Beyond the Crucible
224 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsYou are more than your failures and setbacks. We share stories of leaders who have moved beyond life’s most difficult moments to lead lives of significance, and insights on how you can do the same. Hosted by Warwick Fairfax.
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Why Your Life of Significance Matters: 7 Insights from Warwick's New Blog
June 25, 2024 07:00 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBA life of significance is not a numbers game. That’s just one of the kernels of wisdom and inspiration you'll hear in this week’s episode, in which he unpacks his new blog at beyondthecrucible.com – titled Why Your Life of Significance matters. It offers you the hope and insight you need to turn your worst day into your greatest opportunity. Warwick runs through some things you should think about when journeying from setback to significance, things like, Why do you want to help the pe...
A Natural Disaster Took Her Husband and Son, But Not Her Hope: Kim Cantin
June 19, 2024 03:05 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBOur guest this week, Kim Cantin, discusses a tragedy of the deepest sorrow: the 2018 flash floods in Montecito, California, that obliterated her home and took her husband and son from her. Yet the rain and the mud and the devastation could not take her hope. Cantin was herself injured seriously and her daughter, Lauren, trapped for six hours under the debris. While the body of her husband, Dave, was found quickly in the mudslide’s aftermath, the remains of her son, Jack, would not be d...
Stories from the Book Crucible Leadership: Winston Churchill on Perseverance
June 11, 2024 07:00 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MBWinston Churchill was known for many things – always looking for ways to move onward after a trial or challenge chief among them. That’s the perspective we all should hope to have when life’s crucibles knock us for a loop. When setback and failure are all-too-common companions. When we’re wrestling with our own darkest hour. This week, as part of what we’ve dubbed our series within the show – Stories from the Book Crucible Leadership – we have a deep-dive conversation about what a grea...
Stories from the Book Crucible Leadership" Winston Churchill on Perseverance
June 11, 2024 07:00 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MBWinston Churchill was known for many things – always looking for ways to move onward after a trial or challenge chief among them. That’s the perspective we all should hope to have when life’s crucibles knock us for a loop. When setback and failure are all-too-common companions. When we’re wrestling with our own darkest hour. This week, as part of what we’ve dubbed our series within the show – Stories from the Book Crucible Leadership – we have a deep-dive conversation about what a grea...
The CEO Whisperer Who Helps Clients Believe in Magic and Miracles: Vanessa Vershaw
June 04, 2024 07:00 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBBolstered and resilient. That’s how we all want to feel after we’ve been through a crucible. And this week’s guest, Vanessa Vershaw, is known as the CEO whisperer because she has an impressive track record of helping leaders arrive at that very destination. In her conversation with Warwick, Vershaw speaks candidly about her own crucibles – some she’s never spoken publicly about before – which include being bullied in school and as a leader in the workplace, often by other women. ...
How to Build a Great Team
May 28, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 87.2 MBA team so connected, so authentic with each other and committed to the leader’s vision – sounds like a great place to work, doesn’t it? Listen to our discussion on this week’s episode that unpacks Warwick’s latest blog. That blog, HOW TO BUILD A GREAT TEAM, extrapolates lessons learned during a recent team strategy meeting we had in Savannah, Georgia. From our sessions, Warwick discusses the essentials to top-notch team building – which include picking the right people on the team, the...
Finding Significance on the Other Side of the Unspeakable: Teri Wellbrock
May 21, 2024 12:39 - 50 minutes - 69.8 MBA little more hope. That was a lifeline our guest this week, Teri Wellbrock, desperately needed after a soul-crushing series of crucibles that began in childhood. She suffered through the traumas of sexual molestation, rape, bank robberies, the murder of a co-worker, emotional abandonment by an alcoholic parent, physical abuse, poverty and the resulting panic attacks that eventually would lead her to the depths of despair. But as she explains in our conversation, she discovered breakthroug...
Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment 8: Tying It All Together
May 07, 2024 07:00 - 56 minutes - 78 MBWe hope our series exploring the methodology and the profiles of our Trials to Triumphs Self-Assessment has offered you an exciting opportunity to process the crucible you’ve been through and apply what you learn from reflecting on it toward your unique life of significance. In this eighth and final episode of the series, we revisit the three big takeaways our discussions have unearthed: that knowledge is power, how one small step is all it takes to get the flywheel of significance tur...
Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment 7: In a Mad Dash
April 30, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBAn exciting opportunity. That may not seem like an apt description for In a Mad Dash, the profile we discuss this week on the seventh episode of our series unpacking our Trials to Triumphs Self-Assessment. But stay tuned – we think you’ll be surprised, encouraged and equipped. People whose assessment results return this profile are high performers who’ve had a crucible and seemed to have moved on. But here's their challenge: They've leapt right over the processing phase and started exe...
Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment 6: On A Different Track
April 23, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 99.9 MBLife can be better. That’s the cry of the heart and the hope of the spirit for those who take our Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment and get as their result the profile of On A Different Track, the subject we discuss this week on the latest episode of our spring series. Those who find themselves On A Different Track make up the 28 percent of people who have taken the assessment who don’t believe they’ve had a crucible that has changed the trajectory of their life. But as we unpack here...
Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment 5: Afraid to Trip
April 16, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 87.2 MBA really hopeful place to be. Maybe you’ll be surprised to learn that the profile from our Trials to Triumphs Self-Assessment we’re describing is the one we call Afraid to Trip. What’s hopeful about that? You’ll learn the answer to that question in this week’s episode as we discuss how those who receive this result are closer to living their life of significance than they likely realize. They’ve processed their crucible, they have a vision they’d like to pursue … but they’re wrestling ...
Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment 4: Running in Place
April 09, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBNot filling your bucket but draining it. That’s what it can feel like if you find yourself living the profile of Running in Place from our Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment. This week, in our fourth episode of our spring series unpacking what your assessment results can teach you about where you are on your journey of moving beyond your crucible, we examine this unique situation in which you find yourself with a vision in your mind you can’t seem to get started pursuing. The goo...
Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment 3: Stuck at the Starting Line
April 02, 2024 07:00 - 56 minutes - 78.4 MBNot able to get ahead. That feeling is one of the hallmarks of being Stuck at the Starting Line, the profile from our Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment we discuss on today’s show. But fear not: While feeling stuck after a crucible is normal, it does not have to be forever. In this third episode of our series delving into our statistically valid self-assessment, we not only explain what it looks and feels like to be stuck at the starting line, but how to get yourself unstuck. A critical as...
Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment 2: Hitting Your Stride
March 26, 2024 07:00 - 54 minutes - 75.8 MBLiving as your best self. Pursuing your vision. Fulfilled by your life of significance. If so, we’ve got good news for you. Just keep listening. Does that sound like a place in which you’d like to stand? This week, in the second episode of our spring series exploring our Trials-to-Triumphs self-assessment, we begin examining the assessment’s unique profiles by starting with the end in mind. So the first one we unpack here is Hitting Your Stride. But listen closely. Even if you are H...
Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment 1: How and Why We Built It
March 19, 2024 07:00 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MBCould we really prove it? The stages and the process we go through – each of us individually – after we’ve been through a crucible … and then chart our way beyond it? The answer? Absolutely. As you’re about to discover in our spring series that begins this week on how we built and how you can benefit from our Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment. In this first episode of our eight part series, we’ll explain how and why we created a statistically valid survey and the surprising – sometime...
7 Tips To Help You Find the Right Mentor
March 12, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBSomeone you admire. Someone who knows more than you about your job or about the lifestyle you want to live. Someone who shares your values. People like that are the ones you should be on the lookout for in selecting a mentor. On this week’s episode, we discuss Warwick's latest blog at BeyondTheCrucible.com, titled “How To Find the Right Mentor.” Among the seven tips he offers to assist us in securing a helpful mentor are to make sure we’re ready for one, find one who will make us do th...
Two Bullets That Led Him to His Calling: Lion Goodman
March 05, 2024 08:00 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBLion Goodman recounts his harrowing experience of being shot twice (two other bullets narrowly missed him) by a man whose car broke down in the middle of the Mojave Desert to whom he was being a good Samaritan – and the hours of discussion that he engaged in with his attacker, finally, miraculously convincing the gunman to let him go. The incident, he tells Warwick, set him on the path to becoming a coach helping clients eliminate negative and limiting beliefs, resolve childhood wounds...
