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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Forgiveness is Key to Moving Beyond Your Crucible #73
June 22, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 93.3 MBHave you suffered setback and failure? Then you probably have struggled with anger and maybe bitterness as you think of those who contributed to your pain. In this episode, Crucible Leadership founder and BEYOND THE CRUCIBLE host Warwick Fairfax discusses with cohost Gary Schneeberger the critical need to forgive those who have wronged us (or even ourselves) in order to move past our crucibles and toward a life of significance. Warwick lays out seven steps you can begin practicing today to ...
Finding Power in Pain, Rejecting Shame and Suffering: Andrea Anderson Polk #72
June 15, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBShe knows her childhood was not unique, but that didn't make it any easier for Andrea Anderson Polk to grow up in a dysfunctional family in which feeling safe was hard to come by even as she tried to protect her younger siblings from emotional trauma. The crucibles she endured made her question both her faith and the therapy her parents underwent to try, unsuccessfully, to improve their family life. It wasn't until she embraced her relationship with God that she took the journey to become a ...
Real Leaders Embrace Their Calling: Kevin Edwards #71
June 08, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBHow do you find purpose in your life and work that allows you to create a legacy that stretches beyond the bottom line of balance sheets and the showy flash of corporate perks? Kevin Edwards, host of the Real Leaders podcast, has discovered through hundreds of interviews with high-powered high achievers – interviews that date back to college – that one of the greatest crucibles most face is settling for success and not pursuing significance. The antidote? Finding a calling that allows you t...
When He Stopped Chasing Success, He Found Significance: John Sikkema #70
June 01, 2021 20:42 - 1 hour - 102 MBJohn Sikkema had it all. Except peace. Having carved out successful careers in insurance sales and finance, he felt in his 40's that his life was careening out of control. Soon his car was, too. It was the combination of the accident he was surprised he survived, and the damage his obsession with making money was doing to his marriage and his faith, that led him to something better than the bottom line. When he heard a message at church about pursuing a greater purpose, one that involved s...
7 Keys to Caring for Your Team As You Pursue Your Vision #69
May 25, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes - 78.6 MBHow do you maintain the delicate balance between pursuing a vision that you are passionate about and treating well the men and women who are sharing that journey with you? Crucible Leadership founder and BEYOND THE CRUCIBLE host Warwick Fairfax unpacks practical tips to follow in this conversation with co-host Gary Schneeberger. From keeping your ego in check … to focusing on the process, not on chasing an outcome … from making sure team members know you value them as much as you value yo...
Piano Keys Keyed His Triumph Over His Crucible: Wael Farouk #68
May 18, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBDespite being born with small hands and shortened ligaments that left him unable to even hold a cup as a boy, Wael Farouk has diligently – some would say miraculously -- carved out a career as a celebrated concert pianist. This spring, in fact, he performed Rachmaninoff's piano concerti Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in one evening -- the first time the prodigious musical feat has been done. Farouk lives and works in Wisconsin, where he is an assistant professor of piano and director of the Keyboard Studie...
Can a Life of Significance Be the Fountain of Youth? Marta Zaraska #67
May 11, 2021 08:00 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBWe’ve all heard that living with your purpose top of mind – what we at Crucible Leadership call a life of significance – leads to a more joyful and impactful life. But did you know it also can lead to a longer life? Author Marta Zaraska makes an eye-opening case for that truth in her best-seller, Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100 – a book steeped in science (she studied more than 600 research papers in her research) that points to the health benefi...
How He Grasped Hope and Found Healing After Paralysis: Chris Leeuw #66
May 04, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBChris Leeuw had his entire life ahead of him -- and it looked very bright. A self-described "adrenaline junkie," he reveled in outdoor activities like water-skiing and kayaking and loved his job in local TV news. It all changed in a tragic instant. Chris, at 28, was paralyzed from the neck down in a freak recreational diving accident -- and thought he'd never walk or be able to care for himself again. But despite the physical and financial crucibles he faced, he refused to give up. Chris le...
