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Ep 256 One World in a New World with Elinor Stutz

What if the experiences that nearly break us are actually invitations to discover who we came here to become?

In this inspiring episode of One World in a New World, Zen Benefiel welcomes international bestselling author, speaker, sales innovator, and Nice Girls DO Get the Sale author Elinor Stutz for a remarkable conversation about intuition, resilience, relationships, storytelling, self-belief—and turning life's unexpected challenges into service.

Elinor's story changed dramatically at age 55.

Following two serious traffic accidents and hospitalization, she experienced what she describes as a near-death experience surrounded by brilliant golden light. Two extraordinary visions emerged: one of herself speaking before audiences and another resembling a "life report card."

One side reflected what she had accomplished.

The other—community service—was blank.

In that moment, Elinor made a commitment that would redirect her life: if she walked out of the hospital, she would find ways to give back and empower others.

She did.

But perhaps even more remarkable is what followed.

Elinor shares how speaking directly and confidently to her surgeon became part of what medical staff later called her miraculous recovery. She recounts an extraordinary encounter with a mysterious physician after the accident, the intuition that compelled her to leave the Ambassador Hotel shortly before Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, and the breadcrumbs that continued appearing throughout her life.

Yet this conversation isn't simply about extraordinary experiences.

It's about what we do with them.

Elinor and Zen explore how curiosity, careful observation, listening, intuition and genuine interest in another person can transform everything from sales and leadership to friendship and everyday human connection.

Her sales philosophy is remarkably simple:

Stop trying to sell people and start getting to know them.

Ask better questions.
Listen carefully.
Observe.
Share stories.
Discover what actually matters to the person in front of you.

Elinor demonstrates that philosophy through wonderfully entertaining stories—from selling Girl Scout cookies at age ten and interviewing her way through a male-dominated corporate sales culture to turning a hostile security guard into an unexpected ally with one tiny Halloween candy bar.

Behind the humor is a profound lesson:

People remember how we make them feel.

Perhaps relationship-building isn't a sales technique at all.

Perhaps it's simply what happens when we become genuinely curious about another human being.

And perhaps resilience begins the same way—by becoming curious about ourselves.

Elinor's closing invitation beautifully summarizes a lifetime of experience:

Believe. Become. Empower.

Believe in yourself.

Become the person you know you can be.

Then empower others to discover the same possibility within themselves.

Join us for a warm, funny, surprising and deeply human exploration of resilience, intuition, storytelling, sales, service and what becomes possible when we finally decide to live life our own way.

What might change if you stopped trying to convince people—and became genuinely curious about them instead?

Connect with Elinor:

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Elinor's website: https://smoothsale.net/

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EP 255 One World in a New World with Rollin McCraty

What if one of the most sophisticated technologies you'll ever encounter is already beating inside your chest?

In this extraordinary episode of One World in a New World, Zen Benefiel welcomes Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., psychophysiologist, researcher, author, and Research Director at the HeartMath Institute, for a fascinating exploration of heart coherence, heart-brain communication, intuition, consciousness, the biofield, emotional self-regulation, and global coherence.

And this conversation gets personal.

Rollin shares an extraordinary early childhood experience—one he rarely discusses—that left him with a profound sense that reality was far greater than the religious explanations surrounding him. That early awareness eventually became part of a lifelong journey bridging direct human experience with scientific investigation.

That journey helped lead him to HeartMath.

Rollin explains how early HeartMath research began investigating something science had largely neglected at the time: What actually happens physiologically when we genuinely experience appreciation, kindness and compassion?

What researchers observed helped lead to what HeartMath calls a coherent state—measurable coordination among physiological systems, particularly in heart-brain communication. Rollin discusses how these states relate to clearer thinking, emotional stability, performance and self-regulation.

But this isn't merely theory.

During the conversation, Rollin walks us through a simple Shift and Lift practice beginning with heart-focused breathing: bringing attention to the heart area, breathing somewhat more deeply and slowly, and activating a genuine feeling such as appreciation, kindness or compassion.

The conversation then ventures much further.

What is the relationship between the physical heart and what Rollin calls the energetic heart?

Can our physiological systems respond to information before we're consciously aware of it?

What does HeartMath's research suggest about intuition?

