Beyond the Crucible

Big Screen, Big Crucibles IV: Les Miserables
You've heard us talk a lot over the years at Beyond the Crucible about the power of forgiveness — and that's one of the core themes of our discussion this week of LES MISERABLES, the fourth film in our summer series BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES.
Everyone in the movie experiences a crucible, but those who receive and then extend mercy and forgiveness to others are the ones who find lives of si...

Big Screen, Big Crucibles III: Rudy
This week, in episode three of our summer series BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES, we take a look at Rudy, the inspirational story of one young man's refusal to give up on his dream of playing football for the University of Notre Dame.
With grit greater than gridiron skill, despite being underestimated since childhood, Rudy Ruettiger learns and applies the truth his best friend told him: “Havi...

Big Screen, Big Crucibles II: Hidden Figures
The three African-American women at the center of HIDDEN FIGURES, the second film in our summer series BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES, face marginalization and discrimination for their gender and their race in 1961. But they summon grit, fortitude and brilliance that prove critical to the U.S winning the Space Race against the Russians.
They would all become NASA legends ... and are ins...

Big Screen, Big Crucibles I: UnbrokenWe kick off our eight-part summer series — BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES — this week with a look at the remarkable life of Louie Zamperini, whose true story of overcoming several devastating crucibles is told in the film UNBROKEN.

The movie depicts him as an Olympic athlete, an air force bombardier adrift in a life boat for 47 days during World War II and a prisoner of war brutalized by his captors i...

How Bonhoeffer Film Director Battled His Own Darkness: Todd Komarnicki
Our guest this week, Hollywood writer, producer and director Todd Komarnicki, discusses the instructive and inspirational life of German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the subject of a film he made last year.  The movie, which explores how Bonhoeffer summoned the courage during the rise of Adolf Hitler to call his nation's churches to stand ag...

Applying the Actionable Truths 6: Vision

A great vision, we discuss this week in the sixth episode of our series within the show on the Beyond the Crucible Roadmap and its actionable truths, is one which seems so real you can almost feel it and touch it. You have this overwhelming desire to make that vision a reality.

This vision may be a combination of lessons you’ve learned from your crucible. It will typically involve people you w...

The Power of Humbler Leadership: Josh Wymore
Josh Wymore, our guest this week, was striking out as a leader as an assistant coach of a women's softball team — until a more seasoned coach gave him counsel that changed the trajectory of not just his leadership, but his life. Wymore was trying to lead the ladies thinking he had to have, and provide, all the answers.
What the more experienced coach taught him set him on the p...

Want Contentment? Here's How to Find It
Discontentment. It's a crucible all its own when you're not living a life aligned with your skills and values. But what if you are pursuing a life that is fully aligned with your skills and values? Discontentment can be a world-rattler when is pops up under those circumstances.
Warwick tackles this subject in his most recent blog, and in our discussion this week we help you ...

How Tragedy Awakened Her Extraordinary Purpose to Help Others: Carey Conley
Carey Conley lost husband Ross to suicide in 2014 and her son Cole to the same manner of death just three years later.
After these devastating losses, she tells us this week, she was faced with a choice: To find purpose through despair, or to throw in the towel.
She chose purpose. She found it in helping those who feel lost in day-to-day life craft...

Applying the Actionable Truths 5: Character
We take a look this week at the fifth actionable truth our research has shown us helps you move from trial to triumph: character.
It's one thing to have beliefs and values, it's another thing to live them out. So we have to make a choice. Are our beliefs and values going to be a bumper sticker or something hanging on a corporate wall … or are they going to be real? That's the sum and substa...

His Greatest Adrenaline Rush? Serving Others: John Graham 

John Graham shipped out on a freighter to Asia when he was 16, hitchhiked through the Algerian Revolution at 19 and was on the team that made the first ascent of Mt. McKinley's North Wall at 20, a climb so dangerous it’s never been repeated. He hitchhiked around the world at 22, working as a correspondent for the Boston Globe in every war he came across.

A U.S. Foreign Servic...

The Valuable Lessons in Others' Mistakes

How can other people’s mistakes or misfortunes, whether they were their fault or not, benefit you? We may agree we can learn from our own mistakes and misfortunes, but we can also learn from the mistakes other people made and the misfortunes other people have faced.

This week, we discuss Warwick's latest blog at BeyondTheCrucible.com to discover what we can learn from what others have gone t...

From a Life Sentence to a Life Restored: Judy Henderson

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Applying the Actionable Truths 4: Faith
We take a look this week at the fourth actionable truth our research has shown us helps you move from trial to triumph: faith.
To effectively move beyond a crucible, we need to have an anchor for our soul, a guiding light for our journey. Something that will keep us on track and in touch with who we really are. That is what we call faith at Beyond the Crucible.
It may include different belief sy...

Lauren Burns was 7 years old when her father, a Jordanian national divorced from her mother when she was just a few weeks old, kidnapped her and took her to his homeland. His plan was to raise her there.

But Lauren's Mom fought tirelessly and valiantly to bring her back home to America. The details of how she succeeded in being reunited with her daughter, told here in edge-of-your-seat detail, feature a clandestine rescue operation ...

Building a Life You Don't Want to Escape From

We discuss Warwick’s latest blog at beyondthecrucible.com, with thoughts on how we can shift from a life of quiet desperation to a life of joy, fulfillment and purpose.

We've got all the questions you need to ask yourself here, from What is your true calling?  to What are your beliefs and values?, from How do you want the rhythms of your life to look? to How do you see this adding up to a...

Tackling M.S. with Mindfulness: Scott Eblin
Scott Eblin describes himself as feeling "bulletproof" after working more than two decades as a executive leader and a leadership coach. Then he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The illness set him on a journey to develop mindfulness practices in his work and life that have made both better.
He says mindfulness is the intersection of two qualities—awareness and intention. The first he...

Applying the Actionable Truths 3: Authenticity

We take a look this week at the third actionable truth our research has shown us helps you move from trial to triumph: authenticity.This truth is the first in the processing phase of our Beyond the Crucible Roadmap for moving past our worst day toward new opportunity. This phase, we discuss, is marked by the need to overcome fear and commit to change — two things we can only do by leani...

His childhood was something out of a mafia movie — boy attracted to what he saw as the glamour of the flashy toughs in his working-class New York City neighborhood. And Robert Borelli's story was not headed for a happy ending.

What began as running errands for the mobsters he idolized turned into committing crimes that escalated in their violence and an addiction to drugs that robbed him of the respect he worked so hard to get.

B...