Voices of Courage with Ken D Foster

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.

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How Poetry Heals: Words, Seasonal Affective Disorder and Transcendence with Norman Rosenthal

Ken D. Foster talks with psychiatrist and author Dr. Norman Rosenthal about how poetry can heal grief and trauma, why he first described seasonal affective disorder, and how Transcendental Meditation shapes his forthcoming book on unity.

A Show Built On the Power of Words

Ken D. Foster opens Voices of Courage with a preview of the conversation to come, reading a few lines from a poem before rolling the show's intro theme and returning to formally welcome listeners. He tells his audience that words carry an energy, a frequency and a vibration connected deeply to the psyche, and that reading a poem can make the world seem to disappear, carrying a listener back into memory or forward into peace and presence. Foster mentions that he has spent roughly thirty years writing poems himself and has a forthcoming poetry collection called "Echoes of Courage and Grace: Reflections from the Journey Within." He explains that poetry can bypass people's defenses, awaken memory, reveal truth and restore hope in ways ordinary words sometimes cannot. He then introduces his guest, a psychiatrist he says will help listeners understand where words can transform how they think, communicate and show up in the world.

Introducing Dr. Norman Rosenthal

Foster formally introduces Dr. Norman Rosenthal, welcoming him back to the show and describing him as a psychiatrist who understands darkness from both a scientific and deeply human perspective. He notes that Rosenthal led the team that first described seasonal affective disorder, known as SAD, and that his pioneering work on light therapy has helped millions of people, along with his exploration of meditation, adversity and resilience. Foster highlights Rosenthal's book "Poetry Rx: How 50 Inspiring Poems Can Heal and Bring You Joy to Your Life," calling him a New York Times best-selling author. Rosenthal thanks Foster for having him back. Foster explains he wants to start with poetry, calling it a door to the soul, and mentions his niece in Washington, D.C. who is depressed, wondering aloud whether Rosenthal's book might help her. He asks directly why Rosenthal wrote "Poetry Rx" and what the book is about, opening the door for Rosenthal's story about a phone call with a grieving friend.

The Origin Story and Why Words Heal

Rosenthal tells Foster the book began with a phone call from a grieving friend who had lost someone dear and asked how he would ever manage. Rosenthal told him that losing is an art that, like any art form, can be developed, prompting his friend to read Elizabeth Bishop's villanelle "One Art" aloud over the phone. Rosenthal recalls feeling the man's relief and his own sense of elation, realizing in that moment that words can actually heal. Foster then asks Rosenthal, as a scientist and psychiatrist, why words heal at all. Rosenthal explains that words carry both meaning and music, a combination that has drawn people around fires for thousands of years to share poetry that produces hope, potency or anger. He says this taps into primitive cognitive and visceral areas of the mind. Foster asks how a poem that triggers anger can still lead someone toward peace, and Rosenthal answers with Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," written to his dying father, reading several lines aloud.

Grief, Struggle and the Music of Words

The conversation moves through several more poems Rosenthal has collected. He reads "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep," telling the story of a Baltimore woman who wrote it for a German refugee unable to return to her dying mother during World War II, and says it gave the most comfort to people he has shared it with who were grieving or dying themselves. He then reads Theodore Roethke's "The Waking," describing how the Pulitzer Prize winner captured the daily struggle of simply getting up in the morning. Foster and Rosenthal discuss poetic structures, from sonnets and villanelles to free verse and the ghazal, before Rosenthal reads Gwendolyn Brooks's short poem "We Real Cool." Turning to why some people resist poetry, Rosenthal argues they may love songs and ballads without realizing these belong to the same family as poetry. He invokes Marshall McLuhan's line that "the medium is the message," arguing that real connectedness, whether around a dinner table or in a poem, communicates that a person matters.

