How Humanity’s Team Is Raising Consciousness Toward a New Universal Dream – An Interview with Steve Farrell

Have you ever ignored a gut feeling, only to realize later it was trying to lead you somewhere important?

Steve Farrell had it all—the Silicon Valley success, multi-million-dollar companies, travel by private jet, and the so-called “American Dream.” But deep down, something was missing. No matter how much he achieved, there was a pull toward something greater. Eventually, he left it all behind to follow a deeper calling—one rooted in service, connection, and awakening. In this episode, Steve shares his journey from tech entrepreneur to spiritual leader and how he co-founded Humanity’s Team, a movement dedicated to oneness and conscious living.

In our conversation, Steve opens up about the pivotal moments that led him to leave behind the corporate world and step fully into his spiritual journey. He shares how embracing oneness transformed his perspective, why listening to his soul’s calling became non-negotiable, and how Humanity’s Team is helping others do the same. We also explore the role of mediumship, near-death experiences, and the science that validates our deep interconnectedness. Through it all, Steve reminds us that life isn’t just something to be lived—it’s meant to be delicious. To enjoy the conversation, keep reading or listen and subscribe for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or YouTube.

I’ve been on lots of sports teams over the course of my life, so I understand the responsibilities and expectations. But, what would you say it means to be a part of Humanity’s Team?

Steve Farrell: Humanity’s Team, you can think of it this way: we’re all a part of a family. Even if we’re not married and don’t have kids, there’s a family that we’re part of, and Humanity’s Team is simply extending the borders of that family out to the borders of the planet and all of humanity and animal life.

So, Humanity’s Team is saying—like you mentioned sports teams—we’ve got these things we love: basketball, football, dancing, plays, theater, etc. Wonderful! They make our life richer. But the most important thing we could be doing today on the planet—and I’m sure your viewers agree—is actually to be stewarding and nurturing our planet, which includes all of humankind and animal life.

Humanity’s Team is just putting out that call. And, by the way, science is affirming this. I know we’ll probably get to this as we talk. Albert Einstein said in 1921, “The greatest illusion in the world is the illusion of separation.”

Okay, we are not. I know our eyeballs are saying, “David, you’re clearly over there, I’m here.” But quantum physicists, Nobel Prize for Physics 2022, entanglement, three researchers. What does entanglement say? Oh my gosh, there’s no physical connection, but we’re deeply affecting each other. Everything is interrelated, interconnected, and interdependent.

So when I say extend—take the fence posts out to include all of the planet—I’m not saying let’s do that fictionally. I’m saying this is ultimate reality, right? That everything is deeply affecting each other. We’re a part of a one, and I know we’ll get to that too.

Can you share your story of awakening to consciousness, spirituality, and mindfulness? Did you grow up with a faith background in your home?

Steve Farrell: I did. I grew up in the Catholic Church, so I was an altar boy. That was the faith in my home. Now, I will share, David, just like I know a little bit about your past, that did not inform me as I was growing. What was informing me even then, in my early years, was, I’ll call it, a felt spirituality.

What I mean by that is I didn’t believe—I never got any sense of this judging, punishing deity. I never really did. In my personal life, I actually felt just the opposite, David. I felt like, wow, you know, because my family—my parents were divorced, my mother was a legal secretary and worked full-time. Seven kids, so we were pretty much on our own.

And I just felt this wind at my back, this thing of, you know, this God—I’ll use that term—that was supporting me. That was saying, you know, hey, we’ll get another job. We’ll go to this college. We’ll start the career. We’ll move to the right location. I got you, I got you.

I felt that. It was this felt spirituality that launched me. Then all of these other kinds of things—consciousness, stillness, and meditation—these things all came later.

They’re actually natural stepping stones out from this first thing of a God that’s really got you, that’s supporting you, wind at your back, where you’re realizing that there’s a deep connection, again, with each other and with the earth.

The earth isn’t just some warehouse. The earth is actually sacred. It’s our planet, it’s our home.

Olivia Hansen giving Steve Farrell and the rest of Humanity’s Team the Oneness for Humanity Award, October 2023

How did that sense of spiritual reassurance play out in your career, especially as you ventured into entrepreneurship and then began to explore spirituality?

Steve Farrell: After I graduated from college there on the East Coast, I moved out to the San Francisco Bay Area. I got a series of jobs, including with IBM. Then I left IBM and started my own company, actually with another guy. There were two co-founders, used furniture, and the cheapest executive suite we could find in the Bay Area. It was two guys, and boy, were we in the right place at the right time.

