Beyond the Crucible

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Burn the Ships 9: Series Wrap-Up: 5 Truths We Learned About Lighting the Match #158 Apr 04, 2023

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Over the last eight weeks, our guests have shared some profound insights to help guide you as you consider making a bold, dramatic pivot in your life to pursue something life-changing and significant. We distilled their top tips into our latest blog, and Warwick and cohost Gary Schneeberger discuss them in depth on this episode. Our goal is to help you walk away – maybe “sail away” is a better way to put it – from the series with critical takeaways to help you decide whether it’s time for you to burn some ships … and if it is, to give you some guidance on how and when to strike the match. And you’ll want to be sure, more than ever, that you stick around till the end. Because that’s when we’ll give you all the details you need about the opportunity we’re offering for you to be personally coached by Warwick as you look to board the boat that takes you from “Is this all there is?” to “This is all I’ve ever wanted.” To explore Beyond the Crucible assets, including the Burn the Ships blog and our free Life of Significance assessment, visit www.beyondthecrucible.com

Have a question? Drop us a line at info@beyondthecrucible.com

Burn the Ships 8: From Ministry Executive to Corporate CEO: Mike Beckham #157 Mar 28, 2023

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When you find yourself with a match in your hand, contemplating burning the ship you’re in to climb aboard another that will take you in a different direction, having the opportunity to make an impact is about the best destination you can chart a course for. And that’s exactly what Mike Beckham did. This week, in the final interview in our special winter series BURN THE SHIPS, Warwick talks with Beckham about transitioning from rewarding work at a nonprofit ministry to the world of business – first as a member of his brother’s team at an e-commerce startup and then as a founder and the CEO of Simple Modern, one of the nation’s most successful sellers of water bottles and tumblers. But the brand’s moto – We Exist To Give Generously – is as critical to its mission as its bottom line. The company has donated more than $2 million to more than 1,100 nonprofits since being established in 2015. “I call myself a nonprofit refugee in a for-profit world,” Beckham says … and that’s how he’s found the impact he was searching for when he set his ships on fire. To learn more about Mike Beckham and Simple Modern, visit https://www.simplemodern.com/ To explore Beyond the Crucible assets, including our free Life of Significance assessment, visit www.beyondthecrucible.com Have a question? Drop us a line at info@beyondthecrucible.com

Burn the Ships 7: From Corporate Executive to Ministry President: Dan Wolgemuth #156 Mar 21, 2023

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This week, Warwick speaks to Dan Wolgemuth, whose burn the ships moment looks a little different on his resume than it does in his heart. After nearly three decades of working in the corporate world, he followed his faith into becoming president of a nonprofit Christian ministry. But he’d have never gotten there if the flames didn’t first get lit iwithin. He had to stop pursuing a career script written by and starring him and follow a new one written to focus not on what he could accomplish, but on whom he could accomplish it for. “I burned a ship in my own soul,” he tells us … and in doing so made a forever difference in the lives of troubled youth. To learn more about Dan Wolgemuth, visit www.fridayfragments.com. To learn more about Youth for Christ, visit https://yfci.org To explore Beyond the Crucible assets, including our free Life of Significance assessment, visit www.beyondthecrucible.com Have a question? Drop us a line at info@beyondthecrucible.com

Burn the Ships 6: From Drug Dealer to Entrepreneur and Mentor: Donte Wilburn #155 Mar 14, 2023

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In this episode of our special winter series BURN THE SHIPS, we talk to Donte Wilburn about how he wound up selling drugs in his teens and 20s – recognizing the danger but embracing the lifestyle that dealing allowed him to live. But that lifestyle, he explains, came perilously close to ending his life. It was only after he leaned into his faith and avoided prison thanks to a judge who believed in him that he found a new ship to board – starting out washing cars for minimum wage at an auto-detailing business he now owns. His success has fueled his desire to pass long the lessons about truly succeeding he learned the hard way to the young people who work for him – so they don’t have to learn them the hard way. It's wisdom he passes along in his soon-to-be released book, Born Hungry: You Were Made for More. For more information about Donte Wilburn, visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/dontewilburn/ To explore Beyond the Crucible assets, visit beyondthecrucible.com To start creating a life you love, explore our new e-course, Discover Your Second-Act Significance, by visiting secondactsignificance.com

Burn the Ships 5: From Biomedical Engineer to Reality-Show Adventurer: Joel Hungate #154 Mar 07, 2023

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Go do it! That's the counsel, the hope, the legacy the mother of our guest this week, Joel Hungate, gave her son. He’d need those words more urgently than he ever could have imagined when she died by suicide, leaving him to question everything on which he had based his life. In this episode of our special winter series, BURN THE SHIPS, Warwick talks with Hungate about how his Mom’s death left him in an emotional spiral that he was only able to get out of by embracing his faith. And taking seriously her exhortation to “go do it.” He’s done just that but trading his corporate career as a biomedical engineer for creating the Adventure Genome Project, in which he helps men and women not just get fit and healthy, but to do so with an eye on embracing adventure. It’s a journey he knows firsthand, as one of 16 contestants on the new Netflix survivalist series OUTLAST, premiering on the streaming service March 10. His tip for all of us: Put one foot in front of the other. That's how you get to the top. To learn more about Joel Hungate visit www.joelhungate.com. To watch the debut season of OUTLAST, visit netflix.com. To explore Beyond the Crucible assets, visit beyondthecrucible.com

To start creating a life you love, explore our new e-course, Discover Your Second-Act Significance, by visiting secondactsignificance.com