Listening, Silence and a Letter to a Mother

Foster shifts the conversation toward listening itself, describing himself as a long-term meditator who believes stillness is the key to writing and connecting with the divine part of oneself. Rosenthal responds by reading Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," noting that the poem's quiet imagery magnifies every small sound through silence. Foster compares the experience to cycling, describing a "zone" where time seems to collapse while doing something he loves, and says poetry brings him into that same deep inward space. Rosenthal then shares a personal poem, "Letter to Mother" by Nobel laureate Salvatore Quasimodo, which he read repeatedly before leaving South Africa for the United States, knowing he was leaving his family behind. He describes the poem's closing image of a kitchen clock with an enamel dial and painted flowers, and says he later bought such a clock from Italy that he and his wife still look at, thinking of the people they left behind.

Seasonal Affective Disorder, Meditation and Closing Thoughts

Foster asks Rosenthal to reflect on his own journey, and Rosenthal answers with gratitude, recalling a near-fatal assault at age twenty-four and crediting the National Institute of Mental Health's funding for making his seasonal affective disorder research possible. The two turn to SAD itself, with Rosenthal describing how his own move from sunny South Africa to New York exposed him and his wife to lethargy, oversleeping and difficulty socializing once daylight savings time shortened the days. He recommends morning light exposure, outdoor walking, staying socially connected and, in some cases, an antidepressant, pointing listeners to his book "Defeating SAD." Foster shares his own story of hearing an inner voice in 1992 tell him he had to feel the pain to make the change. Rosenthal then describes practicing Transcendental Meditation twice daily and outlines stages of consciousness explored in his books "Transcendence" and "Super Mind," previewing a forthcoming book, "Unity," about healing societal division. Foster closes by pointing listeners to Rosenthal's books on Amazon and signing off with the show's closing line.

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Escaping the Survival Paradigm to Heal Hidden Beliefs with Vincent Genna

Ken D. Foster talks with psychotherapist, medium and author Vincent Genna about why applied knowledge, not more information, is the key to escaping a survival paradigm, and how hidden childhood beliefs, brain defense mechanisms and a stronger inner voice can move listeners from merely surviving toward genuine self-realization.

A Show Built Around Getting Stuck

Ken D. Foster opens Voices of Courage with a short preview of the conversation to come, then rolls the show's theme music before returning to formally welcome listeners. He asks whether they have ever done everything they're "supposed to do"—read the books, attended the seminars, worked with coaches, meditated, prayed, journaled—yet still find life harder than it should be, still repeating old patterns and lacking the fulfillment they want. Foster tells his audience the problem is not that they haven't done enough or that they are broken, but that something may still be operating beneath their awareness, keeping them in a paradigm of surviving rather than thriving. He explains that surviving, in this sense, is not about sensing danger but a quiet mindset shaping how people think, act and show up in the world. He introduces the show's goal of moving past fear-based thinking toward clarity and self-awareness before welcoming his guest, Vincent Genna.

Introducing Vincent Genna

Foster formally introduces Vincent Genna as an MSW, internationally acclaimed psychic therapist, medium, master spiritual teacher, human potential specialist and best-selling author of "The Secret That's Holding You Back." He notes Genna has spent more than four decades bridging psychology, neuroscience and spirituality to help people heal deeply rooted patterns. Genna jokes that hearing "four decades" reminds him how old he is, calling himself "antique." Foster responds that wisdom, not information, is what people actually lack today, since anyone can Google facts but wisdom takes maturity to earn. Genna agrees, explaining that information only becomes wisdom once it is applied and proven to work, and that many people have read the books and attended the seminars Foster describes without ever converting that knowledge into lasting change. He adds that survival does not have to look grim or embattled; it can look pleasant and successful on the surface while someone is still, underneath, only surviving rather than thriving.

Applied Knowledge Versus Information Overload

Foster and Genna turn to what happens when information outpaces application. Foster describes his twelve grandchildren, calling them brilliant enough to discuss physics or world history, yet baffled by simple physical tasks like assembling furniture or fixing a lock, which he frames not as criticism but as evidence of unapplied knowledge. Genna agrees, citing an unnamed source he heard describing how constant technology use is slowing children's practical intellect because devices now do their thinking for them, joking that a child asked to water the lawn will ask Siri how. He argues the same gap affects adults who have built families and careers yet still feel something is missing, offering his own barometer: wherever a person's life is not where they want it to be reveals hidden, unrecognized beliefs beneath their psyche. Genna signals that untangling this requires moving into spirituality and metaphysics, and specifically into the subject of manifesting, which the conversation takes up next.