From Victim to Victor: Healing From the Horrors of Sex-Trafficking: Amanda Blackwood
February 27, 2024 19:12 - 56 minutes - 78 MBThe horrors our guest this week, Amanda Blackwood, endured almost from birth are hard to hear. Decades of physical, emotional and sexual abuse … but heartache was not the end of her story. Healing was. Our interview with Blackwood, by necessity, covers the traumas she experienced being sex-trafficked on more than one occasion. But make no mistake about it: Amanda Blackwood may have been victimized, but she has emerged as anything but a victim. She fought for freedom from the demons of ...
Stories from the Book Crucible Leadership: George Washington on Character and Listening
February 20, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutes - 54 MBCharacter. Discipline. Overcoming a natural weakness like impatience. These are critical characteristics for leaders, and for bouncing back from a crucible, and we explore this week how George Washington modeled them. It’s our focus on this fifth episode of our series within the show, STORIES FROM THE BOOK CRUCIBLE LEADERSHIP. Warwick discusses his appreciation of and respect for Washington as a man of inviolable character who walked away from power after winning the American Revolutio...
Celebrating 200 Episodes: 3 Moments That Moved Warwick And Shaped Who We Are
February 13, 2024 08:00 - 49 minutes - 67.8 MBThis week, we commemorate our 200th episode by revisiting three moments from past shows that moved Warwick and have shaped the kind of podcast we have now. You’ll discover how crucibles can often be vastly different in details but so similar to be almost identical in emotion; the power of being able to find gratitude in your traumas and tragedies; and how mindset and perseverance can be your superpowers in turning what’s been broken into breakthrough. The basic truth we aim to unpack h...
7 Tips To Start Living Out Your Unique Calling Today
February 06, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes - 70.2 MBThis week, we discuss Warwick's latest blog, “Seven Ways to Live By Your Passions, Not Others’ Expectations.” In the piece, and on this episode, he unpacks key building blocks to develop and deploy a vision for a life of significance that you, not your friends or family, are uniquely off-the-charts passionate about. What's a stake if we pursue what pleases others, not what ignites our spirits? Warwick says it can be "soul-destroying." Not just hard. Not just unfulfilling. Not just feel...
Rescuing Women From Slavery, One Backpack at a Time: Brad Jeffery
January 23, 2024 08:00 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBBrad Jeffery was visiting a Kenyan slum on a business trip focused on finding ways to financially help those who lived there when he found himself asking questions about what it would really take to help the impoverished, endangered women he talked with. Just giving them money, he determined, would not solve their dire situation. So he founded Made Free, an apparel accessories brand that competes on the world stage in design and quality while serving as a vehicle for consumers to help ...
Stories from the Book Crucible Leadership: Walt Disney on the Resiliency of Vision
January 16, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBTrusting ourselves and our vision, especially when naysayers offer all sorts of reasons designed to dissuade us from pursuing it, is a necessity in our journey to a life of significance. This week, in the latest episode of our series within the show, Stories from the Book Crucible Leadership, we discuss how Walt Disney did just that, not letting the doubts of others or the crucibles he encountered stop him from pursuing his dreams. Disney refused to let his vision get derailed – and it...
Doctors Said Cerebral Palsy Would Limit His Life. Now He's a Doctor: Tyler Sexton
January 09, 2024 08:00 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBTurning tragedy into triumph. You’ve heard us use those words scores of times, because we know, from experience, that it’s not only possible to turn what’s broken into breakthrough – but that brokenness is often a key ingredient of the breakthrough. This week's guest, Tyler Sexton, has cerebral palsy, a condition that has forced him to endure 18 surgeries and decades of insults and being regarded as incapable of doing much with his life. Well, Dr. Tyler Sexton has proven the taunters a...
Best of 2023: Janine Shepherd – Embracing Her Tragic Paralysis as a Gift
January 02, 2024 08:00 - 55 minutes - 77.1 MBOriginal air date: June 20, 2023 Janine Shepherd was on track to represent her home nation of Australia in the Olympics as a cross-country skier – but then her dream, quite literally, crashed when she was hit by a utility truck while on a bicycle training exercise with her teammates. She came out the other side of that horrific accident and the 6 months of arduous recovery that followed to discover she was a paraplegic. But as she explains to Warwick, her identity as “Janine the Machine...