This was right as the internet was being born, and our business was in digital communication, supporting large enterprises like the Gap, Apple Computer, AAA of California, and other large organizations with campuses all over the world. They were connecting their campuses digitally.

My partner and I knew a little more about digital communications than everybody else—not much, but even a little more than IBM, which is saying something. IBM brought us in as their contractor. The manufacturers, like Cisco Systems, brought us in, and we grew like crazy—from two guys with used furniture and nothing, to a $75 million company in 10 years.

We even birthed a consulting company inside of that. When we sold this first company to NEC out of Japan, we had created a second company, which we took to $75 million in two years.

So, I really lived what a lot of people call the American Dream. I wasn’t just in the front row; I was up there on the stage living it—private jets and the whole thing.

Now, I want to say that, as people have read, it’s not what they think. It’s not the material success. It doesn’t take you where you expect. That’s a longer story we don’t have time to get into. But I didn’t find it there.

I did find it through spirituality, awakening, and what we call the conscious journey. Humanity’s Team became part of that. As you know, I left Silicon Valley because the calling on me became so substantial.

I realized I was playing a kid’s game—just starting these companies and growing them for shareholders. Sure, I was creating financial wealth, but with what was going on in the world, even in the ’90s, and with my awareness of how the world works as I awakened into spirituality, I thought, I was born for something more important than this.

So, I sold everything. Thankfully, I married a woman who would journey with me because most wouldn’t. I went to my wife, Stephanie, and said, “Gosh, Stephanie, there’s a calling on me. I have to follow this calling, and I don’t know if I’ll ever have another paycheck in my life, but I have to follow this calling.”

And she said, “Let’s go.” So, off we went. We adopted two kids and then moved into other things, which I know we’ll talk about.

Was there an internal conflict for you between running a successful business and feeling a calling to do something different? Many people struggle with the balance between the safety of their career and the pull of a deeper calling. What was that internal conversation like for you?

Steve Farrell: That’s the most important thing, actually—the still small voice. It’s about going within. I’ll call it your soul’s calling.

David, I think I know a little bit about your past, and for many people in the conscious journey, this is part of the process. Yes, there’s financial success, admiration, and all these worldly things that we’re doing. But as we awaken and see this really sacred world around us—this beautiful planet, including a planet that is sacred itself—we realize that we want to serve life ahead of financial gain. We want to serve other people. We want to create healing, health, and well-being. We want our kids and future generations to enjoy this planet as we have.

That was the tension I felt. But the calling for me, David, was so substantial that I knew I had to do this. It started in 1995, right in the middle of that whole American dream thing. Over a period of months and years, it grew so strong that by 2001—six years later—I had sold everything, left the Young Presidents Organization, and was getting ready to move my family. Everything was changing because I knew I needed to follow that calling.

I’ll just say to viewers, this is the key: follow that still small voice, even when your family—especially your family and close friends—are saying, “What are you doing? You’re burning your lottery ticket. Have you lost your mind?”

They love us. God bless them. There’s nothing wrong there—they love us and are trying to help. But they haven’t gone through their own awakening experience yet. So we just have to explain, “Hey, I’m being called to something that I think is more important, and that’s what I’m going to do.”

How did that calling come to you? Was it through speakers, books, or meditation? What were some of the ways it unfolded over the years?

Steve Farrell: The big awakening experience for me, as I mentioned, was in 1995. There’s a book called Conversations with God, Book 1 that came out in 1995, written by Neale Donald Walsch. There’s actually a series of books called Conversations with God—nine in total. The last one came out in 2017, titled Awaken the Species, and it had a huge impact on me.

I mentioned earlier this God at my back. This is the loving God that comes through in this series: “You’re my daughter, my son.” The series emphasizes that everything is source energy, or you could even call it God energy—that you are that, and that you were born into this world to be your highest expression.

In the 90s, there were huge challenges, though not quite as substantial as today. The series reaffirmed this idea: my life is a special thing. It highlighted that I don’t have just one life. As we know, this is part of spirituality. When we live into our higher self, we realize it’s a small game to live just for this one life. The longer game involves understanding that we’ve had many lives.

So, the question becomes: what’s my highest expression in this life? What is my highest expression? We don’t need to aim for perfection, thinking we’re going to walk on water. We don’t need to place that kind of pressure on ourselves because it could push the goal away.

What I’ve found is that all we need to do is just do our best. Every day, get up, feel into that inspiration, and embrace the gratitude that we’re doing good work, supporting others, opening our hearts, and being in service. If we simply do our best, we can sleep really well at night and feel genuinely good about our life.

