Create Magic At Work®

Are you able to support your employees fully when they disclose something personal to you? Are you able to be fully present for them in these moments or does it sometimes feel a little awkward? Aaron Tabacco, PhD, RN is an Executive Coach and the Director of Staff Experience in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. A former professor of developmental pediatrics, Aaron transitioned into his current line of work three years ago, becoming a thought leader in the development of holistic workplaces, leadership development, DEI efforts, and internal institutional workforce research. He is a highly-skilled public speaker and communicator having been featured at numerous public and private professional engagements in his areas of speciality. Aaron has several professional publications in the US, Europe, Japan, and online, and is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute at the Berkeley-Hass School of Business. Additionally, Aaron has engaged in high stakes healthcare and higher education conflict mediation for families and professionals over a thirteen-year period. He's a father of three young adult sons who live in Portland, Oregon. Aaron currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Join Amy and Aaron in this episode as they delve into how you can best support your employees during difficult times and be fully present for them.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How being a nurse helped Aaron to harness his skills of being present
• The four domains of thinking you should adopt when someone is sharing difficult things with you as a leader
• How you can put your own ego to the side and truly be present for your employees

Quote from the show - ''My first rule of thumb, especially as you're building skill with really practising presence, is to remind yourself that you're probably going to say it best if you don't really say anything at all. ''

About the host:

Amy Lynn Durham is the Founder of the executive coaching firm Create Magic At Work.

Amy has spent years in the corporate world successfully managing hundreds of employees for private and publicly traded companies. Amy designed Create Magic At Work™ to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in supporting healthy leaders & workplaces through:

• Private Executive Coaching
• Speaking Internationally about Ways to Support & Create Healthy Workplace Cultures
• Experiential Workshops & Products

Connect with Amy:

• LinkedIn , Website, Purchase her book, Create Magic at Work

Connect with Aaron Tabacco - LinkedIn

Do you vent to your partner or to other close relationships in your life about work? You may think this is harmless. After all, you're just letting off some steam but it could have a long term affect on your relationship.

Raven Shamballa is a Master Energy Healer, a spiritual counselor and senior yoga teacher for over 25 years. She holds a master's degree in counseling and is formerly a marriage and family therapist. She has a unique perspective on psychological disorders and believes that clearing the energy body of discordant energy can heal most psychological ailments. Raven has authored four books and her most notable title is the 100 Chakra System, An Introduction to Negative Energy Release Work.

The 100 Chakra System book describes an expanded perception of the energy body up to 100 Chakras, and discusses different types of negative energies that can invade the chakra system. Her other titles are 10 Cosmic Dimension, A Spiritual Guidebook to Ascension, 3 Pendulum Languages, and 7 Primary Chakra System.

Join Amy and Raven in this episode as they discuss how bringing your work home can affect personal relationships.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How to make the shift from the workplace to home life at the end of the day
• Why you should limit how long you vent to your partner
• How leaders can reframe employee complaints into a more positive conversation
• How to eliminate toxic workplace energy

Quote from the show - ''Keep venting to 15 to 20 minutes. And if you need to vent longer than that, seriously, find a life coach and save your partner because what is it your partner wants? They want the beautiful person they fell in love with. They want the beautiful side of them. They know that work is challenging and they want them to release that, but they cannot be the only vehicle of release. That will end up destroying a relationship.''

About the host:

Amy Lynn Durham is the Founder of the executive coaching firm Create Magic At Work.

