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Speaker 2: In the nineteen nineties, Steve Ferrell co founded and led
Speaker 2: two high growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley that
Speaker 2: were featured on the Inks five hundred list of the
Speaker 2: fastest growing companies. During this period, he was also an
Speaker 2: officer of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization and the Young President's Organization.
Speaker 2: By all accounts, Steve was living the dream and when
Speaker 2: he felt a calling to play an active role in
Speaker 2: creating a consciousness movement that could help people across the
Speaker 2: globe awaken to their deeper self and interconnectedness and oneness
Speaker 2: of everything in the universe, he followed his heart, left
Speaker 2: the American dream behind, and what he found is the
Speaker 2: story of Humanity's Team and the New Universal Dream. Steve
Speaker 2: is the co founder of Humanity's Team along with Coast
Speaker 2: guests Neil Donald Walsh, and as a member of the
Speaker 2: Evolutionary Leadership Council. What a career, Steve. Welcome to the program.
Speaker 3: Hey, George, thank you for having me. Yeah, it has
Speaker 3: been a ride, and as you mentioned this, this book,
Speaker 3: A New Universal Dream till Us, that fifty year true story.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It started really probably like with all of your listeners.
Speaker 3: I grew up in a small home about thirteen hundred
Speaker 3: square feet with a single mom who was divorced, six
Speaker 3: brothers and sisters, and I had a paper out paid
Speaker 3: for my braces. Found the Orthodonis that would take ten
Speaker 3: dollars a month to reimburse him from my braces. So
Speaker 3: that's kind of where it all started. And then and
Speaker 3: then it journeyed into all of the things you just shared.
Speaker 2: Do you have any regrets in the path you took?
Speaker 3: I don't. In fact, That's why I'm here. And not
Speaker 3: only do I not have any regrets, I have, I
Speaker 3: got so much that I could share that I wish.
Speaker 3: I want to bring people to that front row seat
Speaker 3: and see where you're at the center of wealth creation
Speaker 3: of Silicon Valley, as I was, where Reet Hastings hadn't
Speaker 3: started Netflix yet. He was in the business chapter next
Speaker 3: to me, and my chapter was Gavin Newsom, the governor
Speaker 3: of California, and a bunch of you know guys like that,
Speaker 3: extraordinary guys. I was there in the center of it.
Speaker 3: The private jets all of that and then but that's
Speaker 3: when I had my own personal awakening and said, wow,
Speaker 3: you know this, this is not what I thought it was.
Speaker 3: And then I journeyed off in this other direction where
Speaker 3: I found it. And so yeah, no regrets instead, just
Speaker 3: big vision, big smile about where we can go.
Speaker 2: Steve, what was the epiphany? What was that thing that
Speaker 2: led you into this?
Speaker 3: Well? For me, the epiphany, as you mentioned, Neil Donald
Speaker 3: Wallsh wrote the Conversations with Gud series. His first book
Speaker 3: came out in nineteen ninety five. And and you know,
Speaker 3: I grew up probably again like your listeners. I was
Speaker 3: in the Catholic Church. I was in All Her Boy,
Speaker 3: but I never really bought into this whole deity thing
Speaker 3: of judgment and punishment. I never felt that. I always
Speaker 3: felt like there was somebody looking out for me, guiding me,
Speaker 3: supporting me, just laying out a vision of where I
Speaker 3: could go and what I could do. And that God
Speaker 3: was described in Neil's Conversations with God book. At that time,
Speaker 3: I was going through nosebley growth, as you mentioned, I
Speaker 3: was in Ink five hundred twice, we almost hit it
Speaker 3: a third time, growing like crazy. But I got in
Speaker 3: touch with something that was bigger, that was more fulfilling
Speaker 3: that for me and for the planet. During that time
Speaker 3: and over a period of years, I lost my passion
Speaker 3: for business. This is why I sold my businesses. I
Speaker 3: left these associations that I was part of. I launched
Speaker 3: Humanity's Team with Neil Donald Walsh and with my family
Speaker 3: created a whole new life. We moved from Silicon Valley
Speaker 3: to Boulder, Colorado, where I'm now based, and this is
Speaker 3: where I found the true treasure, the true deliciousness in life,
Speaker 3: all of the things that people want. I think.
Speaker 2: I got to Boulder every month to do my TV
Speaker 2: shows with Guya Television.
Speaker 3: Awesome. Yeah, yeah, Guya's right here next to me.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been with Gaya? Have you been on
Speaker 2: any of the shows?
Speaker 3: I haven't been on Guya Because we have a streaming platform.
Speaker 3: We're We're a five O one C three non profit.
Speaker 3: We have a streaming platform that offers masterclasses with a
Speaker 3: lot of the same authors. So I wouldn't necessarily be
Speaker 3: somebody they bring on, but Greg Braden and the sim
Speaker 3: Harriman and Michael beck With and Neil all of these people,
Speaker 3: we work with them and create classes with them.
