Phillippa White has moved through a cancer diagnosis and beyond by tapping into the power of her spirit and linking it to business leadership.

We spoke honestly today about her experience with cancer, the changes and learning it opened up and then jumped to the fractal implications for businesses and organizations.

Dive into receive key insights applicable to personal and organizational health and vitality.

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Routine can be comfortable and provide predictable security and patterns, but when all that is interrupted who do you become? What choices will you make about how you experience it?

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” -Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho.

Life’s interruptions include a tough health care diagnosis, the sudden death of a loved one, a key relationship meltdown. Each unexpected event raises the question: what do I have control of?

The question is not whether you will survive, as if you can control the outcome. Instead, how do you choose to experience what happens next and who do you become through it?

In this video, I name three stages I’ve observed and experienced:

Stabilize your root system.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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 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]

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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 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.

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