Spirituality, the Field, and Four Levels of Belief

The two men frame spirituality as distinct from religion, which Genna calls "man's way of interpreting spirituality," while spirituality itself covers a person's relationship to a higher intelligence, to other people and to the planet. Foster credits mentor Dr. Ervin László with the idea that "the field is not outside of you, you are the field," arguing that once people grasp that connection, changing themselves becomes the way to change the world rather than chasing outward causes. Genna lays out four progressive attitudes people cycle through across incarnations: the victimized "to-me" stage, where hardship feels like punishment; the "for-me" stage, illustrated by people who found meaning in the pandemic lockdown; the "through-me" stage of healers who see themselves as a conduit; and the final "as-me" stage, in which a person recognizes themselves as co-creator of everything, comparing it to a holographic slice of an apple that still contains the whole apple.

Defense Mechanisms and the Personification Meditation

Genna pushes back gently on the idea of simply letting go of the past, telling Foster it is "easier to cut your arm off" than to discard one's history, and that the real work is reframing it. He explains that the brain's two highest functions are keeping a person alive and protecting them, which means painful childhood messages about not being good enough get repressed by what he calls the "adult-made mind" shielding the wounded "environment-made mind" beneath it, comparing surface-level affirmations to pretty pictures pasted over a whiteboard of unresolved pain. Genna credits John Bradshaw's inner-child work as a forerunner of this approach and describes his own Personification Meditation, an exercise from his book in which a person sits in isolation and holds a conversation with "little you" to surface buried beliefs. Foster connects this to his own practice of stillness and isolation, adding that real change is not a one-time event but ongoing work requiring a guide to keep uncovering deeper layers.

Finding a Teacher and Trusting an Inner Voice

As the hour closes, Foster and Genna discuss how to choose a spiritual guide amid an overwhelming field of speakers and competing claims. Genna advises listeners to be discerning, comparing the spread of spiritual theories to the many competing schools of medicine, and reminds Foster that "knowledge doesn't become wisdom until it works" for the individual applying it. Foster adds that the right teacher points a person back to their own inner realization rather than dictating answers, and that a credible guide should be someone visibly living the principles they teach. Genna quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson's call to "honor your inner voice" and Einstein's line that a problem cannot be solved with the belief system that created it, urging listeners to apply new beliefs the way they would try a new medication until something works. Foster closes by directing listeners to Genna's book, "The Secret That's Holding You Back," on Amazon, thanking him warmly before signing off with the show's closing line about seeing the unseeable and doing the impossible.

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It's Not Burnout, It's Betrayal: Healing Self-Abandonment with Laura Cheadle

Ken D Foster talks with attorney, TEDx speaker and burnout coach Laura Cheadle about why what looks like burnout is often rooted in betrayal, and walks through her FUEL UP Method for recognizing self-abandonment, setting boundaries and rebuilding trust with yourself.

A Show Built Around Betrayal, Not Burnout

Ken D Foster opens Voices of Courage with a cold-open sample of the conversation to come before rolling the show's intro theme, then returns to formally welcome listeners into a subject he says affects millions of people yet is often misunderstood. He tells the audience that many people write off their burnout as needing a vacation, better time management, or more self-care, when the exhaustion, numbness, and loss of motivation they feel may point to something deeper: betrayal, sometimes by a workplace or relationship, sometimes by their own abandoned values. Foster explains betrayal rarely arrives all at once, building instead through one broken promise or ignored intuition at a time until it erodes confidence and purpose. He then introduces his guest as an attorney, author, TEDx speaker, leadership wellness coach, trauma-informed practitioner and creator of the FUEL UP Burnout Recovery Method, citing a statistic that roughly sixty percent of corporate workers carry unrecognized stress they no longer notice until it becomes full burnout.