Best of 2023: Lauren Sisler – Unshackling the Shame of Her Parents Overdose Deaths
December 26, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MBOriginal air date: May 9, 2023 Lauren Sisler was a freshman at Rutgers University when learned she had lost her father just hours after she had lost her mother. Having come home to grieve one parent, she was blindsided by the news that the other had died, too. And she had no idea how any of it had happened We speak with Sisler about that 2003 tragedy, when she was not only hit with the unfathomable news of the deaths of her mom and dad, but the shame she couldn’t shake after she learned...
Stories from the Book Crucible Leadership: Jesus on Self-Sacrifice
December 19, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBThe way of others before self. The path lined with humility, authenticity and selflessness. That's the road we discuss this week in our latest episode of the Series Within the Show, Stories from the Book Crucible Leadership. The historical figure we discuss here is Jesus – specifically His example of servant leadership and His exhortation for us to do as He did. Our conversation is designed to encourage you to think and act counter-culturally: leading in your workplace, your community,...
Discover The Ways Deep Friendships Fuel a Healthy Identity: Jeff Kemp
December 12, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes - 60.3 MBMisaligned, misguided identity is one of the greatest tripwires to our crucible experiences. Placing our worth in other people’s perceptions of us – based not on our true inner selves – is a recipe for struggle and setback. This week, we talk with former NFL quarterback Jeff Kemp, author of the new book, Receive: The Way of Jesus for Men. He stresses the necessity for men to build deep and meaningful friendships with each other in which they share the most intimate and important detail...
Finding Healing, and a Calling, After Losing Two Children Tragically: Gerard Long
December 05, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes - 76.5 MBA parent’s worst nightmare. That’s what Gerard Long and his wife, Jeannie, endured in 2005 when their son, Alex, committed suicide. And, inconceivably, it wouldn’t be their last nightmare. Their daughter, Rebecca, was killed in an accident in 2014. How did the Longs bounce back from their pair of life-shattering crucibles? Not quickly. And not easily. The trauma of the events nearly ripped their marriage in two, but as Gerard tells Warwick, they both found their way back to their faith...
Not Feeling Thankful? Try These 7 Tips to Change Your Mindset
November 28, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes - 76.5 MBConflicting. Confounding. Confusing. Did you feel any of those emotions when gathering with family and friends over Thanksgiving? If so, we’ve got the antidote for turning those difficult feelings into warm memories. This week, Warwick discussed his latest blog at Beyond the Crucible.com, “Not Feeling Thankful? These Seven Tips Can Get You in the Holiday Spirit.” We recorded this episode before Thanksgiving (the blog had already been posted) knowing you wouldn’t hear it until after Tha...
Getting Sober Saved His Life and Gave Him a Model to Live it By: Doug Fleener
November 21, 2023 08:00 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBDoug Fleener, had been living without serenity, joy or purpose since the vise grip of addiction started closing around him when he was just 12 years old. The lowest point came decades later, when he woke up hung over in an airplane that had just landed, unsure how he got there – or how the large sum of cash in his pocket got there. Fleener shares not only how he got clean from drugs and alcohol, but how he rebuilt his personal and professional lives by applying the lessons and practice...
Stories from the Book Crucible Leadership: William Wilberforce on Self-Sacrifice
November 14, 2023 08:00 - 28 minutes - 40.2 MBIt can be a difficult, even scary journey when we set out to accomplish a challenging and noble goal. But that did not stop William Wilberforce, the British politician in the late 1700s and 1800s who fought for years to end the slave trade in his nation. Wilberforce is the subject of our latest episode of the series within the show STORIES FROM THE BOOK CRUCIBLE LEADERSHIP, Warwick’s Wall Street Journal best-seller. What we unpack in our discussion are the ways in which Wilberforce mod...
When Leaders Are Lost ... And The Keys to Finding Themselves Again: Glenn Williams
November 07, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes - 76.3 MBImage. Identity. Success. Failure. Topics you’ve heard us discuss often on the show. And topics that this week’s guest, Dr. Glenn Williams, covers in discussing his new book, WHEN LEADERS ARE LOST. Williams talks in detail about what he’s learned about feeling lost from his professional setbacks and the personal tragedy of losing his son, as well as insights he's gleaned as an executive coach. He unpacks how not to lose sight of our goals or give up on them when disappointment, failure...
