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Beyond the Crucible

You are more than your failures and setbacks. We share stories of leaders who have moved beyond life

Episodes

Total: 269

She set out on a quest to become the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica. But 72 days in, whe

She's known internationally as the first woman to sail solo around Antartica, a celebrated explorer

In more than 20 years of playing football, as an amateur and in the NFL, Jeff Kemp was only once ear

Life, Dom Brightmon freely admits, can be crappy sometimes. But each of us has the power to flip the

Moving beyond your crucible is hard work, even harder when the circumstances that knocked you off yo

Her resume is wildly impressive: best-selling author, award-winning screenwriter, successful entrepr

She baked her first batch of cookies in the California sun at age 3 -- with mud as the secret ingred

We know them when we're in them. Or avoiding them. Uncomfortable conversations when it feels like on

Want to be a leader known as strong, confident, honest, transparent, and secure? The vulnerability c

At 19, Ryan Campbell became the youngest pilot to fly solo around the world. Two years later, a horr

In 8th grade, after dreaming for years of competing in the finals of the National Spelling Bee, Adom

It's hard enough to get through failures and setbacks -- we only make them worse by beating ourselve

It can make a professional paper cut feel like a full-fledged crucible. It leaves you wondering why

There never seems to be enough time to finish all your work -- let alone think about it, especially

She had a great corporate job, doing what she felt called and equipped to do. Then Toni Munoz Kaufma

Understanding what science has to say about learning the lessons of a crucible experience -- from re

Heroic leaders like Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln get movies made about them -- just like su

His big-deal career and its big-money perks left him unsatisfied. So he stopped viewing success as o

After losing her husband to a military training accident, she fought for joy for herself and her fou

Mike Valentine was a blue-collar kid who grew into a blue-collar young man, a longshoreman's son w