Steve Farrell and Ken Honda with Steve’s book, “A New Universal Dream,” March 2024

In your book, A New Universal Dream: My Journey from Silicon Valley to a Life in Service to Humanity, you mention the passing of your sister. Many times, awakenings or calls to action come from pain or loss. Can you share how her passing impacted your outlook on life and shifted your priorities?

Steve Farrell:  I’d be happy to. This was an important lesson in my life, and, of course, the things that happen to us happen for a reason—that’s positive, actually. When we go through pain and challenge, part of what helps us get through is realizing there’s some real gain. No pain, no gain, as they say.

At this time in my life, early in my Silicon Valley career, I was very self-reliant, as I mentioned. I was giving my all to my career, often working weekends. My sister, Maureen, called, as you mentioned, and she said, “Steve, I’m getting married. Would you come to my wedding?”

I said, “Well, Maureen, boy, you know, I’m working a lot of weekends these days, and I’m not 100% sure whether I can come to your wedding. Can I think about it and get back to you?” Of course, she sounded—well, your sister—she’s not very happy. It’s like, “Oh, my gosh.”

That night, I had one of the most real dreams of my entire life: she died. It was so real. It’s one of those things—most of us have probably had a handful of these kinds of dreams—and I just thought, “Oh, my God, did Maureen die?”

I couldn’t wait to wake up in the morning and call her. The first thing in the morning, I called, and she answered the phone—phew! I said, “Maureen, I wouldn’t miss your wedding for anything in the world. I am so there.”

Of course, I went to her wedding. We took these beautiful pictures together and had a wonderful time. That was the last time I saw Maureen because, a few months later, she passed in a car accident.

To say the impact on me was significant would be an understatement—it had a huge impact.

How do you process a dream like that? Do you view it as a foreshadowing or a lesson? 

Steve Farrell: What I got from that, David—and I processed this for a good while, through her funeral and beyond—is that I’d always felt this wind at my back, this loving God. It was the opposite of what we sometimes grow up believing, this idea of, “Oh boy, I better get it right, or there’s some real punishment ahead.” I didn’t have that understanding.

After this experience, it magnified that feeling a hundredfold—a loving God. Like, wow, look at what happened here. A massive miracle, this dream that brought me to my senses and helped me reprioritize life.

By the way, another thing that came out of this was a shift in how I relate to people. Now, whether it was during my Silicon Valley days or certainly today with my nonprofit, if my family or someone important comes to me, I stop completely what I’m doing. I’m present. I really hear them and connect with what’s going on.

I realized this miracle allowed me to spend that last time with my sister, on such a glorious occasion before she passed. It reinforced the sense of a wind at my back, and I thought, “Wow, I have a really powerful wind at my back. Unreal.”

By the way, just to add, I know you share this too, David—God, if we want to use that term, does not play favorites. It’s not, “Oh, Steve’s got some wind at his back.” No. What comes through is that we’re all, every one of us, a daughter or son of the Most High.

We all have that support. Now, we have to open to it. We have free will, and many family members and friends haven’t opened to that. Their lives can be quite challenging because they don’t believe it.

We’re like tuning forks. If we lower our vibrations and believe we’re victims, life can become very challenging. But when we open to the idea that, “Oh my gosh, maybe it’s true—I might be a son or daughter of the Most High,” and live into that, we experience support and guidance.

So, yeah, that’s another invitation here. If anyone watching isn’t living into that, oh my gosh, here’s my magic wand: know that it’s true. It’s true for every single person. Nobody is left out.

When you are that son or daughter, not only are you loved wholeheartedly, but also you have access to all the resources you need.

Steve Farrell: If you’re given the vision, which is the guidance, you’re always given the provision. They go together. You’re never just given vision and then left without the resources. Like you say, the resources are there too. They always go together.

And sometimes it’s very challenging, don’t get me wrong. I’ve walked through the desert, shards of glass, the whole thing. My life hasn’t been some euphoric journey. But you do always get across—you get supported as you journey.

You mentioned Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch was impactful for you. How did you first meet him, and what was your initial interaction and impression?

Steve Farrell: Back in the 90s, this was when Conversations with God book 1, 2, 3 and then these others—Communion with God, Friendship with God, etc.—started coming out. He reached out in his newsletter to readers and said, “Hey, is there anybody out there that’s running a business, that’s incorporating these messages of oneness, of a loving God, etc.”

And I thought the whole world was responding yes, because that book was on everybody’s nightstand back then. You might remember he was on all the television shows. I said, “Yeah, I am, and there’s a lot we’re doing with it.”