Worried Your Vision is Too Small? These 7 Truths Will Change Your Mind
October 31, 2023 14:23 - 54 minutes - 75.7 MBThis week, we discuss Warwick's latest blog at BeyondTheCrucible.com. That piece, and the discussion we have here about it, is designed to show you that if you think your vision is too small, you’re not giving yourself, or that vision, enough credit. We explore seven truths that can change that perspective: from realizing you’re not in a vision competition with anyone else to focusing on what’s on your heart, from connecting your vision to who you fundamentally are and what you’re pass...
Humility and Forgiveness in the White House: Tim Goeglein
October 17, 2023 07:00 - 49 minutes - 69.1 MB"I'm guilty" is not something you hear from the mouths of those who work in politics very often. But Tim Goeglein mustered the courage and character to say them … and that rare immediate honesty taught him valuable lessons to move beyond his self-inflicted crucible. In his interview with Warwick, Goeglein confesses how he on several occasions plagiarized the work of others for a column he wrote for his hometown newspaper while he was serving as a special assistant to President George W....
Stories from The Book Crucible Leadership: John Fairfax on Forgiveness
October 10, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBThis week we kick off what we’re calling a series within the show, which we’ve named Stories from the Book Crucible Leadership. That’s Warwick’s Wall Street Journal bestseller, filled with examples of how historical figures and his family members weathered their crucibles to lead lives of significance – and the character traits that led them to do it. Our first discussion is on John Fairfax because there would be no Beyond the Crucible without John Fairfax. We unpack some lessons in fo...
Losing Millions Led Him to Find His True Identity: Ken Eslick
October 03, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes - 77.4 MBLosing millions of dollars -- twice -- was not the hardest crucible Ken Eslick has had to face. The most challenging thing about moving beyond those setbacks was decoupling his identity from the number of zeroes on his balance sheet. Describing himself as someone who was good at making money but not at keeping it, he needed to change the story he had told himself about himself since he was a teenager. We talk with Eslick this week about how he bounced back from his financial failures, and ...
Not Sure You've Had a Crucible? Click "Play"
September 26, 2023 07:00 - 41 minutes - 57.9 MBWe have a confession to make: When we sit down to interview a guest about how he or she has moved beyond a crucible, we assume – subconsciously we’ve come to realize – that you’re listening because you’ve struggled through a crucible too … or maybe find yourself smack in the middle of one. But our own research tells us that that might not be the case. Our study found that 72 percent of those we surveyed have “experienced an event so traumatic or painful that it that it fundamentally al...
COVID Forced Her to Close Her Business But Led to a New Calling: Katie Jesionowski
September 19, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBThe COVID 19 pandemic cost many of us many things. It cost this week's guest, Katie Jesionowski, the children's superfoods business she'd spent more than a decade building -- just as it was poised to really take off. But from the ashes of that crucible, she has been able to build a new, equally rewarding life of significance. Jesionowski explains how both the tragedies and the triumphs of her failed startup have proven invaluable to her new career as chief marketing officer of Total Fa...
CRUCIBLE HACKS 10: Making It All Happen
September 12, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes - 39.9 MBIn this final episode of our special summer series, CRUCIBLE HACKS, we offer you some “assembly instructions” for how you can take what you’ve learned in the previous nine episodes and get to work on turning what’s been broken into breakthrough. While the vision for a life of significance you bring to reality will look different for each one of you, the process of making it all happen centers on one key truth. As Warwick says, “When we use our pain in the service of others it does give o...
CRUCIBLE HACKS 9: Reality
September 05, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBReality. Moving from a vision in your mind to action in your life. That’s been the journey we’ve been taking you on in our special summer series, CRUCIBLE HACKS. In this final episode exploring the hacks that will help you move from setback to significance, we offer up a pair to clear the runway for you to launch your unique vision into reality. One’s called The First Steps, the other’s called Overcome Your Fears. Taken in tandem, they cover the ground Warwick talks about when he says: “...
