Inspirational Insights Podcast - Insight To Action

Hosted by Dawna Jones

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We are living in exciting times, but also challenging ones. The world has become more complex and so have our lives. There is a need for new ways of thinking that can help us navigate this complexity and make sense of the future. The Inspirational Insights podcast (Insight to Action) brings you different perspectives on how we can make sense of our complex world, find solutions for leadership challenges while creating a better future for everyone. Adversity is an opportunity to be better at being human in connection to nature and to an inspiring purpose. Inspirational Insights is an enlightening and inspiring podcast that covers personal business, global issues, decision-making practices and leading in complexity. The show's topics range from nextgen to consciousness shifting with the goal of reconnecting decisions and impact to caring about biodiversity by sharing practical insights on how we can all make a difference now. Subscribe now so you don't miss out. You can also find us on iTunes and Spotify. Host Dawna Jones is always looking for feedback, so please send your thoughts my way! Join the community on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/dawnajones. For personal and business insights listen today! https://shows.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast . See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. dawnajones.substack.com

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August 13, 202642 min

How Inner Health Changes What AI Means for Your Career

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August 8, 202611 min

The Real Reason You Feel Tired

The fatigue that underpins routine activities and daily pressures is bigger than sleep can fix. And there are reasons for that. Multiple reasons. Imperceptible but felt is a stack of pressures that quietly impact how you feel whether that is anxiety, exhaustion or a dysregulated nervous system. Algorithms shape perception deciding what you see and how it is framed. Use of AI to manipulate images adds to the confusion and mistrust over what to trust. In a coffee shop some months ago, a group of visiting students from Australia told me that AI was going to replace them so what was the point? That’s an existential question that echoes how many might be feeling right now. In this video, I cover the pressures that fuel exhaustion, the reason emotional health is the key to moving through the unknowns, and the shift in baseline from me to we that widens the decision-making frame. It means recognizing that how we see and feel about the world benefits from a reframe and commitment to using it to achieve planetary health. I made this decision when things went sideways in my life and the only way I could make sense out of it, was to consider that there was a wider value and a bigger calling that demanded I move through whatever difficulty I was faced with. So I did. The idea what burnout, or emotional fatigue is a private problem assumes that nothing going on in the world has an impact. That’s the flawed assumption, not you. I’ll name the pressures: * The systems we run the economy on, health care, education, politics were built in simpler times when the world seemed simple and predictable. One decision needed just one fix. It is a defiance of complexity. * Technology, AI in particular, is moving faster than we can absorb, accept, and adapt. It has a huge impact on what we trust. The pace is exhausting. * Loss of the living world. My father banded over 100, 000 birds in our backyard. Coyotes raised their young pups in the front yard, fronting a ravine. Over the years, the numbers dropped radically. Coyotes became feared as the order of city life saw fear instead of respect. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson suddenly had meaning. We are losing the survival intelligence, diversity and resilience that brings an intelligence we need. The hardest problems we face only get solved when many kinds of intelligence focus together on something that specialized intelligence can’t solve. The inner emotional state and the outer conditions are inextricably connected. Thanks for reading Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience! This post is public so feel free to share it. In the video, I ask 3 questions, one of which is: What if emotional health is something inherent in you, not something that depends on the outside world settling down? This is the question my journey was guided by. Moving through difficult emotions, uncertainty on many levels made sense when anchored in self-regulation, resilience via inner strength, and stabilized by meaning and purpose. The journey you are on, the state of your emotional health, is not easy. It is learnable, a set of skills that every person was born with. Now is a good time to remember those skills and put them into play. Welcome to new subscribers! Thank you for joining a growing awareness that who you become through your experiences shapes the future of the world. Paid subscribers, thank you for supporting the production, vitality, and sustainability of this work! Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

July 5, 20266 min

Ervin Laszlo-Systems theorist, Mentor, Inspiration

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 many lessons for those of us who have been working to expand thinking and a more relevant purpose for business into reality. He was my mentor, my light and hope for a better future for humankind and for planetary health. And in 2017, he validated my existence on this crazy planet by inviting me to write a chapter in the Intelligence of the Cosmos on the new purpose of business. I was terrified with being given such responsibility and have learned that you say yes, and step into the challenge rather than run terrified into a corner. Coherence and supercoherence are states we can collectively attain, but not through maintaining separation and polarization. It is a leap of self-evolution that can match the speed of collapse. What insights did you gain from the articles we wrote and the podcast? What is Reality? Podcast episode with Ervin Laszlo October, 2016 Mastering the Split in Human Consciousness Are Sacred Cows Blocking Human Evolution? Laszlo’s whole life argued that the shift starts wherever and whenever a person acts from connection instead of separation, at whatever scale you hold influence. I truly hope that Ervin’s commitment to the evolution of human consciousness will continue through the choices made by each person who cares about what kind of world we create. I also hope that business wakes up soon to transform purpose into what has meaning and purpose, heart balancing intellect so mindful decisions can be made, replacing the reckless, mindless decisions that create separation. It is not too late. It is never too late. With gratitude to Ervin, Chris (for including me in the 2014 Flourishing conference in Cleveland, Ohio) and to Alexander for always acknowledging my messages and supporting my work under the umbrella of the Laszlo Institute for New Paradigm Research. We will all miss him, including, of course, his wife and life partner! Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