How do our emotional states affect our interactions with other people?

And what happens when we move from personal coherence to global coherence?

One particularly powerful theme emerges when Rollin contrasts humanity's obsession with external technology—including AI—with what he calls our largely unexplored inner technology.

We have extraordinary devices in our pockets, yet how well have we learned to regulate ourselves?

Perhaps the next frontier isn't simply building smarter machines.

Perhaps it's learning to become more coherent humans.

Rollin ultimately leaves us with a wonderfully simple reminder:

Everybody has a heart.

And every one of us has an opportunity to become more conscious of what we're bringing into our relationships, communities and world.

Join us for a rare, deep and practical conversation exploring the science—and possibility—of living from a more coherent heart.

Questions This Episode Explores

What actually happens in the body when the heart and brain become more coherent?

Could learning to regulate our inner state change not only our lives, but the way humanity relates?

HeartMath Institute: https://www.heartmath.org/

Rollin's Books: https://amzn.to/4gmqMA4

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/HeartMathInstitute

#RollinMcCraty, #HeartMath, #HeartMathInstitute, #HeartCoherence, #HeartBrainCoherence, #HRV, #Consciousness, #HeartIntelligence, #GlobalCoherence, #HumanPotential, #OneWorldinaNewWorld

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Ep 254 One World in a New World with Steve Pasin

What if some of our deepest beliefs about love, truth, choice, spirituality—and even human goodness—are stories we've never seriously tested?

In this provocative episode of One World in a New World, Zen Benefiel welcomes Steve Pasin for a conversation that quickly becomes a spirited exploration of epigenetics, human nature, consciousness, quantum physics, truth, free will, relationships, cooperation, and the beliefs that shape our lives.

Steve traces his inquiry back to a painful childhood experience. At five years old, after being struck by the father he regarded as his hero, he remembers making a defining internal decision: "I don't want to be like you." Decades later, he came to interpret that experience through the lens of epigenetics and began investigating how thought, stress, decision-making, and biology might interact.

The conversation becomes especially compelling when Steve presents his challenging thesis: human beings are fundamentally driven to win, control, dominate, and be right.

Zen pushes back.

What about love? Service? Cooperation? Conscious evolution? Can humanity transcend patterns of dominance—or are cooperation and altruism simply more sophisticated expressions of our survival instinct?

Rather than avoiding their disagreement, Steve and Zen explore it.

They wrestle with the difference between truth and opinion, scientific proof and direct experience, the observer effect, visualization, relationships, free will, entropy, spirituality, the nature of self, and whether humanity can build systems based on cooperation rather than aggression. The transcript also includes speculative interpretations of quantum physics and consciousness; these are presented as part of their dialogue and inquiry, not as established scientific conclusions.

Perhaps the most important lesson isn't which man is right.

It's what happens when two people can strongly challenge one another, remain curious, and keep listening.

In a culture increasingly divided by certainty, can disagreement become a pathway to discovery rather than conflict?

Join us and decide for yourself.

Questions the Episode Explores
Are humans fundamentally wired to win, control, dominate, and be right?
How do we distinguish truth from belief, opinion, and personal experience?
Can an early childhood decision influence the trajectory of an entire life?
What can epigenetics legitimately tell us about experience and biological expression?
Can cooperation coexist with our drive for survival?
Does love ultimately involve getting something we need from another person?
Is free will real, constrained, or illusory?
Can direct experience constitute evidence?
What happens when science encounters experiences it cannot yet measure?
Can humanity move from dominance toward genuine collaboration?
Most importantly: Can two people disagree deeply without becoming enemies?

Steve's Website: https://tamingthefetaltyrant.com/

Steve's book, Taming the Fetal Tyrant: https://amzn.to/4wEK20A

#StevePasin, #HumanNature, #Epigenetics, #Consciousness, #CriticalThinking, #HumanBehavior, #Truth, #OneWorldinaNewWorld

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Ep 253 One World in a New World with Paolo Sironi – Author of "Quantum Sapiens"

What if the greatest danger of artificial intelligence isn't that machines become human—but that humans begin mistaking what can be measured for everything that matters?