Naming the Symptoms Millions Ignore

Foster and Cheadle walk through what burnout actually looks like before it becomes a full collapse. Cheadle names emotional exhaustion first, the feeling of not being able to face another day, return another email, or deal with the same people again, paired with not knowing what she wants except that the current path is not it. Foster adds a second symptom, a quiet loss of energy that can show up as simply not wanting to get out of bed, or as a slow drain nobody notices happening. Cheadle describes a related pattern of chronic lack of motivation, where people start saying good enough is fine and stop attaching their heart to the work. Foster, who says he has coached for thirty years, frames it as people betraying themselves before anyone else gets the chance, setting up the deeper conversation about betrayal as the hidden root of the symptoms they have just described.

Betrayal as the Root Cause

Cheadle explains that burnout functions like a fever, a symptom that gets treated for years while the underlying infection goes unexamined. She defines betrayal as the breaking of an expectation someone has relied on, one that ruptures how they see themselves or the world, whether that expectation was set by a workplace, a relationship, or an unrealistic idea the person built their own life around. Foster tests the idea against his own experience, describing someone who expected to make partner at a law firm, work hard enough, and finally have it not happen. Cheadle agrees and pushes further, saying self-betrayal often looks like organizing an entire life around an expectation nobody promised, then feeling like a victim when it does not arrive. Foster asks what real success even means, wondering aloud whether it is the next car or house, or something entirely outside material achievement, a question Cheadle answers by asking listeners whether they wake up grateful or already behind.

Laura Cheadle's Own Story of Betrayal

Cheadle traces her own burnout back to life as a corporate attorney trying to meet everyone's needs at once, walking away into a wellness practice of yoga and meditation that she expected would fix everything, only to burn out again and start questioning why the standard remedies were not working. She tells Foster that raising two children under two while also caring for aging grandparents collided with the promise she had grown up hearing, that hard work alone guarantees success. The deeper reckoning came later, when she discovered her husband had been unfaithful for twenty-three years, a betrayal she says cut her off at the knees and forced total honesty. Looking inward, she realized she had spent years saying yes when she meant no, performing for approval rather than living from presence, effectively telling herself that only her performance for others mattered, not her own needs.

The FUEL UP Method, Step by Step

Cheadle walks Foster through her FUEL UP Method letter by letter. F stands for finding your why, identifying the core values, such as connection, education or play, that a person has drifted away from. U is uncovering what is really going on beneath a symptom like exhaustion. E is naming expectations honestly, including the uncomfortable ones, like chasing a party for a dopamine hit rather than lasting relief. L is laughter, which Cheadle says the Mayo Clinic links to calming the nervous system, contrasting the old habit of starting the day with the newspaper comics against today's doom-scrolling. The second U stands for unbroken promises to yourself, such as protecting sleep, food and relationships rather than blaming busyness for broken commitments. Throughout, Cheadle insists the process is messy and requires grief, not a tidy two-week fix, and Foster connects it to his own memory of a therapist telling him to follow the inner voice urging him to feel his pain instead of running from it.

Narcissism, Boundaries, and a Closing Word on Courage

The conversation turns to reconciliation and to narcissism. Cheadle tells Foster she and her husband ultimately reconciled after his infidelity, calling it a difficult but genuine gift once she stopped blaming him and examined her own side of the relationship. Asked whether narcissists can change, she says no one is a hopeless cause, though nothing is guaranteed since everyone retains free will; change becomes possible once someone is in enough pain to want to live differently. Foster calls narcissism fear-based and argues that living with one teaches boundaries by necessity. Cheadle defines a boundary not as controlling another person but as stating clearly what she will or will not tolerate, then following through. Foster closes by naming the show for the courage it takes to walk into the unknown, whether that means opening a book or calling a coach, then directs listeners to Cheadle's book and to workplace-burnout.com before thanking her and signing off.

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Life Purpose, Intuition, and the New Hollywood with Brianna Brown Keen

Ken D Foster sits down with actress, producer and philanthropist Brianna Brown Keen, founder of The New Hollywood and Manifesting Your Mission, for a wide-ranging conversation on finding life purpose, trusting intuition, facing fear, and healing the body and mind.

