and specialists, located across the US, Canada, Latin America and the Philippines.

Nenuca provides unique perspectives on: leadership, team effectiveness, diversity, equity and inclusion and the design of healthy, prosperous organizations. She holds a Masters of Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a Masters of Science in Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco. Connect with Nenuca:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nenuca
• https://www.boxd.us

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"I think as leaders, they control the weather. That's the number one thing I always tell leaders. You are absolutely entitled to your emotions, and you should display emotions because it is who you are and it is authentic to the experience that you're having. We also have to be aware because as leaders, we are extremely visible. Our voices carry more weight than other people who are sitting in different parts of the organization. And so I'm not saying that we need to mask our emotions, but we have to be aware of the impact that our own emotions have. So depending on where the leaders themselves are in that change curve, they have to be aware that this could actually pull people towards that. So if somebody is angry about a change that is occurring, it will most definitely leak onto their teams." - Nenuca Syquia

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Join me, Amy Lynn Durham with  Mark Travis Rivera, The Professional Storyteller, Founder, and Consultant. In part 2,  of this 2-part episode, we get courageous about the vulnerable aspects of the human experience and discuss ways to have hope and faith over worry and fear. We also discuss the monumental importance of keeping storytelling and stories alive and why it is a critical characteristic of a quantum leader.
*Trigger warning at 8:45 - suicide is discussed.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

• Quantum leadership explained from an inclusive lens
• If you are struggling, ways to stay hopeful and maintain faith
• Why we must never stop being enchanted by stories 

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.

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• https://linktr.ee/marktravrivera

Non-Profit Charitable Organization mentioned in episode - DEM BOIS INC.
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"A quantum leader is someone who is willing to supersede their current structure that we think of leadership as. So, they are willing to bypass the current system, the current structure of leadership in order to elevate the consciousness of the people in need and themselves. A quantum leader is someone who is able to acknowledge the old system know how that system works then deconstruct it and dismantle it so that it can allow others to be elevated alongside them." - Mark Travis Rivera

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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

Quote "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

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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

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• 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

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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

Quote "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

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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

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