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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Man, Welcome back to Coast to Coast, George, Noriy with you.

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Speaker 2: In the nineteen nineties, Steve Ferrell co founded and led

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Speaker 2: two high growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley that

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Speaker 2: were featured on the Inks five hundred list of the

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Speaker 2: fastest growing companies. During this period, he was also an

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Speaker 2: officer of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization and the Young President's Organization.

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Speaker 2: By all accounts, Steve was living the dream and when

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Speaker 2: he felt a calling to play an active role in

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Speaker 2: creating a consciousness movement that could help people across the

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Speaker 2: globe awaken to their deeper self and interconnectedness and oneness

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Speaker 2: of everything in the universe, he followed his heart, left

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Speaker 2: the American dream behind, and what he found is the

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Speaker 2: story of Humanity's Team and the New Universal Dream. Steve

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Speaker 2: is the co founder of Humanity's Team along with Coast

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Speaker 2: guests Neil Donald Walsh, and as a member of the

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Speaker 2: Evolutionary Leadership Council. What a career, Steve. Welcome to the program.

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Speaker 3: Hey, George, thank you for having me. Yeah, it has

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Speaker 3: been a ride, and as you mentioned this, this book,

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Speaker 3: A New Universal Dream till Us, that fifty year true story.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: It started really probably like with all of your listeners.

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Speaker 3: I grew up in a small home about thirteen hundred

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Speaker 3: square feet with a single mom who was divorced, six

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Speaker 3: brothers and sisters, and I had a paper out paid

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Speaker 3: for my braces. Found the Orthodonis that would take ten

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Speaker 3: dollars a month to reimburse him from my braces. So

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Speaker 3: that's kind of where it all started. And then and

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Speaker 3: then it journeyed into all of the things you just shared.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any regrets in the path you took?

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Speaker 3: I don't. In fact, That's why I'm here. And not

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Speaker 3: only do I not have any regrets, I have, I

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Speaker 3: got so much that I could share that I wish.

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Speaker 3: I want to bring people to that front row seat

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Speaker 3: and see where you're at the center of wealth creation

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Speaker 3: of Silicon Valley, as I was, where Reet Hastings hadn't

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Speaker 3: to me, and my chapter was Gavin Newsom, the governor

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Speaker 3: of California, and a bunch of you know guys like that,

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Speaker 3: extraordinary guys. I was there in the center of it.

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Speaker 3: The private jets all of that and then but that's

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Speaker 3: when I had my own personal awakening and said, wow,

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Speaker 3: you know this, this is not what I thought it was.

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Speaker 3: And then I journeyed off in this other direction where

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Speaker 3: I found it. And so yeah, no regrets instead, just

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Speaker 3: big vision, big smile about where we can go.

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Speaker 2: Steve, what was the epiphany? What was that thing that

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Speaker 2: led you into this?

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Speaker 3: Well? For me, the epiphany, as you mentioned, Neil Donald

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Speaker 3: Wallsh wrote the Conversations with Gud series. His first book

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Speaker 3: came out in nineteen ninety five. And and you know,

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Speaker 3: I grew up probably again like your listeners. I was

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Speaker 3: in the Catholic Church. I was in All Her Boy,

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Speaker 3: but I never really bought into this whole deity thing

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Speaker 3: felt like there was somebody looking out for me, guiding me,

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Speaker 3: was described in Neil's Conversations with God book. At that time,

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Speaker 3: I was going through nosebley growth, as you mentioned, I

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Speaker 3: that for me and for the planet. During that time

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Speaker 3: for business. This is why I sold my businesses. I

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Speaker 3: Humanity's Team with Neil Donald Walsh and with my family

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Speaker 3: created a whole new life. We moved from Silicon Valley

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Speaker 3: all of the things that people want. I think.

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Speaker 2: I got to Boulder every month to do my TV

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Speaker 2: shows with Guya Television.

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Speaker 3: Awesome. Yeah, yeah, Guya's right here next to me.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever been with Gaya? Have you been on

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Speaker 3: somebody they bring on, but Greg Braden and the sim

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Speaker 2: send I'm going to send the producers your name, and.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about the title of your book, A New

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Speaker 3: So A New Universal Dream is the story of our

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Speaker 3: pursuit of access. It's our pursuit of happiness, of joy,

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Speaker 3: that small home that I described, and ten years later

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Speaker 3: grew up to seventy five million, created a second one,

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Speaker 3: Which creates those pressures are on your relationship with your partner,

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Speaker 3: new Universal Dream dot com, this is where you can

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Speaker 3: learn a little more about the book. The first four

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Speaker 3: chapters are unlocked. We are giving away my masterclass called

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Speaker 3: Conscious Leadership. That's a two hundred ninety nine dollars masterclass

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Speaker 3: pretty good deal. The reason we're doing that is again,

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Speaker 3: Humanities Team is a nonprofit. We're a five oh one

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