A Show Built Around Life Purpose

Ken D Foster opens the Voices of Courage broadcast the way he often does, asking listeners to consider what might still be missing even after they reach a hard-won goal. He tells his audience that the answer, for many people, is a clear sense of life purpose, and that fear is usually the force keeping that purpose from surfacing. Foster explains that without a defined mission, a person tends to end up living everyone else's agenda instead of their own. He then welcomes his guest, actress, producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Brianna Brown Keen, introducing the episode under the title The New Hollywood: Changing Lives With Purpose. Keen immediately connects the title to her own nonprofit, The New Hollywood, which she founded more than twenty years earlier, and the two agree the alignment was unplanned. From the first minutes, the conversation is framed less as a Hollywood career story than as a discussion of mission, intuition and service, setting up everything that follows.

From Minnesota Suburbs to Screen Credits

Keen describes growing up in the suburbs of Minnesota with no family history in the arts, moving to Los Angeles at nineteen after landing representation, and being told by her parents to sink or swim. She says she never chased fame for its own sake and would have taken a more strategic route if she had, and that acting drew her instead through a love of character and psychology. Over more than 350 film and television credits, she found the work increasingly self-focused compared to theater, which pushed her toward community with other artists who wanted more than a solo spotlight. That search produced The New Hollywood, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and its sister project Manifesting Your Mission, which now includes a coaching practice, a guidebook, a podcast and retreats. Keen tells Foster the organization's current focus is the TNH Accountability Program, which pairs formerly homeless single mothers with schooling grants and mentorship, turning what she calls gifts and hard circumstances into something constructive for others.

Journaling, Intuition and Slowing Down

Foster and Keen turn to how purpose is actually located day to day. Keen calls herself faith-based in a non-religious sense, describing a still small voice she has learned to trust, and credits her Reiki Master training with sharpening that intuition. She explains the structure of her Manifesting Your Mission guidebook, which walks readers through annual goal-setting, quarterly check-ins on what worked and what did not, and journaling exercises for moving through emotional triggers. Foster shares his own experience nearly passing over Keen's publicity materials before an instinct pulled him back to read them closely, calling it a live example of the intuition they are discussing. He tells listeners he has preached slow down to succeed for years, citing Paramahansa Yogananda's line that stillness is the price of greatness and Leonardo da Vinci's remark that isolation is the price of greatness. Keen agrees that consistency, not motivation, is what most people actually lack once they identify what they want.

Facing Stage Fright and Naming Fear

The conversation shifts to courage, which Foster defines as an energy that only appears once someone steps into the unknown. Keen answers with her own history of severe stage fright as a middle schooler, so crippling she could not finish a line and was cut from a school play cast as a tree; bullying around age thirteen or fourteen later pushed her back toward performing, and she says the anxiety persisted into her twenties even as a working actress. She frames overcoming it as simply getting repetitions and doing the thing despite the fear, so long as there is no real physical danger. Foster matches the story with his own childhood fear of speaking in front of a room and a memory of standing at the edge of Half Dome in Yosemite while a hiking companion panicked on his behalf. Both agree that naming a fear precisely, rather than staying vague about it, is the necessary first step before anyone can decide to work through it.

Health, Healing and Staying Grounded

Keen connects purpose to physical health, saying that fatigue and chronic illness are often the real reason people cannot sustain a long-term goal, which is part of why she built the Wellness Babes program with a functional nutritionist around testing, mindset and recipes. Foster responds with memories of grandparents whose rheumatoid arthritis and weight gain slowly took away their mobility, and says he set staying pain-free as a personal life mission, crediting Reiki and a functional-medicine doctor who told him disease progresses through stages, from self-healing to needing a practitioner to needing more. Both hosts argue for combining Western and Eastern approaches rather than choosing one, with Keen citing acupuncture that helped heal her back during a period on disability. Foster mentions witnessing what he describes as roughly two hundred unexplained recoveries at a chapel in Arizona over three years, a claim he offers without further evidence. Keen adds that unmanaged stress and poor boundaries, especially for women, often drive autoimmune illness.

