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 want to help. Either way, a great vision is one that is other-focused, that in some way will help the world to be a better place.

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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 path of embracing, researching and writing about HUMBLER LEADERSHIP, the title of his book we talk about this week.
The lessons he lays out can not only unlock humility in your leadership, it can help you avoid and overcome crucibles, too.
To learn more about John Wymore, visit joshwymore.com
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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 overcome those difficult feelings with such tips as understanding that contentment is not found solely in what you do and asking yourself if your identity is wrapped up in the cause you are devoting your life to.
If it is — another tip — decouple who you are from what you do.
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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 vision plans to find their footing. She helps people create crystal clear written visions for every area of their life, so they take action every day toward living out their purpose. And purpose, she says, is what gives people hope.
To learn more about Carey Conley, visit www.careyconley.com
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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 substance of this week's conversation.
To come back from our crucible, we really need to live what we believe. That is a critical step on the journey to getting beyond our crucible and leading a life of significance.
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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 Service Officer for fifteen years, he served in Libya during the 1969 revolution and in one of the most difficult and dangerous areas in Vietnam during the war there.. For three years in the mid-seventies, he was a member of NATO’s top-secret Nuclear Planning Group, then served as a foreign policy advisor for Sen. John Glenn. During a posting at the United Nations, however, his life began to turn. He became deeply involved in U.S. human rights initiatives, including the fight against apartheid in South Africa.

Still, something was missing. In 1980, a close brush with death aboard a burning cruise ship in a typhoon in the North Pacific forced him to accept a deeper meaning for his life. He found it in 1983, when he became and still works as a leader of the Giraffe Heroes Project, a global nonprofit moving people to stick their necks out for the common good—and giving them the tools to succeed

To learn more about John Graham, visit www.johngraham.org

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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 through. Action steps like hit the reset button, understand the why and decide to live differently can help us avoid facing the same situations; and even if we end up facing them, it might give us more insight into how to handle those situations and bounce back faster.

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From a Life Sentence to a Life Restored: Judy Henderson

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At age 18. Judy Henderson married the man who would become the father of her two children. What began with hopes of family and stability turned into 12 years of domestic abuse, a period she later recognized as foundational to her vulnerability in subsequent relationships.

In 1982, she was wrongly convicted of capital murder in a case tied to her then-boyfriend’s criminal activities. He was acquitted at trial; she was sentenced to life in prison without parole. At 32,Henderson entered the Missouri prison system with no history of criminal behavior and little understanding of the legal process that had condemned her.

What followed was not just the passage of time, but a metamorphosis. Angry and disoriented at first, Henderson turned inward to confront her past and embrace her faith. Therapy sessions and support groups — particularly those for survivors of domestic abuse — helped her understand the patterns of trauma that had shaped her decisions. She came to recognize herself as a battered woman, a term she had not known before incarceration. 

Her eventual release came in 2017 through the clemency of then-Governor Eric Greitens, who made history as the first Missouri governor to personally visit a prison to deliver news of a commutation. Now in her seventies and living near her family in Missouri, Henderson works for Catholic Charities and remains an active advocate for criminal justice reform.

She recounts it all in her new memoir, When the Light Finds Us: From a Life Sentence to a Life Transformed.

To learn more about Judy Henderson, including how to buy her memoir, visit www.judyannhenderson.com

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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 systems, such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism. It could be different philosophical or spiritual ways of thinking. But to withstand the storms of life and the crucibles we may encounter, we have to have an immovable north star that guides us to our life of significance — especially through the challenges we encounter along the way.
"The point," Warwick says, "is that we need to get in touch with what we believe at our very core."
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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 led by former U.S. military operatives and what Lauren describes as miracles that not only got her home but also fueled her Chistian faith.

To learn more about Lauren Burns, visit www.laurenburns.net

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