Amy has spent years in the corporate world successfully managing hundreds of employees for private and publicly traded companies. Amy designed Create Magic At Work™ to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in supporting healthy leaders & workplaces through:

• Private Executive Coaching
• Speaking Internationally about Ways to Support & Create Healthy Workplace Cultures
• Experiential Workshops & Products

Connect with Amy:

• LinkedIn , Website, Purchase her book, Create Magic at Work

Connect with Raven- Website, Instagram, You Tube

Are you feeling stuck in your leadership position or business and not sure which direction to turn? Jon is a Business Coach, author, speaker and podcaster. He helps successful business people get unstuck and grow their business. Jon has wanted to be a Business Coach/ Author / Speaker since he was 18. His dad gave him a set of tapes by Brian Tracy: The Psychology of Success and the moment they hit his ears, he knew he wanted to help successful businesspeople get unstuck and grow their businesses. Jon has been called the "business whisperer" because he can see what you cannot see and hear what you cannot hear at your company. He uses that laser focus to help you enhance, improve, increase and evolve not only your business but yourself.

Join Amy and Jon in this episode as they delve into leadership, employee engagement and the retaining top talent.

In this episode, you will learn:

• The characteristics of a great leader
• The importance of companies having a business plan so that their employees know what the big vision is
• What companies should be doing to retain top talent

Quote from the show - ''I think sometimes seeing their unique ability, seeing their gifts, seeing their highest potential, a great manager will evolve that person and raise them up to their highest potential. And a poor manager will see the potential and do nothing because they don't want that person to outshine them or because they don't know how to do it. ''

Resources mentioned in the show: Book - The Think Big Movement

About the host:

Amy Lynn Durham is the Founder of the executive coaching firm, Create Magic At Work.

Amy has spent years in the corporate world successfully managing hundreds of employees for private and publicly traded companies. Amy designed Create Magic At Work™ to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in supporting healthy leaders & workplaces through:

• Private Executive Coaching
• Speaking Internationally about Ways to Support & Create Healthy Workplace Cultures
• Experiential Workshops & Keynotes

Connect with Amy:

• LinkedIn , Website, Purchase her book, Create Magic at Work

Connect with Jon:

Website, LinkedIn, Podcast

What would it feel like to achieve everything you've ever wanted but at a slower pace and still lead a happier life?

KC Rossi is a Mindset & Leadership Coach who helps high-achieving women go from people-pleasing burned-out perfectionists to profitable powerhouses. She's been a full-time entrepreneur since 1991 and has built six and 7+ figure businesses. Kc is a Certified Aromatherapist, Mind-Body Eating Coach, and NLP Practitioner. This allows her to bring an integrated and intuitive approach to her coaching.

KC is the Founder of The Soulprint Method®, a system that combines energy, mindset, and spirituality. This holistic approach provides extreme clarity, dissolves limiting beliefs, improves performance, and opens the way to experience and share your full potential.

She is the host of Women Developing Brilliance® — The Spirit of Business; a show dedicated to cultivating confidence, increasing visibility, elevating vibration, and leading with purpose. When she's offline you can find her whipping up plant-based eats or hiking the Finger Lakes Trail in Upstate, New York.

KC is an Executive Contributor of Brainz Magazine. Her work has been highlighted in ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Thrive Global, SmallBizDaily, International Journal of Professional Holistic Aromatherapists, Female Entrepreneurial Association, and The Smart Girl Tribe.

Join Amy and KC in this episode as they delve into creating the right energy, self-care and aligned action.

In this episode, you will learn:

1. How KC helps her clients breakthrough perfectionism and burnout
2. How you can shift your energy so you're not holding on to trauma or negativity
3. What you can do to escape the rat race of the corporate world
4. The importance of making time for self-care

Quote from the show - ''When your actions are aligned with who you think you are, you live a much more peaceful and happier life.''

About the host:

Amy Lynn Durham is the Founder of Create Magic At Work

Amy has spent years in the corporate world successfully managing hundreds of employees for private and publicly traded companies. Amy designed Create Magic At Work™ to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in supporting healthy leaders & workplaces through:

• Private Executive Coaching
• Speaking Internationally about Ways to Support & Create Healthy Workplace Cultures
• Experiential Workshops & Keynotes

Connect with Amy:

LinkedIn , Website, Purchase her book, Create Magic at Work

Connect with KC:

Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn

A TABOO TOPIC IN SOME WORK SPACES? THE SECRET SAUCE TO FEELING RESTED... DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY SOME LEADERS LOOK SO RESTED AND PUT TOGETHER?