Surprise, surprise, it turns out there weren’t many who wrote in, especially with a bigger business. Neale said, “Wow, would you be willing to come up to where I live in Ashland, Oregon and meet me and my wife?”

So, Stephanie and I did fly up, and we met him and got to know him. As far as impressions, as he shares, and in fact, this is shared in Conversations with God book 1, that very first book, he’s described as a John the Baptist—a modern-day John the Baptist.

Okay, John the Baptist, if you may know, wasn’t like Jesus, but he had a gift of articulation that was off the charts. He could take these complex spiritual truths and inspire people with them, making them so clear, so real, so tangible that people absolutely wanted to come on board.

And so this is what I could see in Neale, as he is a modern-day John the Baptist. In fact, he says, “Do what I say, not what I do.” And boy, he says it in the most astounding way, like no other really.

Ross Hostetter, Adam C. Hall, Steve Farrell, Eva Lee, Anodea Judith, and Yosi Amram at Humanity’s Team’s “Raising Conscious Capital” event in San Francisco, November 2024

What were your early conversations with Neale Donald Walsch like about what would become Humanity’s Team? How did the dreaming and planning unfold in those early days, before it became what it is now?

Steve Farrell: They were awesome. So the conversation was about taking this whole spiritual belief system that we’re talking about and bringing it out into the world. But let me frame it in a much simpler, maybe more important way.

Up until that time, when we talk about the challenges out in the world, we look out our window today. Wow, there’s a lot of challenges out there. Now what philanthropy or nonprofits are focusing on are the symptoms, and these are important symptoms. We financially support them from my home—homelessness, aid to people in regions of the world where people need medicine, a roof over their head, food, etc., and on and on. We know the list.

But there was no nonprofit that was focusing not on the symptoms. Those are symptoms. Symptoms of what? Symptoms of healing that’s needed. That’s the basic, even with medicine. We talk about where we’re treating symptoms a lot of times with Western medicine, and then holistic treatments that really go to the root cause.

So, this nonprofit, which I formed with some others shortly after we started it, would focus on not the symptoms but the root cause. So, like the first domino. It was going to go to this whole higher consciousness thing of what, again, science is affirming now—even Nobel prize for physics and many scientists today that support this work and near-death experiences and so on—that are saying really there is this wholeness, this oneness, this universe of source energy.

That is all sacred, that’s all one, that’s deeply connected, and once you start living into that, which we call higher consciousness, or you could call it your higher self, once you start living into your higher self, where you see this connection, you move those fence posts out, everything changes.

You start feeling how delicious it feels. David, I know, with your work and where you moved to your podcast. This is the thing, and we’re not doing this out of sacrifice of, “Oh, I’m sacrificing,” or Humanity’s Team. It’s a calling, it’s not a career. Yours is a calling, not a career.

The calling is that we’ve opened our heart. We see the connection. We become in service. It feels really good. It feels really good. We are a part of this wholeness, this oneness, this diversity and unity. That’s why we keep doing it, because it feels so good.

And the beautiful thing is, once we get to the tipping point, you know, 8 to 10% of the world, then the whole world tips.

So that’s really what Humanity’s Team would focus on. This is what Neale and I—and there were about 20 of us at his home in March of 2003, about three months before we launched Humanity’s Team 21 years ago—were discussing, and I turned out to be the one in the room that said, “Hey, I’ll work with you,” and I helped him launch it.

And then, six months later, he asked me to lead it, and with a team, I’ve been leading it ever since.

You mention the term “oneness.” For someone unfamiliar, could you explain it simply, not just in a physical sense, but also its deeper meaning? Why is this idea so central to Humanity’s Team?

Steve Farrell: I have so many science quotes I could bring in here, because science actually helps get people’s legs strong here. Albert Einstein actually was the big one there in the last decades of his life. People have probably heard he was working on a unified field theory. People have probably heard that term. He didn’t quite bring in all the equations that proved that actually on a subatomic level or quantum level—quantum is atoms, protons, and electrons, things that we can’t see—that it actually is a vibrational universe, that we’re actually energetic beings. Most people have heard that. Most people have heard vibrational universe.

So that means where we are resonating up here high, we’re feeling joy, and where that energy drops low again, we can feel like a victim, feel pretty lousy. So science actually has been affirming all of what Albert Einstein and even actually Plato and Hippocrates back in 450 BCE, 2500 years ago, said—there’s one consciousness.

