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CEO Loneliness - Why It Matters to Everyone with Mark McFatridge

Join me, Amy Lynn Durham, and Mark McFatridge, the Founder and CEO of Quade, a peer group for high-performing CEOs. Mark shares his experience of feeling isolated as a CEO and how joining a local YPO chapter changed his life. He discusses founding Quade to provide a supportive community for other CEOs and business owners. Mark emphasizes empowering leaders to be authentic and make decisions with empathy, awareness of others, and a focus on long-term impact. Listeners learn about Quade's mission and how embracing authenticity can benefit individuals and their organizations.

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Key Discussion Points:

  • Leadership experience and founding Quade

  • Burden of CEO responsibilities and decision-making

  • Amy's leadership journey embracing feminine energy

  • Embracing authenticity and overcoming conformity

  • Discovering one's true self and wearing masks

  • Empowering conscious decision-making and positive change

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Amy Lynn Durham

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.