Community, Family and Giving Back

As the hour closes, Foster and Keen discuss reactivity learned from performing and reality television, and how conflict avoidance through addiction of any kind stalls emotional development. Keen says most of the women in the TNH Accountability Program lack a consistent parental figure and lose the social connections that keep people housed, echoing a San Diego shelter founder Foster once interviewed who told him isolation, not substance use, is the true root of homelessness. Both stress that family, more than clients or colleagues, has been their sharpest teacher. Keen closes by directing listeners to manifestingyourmission.org, wellnessbabes.org and thenewhollywood.org, mentioning her September 19 Pouring Into Yourself retreat in Sonoma, a six-week Wellness Babes transformation program, and an October 2 fundraiser for the nonprofit reachable through [email protected]. Foster thanks her warmly, mentions a future speaking connection with his wife's Women's Wisdom event in San Diego, and signs off encouraging viewers to subscribe on YouTube so they do not miss future episodes.

S10EP5, How Your Archangelic Nature Guides Your Life with Alisha Das

What if angels have been guiding your life all along - and you've simply never learned how to recognize their presence?

In this inspiring episode of Voices of Courage, Ken D. Foster welcomes internationally renowned spiritual teacher, angel communicator, and bestselling author Alisha Das for a fascinating exploration of angels, archangels, intuition, divine guidance, and humanity's angelic origins. Together, they reveal how every person has the potential to awaken their higher spiritual nature and develop a deeper relationship with the unseen forces that guide, protect, and inspire us.

Drawing from her groundbreaking book, Your Angelic Ancestry, Alisha shares extraordinary insights into guardian angels, the Archangels, spiritual sensing, intuition, and how we can reconnect with our divine purpose. Ken and Alisha also discuss why angels appear across virtually every major spiritual tradition, how they communicate through synchronicities and inner knowing, and why learning to trust your intuition may be one of the greatest spiritual skills you can develop.

If you've ever wondered whether angels are real, how to strengthen your intuition, or how to live with greater peace, purpose, and spiritual clarity, this conversation offers practical wisdom and profound inspiration.

🔥 In This Episode, You'll Discover:

✨ Whether angels and archangels are truly real

✨ How guardian angels guide and protect us throughout life

✨ The connection between intuition and angelic communication

✨ Why stillness helps us receive divine guidance

✨ How to awaken your own Archangelic nature

✨ The role of free will in spiritual growth and angelic assistance

✨ Why angels appear across Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other traditions

✨ How synchronicities, dreams, and inner knowing reveal spiritual guidance

✨ Practical ways to connect with angels in everyday life

✨ Why surrender and trust are essential for higher consciousness

🌟 Key Topics Covered

👼 Guardian Angels

✨ Archangels

🧠 Intuition & Spiritual Awareness

❤️ Divine Guidance

🌍 Higher Consciousness

🙏 Spiritual Growth

💫 Angelic Ancestry

🌱 Personal Transformation

🕊️ Faith & Trust

💖 Living with Purpose

📘 Featured Book

Your Angelic Ancestry

Discover how your Archangelic heritage can awaken your highest potential and deepen your connection with Divine guidance.

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S10EP4, The Great Awakening with Gary Zukav, Part 4

What if the answers you've been searching for aren't outside of you—but have been within you all along?

In Part 3 of this extraordinary Voices of Courage series, Ken D. Foster welcomes world-renowned spiritual teacher and New York Times bestselling author Gary Zukav for a profound conversation about angels, spiritual guidance, authentic power, emotional awareness, karma, addiction, and the evolution of human consciousness.

Building on the powerful themes explored in Parts 1 and 2, Gary shares deeply personal experiences with non-physical guides, including the angelic presence he calls Genesis, and explains how these encounters transformed his understanding of love, fear, healing, and the soul's journey. Together, Ken and Gary explore why authentic transformation begins when we stop identifying solely with our personality and awaken to the wisdom of the soul.

If you've ever wondered whether angels exist, struggled with addiction or emotional pain, questioned karma, or sought a deeper understanding of life's purpose, this conversation offers timeless spiritual insights that can change the way you experience yourself and the world.