So this isn’t physical bodies now, it’s the consciousness. As we quiet our minds, as we feel into something, as we’re brought that vision, as the provision comes, as we’re communing with something. So that’s this vibrational universe, this energetic universe.

Oneness, and we can actually do that with each other too. We’re not only renewing and restoring our connection with God or the universe, also with each other and also with the earth. So that’s what the oneness is, inclusive of everything. We’re all source energy.

So scientists like Nassim Haramein say that we’re sovereign to this one body. He uses the science term. So he says, “Hey Steve, what that means is the universe cannot be without you.” This oneness cannot be without you. We’re a part, we’re an integral part of this one, this universe, this cosmos, or the spiritual leaders like Michael Beckwith and Neale Donald Walsh would say, of the divine, of God. These terms are interchangeable.

So it’s at that level that we’re connected, and again, we can feel that. And that’s why we do the work that we do where we come through our awakening experience. So oneness or diversity and unity or wholeness, these are words that are interchangeable. These are the pillars of what this whole conscious living thing is.

Because as long as we live in just the separation world of, “We’re clearly separate from each other in the earth,” we’re going to be stuck in this whole, “Everybody else is getting theirs, I’m going to get mine.” And that’s why when we look out our window, it’s so challenging out there, because when it’s, “I’m going to get mine,” and the earth is just a warehouse, and other people are to be, “Let me just pay them the very lowest price that I can, to maximize my margin,” well, that’s what created that window that we look out today.

We have got to really understand the science, even ultimate reality, David. So this separation thing, just like Albert Einstein said, the greatest illusion in the world, illusion of separation. He said that creates a prison for us, and our job must be to release ourselves from that prison.

That’s perfect, it is. It’s a prison for us, and it’s a prison for the world. And it’s why, when we talk to people, “Will you be on Humanity’s Team?” You’re part of the one already. It’s ultimate reality. Will you live into that? Will you awaken? Will you answer the call?

Steve Farrell and Ross Hostetter at Mandela Children’s Fund Gala, March 2024

In A New Universal Dream, you compare the American Dream with a new Universal Dream. For someone just trying to make a living and be a good person, how would you help them understand the difference between the American Dream, which often focuses on profit and labor, and the Universal Dream that you’re proposing, especially when they feel drawn to spirituality?

Steve Farrell: Great question. This is where rubber hits the road out there, for people that aren’t conscious. So, a number of things. Let me just touch on them. First, in that life, which I live too, by the way, that was me too—it’s very transactional. Okay, when I’m going to do this, if you’ll do that, and even with your partner, believe it or not, in a marriage, you know, well, I’ll do this, but are you going to do yours? It’s transactional. Workplace, home, life, hospitals even—go into a hospital where you have to stay overnight. They’re certainly trying to do their medical thing, but notice the transactional. You know it’s painful.

Okay, most of us have lived in the transactional so long that we’re numbed by it, and so what I’m saying might even sound like not totally clear, painful, transactional. But if you sit with this and really sit with the work experience in your professional life, with your neighbors, even in your home, for many, you’ll see, it is pretty transactional. And that’s why my marriage isn’t so great, and that’s why my work isn’t so fun.

So, what we’re talking about, once we awaken and we start living into this higher self, this is oneness. You can’t be transactional. That’s part of what the higher self is, is that Suzanne Giesemann, who’s big in this whole transformational space, she sells it. Life stands for love in full expression. That’s what life is invited to be—love in full expression. In our higher self, that’s essentially what we’re doing. As guys in today’s world, in the Western world, we don’t walk around sharing love, love, love every day, all day, though we might embody that and express it because that’s what is delicious.

So, that’s one. Two, and this could sound out there for people, but Humanity’s Team is the largest global streaming platform and community for consciousness raising, masterclasses, and transformational education. So, all of the people that you would know, the Greg Braden’s and Bruce Lipton’s and Michael Beckwith’s, all of them have programs, masterclasses on our streaming platform. Also, the mediums, also the near-death experience community. Okay, near-death experience community. Dr. Eben Alexander, very esteemed in academic and science circles. This is not some tree-hugging guy, though he may hug trees, but he is very esteemed in academic circles. He wrote Proof of Heaven. He had a near-death experience, and it was so compelling, so powerful. And then what his life has become after that, that he’s described this whole non-physical realm where this perfect love exists, and you go through a light tunnel and things that we’ve probably heard.