Speaker 2: That's cool. Yeah, they may be interested in you. I'll
Speaker 2: send I'm going to send the producers your name, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, see what happened. Awesome? I know they know of me.
Speaker 2: Tell us about the title of your book, A New
Speaker 2: Universal Dream.
Speaker 3: So A New Universal Dream is the story of our
Speaker 3: pursuit of access. It's our pursuit of happiness, of joy,
Speaker 3: of laughter, of creating a great family, of having a
Speaker 3: great life. And I set out for Silicon Valley from
Speaker 3: that small home that I described, and ten years later
Speaker 3: I was starting my first company in Silicon Valley. We
Speaker 3: grew up to seventy five million, created a second one,
Speaker 3: and two years grew that one to seventy five million.
Speaker 3: So I was in the right place at the right time,
Speaker 3: even connected to the right venture capital people. But what
Speaker 3: I found was that it was that that kind of
Speaker 3: success is kind of a mirage. It's like you're on
Speaker 3: a desert and you see an oasis and you head
Speaker 3: toward it, and you get to the oasis and oh,
Speaker 3: it's moved. So what I mean by that is you
Speaker 3: create a seventy five million dollar company, you get there
Speaker 3: and celebrate for a night, and then the next day
Speaker 3: you're headed off for one hundred and fifty million, and
Speaker 3: then you get there and celebrate for a night, and
Speaker 3: the next day you're headed off for three hundred million,
Speaker 3: and so it goes. You hit the jackpot and you
Speaker 3: want to keep it going, and that creates a tension,
Speaker 3: a pressure, a tunnel vision to keep that whole thing going.
Speaker 3: Which creates those pressures are on your relationship with your partner,
Speaker 3: your kids, your best friends, your co workers. There are
Speaker 3: some people that manage to stay fairly happy in all
Speaker 3: of that, but most of them don't. Many people here
Speaker 3: probably have read the stories of people that are depressed
Speaker 3: and even create suicide in Silicon Valley, New York City.
Speaker 3: So I could see this. I also, with this time,
Speaker 3: was in touch with what science is sharing that all
Speaker 3: of the universe is actually deeply connected, that we're one
Speaker 3: with the universe, and there's a whole way then of
Speaker 3: what we call conscious living where we get in touch
Speaker 3: with that, where we follow I'll call it the wisdom
Speaker 3: center of our soul rather than the logic center of
Speaker 3: our mind, and then we create just incredible, incredible lives.
Speaker 3: And then we can, if we want here on the planet,
Speaker 3: can create a new universal dream. And that new universal
Speaker 3: dream is where we become a more mature species and
Speaker 3: we start living into this place of fuller connection, of
Speaker 3: real service, of even you could even call it loving service,
Speaker 3: where we feel connected to the world around us, and
Speaker 3: we become responsible, we take positive action all of these
Speaker 3: kinds of things. And then if you go to a
Speaker 3: new Universal Dream dot com, this is where you can
Speaker 3: learn a little more about the book. The first four
Speaker 3: chapters are unlocked. We are giving away my masterclass called
Speaker 3: Conscious Leadership. That's a two hundred ninety nine dollars masterclass
Speaker 3: when people purchase the nineteen dollars book, so it's a
Speaker 3: pretty good deal. The reason we're doing that is again,
Speaker 3: Humanities Team is a nonprofit. We're a five oh one
Speaker 3: c three. Our whole goal is to help create a
Speaker 3: world in homes where we return you know, happiness, the
Speaker 3: sense of connection, a sense of real prosperity, this term
Speaker 3: deliciousness in life, where we really find this thing that
Speaker 3: we're all pursuing and right now and as I tell
Speaker 3: the story in this book, this fifty year story, I
Speaker 3: think many of us set out as I did, kind
Speaker 3: of pointed in the wrong direction, climbing this ladder that
Speaker 3: just leads to these mirages and oasis is and you
Speaker 3: never get there. So in the ladder part of the book,
Speaker 3: I take people through how we do get there day
Speaker 3: by day, the steps that we take. And what I
Speaker 3: do is I lay out throughout the book my own
Speaker 3: learning moments where I almost wiped out huge, huge mistakes
Speaker 3: that I made, and I say, wow, this is what
Speaker 3: happened here for me. These are things that you could
Speaker 3: do to not make the same mistake. A journey in
Speaker 3: this direction that creates the things that you want in
Speaker 3: your home and your business and in the world.
Speaker 2: Steve the Dalai Lama talks about oneness, but what is
Speaker 2: one mean to you?