How to Tap into Your Soul to Find Significance #65
April 27, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBYour soul is the you that you don't have to think about, where your essence, your truest self, lives. But how do you discover what your soul reveals about you? More importantly, how can drawing on the insights you find there help you bounce back from a crucible and lead a life of significance? Crucible Leadership founder and BEYOND THE CRUCIBLE host Warwick Fairfax and cohost Gary Schneeberger take a deep dive into those questions, offering up 7 ways to live with your soul top of mind. The b...
The Power of Purpose: John Ramstead #64
April 20, 2021 08:00 - 57 minutes - 40.3 MBSome people may look at John Ramstead's life and say he’s lost a lot. Crucibles cost him his dream of being a Top Gun fighter pilot, almost ruined him professionally and financially and nearly killed him in an accident that led to dozens of surgeries over two years -- and still left him with physical challenges. Yet Ramstead, an in-demand leadership coach and successful podcast host, says those "losses" helped him find the most important things in his life: his faith and his purpose. He rec...
Build Your Resilience: Taryn Marie Stejskal #63
April 13, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes - 39.4 MBAdversity, Taryn Marie Stejskal says, is a trip we take. Resilience paves the road we walk to move beyond it. As one of the foremost international experts on building and exercising resilience in business and in life, Stejskal has crafted the Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People through exhaustive research into the subject ... and informed by her harrowing experience of being stalked in high school by a man who eventually assaulted another victim. It's not the absence of crucibl...
Becoming Unbreakable -- Gregory Robinson #62
April 06, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBGregory Robinson's crucibles piled up in his youth: raised without a father, kicked out of the house at 16, eking out a day-to-day existence swiping soap from restaurants to wash up and making ends meet hustling pool while flopping with other boys from hardscrabble backgrounds. But his life began to turn around after a stint in juvenile detention set him on a path to get a job, join the military and build the responsibility and resilience that has led him to help others employ the principles...
Don't Aim to Be the GOAT, Just Be the Best You #61
March 23, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBThe Greatest of All Time. Shorthand, GOAT -- especially in sports contexts. But the single-minded pursuit of being the best (fill in the blank) in your sphere of influence can invade your professional and personal life, too. And when it does, it can be dangerous. Crucible Leadership founder and BEYOND THE CRUCIBLE host Warwick Fairfax talks with cohost Gary Schneeberger about why we should avoid chasing GOATdom – and, more importantly, how to do it. Warwick unpacks five insightful steps we ...
Hank McLarty: Finding Significance by Embracing Gratitude and Humility #60
March 16, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBHe was, in his own words, an "intense goal-setter" from the third grade. And Hank McLarty achieved most of what he set his mind to a football scholarship to Auburn, a financial services career at prestigious firms, recognition and wealth as one of the youngest and best in his industry. But when he started to "drink the Hank Kool-Aid" and believe he was as fabulous as the press coverage he earned said he was, his world collapsed. Living in a hotel with his two boys for two years, needing its ...
Bryan Price: Building a Curriculum Around Crucibles #59
March 09, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBSeton Hall University students who attend the Buccino Leadership Institute discover early the value of learning and leveraging the lessons of their crucible experiences. That's because the institute's executive director, retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Bryan Price, teaches a freshman course in which students share their most painful setbacks and failures with their classmates as a means of building confidence in themselves and camaraderie among their peers. It's leadership authenticity Price lear...
Tracy J. Edmonds: Embrace Your Wild Hair #58
March 02, 2021 09:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBFrom the outside looking in, Tracy J. Edmonds' life couldn't have been sweeter: a high-profile executive job with a Fortune 30 company at which she excelled. But on the inside, where she discovered it really counts, her career had come at a high cost because of a self-imposed crucible: not being her authentic self. So she decided to embrace both her figurative and literal wild hair -- trading her corner office for a cubicle and tackling a vision that not only meshed with her gifts and passio...
Teamwork Makes a Vision Work #57
February 23, 2021 09:00 - 59 minutes - 41.5 MBVisionaries who are also mavericks, who prefer to conquer what needs to be conquered as a solo expedition, often find themselves foiled by crucibles that could have been overcome had they taken a team approach. Crucible Leadership founder and BEYOND THE CRUCIBLE host Warwick Fairfax unpacks why some leaders reject the aid of a team as they pursue their vision while others embrace tackling a mission together -- and why the latter are usually more successful than the former. Yes, pursuing your...
