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Broken and shattered. These are familiar emotions after a crucible — especially one that forces you to start over after losing a multi-million-dollar business.

Learn why rest is a powerful weapon in your pursuit of a significant life. This week, we explore how taking a break can actually accelerate your readiness to serve others and live with purpose.

Big Screen, Big Crucibles VIII: The Monuments Men In this final episode of our summer series, BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES, we discuss the crucibles and the overcoming of them in THE MONUMENTS MEN. That’s the name given during WWII to the ragtag team of art historians and curators who form a unit to recover stolen […]

It’s the story of how, after apartheid, President Nelson Mandela uses the national rugby team to unite a deeply divided South Africa and win the 1995 Rugby World Cup, transforming a nation through the universal language of sport.

In episode six of our “Big Screen, Big Crucibles” series, explore the story of Erin Brockovich. Discover how she overcomes being underestimated to take on a powerful energy company, winning a multimillion-dollar verdict and living a life of significance.

Live in a life of significance with the fifth installment of our “Big Screen, Big Crucibles” series. Explore Chris Gardner’s inspiring journey in The Pursuit of Happyness and how personal and professional setbacks can fuel a longshot dream.

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.

This week, in episode three of our summer series BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES, we take a look at Rudy, the inspirational story of one young man’s refusal to give up on his dream of playing football for the University of Notre Dame.

The three African-American women at the center of HIDDEN FIGURES, the second film in our summer series BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES, face marginalization and discrimination for their gender and their race in 1961. But they summon grit, fortitude and brilliance that prove critical to the U.S winning the Space Race against the Russians.

We kick off our eight-part summer series — BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES — this week with a look at the remarkable life of Louie Zamperini, whose true story of overcoming several devastating crucibles is told in the film UNBROKEN.