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June 23, 2026
The Boundaries Blueprint: Read A Room Without Absorbing The Stress | Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller
<p>What happens when walking into a room means absorbing every ounce of tension, distress, and unsaid emotion inside it?</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Moments That Create Momentum:</strong></p><ol><li><strong>The "Not My Circus" Rule:</strong> 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.</li><li><strong>The Revenue Shield:</strong> The deeply unsettling reason why elite organizations intentionally protect toxic high-performers and narcissists.</li><li><strong>The Empathy Illusion:</strong> Dr. Melissa shares why empathy is passive, and how jumping straight into "fixing" things actually triggers misplaced, destructive compassion.</li><li><strong>The Danger of Being "Nice":</strong> Why standard corporate manners are often just a mask for insincerity, and the reason true kindness requires telling the ugly truth.</li><li><strong>The Self-Rescue Mandate:</strong> Why launching into service for others before mastering self-empathy is a fast track to destroying your own career.</li></ol><br/><p><strong>About the Guest:</strong></p><p>As professional musician, Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller worked with major talent such as Ray Charles, David Ogden Stiers, and Mannheim Steamroller. But cold and toxic leadership eventually robbed her of a career that was 30+ years in the making. However, that incident inspired Dr. Melissa to transform leadership as we know it by redefining the one element that most leaders miss: empathy. Today, she’s an international bestselling author, Editor’s Pick TEDx speaker, EQ and empathy coach, and leading voice on emotional intelligence and empathy. She’s known for blending lived experience, academic depth, and a sharp, data-driven approach that not only makes sense but demystifies how empathy translates to better productivity, innovation, and profit. Her mission is to invite everyone to approach empathy as a strategic skill for every human-centric action, not only for others but also for ourselves, and to step up in the way the future of leadership demands.</p><p><u><a href="https://eqviaempathy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://eqviaempathy.com</a></u></p><p><u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-melissa-a-robinson-winemiller-author-speaker-trainer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-melissa-a-robinson-winemiller-author-speaker-trainer</a></u></p><p><u><a href="https://www.instagram.com/empathyqueen.eq" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/empathyqueen.eq</a></u></p><p><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@TheEmpathicLeader" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@TheEmpathicLeader</a></u></p><p><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaoXSEWeILo&t=63s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaoXSEWeILo&t=63s</a></u></p><p><u><a href="https://geni.us/TheEmpathicLeader" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://geni.us/TheEmpathicLeader</a></u></p><p><strong>About Amy:</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><strong>Connect with Amy:</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://createmagicatwork.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://createmagicatwork.net/</a></u></p><p><u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/create-magic-at-work" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/create-magic-at-work</a></u></p><p><u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/112951637095427" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/112951637095427</a></u></p><p><u><a href="https://www.instagram.com/createmagicatwork" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/createmagicatwork</a></u></p><p><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnEm4h3fUgaq8qgvZpz6dGg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnEm4h3fUgaq8qgvZpz6dGg</a></u></p><p></p><p><strong>Thanks for listening!</strong></p><p>Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.</p><p>Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!</p><p><strong>Subscribe to the podcast</strong></p><p>If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app.</p><p><strong>Leave us an Apple Podcasts review</strong></p><p>Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you are enjoying the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts.</p><p>Mentioned in this episode:</p><p>This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/</p>
June 23, 2026
Welcome to Bending the Light: Vedic Wisdom for a Brighter World
<p>Bending the Light explores the timeless wisdom of the Indian spiritual tradition through a modern lens. Hosted by Vish Chatterji, a former engineer turned "karma mechanic," this podcast blends karma, dharma, meditation, Ayurveda, Vedic philosophy, and Jyotish with practical insights for everyday life. Through stories, conversations, and bite-sized spiritual teachings, you'll discover how ancient wisdom can help you navigate life's challenges, understand the forces shaping your path, and bring more clarity, purpose, and light into your world.</p>
June 18, 2026
When the Life You Planned Falls Away with James Rosser