Okay, what he shares, and other near-death experiences, all of them almost, mediums, who people may or may not trust, all of them almost, is this perfect love world? When we go to the non-physical and leave our physical bodies, one of the first steps as we’re going, there is something called a life review. They all talk about it. Maybe you’ve heard the term life review. Okay, life review. What is it? They all share. It’s not anything that I’m thinking, saying, or doing. It’s what people around me are, how I’m impacting them emotionally, from the beginning of my life to the end. I’m looking through their eyes, almost as if it’s real, at me. And what were they thinking, feeling, and seeing around me? That’s the life review.

So, remember the Stephen Covey thing. Habit number two—begin with the end in mind. Ah, that’s the end, where? How was I treating and working with people around me? So, we can do what we want. We have free will. We can just, like you said, average guy in the street of, “Oh, I don’t really know about any of this oneness or higher consciousness or any of that, I’m just trying to get a good paycheck.” We can do that and we can just run over people, which is in the higher rungs of this American dream.

The lower rungs are perfect because it’s equal opportunity, equal education. Oh my gosh, that American dream belongs to the whole world. The higher rungs, when we keep going, are the bigger, better, more. You know, I’m going to get mine. Those higher rungs are just. I don’t believe that they find the deliciousness in life, because I did get to live out there with those elites and I found it wasn’t very present. And then, too, at the end of their life, I don’t think that life review is going to be beautiful.

So my invitation then, just through all the experiences I’ve had, David, is just to share this and to say, look, if this makes any sense to you at all, if what I’m saying is just pulling a cord anywhere, I just invite you to go within to your own, I’ll call it church, because I don’t think people should be operating on what Steven tells them to do or David tells them to do. They should be operating on their own internal basis, where they’re going within and they’re to their own guidance and just go within and feel into these things of, “Is there a higher self? Could I live into that? Is there a still small voice?”

What I found, David, for me is before I shifted over to this other new universal dream that I describe in my book, from the American dream, is there was like a little voice that was saying, “Steve, is there more for you? Could you operate with people a little different way? Could you be less transactional?” I ended up—note from reading my book—I threw away my whole time management system. I’m not telling people they need to do that here at all, but for me, I was so transactional in my time management system. I was like, “Okay, did you do this and this and this and this?” And I had a little voice just telling me that I kept pushing away, saying, “Well, I’m trying to be a successful entrepreneur.” I just kind of pushed it away.

But when I stopped pushing it away, threw away my time management system, and then really listened in and started really being with people, that’s when my life really took off.

I’ve noticed that your platform features many programs focused on mediumship. Given your vision, which emphasizes the sacredness of the earth and animals, this might seem more environmental. Yet, there’s a significant focus on mediumship. I interpret this as helping people understand there’s more than just the three-dimensional world—perhaps guiding them toward an awareness of life after death and a life review. How do you see mediumship playing a role in awakening people, leading them to live a more conscious life?

Steve Farrell: Exactly. Suzanne Giesemann, who I mentioned just a moment ago. You may know her story, David. She was a very senior military officer that flew on Air Force One. She was the assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, because that’s the very highest military person. That’s where all the Army, Navy, Marines, everything comes together. She was that assistant, was on Air Force One, and then, through a whole series of things that happened to her, she became one of the foremost mediums today in the United States, an evidential medium.

Okay, and evidential mediums, when they’re talking across the veil to the non-physical realm, they start with evidence of, “How do I know it’s you? What could you tell me that hasn’t been published in papers but that would prove that it’s you that I’m talking to?” And it is astounding, really, the success she’s had. In our organization, even, we’ve had people that have passed, then where the person was young, and the woman on our team wanted to go talk to her husband. Through Suzanne, she did so, and the details of his life with her were so profound, that were shared back and forth. It’s incredible.

I’ll mention one other thing, you know, that’s important in mediumship, that can help get people’s legs strong. We actually created a whole masterclass called Life After Death with Wayne Dyer’s kids. Okay, a lot of people know Wayne Dyer had a lot of kids, and I think it was maybe seven, but his two youngest daughters are Saje and Serena. Okay, and there’s another really incredible medium, Karen Noe, who worked at Hay House where Wayne Dyer was big, and years after he passed, it was 2015, I think he passed, Wayne came to her and said, “Call my daughter such and such.” It was six in the morning. And Karen says, “Wayne, it’s six in the morning. I’m making breakfast. I don’t even know your daughter.” And he said, “If you know Wayne, even in the afterlife, you still have the same profile, the same kind of… He’s got a pretty strong voice.”