Samm Smeltzer has passionately pursued the missing elements for employee engagement within organizations, and this path has led her to a place the working world often avoids, Spirituality and Eastern Medicine. She has since combined both her roles as an HR Visionary and a Medical Qigong Healer to heal disengaged workplaces and guide leaders and employees to discover their own professional purpose and passion.

Prior to this journey, Samm began her career serving as an HR Manager within two U.S. based retail companies and was responsible for multiple store sites in various states. She then transitioned industries to healthcare where she developed and implemented company-wide educational programs for leadership and staff at a large Central Pennsylvania Healthcare System. Samm has functioned as a consultant to enhance team and individual performance. She is certified by the HR Certification Institute as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and by the Society for Human Resource Management as an SHRM-CP. Samm's dedicated efforts resulted in multiple awards, two of them being 2013 Organizational Learning & Development Educator of the Year and Penn State's 2015 Outstanding Graduate Student in Training and Development.

Samm's experience combined with her desire to create workplaces with thriving employees resulted in the creation of the HRart Center (pronounced "heart"), a boutique consulting firm devoted to corporate wellness and growth. She is the author of three books, the newest of which is called Workplace Healers. HR leader, Qigong healer, coach, author, and avid podcaster, Samm Smeltzer is on a mission to revolutionize HR and heal the working world.

Join Amy and Samm in this episode as they delve into being intuitive and qigong meditation.

In this episode, you will learn:

• What it means to be intuitive and how Samm applies it to help corporate leaders
• What Qigong is and how it relates to energy and wellness
• How Samm uses Qigong to help leaders find their authentic selves in the workplace

Quote from the show - '' Part of me thinks, you know, the pandemic is a horrible global situation that we're going through. However, one of the gifts it has generated is this massive, even reflective, movement through quarantine. And so for the first time, we were all forced to look at ourselves and go inward. We couldn't have all the distractions to allow us to not do that. And when we looked inward and we realized that we haven't been working there, people were like, oh crap. Now what? What do we do?''

About the host:

Amy Lynn Durham is the Founder of Create Magic At Work

Amy has spent years in the corporate world successfully managing hundreds of employees for private and publicly traded companies. Amy designed Create Magic At Work™ to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in supporting healthy leaders & workplaces through:

• Private Executive Coaching
• Speaking Internationally about Ways to Support & Create Healthy Workplace Cultures
• Experiential Workshops & Keynotes

Connect with Amy:

• LinkedIn , Website, Purchase her book, Create Magic at Work

How do you collaborate with your team? Do you take the time to ask their opinions, check in with them, find out what they need from you as their leader?

In this episode, Amy is joined by Robert "Bo" Brabo. Throughout his career, Bo has always focused on the people, helping them tackle their issues as if they were his own. Since retiring from the US Army as the Chief of HR Operations with the White House Communications Agency and Presidential Communications Officer for both Presidents Bush and Obama, Bo has served in several executive positions and is the founder of Hail Media Group & The Brabo Center of Excellence, providing fully accredited continuing education for HR professionals around the globe.

Bo's mission through the Center is to build leadership and business acumen in human resources professionals, giving them the abilities to help solve today's most challenging business issues. Students develop a leadership mindset, boost their performance, build, and lead high-performing teams, get crystal clear on their HR goals, plans, and actions, and set-up their careers for long-term success and satisfaction. The Center's programs are offered on their E-Learning platform, via live webinars, as well as customized corporate training events.

Bo received his MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. He is a professional speaker and author of the book "From the Battlefield, to the White House, to the Boardroom: Leading Organizations to Values Based Results", an Amazon Top 100 Hot New Release in Business Leadership. Bo is the Co-host of "The Bo & Luke Show" (a top 2.5% global podcast) inspiring listeners to be, know, and do better every day. Bo also holds current SPHR and PMP professional certifications.