🔥 In This Episode, You'll Discover:

✨ Gary Zukav's extraordinary encounters with angels and non-physical guidance

✨ Why authentic power is created by choosing love over fear

✨ How emotional awareness becomes the foundation of spiritual growth

✨ The hidden connection between addiction, fear, and healing

✨ Why karma is a messenger—not a punishment

✨ The difference between personality consciousness and soul consciousness

✨ How temptation becomes an opportunity for transformation

✨ The role of intuition and multisensory awareness in the New Consciousness

✨ Why suffering can become a catalyst for awakening

✨ Practical ways to recognize frightened parts of your personality and choose love instead

🌟 Key Topics Covered

🌍 The Great Awakening

🧠 Human consciousness

❤️ Authentic power

👼 Angels and spiritual guidance

🌱 Emotional awareness

💫 Karma and conscious choice

🙏 Meditation and mindfulness

✨ Soul evolution

💖 Love beyond fear

🕊️ Healing addiction and emotional pain

📚 Featured Books by Gary Zukav

📖 The Seat of the Soul

📖 Universal Human

📖 The Heart of the Soul

📖 Soul Stories

📖 Spiritual Partnership

📖 The Mind of the Soul

🌐 Connect with Gary Zukav

🌍 Website:

https://seatofthesoul.com

🌍 Universal Human Foundation:

https://universalhumanfoundation.org

📘 Facebook:

/ garyzukav

📸 Instagram:

/ gary_zukav

▶️ YouTube:

/ @garyzukav

🎧 Evening with Gary Zukav:

https://seatofthesoul.com/events/

📩 Free Soul Seeds & Wisdom Wednesdays:

https://seatofthesoul.com

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S10EP3, The Hidden Cost Of Being Strong Invisible Burdens with Captain James Owen

What happens when the person who has spent a lifetime rescuing others becomes the one who needs saving?

In this deeply moving episode of Voices of Courage, host Ken D Foster sits down with Captain James Owen—retired Fire Captain, author of The Last Patient, recovery advocate, and founder of Camp Pivot—to explore the hidden emotional cost of living a life dedicated to service. Drawing from nearly three decades on the front lines as a firefighter, paramedic, and incident commander, James shares his powerful journey through childhood trauma, addiction, burnout, recovery, and rediscovering purpose.

Together, Ken and James discuss why so many first responders, veterans, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, and high-performing leaders suffer in silence while appearing strong on the outside. They examine how unresolved trauma impacts relationships, mental health, leadership, family life, and identity—and why healing begins with the courage to tell the truth and ask for help.

James also introduces the powerful philosophy behind his book The Last Patient and his guiding mantra, "Situation Screwed / Still Survivable," offering practical insights into resilience, recovery, emotional wellness, breathwork, accountability, meditation, and rebuilding life after adversity.

Whether you're navigating stress, burnout, addiction, emotional trauma, or supporting someone who is, this conversation offers hope, practical wisdom, and a reminder that true strength isn't hiding your pain—it's having the courage to heal.

Topics Covered

First responder mental health

Trauma and emotional resilience

Addiction and recovery

Childhood trauma and healing

Leadership under pressure

Burnout and identity loss

Breathwork and meditation

Family impact of trauma

Mental health awareness

The Last Patient

Personal transformation

Living with purpose

Connect with Captain James Owen

🌐 Website: https://captainjamesowen.com

📘 Book – The Last Patient: https://captainjamesowen.com

🏕️ Camp Pivot: https://captainjamesowen.com

📸 Instagram: / captainjamesowen

💼 LinkedIn: / jamesowen92627

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S10EP2, The Great Awakening Part 2 with Gary Zukav

What if death isn't the end - but the beginning of a profound spiritual awakening?

In Part 2 of this extraordinary Voices of Courage conversation, Ken D. Foster welcomes world-renowned spiritual teacher and bestselling author Gary Zukav for a deeply moving exploration of death, grief, authentic power, the soul's journey, and the emergence of a new human consciousness.

Building on their previous discussion, Gary shares one of the most personal stories of his life - the passing of his beloved partner, Linda Francis - and how that experience transformed his understanding of love, loss, and the purpose of the human experience. Together, Ken and Gary reveal why what we often perceive as endings are actually invitations to awaken, evolve, and discover the eternal nature of the soul.

If you've ever experienced grief, questioned life's deeper meaning, or wondered how to live with greater peace and purpose, this conversation offers timeless wisdom that will forever change how you view life - and death.