CRUCIBLE HACKS 8: Fellow Travelers
August 29, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBWe say often here that moving beyond your crucible is a team sport, and the team we’re helping you build on this episode of our summer series, CRUCIBLE HACKS, is what we call your fellow travelers. Without them, your pursuit of a vision that will lead you to a life of significance is far more difficult – if not completely unlikely. The hacks we offer this week focus on helping you identify the two most valuable types of fellow travelers – encouragers and complementors: that’s complementors...
CRUCIBLE HACKS 7: Vision
August 22, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes - 40.2 MBA world of what could be or needs to be. That’s the stuff of vision. And looking to films that resonate with you to find the seeds of your own unique vision is one of the hacks we offer in this week’s episode of our special summer series, CRUCIBLE HACKS. In this seventh episode of the series, all about the development of vision, our second hack takes you through several questions to help you in crafting a vision you can live out with gusto. And remember as you try your hand at these hack...
CRUCIBLE HACKS 6: Authenticity
August 15, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutes - 38.9 MBThe real you. We’ve spent the last few weeks helping you discover who that is – now we shift our attention to the importance of making sure you live in light of what you’ve learned. That you resist the temptation to don a mask and instead show the world the authentic you. In this sixth episode of our special summer series, CRUCIBLE HACKS, we offer a pair of ways you can help ensure you’re living authentically. We call them "Anchors Aweigh" and "Forgive, Forgive, Forgive." They’ll help you ...
CRUCIBLE HACKS 5: Talents
August 08, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutes - 46 MBOnce you've identified your beliefs and values and your passions, the next step to crafting and executing a vision that's unique to you is coming to a deeper understanding of your talents. Our hacks this week, "Look to the Past to Forge the Future" and "Words Matter," are all about identifying where your gifts lie, because knowing what you’re good at, and what you’re not good at, is a critical step to moving beyond your crucible and into a life of significance – where you can apply those ...
CRUCIBLE HACKS 4: Passions
August 01, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBExcavation. Digging deep to discover what you’re truly off-the-charts passionate about. That’s the focus of this episode of our special summer series, CRUCIBLE HACKS. As we continue our step-by-step journey through the Beyond the Crucible Refining Process, we offer you three hacks to help you unearth the passions that will guide you along your pursuit of a life of significance. We call them “Redeem the Pain,” “Meet the Younger You” and “Call in Reinforcements.” Each one will bring clarity ...
CRUCIBLE HACKS 3: Beliefs and Values
July 25, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes - 42.7 MBBeliefs and values … two connected building blocks of the road that leads you to a life of significance. But how do you know what yours are -- and how do you make sure they line up with each other? That’s the focus of this third episode of our special summer series, CRUCIBLE HACKS. Warwick and Gary offer you a pair of hacks this week – one to help you identify your beliefs, called Be the Change. And one to help you bring those beliefs to bear on your day-to-day life, which we’ve whimsically...
CRUCIBLE HACKS 2: Refined
July 18, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes - 41.7 MBFinding the healing in heartache and hard times is not easy -- but it is an absolutely indispensable step we all must take to recover from a crucible experience. This week, in episode 2 of our special summer series CRUCIBLE HACKS, Warwick and Gary share how you can understand how you were refined by the challenges you’ve faced. They share two hacks that will help you find beauty from the ashes of those setbacks and failures. One involves facing the demons of what went wrong and finding...
CRUCIBLE HACKS 1: Significance
July 11, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBThis week, we launch our special summer series, CRUCIBLE HACKS. Each of the 10 episodes focuses on fresh insights to guide you along your journey from tragedy to triumph. We start with the end in mind -- significance. What does it mean to live a life of significance … and how do you get there? That’s where our hacks come in: We'll walk you through a pair of them: Emulate it Till You Make it and Doing a Life 360. The idea behind it all is to equip you with new tools to live out wh...
7 Ways to Avoid Mission Drift and Live Your True Purpose #170
July 04, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 78.9 MBMission drift may come on slowly, imperceptibly even, but its impact is like death from a thousand cuts. What can it kill? Your purpose. This week, we walk you step by step through our latest blog, 7 Ways to Realign With Your True Purpose. It all starts with understanding that purpose … and along the way we talk at length about how to know if you’ve drifted off mission, what you can do to right the ship if you have and how fellow travelers can help keep you sailing in a straight line. Warw...