So, “Karen, call my daughter.” So, Karen says, “Okay,” calls his daughter, and has this conversation. And one thing led to the next, and then the whole family gathered shortly thereafter, including Saje and Serena. During that discussion through Karen with their dad, Wayne Dyer, Wayne says to his next youngest daughter, Serena. He says, “‘Wow, you’re pregnant and due on July 4th,'” and Serena says, “Oh God, you know, I was thinking up until now I was talking to my dad. I am not pregnant. You know, this is like crazy. I have a six-month-old. I’m not pregnant.” And the whole family’s looking at Serena like, “Wow, you know, you had a glass of wine last night and stuff.”

So Serena says, “I’ll show all of you, I’m going to go get a pregnancy test, I’ll show you.” Well, she did, and she was due July 4th. Now I’ll just tell you one other thing, because I took you this far into the story. When she was delivering, she had her sister, Saje, with her. They’re real close in the delivery room. Of course, she doesn’t go to social media or anybody when you go to the delivery room, right? The water breaks, and boom, you head off to the hospital. They’re in the delivery room. Saje’s phone rings, she answers, and it’s Karen Noe, the medium, saying, “You know, Wayne, your dad just wanted to be there as you were delivering your baby.”

So there were all these stories where I went out and I talked to the family. Tell me about it. You know, Sage, Serena. I never talked to Marcelene, though his wife is a part of this too, and it was so astounding, jaw-dropping, that we went and created a masterclass around it called Life After Death, where they share the whole story and where he’s actually still active in today’s world.

So why this is important, though, is if, in fact, there’s a thinning of the veil, as people sometimes refer to it, if we can actually reach across to angels, guides, loved ones that have passed, that’s a whole new compass here that we can live by. We’re not just alone going up into our head and figuring it out. I mentioned going within and listening to the still small voice. That is a massive compass, but here’s another compass now, where loved ones, guides, and angels actually are available to give you lots of perspective as part of your daily practice. So that’s why, because it’s a really important, valuable tool when we’re on what I’m calling the conscious journey.

Steve Farrell and Diane Williams at a United Nations conference, September 2024

In your book, you outline five practical steps that support this journey, including: 1) daily prayer, meditation, and connecting with nature for stillness and practice; 2) committing to serving life; 3) using the power of your dollar to buy conscious products that support sustainability and flourishing; 4) aligning personal and professional relationships with your soul’s unique calling; and 5) enjoying the prosperity that comes from this approach while remembering that love’s expression is the highest gift. If someone were to adopt these values, what benefits could they expect? Why would you encourage them to embrace these principles?

Steve Farrell: The key thing in adopting these values is whether we want to call it an exquisite life, delicious life, wonderful life, or whatever description we might want to use, this is what you will come into. You know, actually, in the book, David, because you’ve read the book, I share the story of this billionaire who lived in Northern California. He had all the toys— the 737 jet, the 120 antique cars, owned an NFL football team, the mansion, all this stuff. And he said that it wasn’t until he turned 80 that his life came alive. Well, what happened when he turned 80? It wasn’t the toys. At 80, he said, “My God, this is when I found this whole serving others and this connection thing.” And then he started something called the Wheelchair Foundation.

When we go within, we’re all used to hearing, “Oh, go start this incredible podcast.” “Steve, go launch Humanity’s Team.” So, he got there later in his life, starting the Wheelchair Foundation. Now, wheelchairs don’t just give incredible mobility to people; whole families in the third world are carrying the person around. The whole family is actually harnessed to this incapacity. You give one wheelchair to this person, and they have this freedom and mobility, and the whole family can go back to doing the things they do.

So, he delighted in that with his jet, flying around the world with these thousands of wheelchairs and had other people donate. One of my best friends actually went out on many of these flights to contribute as well and give wheelchairs. And he said, “These are the best years of my life,” from 80 until he died, I think at 92. Ken Behring was his name. You can actually Google him and see the story.

So, whether we’re poor, medium, or rich, this whole transactional thing, whether it’s jets or mansions, bigger, better, more… it’s thin, it doesn’t deliver. Candidly, I don’t think it does. Now, I’m going back to the science—this whole unified field theory thing. I don’t think we’re actually made, believe it or not, in our DNA, in our genetics, to just be going after the bigger, better, more. “It’s mine and the rest of the world around me be damned.” I think that it creates, actually, a tension and a challenge and a pain.

And Albert Einstein said, “A prison.” I think it creates all of those things, really. I mean, isn’t it interesting that you win the lottery and you’ve got a gazillion dollars and you’re not happy? And probably many people here have even read the books of billionaires who are, many of whom are not very happy.

