Emergence with Rachel Weissman is a weekly exploration of the profound interconnections between consciousness, technology, and planetary flourishing.
Through personal narrative, contemplative poetry, and integrative essays, I weave together insights from my journey as an artist, coach, designer, entrepreneur, meditator, speaker, and technologist. For over a decade, I've explored how individual awakening and systemic change are inseparable—how the quality of our inner landscape directly shapes the technologies we create and the futures we manifest.
What makes Emergence unique is its recognition that our most pressing challenges—from AI development to ecological crisis—cannot be solved through fragmented approaches. Instead, they require what I call integrity-driven responses: solutions that honor both ancient wisdom and emerging possibilities, that bridge analytical mind with embodied awareness, and that recognize technology as a mirror of our collective consciousness.
You'll find explorations of how consciousness becomes infrastructure for wise decision-making, how we can design technology that strengthens rather than fragments human attention, and how individual practices like meditation connect us to collective intelligence. I examine the dissolving boundaries between self and system, the embodied wisdom found in nature's patterns, and the urgent need for leadership that serves life rather than extraction.
Through these writings, we discover that emergence isn't just a concept—it's a lived practice of allowing authentic expression while staying accountable to the whole. Each essay invites you into the creative tension between structure and flow, between visionary possibility and grounded presence, between honoring what is while creating what could be.
Join me in exploring how personal awakening and planetary healing are one seamless movement, where every moment of authentic presence becomes a thread in the larger web of regenerative transformation.
Welcome to Emergence—I'm grateful you're here.
With gratitude,
Rachel 💜
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About Rachel
Rachel is an artist, executive coach, and keynote speaker. Her academic training in drawing, painting, and design provided a strong foundation in form, color, and composition, while her ongoing art practice explores the more subtle terrain of awareness, perception, and presence. She brings design leadership experience from Google and Salesforce, where she shaped products reaching billions of users. This is informed by thousands of hours of meditation practice across Advaita Vedanta, Hindu Tantra, and Tibetan Buddhism, and further informed by contemporary psychological, somatic, and integral developmental approaches.
A serial entrepreneur who has founded ventures in education, emotional intelligence, and storytelling AI, Rachel recognized the need for a new model of leadership in our accelerating world and pursued extensive training with the masters. Her approach draws upon wisdom from legendary coaches, including Matt Mochary (Sam Altman’s coach), Martha Beck (Oprah’s coach), and Bill Campbell (the “Trillion Dollar Coach”). She is a certified meditation teacher, holds certifications from the Center for Executive Coaching, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, Genos International, and Noble Story Group, and is a selected member of Forbes Coaches Council. These influences converge into work that bridges awakening, creativity, and leadership, helping people transform uncertainty into flourishing.
Learn more about Rachel at www.racheldweissman.com.