Johannes Atlas: Believe You Are Enough #56
February 16, 2021 09:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBHe was born with Poland's Syndrome, a rare disease that left his right hand malformed and his muscle development non-existent. But Johannes Atlas was also born to parents who, as he puts it, "refused to baby him." Their support led him to overcome his physical challenges on a variety of sporting fields and his emotional challenges by believing -- as his mom and dad told him often -- he was "enough." Coming under the tutelage of business mentors as a young adult and inspired by his faith, Atl...
Kaley Klemp: Living and Leading with Radical Generosity #55
February 09, 2021 09:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBWhat do you do as a thought leader when crucible experiences force you to face that you're a "practice struggler"? That's the situation Kaley Klemp faced when she and her husband, Nate, hit a patch in their marriage so rocky they wondered if it might be the end. But they fought their way back by changing their mindsets from seeking fairness from each other to showing radical generosity to each other. In the process, they applied some of the very team-building skills each had learned in their...
Marvin Charles: From Drugs to D.A.D.S #54
February 02, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBFrom the tragic beginnings of being orphaned then abused by his guardian uncle, to his adulthood as a crack addict who fathered seven children by five woman, Marvin Charles was an unhappy story just waiting on a sad ending. But then he got sober and embraced God as his anchor -- and dramatically rewrote his destiny. Divine Alternatives for Dads -- D.A.D.S. -- the nonprofit he founded 20 years ago after navigating the legal system to put his family back together, has helped 5,000 men reclaim...
Don't See The "Other Side" as Evil #53
January 26, 2021 09:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBIt's no secret we live in a divided world, especially in the U.S. But disagreeing over issues and how best to solve the crucibles we face in our world and communities does not mean those who think differently than us are the enemy or evil. BEYOND THE CRUCIBLE host and Crucible Leadership founder Warwick Fairfax explains the danger in demonizing "the other side” from the comfort of our own echo chambers, and the breakthroughs that can occur if we refuse to judge and commit to listen to and un...
Ruza Markovic: Strength and Purpose Born of War #52
January 19, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBRuza Markovic had dreamt of and studied for a career in journalism -- when war intervened to change the trajectory of her life. While her family had emigrated to the U.S. from their native Yugoslavia when she was just 4, Markovic didn't think twice when she was asked to return to her homeland in the early '90s as a communications liaison to the teetering government while political unrest and then war-ravaged the Balkans. What she saw and experienced, she says, laid barren her faith in count...
Daniel Harkavy: Building a Champion Perspective #51
January 12, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBLeadership is not, in Daniel Harkavy's eyes, a complex equation. Its essential elements are the decisions you make and the influence you cultivate. But putting that into practice, especially after a crucible, can certainly be challenging. In his new book, THE 7 PERSPECTIVES OF EFFECTIVE LEADERS, the president of Building Champions unpacks the mindset shifts that remove the either/or restrictions many leaders feel while simultaneously pursuing success and significance. From understanding cur...
Looking Back to Move Forward #50
January 05, 2021 09:00 - 2 hours - 56 MBIn this special 50th episode of BEYOND THE CRUCIBLE, host Warwick Fairfax and co-host Gary Schneeberger take a look back at some of the most powerful guests who have shared the trials and triumphs of not just surviving their crucible experiences but moving beyond them to lead lives of significance. You'll meet inspiring men and women from all walks of life who have overcome physical, emotional, and professional setbacks, failures, and tragedies to live lives on purpose, rooted in their passi...
Chart Your Own Course to Shake Off the Holiday Blues #49
December 22, 2020 09:00 - 47 minutes - 33.1 MBIt's the most wonderful time of the year, right? Except it doesn't always feel that way. The holidays can bring on some serious emotional crucibles -- from tensions among family members, sadness over those who are no longer with us, even struggling to overcome our disappointment in decisions made by loved ones. That's what BEYOND THE CRUCIBLE host and Crucible Leadership founder Warwick Fairfax faced after a long-ago picture of his late father gave rise to emotions he wasn't expecting. Ho...
