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Transition From Crisis To Oasis w/ Denise Belisle Apr 17, 2023

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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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The Business Casual Yogi's Secrets To Leading With Less Stress Apr 10, 2023

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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:

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

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When Over-Efficiency Holds Back Progress w/ Norman Wolfe Apr 03, 2023

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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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Quantum Leaders:

www.quantumleaders.com
nwolfe@quantumleaders.com
(949) 689-2158

Norman's Book - The Living Organization:

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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Harnessing Chaos to Unlock Possibility w/ Nenuca Syquia Mar 27, 2023

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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:

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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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How Audacious Courage Makes You a Trusted Leader w/ Mark Travis Rivera Mar 13, 2023

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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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Unblock Your Path to Success w/ Dr. Patricia Suggs Mar 06, 2023

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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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Two Key Leadership Traits That Decrease Burnout Feb 27, 2023

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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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The Secret to Unobstructed Leadership w/ Martin Itzkow Feb 13, 2023

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Join me with Martin Itzkow, a human value-centered, interpersonal neurobiological coach, and consultant as he shares his insights on how to lead from a neuroscience perspective, what it is, and how it affects companies. He also shares how to enhance our compassion by focusing on our own inner world.

Martin has had a diverse career and background in the human service sector, government, and as a private Executive Coach and Organizational Development Consultant internationally. Over the last three decades, Martin has facilitated over 550 consulting and coaching assignments, including strategic and long-term organizational planning, developmental evaluation, change readiness and management, corporate renewal, development growth, measuring and shaping organizational leadership culture, values-based decision-making, community visioning, and executive leadership.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

Principles of a leader
Ways to operate with compassion and kindness
The importance of being a calming and healing presence
How to focus on your five senses to enhance decision making
And so much more!

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Quote: "And it is about people first and foremost. So, to go there, you need to look at the fact that you are a human being with a nervous system. You are creating the way you view your future and how you understand yourself and how you act with people. Are you willing to go inside yourself and go through a range of processes to unpack who are you below the surface?" - Martin

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The Abundance Paradox with Elaine Starling Feb 07, 2023

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Mondays 7:00pm - 8:00pm (EDT).

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WHAT WILL THE AUDIENCE LEARN?

So...what is Abundance? Is it financial wealth? Is it akin to gratitude? Is it a sense that Life, even with the enormous challenges with which we deal, is in support of us? Is it a sense of freedom? Can abundance actually be a choice?

And how is teaching abundance different from the "prosperity gospel", of which I am not a fan?

Without all the woo-woo, how can we tap into limiting beliefs around money and financial freedom? What are some practical steps to change our abundance mindset?

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EPISODE SUMMARY:

Elaine Starling is an international TEDx speaker, bestselling author, coach and mentor, and is recognized for her video show and podcast, The Abundance Journey™.

After a near death experience she received information that would change the course of her life. Elaine has created The Abundance Journey™ 6 week course to share what she learned. As the Abundance Ambassador, Elaine mentors spiritual, growth-oriented women to experience more clarity, confidence, and commit to action that achieves their goals.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elaine.starling1/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elainestarling/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elaine.abundance/

The Abundance Journey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3eXgwdMYYzLicCEcB1Ddrg

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Three Ways To Be A Calm Leader In Stressful Times Feb 06, 2023

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Welcome to the 4th Season of Creating Magic at Work Podcast!

In today's episode, I will share the three ways to be a calm leader in stressful times as well as my past experiences with other leaders on their ways to leading. I also share my key observations and why some leaders are missing the mark, what is the perfect way to run a team, and how to do it under stressful times.

Today on Create Magic At Work®:

How to be present at a high level
Practicing detachment
Quiet quitting
How not to tolerate fake positivity
And so much more

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"Do not create your leadership team in a way that they are not comfortable sharing information with you because you've created this culture or this environment where you only want to hear the good stuff." - Amy

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