{"podcast":{"title":"Create Magic At Work®","slug":"create-magic-at-work-4191407","podcast_index_feed_id":4191407,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/create-magic-at-work-r/","website_url":"https://createmagicatwork.net/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/b4fa8b70-a0f1-4e7a-bf99-42daf4b9c22f/Create-Magic.jpg","author":"Amy Lynn Durham","episode_count":228,"summary":"Create Magic At Work® is a leadership podcast exploring spiritual intelligence, conscious leadership, and the future of work. Through conversations with visionary leaders, coaches, authors, and entrepreneurs, the show examines how leaders can navigate uncertainty, cultivate self awareness, and create workplaces that are both high performing and deeply human. Many episodes explore themes such as transformational leadership, intuition in decision making, organizational change, and the inner work required to lead well. The show also introduces frameworks rooted in spiritual intelligence, including SQ21, the Archetypes of Change, and the Edgewalker philosophy. These perspectives help listeners understand how people respond to transformation and support leaders in walking the edge into quantum leadership, where business decisions ripple outward for the greater good. Listeners of Create Magic At Work® are leaders who want to edgewalk rather than sleepwalk through their work and life. They want to bring their full selves into the spaces they inhabit, including their spirituality from a faith neutral lens. Many are founders, coaches, and professionals seeking deeper meaning in their work…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-15T16:22:32.417310+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-magic-at-work-4191407"},"episode":{"title":"The Boundaries Blueprint: Read A Room Without Absorbing The Stress | Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller","slug":"the-boundaries-blueprint-read-a-room-without-absorbing-the-stress-dr-melissa-robinson-winemiller","published_at":"2026-06-23T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-magic-at-work-4191407/the-boundaries-blueprint-read-a-room-without-absorbing-the-stress-dr-melissa-robinson-winemiller","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-magic-at-work-4191407","url":"https://create-magic-at-work-r.captivate.fm/episode/the-boundaries-blueprint-read-a-room-without-absorbing-the-stress-dr-melissa-robinson-winemiller","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/657abd12-0477-47f5-8491-b4be2820c7e5.mp3","summary":"What happens when walking into a room means absorbing every ounce of tension, distress, and unsaid emotion inside it? Many of us are taught that great leadership requires carrying the emotional weight of our teams. We step in to smooth things over, fix conflicts that aren't ours to solve, and mistake constant rescue missions for true connection. The result isn't better leadership, it is exhaustion. In this episode, Amy sits down with global emotional intelligence and empathy expert Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller to map out a clear blueprint for protecting your energy without shutting out your humanity. Drawing from her raw pivot point out of a toxic workplace environment and later experiencing those same broken patterns in other work spaces, Dr. Melissa shares the definitive distinction between reading a room and taking responsibility for it. This conversation is a radical reframe on human connection. You will discover how to stand in your own power, deploy data-backed perspective-taking, and implement the boundaries necessary to stop treating everyone else's distress as your circus to fix. Moments That Create Momentum: The \"Not My Circus\" Rule: Why walking into a room and feeling everyone else's tension isn't a gift, it’s a boundary failure that is secretly draining you. The Revenue Shield: The deeply unsettling reason why elite organizations intentionally protect toxic high-performers and narcissists. The Empathy Illusion: Dr. Melissa shares why empathy is passive, and how jumping straight into \"fixing\" things actually triggers misplaced, destructive compassion. The Danger of Being \"Nice\": Why standard corporate manners are often just a mask for insincerity, and the reason true kindness requires telling the ugly truth. The Self-Rescue Mandate: Why launching into ser…","meta_description":"What happens when walking into a room means absorbing every ounce of tension, distress, and unsaid emotion inside it? 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