Speaker 3: So let me share because a lot of your listeners
Speaker 3: maybe follow the Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra and Wayne
Speaker 3: Dyer and people like that. But the science is now
Speaker 3: in here affirming that all of this won this thing
Speaker 3: is true. Let me even share. For example, Irwin schroeding
Speaker 3: Or he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in nineteen
Speaker 3: thirty three, he said, the total number of minds in
Speaker 3: the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity
Speaker 3: phasing within all beings. And then Albert Einstein had his
Speaker 3: own quote here a human being as a part of
Speaker 3: a whole called by us universe, a part limited in
Speaker 3: time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his
Speaker 3: feelings as something separated from the rest of kind of
Speaker 3: optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind
Speaker 3: of present for us. This is a quote from Albert Einstein,
Speaker 3: restricting us to our personal and to affection for a
Speaker 3: few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free
Speaker 3: ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion,
Speaker 3: to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature
Speaker 3: in its beauty. So here are two Nobel Prize winning
Speaker 3: scientists with quotes about oneness and a just share one
Speaker 3: last thing. Here is the sim Harriman and his Resident
Speaker 3: Science Foundation. If you google him or follow him, he
Speaker 3: has his unified field research. That's here. It shares that
Speaker 3: everything from quantum scale, from that means protons and atoms,
Speaker 3: things that aren't even visible to the largest cosmological objects.
Speaker 3: That means galaxies and everything in between physical and non
Speaker 3: physical is actually one energy is deeply interconnected, interrelated and interdependent.
Speaker 3: And so what he says, this is a scientist. Now
Speaker 3: he says, so as he points that a person, he says, so,
Speaker 3: so you are sovereign to this one body, the universe,
Speaker 3: the cosmos, it's inseparable from you. So you need to
Speaker 3: walk around with good posture, you need to walk around
Speaker 3: standing tall, you need to have a great self image,
Speaker 3: because the universe, the cosmos can't exist without you. So
Speaker 3: now this is a scientist speaking. And as we know,
Speaker 3: if we've followed spiritual teaching, so ali way back to antiquity,
Speaker 3: they've been saying the same thing. Plato and Hippocrates in
Speaker 3: four fifty DCE, that's twenty five hundred years ago. You know,
Speaker 3: they were saying that consciousness doesn't exist in the pearl,
Speaker 3: it only exists in the in the singular. So this
Speaker 3: means that we're we're deeply connected with the world around us.
Speaker 3: This whole thing, you know that is said is treat
Speaker 3: people as you want to be treated. Is exactly what
Speaker 3: we want to do because in truth, and I think
Speaker 3: we find this in the afterlife, that we're all we're
Speaker 3: all one. You know, we're eight billion phases of one energy,
Speaker 3: of one consciousness. And on some level, you know, listeners
Speaker 3: might even feel into that because we oftentimes people know
Speaker 3: things about others and they like, they're like, how did
Speaker 3: I know that? How was I given that information? How
Speaker 3: has I led to my wife? How as I led
Speaker 3: to the home that I live in? How has I
Speaker 3: led to the job that I have? There are these
Speaker 3: things that happened that there's really no explanation for other
Speaker 3: than that maybe we're all part of a universe that
Speaker 3: has our back and that's supporting us.
Speaker 2: And I don't believe in coincidences, Steve, and I bet
Speaker 2: you don't either, not at all.
Speaker 3: Not at all. No, No, there's everything is actually this
Speaker 3: a snowflake. It's this unique design that the things that
Speaker 3: they As I mentioned, the universe has our back. We
Speaker 3: are led into things that are for us. So Humanity's team,
Speaker 3: you know, with Neil Donald Walsh, we started twenty years ago.
Speaker 3: Now we have the largest conscious stre platform in the
Speaker 3: whole world as a nonprofit.
Speaker 2: What a great guy, by the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Neil is terrific. I work with him every week.
Speaker 2: Tell them why for us?
Speaker 1: I will do that.
Speaker 2: What do you recommend that people do to start this
Speaker 2: journey if they've never been on it before.
Speaker 3: What I recommend people do is just start start with awareness,
Speaker 3: start noticing things. You said yourself, George, you don't think
Speaker 3: that things happen randomly, that things actually are happening by design.
Speaker 3: Start noticing how things are showing up, that the right
Speaker 3: person is showing up, the right people to grow your organization,
Speaker 3: the right ideas. Start noticing that. Start creating some silence
Speaker 3: around you early in the day, late in the day.
Speaker 3: I actually, throughout the day, create time where you can
Speaker 3: just really be with nature, where you can silence the
Speaker 3: world around you, where you can even pray you and
Speaker 3: speak to the God of your understanding, and where you
Speaker 3: ask for things, and start noticing how you're being supported,
Speaker 3: you're being guided. This is this wisdom center of the
Speaker 3: soule thing that I was referencing too often. I think
Speaker 3: we head in this direction of the American dream, which
Speaker 3: which starts out, you know, with equal opportunity and equal education.
