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Voices of Courage with Ken D FosterA Journey for Courage, breaking through your limits and mastering your destiny Author: Ken D Foster
Ken D Fosters Voices of Courage Radio Podcast TV Show is Making a Difference by Inspiring and Igniting the Dreams of our Listeners to Grow their Businesses and Lives by Knowing the Unknowable, Seeing the Unseeable and Doing the Impossible. HOW WE DO IT We bring Wise Guests on the Voices of Courage Shows who Empower our Listeners to Expand their Consciousness, Realize Who they Truly Are, in Order to Fulfill their Noble Goals. We also Deliver to our Insider Members, Books, Special Guest Interviews, and Programs Designed to Fulfill our Mission. Key Word Categories: Personal Development Self Improvement Effective Communication Relationship Building Inspirational Messages Holistic Living Business Development Philosophy of Wisdom Psychology of Success Spiritual Evolution Brilliant Future Personal Empowerment Language: en-us Genres: Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-Improvement Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Voices of Courage, October 13, 2026
Tuesday, 13 October, 2026
Voices of Courage with Ken D Foster The Inner Way: Reclaiming the Truth of Who You Are with Steve Farrell Ken D. Foster talks with Humanity's Team co-founder Steve Farrell about walking away from Silicon Valley success, the book he calls "The Inner Way," and what it looks like to practice oneness when life gives you a reason to react instead. A Journey That Requires You to Go Nowhere Ken D. Foster opens Voices of Courage with a clip of Steve Farrell describing a path he calls The Inner Way, then rolls the show's theme music before returning to formally welcome listeners. Foster asks what if the achievement, money and purpose people chase have been waiting for them all along, right where they already stand, and frames the hour as a courageous journey inward, beyond personality, titles and circumstance. He draws on the Upanishads' question of who is truly observing one's life, the Bhagavad Gita's teaching on the unchanging Atman and a life guided by Dharma, and the Vedas' claim that separation is ultimately illusion, arguing that competition can become contribution once people sense themselves as expressions of a larger consciousness. Foster introduces Steve Farrell, noting he built real Silicon Valley success before discovering that outward achievement could not answer a deeper calling rising within him. Introducing Steve Farrell and Humanity's Team Foster formally welcomes Steve Farrell, thanking him for joining, and Farrell calls himself excited for the conversation. Foster introduces Farrell as co-founder and worldwide executive director of Humanity's Team, a global nonprofit helping people awaken to the interconnectedness of life, and notes Farrell previously co-founded two fast-growing Silicon Valley technology companies recognized on the Inc. 500 before feeling called toward something deeper. Foster explains Farrell went on to co-found Humanity's Team with Conversations with God author Neale Donald Walsch, and is the author of A New Universal Dream and the new book, which Foster's introduction calls The Inn-Way, subtitled Reclaiming the Truth of Who You Are and Why You Are Here. Asked directly why humanity is here, Farrell answers that life is precious and should be lived so that, looking back, a person can say an honest yes, invoking Stephen Covey's habit of beginning with the end in mind. Why Steve Left Silicon Valley Behind Foster asks Farrell how he walked away from what millions of people chase: the money, the house, the car. Farrell describes two companies he co-founded in the 1990s that grew to 75 million dollars, his seats in the Young Entrepreneurs' and Young Presidents' Organizations, private jets and private ski areas. He says he realized it wasn't there, pointing to a confidential group called forum where successful people admitted their marriages and relationships were often not pretty underneath the achievement. Farrell says he felt fulfilled by what he built but not by what it meant for the world; he didn't see himself helping create something more sustainable. Asked whether a part of his identity had to die, Farrell says he had to release the alpha-male posture of Silicon Valley venture offices, take off his social mask, and accept losing close friends who didn't understand why he was leaving the pack behind. A Preexisting Reality of Entanglement Foster asks who Steve Farrell is once the entrepreneur, author and father labels are stripped away. Farrell answers that before he dies, what matters is understanding a preexisting reality that science itself now describes: everything entangled, nothing truly separate, each person deeply affecting the others. He says people were raised instead inside a conditioned, almost fictional reality taught by parents and schools, and that research into oneness reveals people as waves on an ocean or cells in a larger body. Foster connects this to entanglement theory, quantum mechanics and neuroscience, suggesting science is only now confirming teachings already present for centuries in the Upanishads, Vedas and Bhagavad Gita. He praises Farrell's book for offering wisdom rather than more information, since information is now instantly available through artificial intelligence, and asks how people actually practice oneness when someone says something they don't like. Softening Sharp Elbows and Releasing Preferences Farrell answers with Gandhi's call to be the change, tying it to daily rituals that shape how a person meets each day. He tells a story about walking his dog with his son Dylan when a neighbor snapped at him for the dog peeing on his lawn; rather than escalating, Farrell wondered what kind of day the man was having and told Dylan not to fire back, joking about Dylan's knife collection. Foster connects this to turning the other cheek, saying ego reacts while compassion breaks the pattern. Farrell then describes letting go of strong personal preferences, from favorite restaurants to cars, once he realized quality time with his wife mattered more than getting his way, a shift he calls humbling but liberating. Foster shares his own move from needing a Mercedes and high-end stores to finding goodness at Walmart and T.J. Maxx. The Book, the Summit and Staying Grounded Farrell explains the whole book is built from exercises, inviting Foster to open any page and find one; the Kindle edition is free on Amazon, with the paperback priced at $10.99. He says readers who work through it will end up loving their lives and themselves, free of the regret he says often follows wealth gained at others' expense. Foster and Farrell discuss humanitysteam.org, the nonprofit's free programs featuring teachers like Gregg Braden and Bruce Lipton, and the upcoming Global Oneness Summit, October 22 through 24, its seventeenth year, broadcast live with thirty pre-recorded programs. They describe the summit's opening ritual of shouting love out open windows, inspired by Horton Hears a Who. Farrell cites David R. Hawkins' Power vs. Force on rising vibration, and Foster closes by thanking Farrell and signing off with the show's closing line.
