Beyond the Crucible

Best of 2025 2: Gregory Vetter Gained Much After Losing His $300 Million Business:Gregory Vetter describes the shock and loss he felt over losing the $300 million dollar salad dressing business he and his brothers built using their mother's recipe.They were forced to file for bankruptcy, he says, because of a legal battle with greedy and unscrupulous investors. He may have lost millions of dollars, but not his entrepreneurial spirit — going on to launch new businesses and help other entrepreneurs with a big idea do the same.You'll want to pay special attention when he tells us the lesson his crucible taught him about the four things money can't buy.To explore Beyond the Crucible resources, including our free Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment, visit beyondthecrucible.com.Enjoy the show? Leave a review on your favorite podcast app and leave a comment at our YouTube channel and be sure subscribe and tell your friends and family about us.

Best of 2025 1: Big Screen, Big Crucibles: Les MiserablesYou'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 others are the ones who find lives of significance. Those too rigid to see the best in others, or in themselves — like the prison guard and policeman Javert --  wind up — as one of the American translations of the film's title puts it — The Miserable Ones.To explore Beyond the Crucible resources, including our free Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment, visit beyondthecrucible.com.Enjoy the show? Leave a review on your favorite podcast app and leave a comment at our YouTube channel. And be sure subscribe and tell your friends and family about us.Have a question or comment? Drop us a line at [email protected]

Applying the Actionable Truths 10: SignificanceThis week, in the final episode of our yearlong series within the show on the actionable truths of the Beyond the Crucible roadmap, we discuss just how we can get to a life of significance as we navigate our way back from a crucible.Pay special attention near the end, when Warwick lays out each one of the truths we covered in order, offering a step-by-step process that can ensure we do, indeed, arrive at turning our trial into triumph.To explore Beyond the Crucible resources, including our free Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment, visit beyondthecrucible.com.Enjoy the show? Leave a review on your favorite podcast app and leave a comment at our YouTube channel. And be sure subscribe and tell your friends and family about us.Have a question or comment? Drop us a line at [email protected]

How To Assist, Not Control, Those You Want to HelpHave you ever found yourself thinking you're helping someone but you were really trying to fix them in a way that's not helpful to either of you?If so, you'll want to listen to this discussion of Warwick's latest blog at beyondthecrucible.com Beyond The Crucible dot com,  in which he lays out several ways you can stop yourself before your actions get out of hand, from accepting that it is not our role to fix people and fix every situation, people have the right to be “wrong” and follow their own path ... and always aim to treat people the way you would like to be treated.To explore Beyond the Crucible resources, including our free Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment, visit beyondthecrucible.com.Enjoy the show? Leave a review on your favorite podcast app and leave a comment at our YouTube channel. And be sure subscribe and tell your friends and family about us.Have a question or comment? Drop us a line at [email protected]

Our guest this week, John Ulsh, spent 18 days in a coma after he and his family were in a high-speed head-on car crash. And that was just the beginning of the ordeal he endured.Given just a 3 percent chance to live, enduring more than 45 surgeries to piece his broken body back together, he has not let the pain keep him from discovering his purpose: helping others overcome adversity and finding strength in their struggles.To explore Beyond the Crucible resources, including our free Trials-to-Triumphs Self-Assessment, visit beyondthecrucible.com.Enjoy the show? Leave a review on your favorite podcast app and leave a comment at our YouTube channel. And be sure subscribe and tell your friends and family about us.Have a question or comment? Drop us a line at [email protected]