Join Amy and Bo in this episode as they discuss:

• What values based leadership means
• The role mental strength plays in the workplace and its similarities to SQ
• How end of day check-ins with your team creates an open environment for communication
• How to handle mistakes and view them as an opportunity for learning, not blaming

Quote from the show - ''When I'm meeting with my team and they're telling me what they've accomplished, they're telling me about any impacts they have had on their day or what other people, external forces might be having on them and getting their job done or any impediments, it's really about me listening, active listening, to ensure I can then discern what needs to be done and what actions need to take place'.

About the host:

Amy Lynn Durham is the Founder of Create Magic At Work

Amy has spent years in the corporate world successfully managing hundreds of employees for private and publicly traded companies. Amy designed Create Magic At Work™ to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in supporting healthy leaders & workplaces through:

• Private Executive Coaching
• Speaking Internationally about Ways to Support & Create Healthy Workplace Cultures
• Experiential Workshops & Keynotes

Connect with Amy:

• LinkedIn , Website, Purchase her book, Create Magic at Work

How comfortable are you at work? Do you feel that you can truly be yourself or do you show only a version of yourself for fear of being judged by colleagues?

In this episode, Amy is joined by Sean Moore. Certified in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University and after 20 years in the telecom industry, Sean decided to start a consulting company that focuses on change management, servant leadership and building strong, diverse and inclusive cultures.

Join Amy and Sean in this episode as they discuss:

• How Sean operates from a place of higher motivation or big picture view as a leader
• What it means to be a compassionate leader and how you can connect with your employees on a deeper level
• Why you should build diversity through connection as a leader

Quote from the show - ''A compassionate leader encourages people to be authentic and recognizes like.....something I've learned personally is people don't know how to help you,if you don't reach out and ask for help.'' *For a brief portion of this episode we discuss our guest's work in diversity, equity and inclusion. We acknowledge that these are deep and complex issues that require more in depth exploration than this conversation allowed for. At Create Magic At Work we honor, respect and value all identities and perspectives. Many of the skills of Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) reflect themes such as the awareness of others worldviews, awareness of the interconnectedness of life, and making wise and compassionate decisions. We will continue to explore these and other skills of SQ throughout this podcast.

About the host:

Amy Lynn Durham is the Founder of Create Magic At Work

Amy has spent years in the corporate world successfully managing hundreds of employees for private and publicly traded companies. Amy designed Create Magic At Work™ to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in supporting healthy leaders & workplaces through:

• Private Executive Coaching
• Speaking Internationally about Ways to Support & Create Healthy Workplace Cultures
• Experiential Workshops & Keynotes

Connect with Amy:

LinkedIn , Website, Purchase her book, Create Magic at Work

Connect with Sean: LinkedIn https://dgiconsultingllc.com/

Since the COVID pandemic, the way people work has changed and some may be wondering, is there a place for middle managers in the workplace and if so, what role do they play in the health and wellbeing of their employees?

In this episode, Amy is joined by Roly Walter. Roly is the founder of Appraisd, an employee performance management system that is unique in aiming to help managers get the best from their team members. Roly has built Appraisd from his garden shed to a global business with £1mm ARR. He has so far avoided external investment, worried that it would get in the way of his family life but also wanted to prove that you could build and scale a SaaS business through customer revenue.

He is fascinated by what it means to be a manager – why middle management has become a dirty word, why management is seen as inferior to leadership, how managers also need to be coaches, mentors as well as holding their team members to account.

Roly says it's hard to be a manager, and this is what drives him to build tools to help. He also loves to regularly embarrass his two kids by playing guitar for their school's Dads Band.

Join Amy and Roly in this episode as they discuss:

• Whether there will be a place for middle managers in the future of the workforce
• How middle managers can best support their teams in a remote working environment
• Equipping managers with the right tools they need to have conversations with their employees about their mental health and their wellbeing

Quote from the show - ''Now we could look at the managers and think about what it means. If you're a new manager or you're a manager that has imposter syndrome, or you're a manager that has blind spots, how can we help those people so that the balance is absolutely equal and that manager and employee can really get the best from each other.''

