Beyond the Crucible

The Healing Power of Hidden Medicine: Dr. Thomas McCormack That's our guest this week, Dr. Thomas McCormack, has done pioneering research into how adding a spiritual component to psychiatric and medical care can have a powerful impact. The medical discipline he pioneered — rouachiatry — takes a 12-step approach to helping patients find healing, especially in the wake of crucibles, by leaning i...

Aim for Healing, Not a Cure, After a Crucible: Sharon Land Her life was in complete upheaval. Her future was uncertain. But her mind was made up. Our guest this week, Sharon Land, recounts how a devastating relationship crucible, plus the health crisis of suffering a stroke in her 30s, led her to pursue true wellness — first for herself, and then for others as a licensed holistic therapist, high p...

Building a Life-Changing Gratitude Habit How do we train our brains, hearts and souls to dial into gratitude? That's the ground we cover today as we look at Warwick's latest blog — How to Tap Into the Life Changing Power of Gratitude. We explore seven steps that will help you focus more regularly on being grateful. And, as a bonus, we also discuss the physical, psychological and social ben...

Applying the Actionable Truths 7: Fellow Travelers People you can trust. Who don't have hidden agendas. Who are truly on the same page. That's who you need to look for when you are building a team of fellow travelers, which we discuss this week on the seventh episode of our series within the show on the Beyond the Crucible Roadmap. How do you find them? As we say here, you can learn a lot from Fro...

She Lost Millions and Found Her True Calling: Amy Shippy Broken and shattered. These are familiar emotions after a crucible — especially one that forces you to start over after losing a multi-million-dollar business. But start over is exactly what our guest this, week, Amy Shippy did — and continues to do. She's started four new businesses, including the one she says is her true calling to a l...

Summer Reflections: Rest is a Weapon for a Life of Significance Prioritizing rest. Taking the time to take a break. It can sound counterintuitive to living a life of significance, but as we discuss this week, it's actually critical to it. Why and how? We discuss several reasons why slowing down can actually speed up your readiness to live a life on purpose, dedicated to serving others. And it all...

Big Screen, Big Crucibles VIII: The Monuments Men In this final episode of our summer series, BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES, we discuss the crucibles and the overcoming of them in THE MONUMENTS MEN. That's the name given during WWII to the ragtag team of art historians and curators who form a unit to recover stolen art before Hitler destroys it. The mission becomes urgent, and their crucibles more...

This week, in the seventh episode of our summer series, BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES, we look at INVICTUS. It's the story of how after apartheid, President Nelson Mandela uses the national rugby team to unite a deeply divided South Africa and win the 1995 Rugby World Cup, transforming a nation through the universal language of sport. It would prove to be a crucible-riddled pursuit that requires a...

Big Screen, Big Crucibles VI: Erin Brockovich Making a significant difference is the goal of anyone hoping to lead a life of significance. And it's certainly the vision the title character of ERIN BOCKOVICH is committed to living out. This week, in episode six of our summer series BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES, we discuss how Erin overcomes being underestimated and seizes the opportunity her job a...

Big Screen, Big Crucibles V: The Pursuit of Happyness We say often that to be truly happy, we must live a life of significance. That's exactly the kind of life being sought by the lead character of THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, the fifth film in our summer series, BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES. Chris Gardner is a man who wants to build a better life for his young son but keeps getting knocked down by...

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 oth...

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 hi...

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...

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 prisone...

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 n...

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. I...

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 ta...

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...

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 los...

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...

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...

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...

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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 Crucib...

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, fea...