In this extraordinary episode of One World in a New World, Zen Benefiel welcomes Paolo Sironi—fintech and banking thought leader, global research leader for banking and financial markets at IBM's Institute for Business Value, and author of Quantum Sapiens—for a journey that begins with financial uncertainty and ventures into some of humanity's oldest and most provocative questions.

Paolo's journey toward consciousness began in an unexpected place: quantitative finance. He discovered that sophisticated models could measure risk while never fully representing reality. Markets contain emotion, intention, uncertainty, and human behavior that cannot simply be compressed into equations. That realization eventually opened a much larger question: What else are we mistaking the model for the reality itself?

From there, Zen and Paolo explore consciousness, irreversible time, fundamental uncertainty, quantum gravity, language, meaning, artificial intelligence, free will, love, and what Paolo calls the eternal present.

Their conversation challenges one of the defining assumptions of our technological age: that because something can be represented by data, it has been understood.

A map is not the landscape.

A photograph of a sunset is not the experience of standing beside someone you love as the sun disappears beneath the horizon.

And an AI capable of extraordinary language may still be fundamentally different from the consciousness that gives language meaning.

Paolo introduces a compelling distinction between wisdom and consciousness. Wisdom draws upon what experience has already taught us; consciousness remains open to what we do not yet know. That radical openness becomes essential when confronting AI, scientific uncertainty, planetary challenges, and our own assumptions about reality.

The conversation ultimately arrives somewhere both ancient and startlingly contemporary: love, difference, and human connection. If reality is fundamentally entangled, perhaps our differences are not obstacles to unity but expressions of it.

This isn't simply a conversation about quantum physics or artificial intelligence. It's an invitation to reconsider the lens through which we understand ourselves.

What if the most important innovation ahead isn't another technology?

What if it is changing the way we see?

Join us for a remarkable exploration of Quantum Sapiens and the possibilities waiting beyond the measurable.

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Explore the nature of human connectedness with Paolo Cerrone. This conversation offers a fresh perspective on how we relate to the world around us.

In this episode of One World in a New World, we sit down with Paolo Cerrone to discuss his unique approach to understanding our shared experiences. If you are interested in deep, thoughtful dialogue about how we interact with one another, this interview conversation provides a space to reflect on the bridges we build between ourselves and others.

Paolo Cerrone shares his insights on fostering meaningful connections in a rapidly changing environment. We break down the practical ways to apply these concepts of human connectedness to your daily life, helping you navigate your own social and personal landscape with greater awareness.

Whether you are a regular listener or new to our global perspective series, this talk aims to broaden your outlook on community and individual relationships.

Subscribe for weekly discussions on philosophy and human behavior, and let us know in the comments what topic you would like us to cover next.

Paolo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thepsironi/

Paolo's Books: https://amzn.to/4x3iX8r

Paolo's Website: https://www.thepsironi.com/

#QuantumSapiens #PaoloSironi #AI #Consciousness #QuantumPhysics #Humanity #FutureOfAI #QuantumConsciousness #oneworldobservatory

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One World in a New World with Maxwell Gail Jr.

Most people know Max Gail as the beloved Detective Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz from Barney Miller. Few know the remarkable inner journey that has shaped his life.

In this heartfelt episode of One World in a New World, longtime friends Zen Benefiel and Max Gail reconnect after years apart to explore the experiences that shaped Max far beyond television. Together they discuss childhood mystical experiences, out-of-body awareness, Native American teachings, acting, creativity, politics, spirituality, consciousness, Carl Jung, community, and the search for deeper meaning.

Max reflects on his journey from science student to actor, from Hollywood success to humanitarian work with Indigenous communities, sharing stories filled with humility, wisdom, humor, and compassion. Along the way, he offers beautiful original poetry—including two deeply moving pieces that capture the essence of living authentically and preparing for life's final chapter with peace rather than fear.

Topics include:

• Barney Miller behind the scenes
• Childhood spiritual experiences
• Consciousness and intuition
• Carl Jung and inner knowing
• Native American wisdom
• Community Technology Centers
• Politics beyond polarization
• Living in relationship
• Aging with purpose
• Poetry and the human spirit

Whether you know Max from television or are meeting him for the first time, this conversation offers a rare glimpse into the heart of a man who has quietly dedicated his life to connection, service, and truth.

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