Fortitudine Vincimus. This Latin phrase is the family motto of Ernest Shackleton translated as “by endurance we conquer.” As his family, friends, and team in Western North Carolina deal with the unbelievable damage caused by Hurricane Helene, Jake launches this four-part series on building the discipline of endurance to surviving trying times and step up in moments of extreme adversity. As William Barclay once said “Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”