Speaker 3: And of course we want that for the whole world,
Speaker 3: that American dream, but most of us keep climbing the ladder.
Speaker 3: And as we climb the ladder, now we're looking for
Speaker 3: power and for riches and for influence and things like that.
Speaker 3: And that's where we start now getting into rungs of
Speaker 3: the ladder. Where it's not, we don't find happiness. So
Speaker 3: and where we are in the logic center of our
Speaker 3: mind and just paying attent, creating tasks and talking to
Speaker 3: people with lists that if you've done these ten things
Speaker 3: and so on in a robotic way, we don't. There's
Speaker 3: no real joy there. So on the other hand, on
Speaker 3: a to day basis, where we start tuning into how
Speaker 3: do I feel? What could I do here today that
Speaker 3: would be uplifting for me and the workplace that I'm
Speaker 3: in or my family or both. What are things that
Speaker 3: really bring me joy? How can I make sure I
Speaker 3: don't get to the end of the day where I'm
Speaker 3: just feeling almost broken tired, in a rut? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: So just start paying attention and start creating habits, and
Speaker 3: start start noticing your feelings instead of just being up
Speaker 3: in your mind where you're creating task after task after task.
Speaker 2: How many people feel as if they're in that rut?
Speaker 2: What percent do you think it is?
Speaker 3: Honestly, I think way too many. I think I think
Speaker 3: the majority of people today. You know, as we read
Speaker 3: about read accounts of people here post COVID, what I
Speaker 3: read people are feeling disempowered, feeling they're feeling anxiety. Many
Speaker 3: are even feeling depressed, and they're feeling hugely challenged. There's
Speaker 3: with extreme weather and stuff in the Ukraine war and
Speaker 3: all of these guns and all of these things going on.
Speaker 3: People are like, is this what it's all about? Is
Speaker 3: this the best that life can be? This is what
Speaker 3: I hear, this is what I understand. The people are
Speaker 3: in that, and this is why again I wrote this book.
Speaker 3: A new universal dream was to not stand and proselytize
Speaker 3: something and say do this and do that. There's too
Speaker 3: much of that, you know, and who cares really, So
Speaker 3: my book instead was a fifty year true story. Instead
Speaker 3: of saying do this and do that, I'm saying this
Speaker 3: is what I did. Here I am as twelve years old.
Speaker 2: Did you do this on your own?
Speaker 3: I did? Well, you know, except that I'm part of
Speaker 3: the one. So the God of my understanding helped me
Speaker 3: out and had my back and supported me every step
Speaker 3: of the way.
Speaker 2: It's amazing, though, isn't it?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean that again, It's why I wrote a
Speaker 3: I mean, who would think you could go divorced mom,
Speaker 3: full time job, seven kids, little home. Who could go
Speaker 3: from that to eleven years later, I'm in the center
Speaker 3: of wealth creation as I'm I'm giving you names of
Speaker 3: you know, Read Hastings who started Netflix and people like that.
Speaker 2: And then why did Blockbuster miss the boat on that one?
Speaker 2: Didn't they?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they could have bought it for fifty million beck
Speaker 3: and they tried to Read Hastings and his partner tried
Speaker 3: to sell it to Blockbuster and for fifty million bucks.
Speaker 3: And now it's worth a gazillion dollars. So yeah, So
Speaker 3: I tell that story, you know, of how I was
Speaker 3: climbing that ladder and then kind of climbed down the
Speaker 3: ladder to climb in this other direction, and just take
Speaker 3: people through the day by day of how we can
Speaker 3: do this to create really exceptional lives for ourselves, for
Speaker 3: our families, for our workplaces in the world around us.
Speaker 3: You can even do this stuff at work. It's why
Speaker 3: I created so much wealth is I started these conscious
Speaker 3: practices at work where we became transparent. We brought in
Speaker 3: something called open book management where we started sharing all
Speaker 3: of our financials, even our salaries. We were sharing and
Speaker 3: that openness with all of our employee base, and also
Speaker 3: doing other things like adopting the local high school that
Speaker 3: needed a lot of help attracted the best and brightest.
Speaker 3: I was in Silicon Valley where I'm competing against Apple
Speaker 3: and the Gap and Cisco Systems for the best employees,
Speaker 3: and in many ways I won. I hired some of
Speaker 3: the best people and they stayed with me because they
Speaker 3: because of these conscious practices. So there's just a lot
Speaker 3: here in terms of where we start, where I'm twelve
Speaker 3: years old, where we end. I'm now in my sixties.
Speaker 3: And the book was just taking people through it step
Speaker 3: by step and stopping along the way in the book
Speaker 3: and saying, this is what I learned, and here's a
Speaker 3: tool that might be valuable to you too. Want to
Speaker 3: live a truly extraordinary
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