About the host:

Amy Lynn Durham is the Founder of Create Magic At Work

Amy has spent years in the corporate world successfully managing hundreds of employees for private and publicly traded companies. Amy designed Create Magic At Work™ to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in supporting healthy leaders & workplaces through:

• Private Executive Coaching
• Speaking Internationally about Ways to Support & Create Healthy Workplace Cultures
• Experiential Workshops & Keynotes

Connect with Amy:

LinkedIn , Website, Purchase her book, Create Magic at Work

Connect with Roly:

Website, LinkedIn

Being a curious and creative learner has set Valerie apart from becoming an accomplished leadership coach and professional speaker.

For the past 20 years, Valerie's career has taken her to many different countries and to work with people of many cultures. She's worked for Up with People, the international leadership program, the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Hyatt Corporation in roles focused on public relations, training, recruitment, and leadership development.

In 2018, she launched into entrepreneurship as the CEO of her company, Connect to Joy, LLC. Her thought‐provoking questions and unique strategies empower people from all walks of life. Her group workshops and one‐on‐one sessions are designed to go beyond concepts and data points, to shine a light on what has heart and meaning. While her delivery is fun, engaging and playful, attendees report breakthroughs in achieving meaningful goals, transforming relationships, and communicating with confidence. Whether in a one-on-one session, delivering a keynote, facilitating a breakout or participating in a panel discussion, Valerie exudes wisdom, curiosity, and joy.

In this episode, you will learn:

• What it means to have a deeper connection with a colleague or employee
• What sparks Valerie to speak about bringing joy to diversity
• What servant leadership means to Valerie
• How organizations should look to fix underlying causes of problems vs. symptoms

Quote from the show - ''The more I embraced that part of me, which was so natural already, the better results I got, the more compliant people were ironically, because they were willing to go above and beyond sometimes in places, in ways, that were uncomfortable.''

About the host:

Amy Lynn Durham is the Founder of Create Magic At Work™.

Amy has spent years in the corporate world successfully managing hundreds of employees for private and publicly traded companies. Amy designed Create Magic At Work™ to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in supporting healthy leaders & workplaces through:

• Private Executive Coaching
• Speaking Internationally about Ways to Support & Create Healthy Workplace Cultures
• Experiential Workshops

Connect with Amy:

LinkedIn , Website, Purchase her book - Create Magic at Work

Connect with Valerie:

Website, LinkedIn, Instagram

Have you heard of SQ or spiritual intelligence?  Do you know what it means or why it’s important in the workplace?

Join Amy in this episode as she breaks it all down.

You will learn: 

• The definition of spiritual intelligence and how it links to emotional intelligence
• The four quadrants that make up SQ21 
•  How you can learn what level you’re at by taking the SQ21 assessment 
• A skill-building exercise that will help you to make wise and compassionate decisions

Quote from the show - ‘As long as you believe there is a place within you that comes from wisdom and compassion again, which I like to call your higher self and you learn how to access that and put your ego aside, you can work on the 21 skills of spiritual intelligence’.

Resources mentioned in the show

Cindy Wigglesworth

The Quantum Leader book by Danah Zohar

About the host: 

Amy Lynn Durham is the Founder of Create Magic At Work™ and a Spiritual Intelligence Coach. 

Amy has spent years in the corporate world successfully managing hundreds of employees for private and publicly traded companies. Amy designed Create Magic At Work™ to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in supporting healthy leaders & workplaces through: 

• Private Coaching - 3 month 1:1 Spiritual Intelligence Experiences
• Speaking Internationally about Ways to Support & Create Healthy Workplace Cultures
• Experiential Workshops & Keynotes

In her spare time, you can find her spending time with her Cavapoo Mr. Bingley, journaling, doing yoga or trying to master stand up paddle boarding with her boyfriend.

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