🔥 In This Episode, You'll Discover:

✨ Why death is not the end of consciousness

✨ The difference between the old consciousness and the emerging new consciousness

✨ How grief can become a doorway to profound spiritual transformation

✨ Why authentic power is created through love instead of fear

✨ The soul's journey through the "Earth School"

✨ How emotional awareness creates freedom and inner peace

✨ Why we are far more than our bodies and personalities

✨ The role of intuition, compassion, and responsible choice in spiritual growth

✨ How meditation helps awaken higher consciousness

✨ Practical ways to recognize fearful patterns and choose love instead

🌟 Key Topics Covered

🌍 The Great Awakening

🧠 Human consciousness

❤️ Authentic power

🕊️ Death and the soul

🌱 Spiritual growth

🙏 Meditation and mindfulness

💫 Emotional awareness

✨ Reincarnation and soul evolution

🌌 The purpose of the Earth School

💖 Love beyond fear

📚 Featured Books by Gary Zukav

📖 The Seat of the Soul

📖 Universal Human

📖 The Heart of the Soul

📖 Soul Stories

📖 Spiritual Partnership

📖 The Mind of the Soul

🌐 Connect with Gary Zukav

🌍 Website:

https://seatofthesoul.com

🌍 Universal Human Foundation:

https://universalhumanfoundation.org

📘 Facebook:

/ garyzukav

📸 Instagram:

/ gary_zukav

▶️ YouTube:

/ @garyzukav

🎧 Evening with Gary Zukav:

https://seatofthesoul.com/events/

📩 Free Soul Seeds & Wisdom Wednesdays:

https://seatofthesoul.com

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S10EP1, The New Science Of Holistic Wealth Building with Christopher Van Buren

What if true wealth is about far more than money?

In this thought-provoking Season 10 premiere of Voices of Courage, host Ken D. Foster sits down with author, entrepreneur, and consciousness researcher Christopher Van Buren to explore the powerful connection between wealth, consciousness, purpose, and human potential. Together, they challenge conventional ideas about success and reveal why lasting prosperity begins with inner alignment—not just financial strategy.

Drawing on more than four decades of experience in publishing, marketing, business development, and spiritual exploration, Christopher shares how our beliefs, emotions, intuition, environment, and collective consciousness influence every aspect of wealth creation. The conversation bridges science, psychology, spirituality, and practical business wisdom, offering a fresh perspective on what it truly means to live a prosperous life.

About Christopher Van Buren

Christopher Van Buren has worked in publishing, marketing, and media since 1984 as a writer, publisher, literary agent, entrepreneur, and founder of LaunchMoxie, a digital marketing agency helping authors and thought leaders grow their platforms.

For decades, he has studied consciousness, archetypes, chakras, emotional patterns, and human behavior, integrating spiritual wisdom with practical business strategies. He is the author of the Noble Spirit series and continues helping entrepreneurs align purpose with prosperity.

🔥 In This Episode, You'll Discover:

✨ Why true wealth extends beyond money and financial success

✨ The connection between consciousness and abundance

✨ How limiting beliefs shape your financial reality

✨ Why alignment is more important than chasing success

✨ The role of passion, purpose, and intuition in creating prosperity

✨ How emotional intelligence influences business and wealth

✨ The surprising impact of your environment—including Feng Shui—on success

✨ Why collaboration creates greater opportunities than working alone

✨ How small wins build lasting momentum toward big goals

✨ Practical ways to cultivate resilience, courage, patience, and authentic leadership

🌟 Key Topics Covered

💰 Holistic wealth building

🧠 Consciousness and financial success

🌱 Personal growth and self-mastery

⚡ Emotional intelligence

🌍 Collective consciousness

🎯 Purpose-driven entrepreneurship

📚 Leadership and business development

🧘 Spirituality and abundance

🏡 Feng Shui and energetic alignment

Personal Profiles

LinkedIn — / vanburen

Instagram (@launchmoxie) — / launchmoxie

Official Website

LaunchMoxie — https://launchmoxie.com/

Author Profile

Amazon Author Page — https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/...

Professional Profiles

Waterside Productions — https://waterside.com/chris-van-buren/

NeuroWisdom — https://www.markrobertwaldman.com/coa...

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