Lisa Blair, Part 2: 'How Do I Survive Tonight?' #48
December 15, 2020 09:00 - 49 minutes - 34.7 MBShe set out on a quest to become the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica. But 72 days in, when a horrific storm with waves as high as a two-story building caused her mast to topple and nearly sank her boat, Lisa Blair's journey changed from setting a record to staying alive. In the hours that followed, she called on her months of preparation, all the courage she could muster, and her indefatigable spirit to steady her craft -- then broke off pursuit of the record to head to port in Ca...
Lisa Blair, Part 1: Reframing Failure #47
December 08, 2020 09:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBShe's known internationally as the first woman to sail solo around Antartica, a celebrated explorer who fought through unimaginable trials en route to setting her world record. But before she ever stepped foot off dry land, Lisa Blair was a shy, reserved Australian girl bullied at school. She headed off to university determined to shed the mask she wore in high school, and later learned the importance of viewing failure not as falling short, but not trying at all. She found her life's callin...
Jeff Kemp: Beating Life's Blitzes #46
December 01, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBIn more than 20 years of playing football, as an amateur and in the NFL, Jeff Kemp was only once earmarked as his team's starting quarterback before the season began. His career never did match that of his legendary dad, AFL standout Jack Kemp -- whose shadow loomed even larger thanks to a distinguished career in politics and public service after he retired from the game. But while Jeff got knocked down a few times, he always got back up. He learned his life had a greater purpose than just a...
Dom Brightmon: Turning Adversity Into Advantage #45
November 24, 2020 09:00 - 50 minutes - 35.3 MBLife, Dom Brightmon freely admits, can be crappy sometimes. But each of us has the power to flip the switch to "happy" -- the key is to view our crucible experiences as crystal experiences. Through books (like CRAPPY TO HAPPY), public speaking, and working with men and women going through setbacks and failures, Brightmon (a member of the John Maxwell-certified leadership team) is both a teacher and practitioner of the truth that when you advance others, you advance yourself. To learn m...
Battling Crucible Fatigue - The Power of One Small Step #44
November 17, 2020 09:00 - 53 minutes - 37.4 MBMoving beyond your crucible is hard work, even harder when the circumstances that knocked you off your feet seem to linger forever. How do you get going again when it feels like your crucible is a bottomless pit, a black hole? Crucible Leadership founder and BEYOND THE CRUCIBLE host Warwick Fairfax lays down a roadmap for getting back on track toward a life of significance. "It's not an easy cycle to break when you're at the bottom of your crucible," he says. But it can be done ... if you em...
Kimberly Spencer: Warrior for Possibility #43
November 10, 2020 09:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBHer resume is wildly impressive: best-selling author, award-winning screenwriter, successful entrepreneur, celebrated fitness trainer and health activist -- she even won Miss Congeniality at the Miss California USA pageant. But Kimberly Spencer's accomplishments hid her demons -- bulimia, trying to be who others wanted and expected her to be, a victim of emotional self-sabotage. When she realized she had the power to crown herself whole, she stopped breaking off pieces of her personal and pr...
Whitney-Singletary-White: The Right Ingredients for Significance #42
November 03, 2020 09:00 - 57 minutes - 40 MBShe baked her first batch of cookies in the California sun at age 3 -- with mud as the secret ingredient. Ever since that day, Whitney Singletary-White has dreamed of being a baker, and she's made that dream come true with her gourmet Nuttin' Butter Cookies. She sells the exotic nut-butter confections from her driveway these days, rising above the crucible of the COVID-19 pandemic with the same kind of grit that saw her fightback from a brutal assault that almost cost her much more than her ...
Sheila Heen: Defusing Difficult Conversations #41
October 27, 2020 08:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBWe know them when we're in them. Or avoiding them. Uncomfortable conversations when it feels like one wrong word -- or even one right word expressed wrongly -- can explode like a hand grenade. But we can avoid the detonation and destruction, Harvard Negotiation Project and Harvard Law School lecturer Sheila Heen explain in unpacking the insights and action items in her books Difficult Conversations and Thanks for the Feedback. The key, she says, is recognizing that in tough conversations we'...
Vulnerability is Strength When Done for a Purpose #40
October 20, 2020 08:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBWant to be a leader known as strong, confident, honest, transparent, and secure? The vulnerability can pave your way to all those adjectives -- if you employ it wisely. Host Warwick Fairfax discusses with co-host Gary Schneeberger the helpful and the not-so-helpful ways you can be open about yourself. When vulnerability works, they explain, it can help your team members weather crucibles they're going through today -- and inoculate them against those yet to come. To learn more about Crucib...