June 11, 202654 min

Why You Can't Control Your Emotions (And What Interoception Has to Do With It)

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May 20, 202634 min

Stop Reacting to Emotional Triggers!

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 reactions to manage — they’re invitations to notice what’s been hidden, unhealed, or waiting to be seen. The conversation moves from personal story to practical insight, touching on the relationship between trauma, consciousness, and the everyday work of becoming more self-aware. At its core, this episode is about learning how to stay present with yourself, reclaim your emotional agency, and turn healing into a lived practice. A couple of key quotes: · “It starts with a trigger.” [1] · “Once you identify what the trigger is, you’ve uncovered an unhealed wound.” [1] · “It becomes objective versus you get caught in that trigger and that feeling.” [1] · “The storms still come. You just now know how to navigate them.” [1] Thanks for reading Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience! This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

May 14, 20262 min

From Emotionally Triggered to Grounded and Confident with Miranda Rocca-Circelli

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February 18, 202652 min

Regenerative Health with Tim Wagner

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February 16, 20266 min

Is intuition woo-woo? Or your high speed cognitive advantage?

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 are cognitively aware. That’s life-saving insight First Responders rely on. So do repeatedly successful entrepreneurs. Intuition utilizes your subconscious processor and is mashed up with bias (cognitive distortions), unhealed emotional wounds, beliefs, and other distortions, hence the confusion. Whether you believe or do. not believe in intuition, the info in this video will help you recognize your greatest asset when working with dynamic conditions, high stakes, insufficient information at speed. Your life might depend on it. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

January 15, 20268 min

So You've Been Triggered by Emotional Wounds! Now what?

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 self-directed solutions like readers can. Releasing decision fatigue and reframing overwhelming powerlessness into forward steps requires expanded self-awareness and action. Reactivity converts into unflappable growth. In this video, I cover the steps to: Deal with the emotional reactivity where your brain fires out of protection. Box breathing is one tool. Included in this podcast interview are instructions on box breathing. Clear the emotional energetic charge so you retain the memory but not the emotional wounding that goes with it. Therapy is one option. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, my go-to is Emotional Freedom Technique because it is science-backed, self-directed, and works. Get started using Brad Yates, Manifest Portal (Devi), and Julie Shiffman. If you’re ready to clear up stored emotion from your body’s hard drive (subconscious), you can start immediately. Why wait for spring?! Clearing trauma and old emotional wounds is an insurance policy against chronic illness while providing a sense of control over fatigue and the overwhelming consequences of global events. Why? In my experience, dealing with overwhelm is a lot easier using your subconscious with its outrageously fast processing speeds. Clearing out the closet of old energies gives you more resources to work with. Applying the oxygen mask allows you to focus more clearly on what is going on around you. Without context awareness, you can’t see what’s coming next, much less respond to it effectively. Considering the world that emerges is a direct function of the health and well-being and decision-making consciousness of each person and the collective, this personal development and expansion is critically important. Thanks for being a future-shaper!! Note and Disclaimer: What I write about it is based on my personal transformation, professional experience and research into the intersection between science, the power of the human spirit and the fringe of discovery. It does not supplant or replace conventional medicine or other sources of personal development. Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

January 7, 20263 min

Rebalancing Down and Difficult Feelings

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 name a few simple practices to boost your personal spirit in the face of the news and other emotional distractions. Your mindset is directly impacted by your self-awareness of the context and its effect on your emotions. This makes awareness critically important because it triggers action to intentionally process your emotions and regain clarity. Core to well-being and personal growth is having a sense of control, a face-forward outlook on life, and the initiative to grow, so you can hack resilience and build feel-better emotions. None of us can face the world with courage without the inspiration of others who are taking on the difficult conversations that are critically important for breakthroughs. People like Garry Turner , whose conversations on the masculine-feminine dynamic invite self-situational awareness on what is going on for you, what is going on face to face, and what is going on in the wider environment (context awareness). Dark feelings, triggers all provide openings for personal development. When the going gets tough, the tough get growing. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe