TED Talks Daily How to tune your inner voice | Rhonda Ross, Daniel Alexander Jones
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Mar 21, 2026 
Rhonda Ross, a singer-songwriter, actress and mindset coach, joins Daniel Alexander Jones, a scholar, playwright and TED Fellow. They dig into emotional sovereignty, inner narratives and how thoughts shape feelings. They touch on grief, miscarriage, parenting panic, lineage, freedom and Ross’s music-based “songtras” for reshaping self-talk.
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How Career Loss Led Rhonda Ross To Emotional Sovereignty
- Rhonda Ross hit a dark period when her soap opera was canceled, she lost the Emmy, lived apart from her husband, and couldn't get pregnant.
- Studying thought patterns led her to emotional sovereignty, the idea that thoughts between circumstance and feeling create suffering or relief.
How Reframing Helped Rhonda Ross Through Miscarriage
- During a miscarriage in Minneapolis, Viney Burroughs held Rhonda Ross and said it felt like the end of the world, but wasn't.
- Another friend reframed a later miscarriage as her body getting ready, showing perspective can change pain's meaning.
The Five Minute Parenting Panic On 125th Street
- Rhonda Ross panicked on 125th Street when her son Raif wasn't where his tracker said he was.
- She caught herself skipping the inner step, then reframed the same facts instead of letting five minutes become terror.