Ryan Campbell: Piloting Past Paralysis #39
October 13, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBAt 19, Ryan Campbell became the youngest pilot to fly solo around the world. Two years later, a horrific plane crash threatened more than the dream he birthed at 6 to make a life and a living streaking through the skies. Left a paraplegic after the accident, he fought back physically and emotionally to walk -- and hope -- again. Today, he's an in-demand motivational speaker who inspires audiences to build a mindset toolbox to conquer their crucibles. To learn more about Ryan Campbell, visi...
Adom Appiah: Never Too Young to Change the World #38
October 06, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBIn 8th grade, after dreaming for years of competing in the finals of the National Spelling Bee, Adom Appiah got knocked out of the competition early. Instead of wallowing in the disappointment of that crucible, though, he turned his attention to consoling the other kids who had also fallen short. That's just one example of how this 16-year-old -- author of two books and founder of the fundraising nonprofit Ball4Good -- is living a life of significance and already focused on building a legacy...
Cami Smalley: Self-Care in the Midst of Crucibles #37
September 29, 2020 08:00 - 51 minutes - 36 MBIt's hard enough to get through failures and setbacks -- we only make them worse by beating ourselves up or trying to move past them too quickly. Author and wellness coach Cami Smalley stresses the importance of looking at crucibles through the lens of our strengths and being intentional about taking mindful pauses to fuel our recovery and build resilience.
Battling Perfectionism -- #36
September 22, 2020 08:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBIt can make a professional paper cut feel like a full-fledged crucible. It leaves you wondering why you and your work are never good enough. But perfectionism, for all its insidiousness, can be overcome. Show yourself some grace, find the humor in your missteps, and realize that good enough usually is, in fact, good enough. To learn more about Crucible Leadership, and to sign up to receive regular email updates and insights, visit www.CrucibleLeadership.com
Joseph Badarocco: Lead Quietly, Reflect Regularly -- #35
September 15, 2020 08:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBThere never seems to be enough time to finish all your work -- let alone think about it, especially when crucibles hit. Harvard Business School professor Joseph Badarocco says that's because we view reflection all wrong. It doesn't need to be a mountaintop experience, he writes in his new book, Step Back: How to Bring the Art of Reflection into Your Busy Life. It can be a mosaic pursuit, one you find time for in the margins of your life -- while driving, exercising, doing household chores. H...
Toni Munoz Kaufman: Living with Joy Amid Health, Job Crises #34
September 08, 2020 08:00 - 51 minutes - 36 MBShe had a great corporate job, doing what she felt called and equipped to do. Then Toni Munoz Kaufman contracted SARS, which nearly killed her and did cost her a lung. As she recovered, she was laid off. But her joyous spirit and wisdom passed down from her father pushed her to persevere and help other Baby Boomers overcome their crucibles as entrepreneurs. To learn more about Toni Kaufman, visit www.tonikaufman.com To learn more about Crucible Leadership and to sign up for regular e-mai...
Dr. Suzy Green: The Power of Positive Psychology -- #33
August 25, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes - 27.4 MBUnderstanding what science has to say about learning the lessons of a crucible experience -- from reframing what happened to embrace forgiveness -- can be an overlooked key to moving past the pain and toward healing and significance To learn more about Dr. Suzy Green, visit www.thepositivityinstitute.com.au/ To learn more about Crucible Leadership and to sign up to receive regular updates, visit www.crucibleleadership.com
The Perils of 'Heroic Leadership' -- #32
August 18, 2020 08:00 - 39 minutes - 27.8 MBHeroic leaders like Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln get movies made about them -- just like superheroes such as Batman and Captain America. But the rousing triumphs that echo through history, or comic books, aren't the whole story -- or even sometimes the best story. Quietness, patience and humility are key qualities of success and significance even for great leaders. To learn more about CrucibleLeadership and sign up to receive regular email updates, visit www.CrucibleLeadership.com.
