From Success to Surrender: Chris Arnold

From Success to Surrender: Chris ArnoldOur guest this week, Chris Arnold, says he dialed into a deeper, more fulfilling calling after he was let go from his six-figure corporate job. That's right, his crucible didn't happen to him, he says, but for him.It was only after being freed from what he describes as the "golden handcuffs" of his job that he was able learn the lessons he's packed into his book, FROM SUCCESS TO SURRENDER.He and Warwick go through the key lessons he's learned along his journey, including "success isn’t measured by what we achieve but by who we become" and "our greatest growth often comes through our deepest 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]

Best of 2025 3: Meet Our "Actionable Truths"Our research into how people experience crucibles and chart a path beyond them led us to identify a core set of "actionable truths" — 10 in all — that will help you overcome the impediments you face as you navigate your unique journey from trials to triumph.In this first episode of what we're calling the series within the show, we'll discuss the insights the roadmap offers and identify each of the actionable truths.And don't forget to tune into the 10 episodes that followed that unpack the importance of each of the truths, along with tips on how you can activate them.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 be sure subscribe and tell your friends and family about us.Have a question or comment? Drop us a line at [email protected]

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]

Applying the Actionable Truths 9: RedemptionRedemption. It's what we all want — what we all need — after a crucible. How do we get there — and stay there when in walking out our vision for a life of significance when life gets challenging.That's what we talk about this week. You'll want to pay special attention when we talk about the value of keeping a purple file.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]

Justice Denied, But She's Still Pursuing It: Kristin Louise DuncombeOur guest this week, Kristin Louise Duncombe, describes this week the horror of the molestation she suffered as a preteen girl at the hands of an American diplomat who was also her best friend's father.Even after her abuser was exposed, he was not brought to justice by the American government for decades — and still, to this day, never for his abuse of Kristin. That's why she's still fighting to bring her story to light.\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]

Embrace Your Wounds To Conquer Their Power Over YouAftershocks from a crucible you have experienced are common, as are wounds that be might independent of those crucibles.As we discuss this week, it's critical you identify and create a strategy to neutralize those wounds and aftershocks as you pursue your life of significance.How? Warwick's got eight tips for you in his latest blog at BeyondTheCruciible.com, Wounds Are Inevitable. Here's How to Minimize Their Pain. We cover them all in this episode, from taking an inventory of what your wounds and aftershocks are to analyzing why they hurt so much, from dealing immediately with them when you're triggered to coming to the place where you se them as a blessing.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]