Inspirational Insights Podcast - Insight To Action

Ervin Laszlo taught the world to hear the coherence underneath the noise. The least we can do now is keep listening. In 2016 systems theorist Ervin Laszlo opened the Inspirational Insights podcast with an interview on his book What is Reality? We adapted several articles for the HuffPo Great Workplace community platform. (links below) He died at June 29, 2026 at 94 years old leaving a legacy and m...

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What happens when emotional triggers are no longer something to fear, but something to understand? In this conversation, we explore how healing begins with awareness, why triggers often point to old wounds, and how working with our emotional states can lead to greater sovereignty, clarity, and freedom. In this episode, Dawna Jones and Miranda Rocca-Circelli explore emotional triggers as more than...

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The Intuition Series How does your high-speed cognitive process work? “I don’t trust my intuition. It’s been wrong.” “Intuition is fear.” “We want rational decisions, not something intangible.” There is a reason why intuition can be wrong and a reason why it is not fear or any other emotion. Intuition is a cognitive process that runs at high speeds so you can make life-saving decisions BEFORE you...

Being triggered is a positive signal that there’s an emotional wound buried in the subconscious, needing your attention. Behind fatigue is a lot of overwhelm and energy bound up in carrying unhealed emotional wounds and generational trauma around. Clear those energetic triggers to regain usable energy and emotional freedom. The horse in the background gets triggered but, unfortunately, can’t apply...

Reflections surfaced while I was trooping around snowshoeing on Hollyburn Mountain and thinking of my subscribers, some new (thank you!), some loyal (very grateful), and all who are paying attention to what is going on in the world. More aggression in the global arena, deceptive accords (peace, truce or not), can hurt your heart. Home base is your personal spirit and joy. In this short video, I na...

Full disclosure, I have never been laid off, but I have fired clients who were using my work to ‘control’ employees and “bring them into alignment”. After personal losses and life’s interruptions, I began to notice a pattern in my experience. It is not necessarily linear but can be. Your heart energy is your compass, and it needs deliberate care to respect the more intense emotions that accompany...

Our connection to nature is captured in appreciation for the journey these birds make. This is a group of stranglers; the bulk of the migration has passed. They flew overhead yesterday while I was playing with my grandkids. Every time I see a flock like this pass overhead, I am in awe of their navigational instincts. These are Canada Geese, one of three or four species that migrate south along the...

When strangers from the city step onto a farm, they often see disorder—muddy kitchen floors, grass growing in ditches, animals or birds that poop and have no character or personality. It looks messy. But to the person who tends the land, that same scene is alive with relationship—a quiet understanding between humans, animals, and place. Without that bond, decisions are clinical, missing the big pi...

After three sports-related head injuries, one subarachnoid hemorrhage, financial loss, loss of housing, and other setbacks, I began to process difficult experiences as a learning lab for resilience, to stay in alignment with my purpose and what has meaning. It occurred to me that my experience might help others. In this video, I share what I observed, the steps I wandered (or staggered) through to...

In the upcoming episode with Garry Turner on the Healthy Masculinity podcast, we talk about how horses sense your emotional state. What is unsaid in the video is that the simple act of listening with the intention to understand changes how people feel. Nick Zeniuk, former Ford executive and my mentor in 2007-8-9 understood the sensitivity of horses and how they express themselves. It is particular...

This is the pony. In the video you see only her butt so this photo shows her front end. She has one eye and two sides. In this story, I share how a six-year-old decided brushing one side was good enough. It is something that everyone does occasionally. Perceive through a narrow ‘Me’ lens and forget about the purpose - why you are doing what you’re doing. In this video, I share how the six-year-old...

Working with the uncertainty presented by housing costs, cost of living, global conflict and loss of biodiversity demands a change in how we think. We are trained to think linearly. But the world runs on inter-relationships. I’m back on the horse farm. In this video, I talk about eco-systemic thinking as it applies to farm life and purpose-driven focus on relationships, going beyond cause and effe...

What if companies engaged their people, replacing fear of losing control with a focus on health, well-being and high value contribution? According to Perplexity.ai, it would add $9.6 trillion to the global economy. Worse, 27% of managers are disengaged. So why isn’t making an engagement a priority happening? I gained insight when a colleague who consults within US companies mentioned that, post-CO...

Amid another disruption to my life, I am reminded that we each have the power to become emotionally and mentally stronger using chaotic and volatile circumstances. This is a high level way to self-witness how you are doing emotionally and mentally so that you cam make adjustments and grow increasingly calmer and at peace while system-wide disruption is underway. COVID was one opportunity. The stra...

Note: The sound on the first publication was distorted so I have redone the whole thing and replaced the video and audio files (now on Spotify etc). If you missed listening the first time try now. Imagine the possibilities if every single person in this world, in your company, or in your family could express themselves from their original pure note. In the early part of 2003-4 when I was rethinkin...

Spotting patterns in your life or an organization’s decision-making relies on your sensing ability. In this short video, I describe how the Sentinelese people of south east Asia, detected the tsunami through signals and cues. These included: * fast and significant retreat of ocean waves, * cicadas stopped singing, * one small wave came before the big wave. There were other signals of course. Exper...

The infamous scandal posed by the Horizon One Post Office illustrates what happens when high-impact decision-makers ignore the signals and cues and the negative ripple effect. Using this example, in this video, I lay out what happened as a result of one out of several decision-makers involved, then look at reasons why it happened and how you can avoid being caught in a similar trap. Of course, it...

In this live stream, Dr. Rob Lion of Black Rock Performance Management discusses the bridge between academic research and practical application, using language nuances as one example. Dr. Lion shares his role as a translational researcher who bridges this gap with actionable models and frameworks. We talk about human motivation, the impact of AI on HR practices, challenges in leadership, and the i...

Sitting in a coffee shop a couple of weekends ago, I learned from a few twenty-somethings that AI was intended to replace humans. That’s one option but not the only one. If we do nothing then it is a fair fear, but if we bring awareness and clarity to the decision of how to respond, then In this short clip innovation coach and facilitator Curtis Michelson talk about the greatest barrier to innovat...

Have you ever faced a challenge so big it felt like your world was falling apart? (And it did) In this special behind-the-scenes episode, I share the raw truth of my journey—nine years of homelessness—added to multiple other setbacks and how it shaped the creation of this podcast. The role model for adaptive intelligence in this episode is the coyote. I grew up with coyotes and have a lot of respe...

With the geopolitical global context more volatile than at any point in history, humanity faces big questions that need imaginative answers. That’s not the only compelling reason for citizen-led action. Any one of the large global issues we face could inspire imaginative and radical creativity that governments are not capable of doing. A few things need to change: Human consciousness. We tend to d...

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