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Resilience isn’t standing on one foot forever
Jul 14, 2026 · By Sarah Abbasi
Richard Martin on stress as status, resilience as armour, and the permission to ask someone to move.
Meet Richard Martin, former City law partner and now CEO of the Mindful Business Charter. His story is the first in WONE's Champion Spotlight series: real stories from people redefining how the world of high performance reads stress and earns resilience.
For years, Richard carried the weight of a profession where being stretched thin was worn as a badge of honor. His story challenges one of the most persistent myths about resilience: that it means carrying everything alone.
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Your brain is being trained by stress right now; what is it learning?
Jul 7, 2026 · By Yasemin Boyner
We often talk about resilience as if it is a personality trait. Some people have it, others do not. Neuroscience tells a more hopeful story.
The brain is not fixed. It changes, continuously, in response to what we repeatedly experience, practice and reinforce. Stress is one of the most powerful experiences shaping how it wires itself. And the brain is always learning from it.
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You don’t lose emotional intelligence under pressure. You lose access to it.
Jun 22, 2026 · By Sarah Abbasi
Most of us know how we want to respond under pressure. We want to stay composed in the difficult conversation, listen before reacting, and lead with clarity rather than urgency.
But in the moment, something else can take over.
That doesn't mean our Emotional Intelligence has disappeared.
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Mental health is not the absence of stress. It is the relationship we build with it.
Jun 12, 2026 · By Sarah Abbasi
You can't think your way out of stress. You can only change your relationship to it.
That's how Dr. Jud Brewer frames it, and the distinction matters more than it might first appear. In this piece, he explains why awareness is both a performance and a health skill, and how curiosity might be the most underrated tool we have.
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Skin-deep resilience: endurance masquerading as resilience
May 12, 2026 · By Sarah Abbasi
What if the people holding the firm together are also the ones most at risk? In high-performing legal cultures, the warning signs do not always look like failure. Deadlines are met. Standards stay high. Clients are served. The work continues. But new WONE Index data suggests a deeper risk: the legal sector is carrying the highest workplace stress load of any industry measured, while also showing among the lowest resilience capacity.
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The capacity problem disguised as a motivation problem.
May 1, 2026 · By Sarah Abbasi
Most leaders aren't lacking drive. They're running a system that hasn't had enough input to match its output. The instinct to push harder is understandable, it's also, more often than not, the wrong diagnosis. And it rarely gets named directly. But it's in almost every leadership conversation right now.
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Stress Intelligence (SQ): The Leadership Skill we Can No Longer Afford to Ignore
Apr 24, 2026 · By Reeva Misra
Inspired by her conversation with Mindy Grossman, Reeva Misra explores why Stress Intelligence is redefining leadership. In today’s high-pressure environment, the most effective leaders must learn to interpret stress. By reading internal signals, balancing risk with discernment, and responding with clarity, leaders can sustain performance, build resilience, and make better decisions when it matters most.
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Stress Intelligence and the Wisdom to Respond Well
Mar 19, 2026 · By Sarah Abbasi
Dr. Amit Sood has studied stress from ICU wards to boardrooms. His conclusion: stress alone doesn't break people. Unexamined response does. This conversation explores how wise leaders interpret stress and respond to it with clarity and intention.
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How buddhist monks in Ladakh taught me to read by body’s signals
Mar 5, 2026 · By Reeva Misra
As leaders adopt AI, many are accelerating faster without questioning the direction they’re heading in, overwhelmed with tasks, alerts, and noise. But busyness doesn't equate to productivity or success. The monks in Ladakh reminded WONE Founder Reeva that in the age of AI, reading your body's signals might be the ultimate competitive advantage.
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How Stress Reshapes Decision-Making, and What Leaders Can Do Earlier
Feb 25, 2026 · By Sarah Abbasi
When time feels scarce, judgement shifts. In this SAB conversation, Harvard’s Ashley Whillans explores how stress reshapes leadership decisions, and how Stress Intelligence protects sustainable performance.
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WONE 2.0: Why Stress Intelligence is the missing link to human potential
Feb 17, 2026 · By Reeva Misra
WONE 2.0 marks a new chapter for our brand, an evolution of our product, and a bold articulation of the capability we believe will define the next era: Stress Intelligence (SQ). In this founder piece, Reeva Misra shares the philosophy behind the shift and why we’re building a new operating system for human performance.
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The Biology of Sustainable Potential
Feb 12, 2026 · By Sarah Abbasi
In this conversation, Dr. Lydia Roos explains why performance can remain high while the nervous system quietly accumulates strain, how “skin-deep resilience” conceals biological cost, and why burnout signals a breakdown that began long before it was visible. If high performance thrives when we stop overriding the body, Stress Intelligence is the capability that changes the trajectory – early and intentionally.
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Introducing Ori: the AI performance coach for the workplace
Feb 10, 2026 · By Rajin Kang
Ori is WONE’s AI Performance Coach, designed to help individuals and organisations detect stress earlier, interpret what it’s signalling, and respond intelligently before performance or health decline. Built on science, guided by expert insight, and shaped by human values, Ori transforms stress from something we react to into information we can work with.
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