So, at the end, it’s really about what are the processes? You laid out the five that I put in my book. It started with that first one of our daily practice, where we’re stilling the world. For some people, that’s actually walking in nature, where it’s also very quiet. There are different ways to do this. I do it as a daily practice where I just still the world. I go out, I’m on my porch outside, or inside when it’s cold in the winter, and I just go into this communing state where it’s very intentional. We know this part of this whole world is intentional, where we don’t get up in the morning to just kind of go do whatever. It’s where we’re in service. What’s my highest calling today? These are things. So, it’s intentional where I’m going into that, and then it’s also, I’ll use the term metaphysical.

Metaphysical is where we actually— it’s beyond intentional and where we see this healing and health and well-being. Even now, David, in the work we’re doing in this very broadcast, we’re sharing processes and ways that people can live that create this whole delicious thing in their home. That moves us closer toward tipping point. That hopefully moves us to John F. Kennedy, you know, in the ‘60s, he had his mission: “Let’s land a man on Mars and bring him home safely in this decade.” Okay, this is our mission moment.

We have one planet. We’re all on Humanity’s Team. There are 8 billion of us and a planet. Let’s rise into our higher self and steward and nurture this planet. It’s our only planet, and we have kids and grandkids, after all, and future generations. And so, even if we won’t do it for ourselves, will we answer the call? Will we consider living into this thing that we’re describing as so beautiful and delicious anyway?

So that’s in these five practices that you share. It starts with that practice of a daily practice, which is so important and really anchors our day and just anchors us in this communing state, in this connection with goodness state, in this gratefulness state, and in the metaphysical, actually, where we’re seeing healing. Even now, I am sure we’re creating healing, health, and well-being simply through this conversation.

You’ve described the vision of Humanity’s Team very clearly. Can you talk about the practical side? What can people find on your website, and when would you recommend they begin exploring? 

Steve Farrell: We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit too, just so people know. So, we don’t have shareholders saying more revenue, more profit—that’s not happening. So in Humanity’s Team, it’s the other way. Our team is like, when can we drop the prices again so we get even more reach and impact with all these programs all over the world? That’s our thing in a nonprofit. So it’s with a why humanitysteam.org.

When you go to the site, at the top it has programs, including free programs with the scientists, the spiritual leaders, and the embodied practices like Qigong, yoga, all of them. You can pull down and go through free programs as well.

Let me share one of our newest mission projects in Humanity’s Team. It’s with something called the Divine Collective. We’re actually just next week releasing this brand new 60-minute free program. And then also, on the Humanity’s Team page, you can scroll down and you’ll see a woman, Cynthia Love, who’s in the middle of this Divine Collective.

The Divine Collective is this, what she describes as 144 spirit guides, which includes, like for me, I know Jesus well, who’s one key figure in this, and others like elementals, Mother Mary, etc., who are a part of this whole mission called the Divine Collective. And that’s here actually to support the earth right now.

So I would say, go check out the free programs, scroll down to this whole Divine Collective area and Cynthia Love, learn a little bit about it. We’re giving away this first book called Choices. We’re doing two programs a week with her: Monday night, Wednesday night. The Wednesday night program is with Divine Reiki. It’s not regular Reiki, it’s Divine Reiki.

Oh, and get ready—if you come into the Divine Reiki program, it’s mind-blowing. So check out Humanity’s Team. There’s a couple of things that you can do, and you’ll see lots of things like the Global Oneness Summit, all of our hundreds of masterclasses, lots of things that we’re doing. But those are some places to start on the Humanity’s Team site.

You also have Humanity’s Stream, your streaming platform, which offers access to even more content with an annual or monthly fee. Could you tell us more about that and what people can find there?

Steve Farrell: Exactly. So the Monday and Wednesday live programs all year long, the free book, and then the hundreds of masterclasses with all the scientists, spiritual leaders, and body practices, conscious business, all of these things. You get access to all of that for the $299 a year or the $29.99 a month. And you support when you pay for your own subscription. That’s, we think, economical. At least here in the United States, we have a one-for-one program, so you launch a free program for somebody in, usually, typically outside of the United States, who are also on the conscious journey but don’t have $299 or $29.99.

Steve, thank you so much for all that you’re doing. One thing I just love, which I’ve heard you mention in other interviews, is how you’re the only person I’ve heard describe life as “delicious” – and I think that’s such a beautiful perspective! It really made me reflect: Do I think life is delicious? If not, maybe I should. So thank you for that, and thank you for all your work in the world. We really appreciate you.

Steve Farrell: David, thank you for having me and thank you for your good work. I love what you’re doing, where you’re giving voice to so many incredible leaders, including many who aren’t well-known all over the world. So Godspeed to you.