Burn the Ships 4: From Crucible Leadership to Beyond the Crucible #153 Feb 28, 2023

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If you’ve been listening to our special winter series BURN THE SHIPS, you’ll know why we’ve turned the microphones on ourselves this week. It's because we’ve made our own pivot – changing our business name from Crucible Leadership to the name of this podcast, Beyond the Crucible. While the change is more a remodeling of our ship than setting it ablaze, it does indeed signal an expanded vision that speaks to our new focus and the new inspiration and action steps we can offer you as you embark on your journey to turn your trials into triumph. In this episode we talk about the benefits of the new name, including more precisely articulating our desire to offer hope and healing not just to business leaders, but to anyone in search of insights and tools to make sure that their worst days don’t define them. To explore Beyond the Crucible assets, visit beyondthecrucible.com To start creating a life you love, explore our new e-course, Discover Your Second-Act Significance, by visiting secondactsignificance.com

Burn the Ships 3: From Doctor to Actor: Darwin Shaw #152 Feb 21, 2023

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In this third episode of our winter series BURN THE SHIPS, Darwin Shaw describes how he set fire to a medical career, with the near-guarantees it offered, to pursue acting and the creative joys it offered. Maybe you know him as Daniel Craig’s first kill enroute to double O status in CASINO ROYALE; maybe as the Apostle Peter in the megahit miniseries THE BIBLE. Maybe from his role as a key creator of The Anti-Viral Film Project, an international effort to provide creative work for actors and filmmakers during the pandemic to tell a multi-generational story about families around the globe, who strive for connection and catharsis, against the turmoil of the COVID-19. “If you can hone in on what’s truthful to you and follow that,” he tells Warwick of his pivot from behind a stethoscope to in front of a camera, “I don’t think you’re ever going to regret it.” To learn more about Darwin Shaw and the Antiviral Film Project, visit www.six-feet-films.com To explore Beyond the Crucible assets, visit beyondthecrucible.com

To start creating a life you love, explore our new e-course, Discover Your Second-Act Significance, by visiting secondactsignificance.com

Burn the Ships 2: From Chasing Success to Embracing Intentionality -- Finnian Kelly #151 Feb 14, 2023

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What do you do when the normal tools you use to navigate life no longer work? When the ships that have taken you to a crossroads – or maybe a crosswaters – in your life are smoldering? According to our guest this week, Finnian Kelly, you set sail in a new craft to a new destination: intentionality.

In this second episode of our winter series BURN THE SHIPS, Kelly discusses how all the success he chased, and caught – a prestigious military career, top-shelf entrepreneurship, star of a National Geographic channel documentary – eventually failed him. Because he had never cared for the wounded soul he suffered as a boy, his world crashed around him in the wake of a difficult divorce and a significant business failure. That’s when he finally did the inner work necessary to allow him to move on to a life or authentic purpose. And he’s not taking that journey alone, but helping others to also live in the now and get on their own unique path to significance.

To learn more about Finnian Kelly, visit www.finniankelly.com

To explore Beyond the Crucible assets, visit beyondthecrucible.com

To start creating a life you love, explore our new e-course, Discover Your Second-Act Significance, by visiting: secondactsignificance.com

Burn the Ships 1: From Music to Lifestyle Brand Entrepreneur: Eryn Eddy #150 Feb 07, 2023

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Eryn Eddy had found a way to make her passion for music pay off -- licensing her original compositions to VH1 and MTV and some of the most popular shows on television. But she longed to give giving people more than a song to listen to. She wanted to give them a truth to live by. That makes her the ideal first guest for our new series BURN THE SHIPS, in which we’re talking with men and women who have been brave enough to make dramatic pivots, leaving behind “safe” and familiar lives to do something dramatic, new, life-changing and significant – facing down and overcoming crucibles along the way. Eddy has done just that, starting by spray-painting fans' T-shirts with the simple, profound message SO WORTH LOVING. Her efforts offered so much hope and healing to so many people that So Worth Loving became a successful lifestyle brand that, as the company mission statement puts it, exists to remind you of your worth so you can remind others of theirs. In fact, that’s been Eryn’s own story, as she explains in our interview. Self-doubt, broken relationships, fears that what she tried just might not work out – those are the crucibles she’s fought through to help others find the resilience to do the same. To learn more about Eryn Eddy and So Worth Loving, visit www.soworthloving.com To explore Beyond the Crucible assets, visit beyondthecrucible.com

To start creating a life you love, explore our new e-course, Discover Your Second-Act Significance, by visiting: secondactsignificance.com

A Life Resolution That Will Last Well Past the New Year #149 Feb 01, 2023

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The ultimate hope of every one of us is to live a life worthy of being remembered. If that’s something you’ve been thinking about during this season of New Year’s resolutions, you’ve come to the right podcast. This week, Beyond the Crucible founder Warwick Fairfax unpacks his timely new blog about ways you can commit in 2023 to live in a way that is true to who you are, anchored in a vision that is uniquely yours and therefore uniquely satisfying and significant. He discusses seven key steps you can begin taking today to seize the benefits of authenticity – from understanding your design to reflecting on your beliefs, from focusing on what you’re passionate about to surrounding yourself with a supportive team of fellow travelers. As Warwick says, the effort is worth it because your life matters!

To explore Beyond the Crucible assets, visit beyondthecrucible.com

To start creating a life you love, explore our new e-course, Discover Your Second-Act Significance, by visiting: secondactsignificance.com

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