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Every week, Warwick Fairfax’s Beyond the Crucible podcast shares real stories of regular people who have transformed failure and loss into new life-giving stories of fulfillment and impact — and the steps you can take to do the same.

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New episodes released weekly to keep you moving beyond your crucible and toward the life of joy, fulfillment, and significance you want.

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BEST OF 2025: Big Screen, Big Crucibles IV: Les Misérables

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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…

Applying the Actionable Truths 10: Significance

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This 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…

How To Assist, Not Control, Those You Want to Help

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Have you ever found yourself thinking you're helping someone, only to realize you're really trying to fix them in a way that's not helpful to either of you?

Finding Wholeness in His Brokenness: John Ulsh

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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…

Applying the Actionable Truths 9: Redemption

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Redemption. 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…

Justice Denied, But She’s Still Pursuing It: Kristin Louise Duncombe

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Kristin Louise Duncombe shares the devastating story of abuse by a US diplomat and the decades of denied justice that followed. Hear why she is still fighting to bring her…
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Host Warwick Fairfax and cohost Gary Schneeberger couldn’t be more different in their personalities — or more similar in their commitment. Together, they offer actionable hope and steps to discovering that your crucibles didn’t happen to you; they happened for you.

Warwick brings the curiosity and compassion of a certified executive coach to Beyond the Crucible, asking penetrating, empathetic questions of guests about their life-altering trials that get them to open up, as many have said, as they never have before. He also shares insights on turning those trials into triumphs from his own crucible journey – losing $2.25 billion in a failed takeover bid of his family’s 150-year-old Australian media company – and the stories of the more than 120 guests of diverse backgrounds and experience who have appeared on the show.

Gary describes his role as that of audience advocate, ensuring the heartfelt reflections of guests and Warwick are given the necessary perspective – and the occasional dash of humor — that allow listeners and viewers to see the hope behind the hurt and apply the wisdom being shared to their unique journeys. A former journalist, Gary relishes the opportunity to mix his interview style with Warwick’s to help draw revelatory responses from guests and from Warwick himself.

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