<p class="ql-align-center">"As long as you're still harming yourself, how much kindness can you put out there? How much compassion can you put out there?" — James Rosser</p><p>What happens when the life you built no longer feels like your life?</p><p>For James Rosser, the question arrived through an unimaginable moment.</p><p>In his late twenties, during the height of the AIDS epidemic, James was mistakenly diagnosed with a terminal illness and told he likely had eight months to live. Then, after repeated testing, he learned the diagnosis was wrong.</p><p>But something had already shifted.</p><p>What began as a confrontation with mortality became something more surprising: a confrontation with exhaustion. Exhaustion from carrying a life that looked successful from the outside but no longer felt true on the inside. Exhaustion from perfection. Performance. Hiding. Becoming someone instead of being someone.</p><p>In this deeply personal conversation, Cari and James explore the unexpected ways suffering can become a doorway—not because pain is inherently noble, but because turning toward suffering instead of reacting against it can reveal who we are and what matters most.</p><p>Together they unpack the difference between mindfulness and meditation, the hidden aggression inside self-improvement, the origins of the inner critic, and why compassion is not softness—it is courage.</p><p>James shares how Buddhist practice, self-compassion, and years of learning to stay with difficult experience transformed his relationship with himself and ultimately changed the direction of his life—from finance to therapy, teaching, healing, and service.</p><p>This episode is an invitation to pause long enough to ask:</p><p>What if your pain isn’t asking you to become someone else?</p><p>What if it’s asking you to become more fully yourself?</p><p><strong>The Treasures in the Trash:</strong></p><ol><li>Suffering can become a doorway — Sometimes the moments we would never choose reveal the values and truths that quietly shape the rest of our lives.</li><li>Reactivity and response are not the same thing — The space between what we feel and how we respond may be where freedom begins.</li><li>Self-improvement can hide self-rejection — The drive to become better can sometimes be fueled by the painful belief that we are not enough as we are.</li><li>Compassion changes everything — When we stop treating suffering as failure and begin meeting it with care, healing becomes possible.</li><li>The inner critic often began as protection — What feels harsh today may once have been trying to keep us safe.</li><li>Looking for the good is a practice — Our minds naturally scan for danger, but kindness and awareness help us remember what else is here.</li><li>Your heart already knows something — Sometimes the most important question isn’t “What should I do?” but “What does my heart need to hear?”</li></ol><br/><p>Learn more about the Sacred Pause Retreat at <u><a href="https://www.bravedirections.com/a-sacred-pause" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bravedirections.com/a-sacred-pause</a></u></p><p><strong>About the Guest</strong>:</p><p>James Rosser has been meditating since 1987, beginning his journey with Spirit Rock co-founder James Baraz. Today, he serves as a Dharma teacher and Board Member at InsightLA, and co-leads retreats at the Big Bear Retreat Center. His extensive training includes graduations from InsightLA’s Facilitator and Dedicated to the Dharma programs, Spirit Rock's Dedicated Practitioner Program, and the inaugural class of the Kornfield-Brach Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP).</p><p>James integrates deep spiritual practice with clinical expertise. He is a Mentor at Kristin Neff’s Self-Compassion Institute, a Trained Teacher for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, and an intensively trained Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) clinician. Currently, he works as an LCSW at UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, designing and growing intensive outpatient programs. He holds a Master’s in Social Welfare from UCLA and a Bachelor’s in Finance from the University of Tennessee.</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/bluesuitbuddha/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/bluesuitbuddha/</a></p><p><strong>About Cari:</strong></p><p>Cari Jacobs-Crovetto is an executive and leadership coach and the founder of Brave Directions, where she works with senior leaders and C-suite executives to strengthen interpersonal and team relationships, navigate conflict skillfully, and deepen self-awareness, influence, and confidence.</p><p>Before becoming a coach, Cari spent three decades in marketing and product leadership roles across Fortune 100 companies, media networks, consulting firms, and venture-backed startups. In 2019, she was named one of Forbes’ Top 50 Chief Marketing Officers.</p><p>Cari brings together decades of operating experience with more than 45 years of Buddhist meditation study and practice, integrating deep inner work with practical leadership development.</p><p>She facilitates the renowned Interpersonal Dynamics (“Touchy Feely”) course at Stanford Graduate School of Business where she also coaches grad school students, leads meditation classes and leadership workshops, and hosts the podcast Finding Treasures in the Trash.</p><p>Her mantra: Fierce Heart — where compassion meets bold, badass leadership.</p><p><u><a href="https://www.bravedirections.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bravedirections.com/</a></u></p><p><u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/carisf/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/carisf/</a></u></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/cari_bravedirections/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/cari_bravedirections/</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Thanks for listening!</strong></p><p>Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.</p><p>Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!</p><p><strong>Subscribe to the podcast</strong></p><p>If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app.</p><p><strong>Leave us an Apple Podcasts review</strong></p><p>Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you are enjoying the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts.</p><p>Mentioned in this episode:</p><p>This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/</p>
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