Episode 5

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30th Oct 2023

The Leadership Contradiction w/ Traycee Mayer

Get your copy of The Leadership Contradiction here. Work With Amy Join me, Amy Lynn Durham, with Traycee Mayer, an expert in helping leaders leverage the strengths of human connection, as we embark on an insightful journey of the intricate world of leadership, choices, and acceptance. Traycee introduces the concept from her book about the choices we encounter throughout our lives and how they shape our leadership.

Discover valuable advice and reflective insights on letting go of regret and finding peace with your decisions.

What to anticipate:

  • Ways to incorporate acceptance of choices we've made in the past.
  • Letting go of regret gracefully.
  • Contradictions in leadership are named and discussed.
  • How to hold accountability and kindness in the same space at work.
  • Ways to increase acts of kindness in your leadership that inspire productivity.

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"It's really about not just taking those slippery slopes and those rocky paths and the ones that are dark and scary, but what can we learn from that so that we can improve our lives and the lives of the people we lead?" - Traycee Mayer

Connect with Traycee Mayer:

Website: https://beyouleadership.com/ Email: traycee@beyouleadership.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trayceemayer YouTube: @beyouleadership Instagram: @trayceemayer

Traycee is an expert in helping leaders leverage the strengths of human connection to achieve explosive success in their own careers and with those they lead. She unapologetically believes people don't need to be treated fairly, they need to be treated as the unique individuals they are in order to thrive and succeed. She has led teams of hundreds and helped to create paths for dozens of great leaders. Traycee can help you drive accountability, productivity, and positive financial results while guiding you in leadership presence, growth mindsets and new tools to help you attract and retain individuals with exceptional talent. Plus, she can help you get the very best from everyone on your team. She's experienced great triumphs as an entrepreneur, executive coach, leadership trainer and as an author of her soon to be released book, The Leadership Contradiction. Traycee has over 40 years of Leadership success in many areas of hospitality, business development and facility operations, and has demonstrated a uniquely authentic ability to relate to and develop all levels of employees and model excellence in a 360-degree fashion. She is known to be transparent, trustworthy and intuitive in guiding you to your best path forward.

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About the Podcast

Create Magic At Work®
Spiritual Intelligence, Conscious Leadership, and the Future of Work
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 and lives.

If you care about leadership that blends strategy, spiritual intelligence, and the courage to walk the edge during times of change, you're in the right place.

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Amy Lynn Durham

Amy Lynn Durham is the founder of the executive coaching firm Create Magic At Work® and Magic Thread Media™, a curated boutique podcast network of conscious voices. She is an executive coach and leadership advisor who works with senior leaders and organizations navigating complex change.

A former corporate executive turned executive coach, Amy blends grounded business experience with a deeper exploration of spiritual intelligence and quantum leadership. Her work helps leaders expand beyond traditional leadership models to consider the ripple effects of their decisions on people, culture, and the future.

Amy believes magic at work is not a metaphor. It emerges when leaders go beyond emotional intelligence and cultivate spiritual intelligence, learning to lead from their higher selves rather than from their ego. Through her work, she helps leaders develop the awareness and presence needed to make wise, compassionate decisions even when under pressure while maintaining inner peace.

She is the host of the globally recognized Create Magic At Work® podcast, where she interviews visionary leaders, authors, and change makers exploring spiritual intelligence, conscious leadership, and the future of work. The show often features what Amy calls “voices from the edge” — leaders and thinkers who challenge conventional ideas about leadership and human potential.

Amy is also the author of Create Magic At Work® and Creating Career Magic: A Daily Prompt Journal, and is a sought-after speaker and podcast guest known for bridging modern business challenges with spiritual intelligence, relational wisdom, and practical leadership insight.

Across all of her work, Amy’s mission is to help leaders make wise, compassionate decisions even under stress while envisioning workplaces where people and performance thrive together.

UC Berkeley Certified Executive Coach • ICF Certified Coach • Certified Spiritual Intelligence Coach (SQ21) • Archetypes of Change Facilitator • Edgewalker Facilitator