Chris Tuff: Finding Significance by Redefining Success -- #31
August 11, 2020 08:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBHis big-deal career and its big-money perks left him unsatisfied. So he stopped viewing success as outperforming others and started serving others. Today he's the best-selling author of The Millennial Whisperer and making a lasting impact on the leaders of tomorrow. To learn more about Chris Tuff, visit www.22squared.com To learn more about Crucible Leadership, visit www.CrucibleLeadership/com
Sarah Nannen: Lean Into Your Pain -- #30
August 04, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes - 27.1 MBAfter losing her husband to a military training accident, she fought for joy for herself and her four children by moving beyond surviving. To learn more about Sarah Nannen, visit www.sarahnannen.com To learn more about Crucible Leadership and to sign up for regular email updates from Warwick Fairfax, visit www.crucibleleadership.com
Mike Valentine: Finding Love, Grace and Peace Through On-Purpose Living -- #29
July 28, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBMike Valentine was a blue-collar kid who grew into a blue-collar young man, a longshoreman's son who began working as a steelworker as a teenager, walking his first skyscraper beam at 14. His was a hardscrabble existence: He spent the next decade and a half addicted to alcohol and beset with its devastations -- bar fights, car accidents and times behind bars. All that changed when his daughter was born -- and he turned his attention to living life in pursuit of a worthy purpose. Today, as f...
Lend Them Your Ears: You Must Listen to Those You Lead -- #28
July 21, 2020 08:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBListening is one of the most necessary, and least practiced, leadership skills in business and life today. And lest you think lack of listening is a new phenomenon, brought on by the last few decades of tech advances that have created tech distractions, think again. Harvard Business Review found in 1957 that people remember only about half of what they hear, even when they're trying really hard to dial in. In this episode, BEYOND THE CRUCIBLE host and Crucible Leadership founder Warwick Fair...
Tim Hague: Persevering Through a Parkinson's Diagnosis at 46 to Win The Amazing Race and Find New Purpose - #27
July 14, 2020 08:00 - 52 minutes - 24.7 MBFewer than 10 percent of those living with Parkinson's Disease are under 60. Tim Hague is one of them. As a nurse for two decades, he sensed immediately what was wrong when, at age 46, he noticed a tremor in his left toe. His self-diagnosis was soon confirmed, and in the months that followed he pressed deeply into his Christian faith to grasp "Why has God done this to me?" But he refused to wallow in regret or self-doubt, and just three years later he was competing on and winning, The Amazin...
Nancy Koehn Part 2: Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton's Unimaginable Series of Crucibles is a Lesson in Always "Facing Forward" -- #26
July 07, 2020 08:00 - 47 minutes - 22.1 MBErnest Shackleton and the men he was leading on an expedition to cross Antarctica had piled up a breathtaking number of life-threatening crucibles by late 1915. Stuck motionless in polar block ice for months, hundreds of miles off course with no way to communicate their location to anyone who could help, Shackleton and his men were running low on the supplies they had already been forced to ration in miserly fashion when their greatest disaster struck: The ice that had trapped their ship now...
Nancy Koehn, Part 1: Harvard Business School Professor's Personal Crucibles Fueled Her Best-Seller on Leaders "Forged in Crisis" -- #25
June 30, 2020 08:00 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MBNancy Koehn was on track for an administrative leadership role at Harvard Business School, where she taught the history of leadership to the world's best and brightest. But a series of personal crucibles -- the death of her father, a divorce that came without warning and decimated her finances, a cancer diagnosis -- caused the floorboards of her personal and professional lives to crumble beneath her. Her career aspirations drydocked, her sleep interrupted nightly at 1 or 2 a.m., she sought s...
Warwick Fairfax Shares Pain of $2.25B Failure, Joy of Finding Significance in Book Due in 2021 - #24
June 16, 2020 08:00 - 36 minutes - 17 MBLife has not always been easy for Warwick Fairfax. That's a statement many in his native Australia never would have associated with the fifth-generation heir to arguably the country's most influential media empire. But then he launched a multi-billion-dollar takeover of the company that failed spectacularly -- leaving him with regrets, self-doubt, and uncertainty about his future. More than 30 years after the takeover fell apart, the founder of Crucible Leadership and host of BEYOND THE CRUC...