For several years, I’ve been a one-man show—producing, hosting, editing, scheduling, and building One World in a New World from the ground up. The growing community of 28k+ subscribers and nearly 2 million views has proven that these long-form, heartfelt conversations truly matter.

So many people navigating awakening, inner experiences, or deep personal questions have no one to talk to, no safe place to explore what’s happening within them. This fundraiser helps me continue offering high-quality, meaningful content for those seeking clarity, confirmation, insight, and a sense of connection on their own journeys.

🌍 Our Story: Awakening the Heart of Humanity, One Conversation at a Time

For decades, I’ve devoted my life to exploring consciousness, coherence, and the deeper intelligence that connects all people and the planet we share. From early spiritual awakenings to academic work in human development, from inner-city teaching to transformational coaching, from event production to systems thinking—every path has led to one central mission:

To help humanity remember its wholeness, its wisdom, and its capacity to create a more harmonious world.

In 2021, this mission took a new form with the launch of One World in a New World, a podcast inviting pioneers, visionaries, and leaders to share their deepest insights into personal awakening, social transformation, and global evolution.

Over 200 episodes later—and now more than 1.9 million views across platforms—the conversations have become something bigger than a podcast. They’ve become a living archive of human wisdom.

We’ve already welcomed leaders from:

• Consciousness research

• Regenerative economics

• Psychology and human development

• Ethics, leadership, and organizational change

• Environmental stewardship

• Energy medicine and healing

• Technology, AI, and systems design

• Arts, education, spirituality, and community building

• And dozens more fields, sectors, and traditions

The guest list reads like a constellation of global thinkers and lifelong practitioners—people who have dedicated their work to serving humanity’s unfolding potential.

But now… something new is emerging.

🌟 The Next Evolution: From Conversations to Collective Intelligence

We’re building the next phase of this work:

A global, multi-sector panel series featuring pioneers from the Co-Creation Wheel

—12 sectors of human activity that, together, form the foundation of a conscious civilization.

This next chapter turns the podcast into a planetary dialogue space—where leaders from multiple fields come together at once to explore:

⭐ How we build a coherent, compassionate global society
⭐ How science, spirituality, and systems thinking converge
⭐ How we move from individual insight to collective transformation
⭐ How we align people and planet across all sectors of life

This is the birth of a planetary citizens movement—practical, inclusive, and grounded in lived experience.

It’s no longer just one-on-one conversations. It’s collective intelligence in motion.

🚀 Why We’re Crowdfunding

Creating this next phase takes resources:

• Coordinating panel events across multiple time zones

• Securing production support

• Developing media assets

• Creating tools, worksheets, and shareable models

• Expanding outreach to include global partners and organizations

• Supporting a nonprofit infrastructure that keeps the work accessible

• Building the digital platform that will host these evolving dialogues

Your support helps us go from inspiration to activation.
From “great conversations” to a collaborative framework that anyone can join.

🌐 Our Future Strategy: A Living Portal for Planetary Citizens

With your help, we will:

✔️ Launch the 12-sector Panel Series

Bringing global pioneers together to bridge ideas, models, and solutions.

✔️ Create a Digital Commons for Co-Creation

A place where citizens of the world can explore frameworks, tools, interviews, and shared vision.

✔️ Develop training, workshops, and guided dialogue tools

Based on 40+ years of coaching, facilitation, consciousness exploration, and organizational leadership.

✔️ Build a sustainable media platform

Amplifying voices that don’t always reach global audiences.

✔️ Continue expanding the One World in a New World archive

Preserving wisdom from today’s pioneers for future generations.

✔️ Strengthen Planetary Citizens as a nonprofit resource

Offering materials, learning pathways, and collaborative opportunities for those ready to help shape a more conscious civilization.

💗 Why This Matters

Humanity is at a crossroads.
Many feel the shift. Many feel the call.
But no single person, organization, or discipline has the whole picture.

We need spaces that bring together science, spirituality, leadership, and lived human experience in ways that are grounded, accessible, and deeply human.

We need places where people can remember—their wisdom, their purpose, their capacity to serve.

That’s what this project is about.

**This is a movement of awakening, alignment, and action.

A movement of Planetary Citizens.
And you are invited to help shape its next evolution.**

🙏 Join Us. Co-Create With Us. Support the Evolution.

Your contribution—large or small—helps bring this vision into form.

Together, we can build a platform that honors:

• the depth of human experience

• the brilliance of collective intelligence

• and the shared future we’re capable of creating

Thank you for believing in this work.
Thank you for helping us bring the next chapter to life.

Let’s awaken the heart of humanity—together.

— Zen Benefiel
Founder, Planetary Citizens
Host, One World in a New World