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A captivating conversation with Warwick Fairfax, best-selling author, storyteller, host of Beyond the Crucible podcast, speaker, and ICF-certified coach. Please join us as we discuss:

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• Warwick’s insights on crucibles
  
• his personal story of triumph
  
• the utilization of forgiveness in moving beyond the trauma
  
• finding blessings in the pain
  
• and so much more!
  

Welcome to The Healing Place Podcast! I am your host, Teri Wellbrock. You can listen in on Pandora, iTunes, Blubrry, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Deezer, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, and more, or directly on my website at www.teriwellbrock.com/podcasts/. You can also catch our insightful interview on YouTube.

Bio:

Warwick Fairfax

Founder, Beyond the Crucible

Warwick Fairfax is the founder of Beyond the Crucible, a philosophical and practical breakthrough for turning business and personal failures into the fuel for igniting a life of significance. Forbes has hailed him as offering “compelling insights for anyone who would like to wake up feeling inspired by their work but doesn’t.”

Those insights are rooted not in a checklist of glib to-do’s but in his own experience at the epicenter of one of the most spectacular business failures in the history of his home nation of Australia, as well as scientifically valid data his company commissioned that found a staggering 72 percent of people have experienced an event so traumatic it fundamentally altered the course of their lives. Those are the “crucible experiences” he helps people move beyond.

Fairfax was only 26 when, as the fifth-generation heir to the media empire bearing his family name, he led — and lost — a multibillion-dollar public takeover bid. The result? The company founded by his great-great grandfather slipped from family control after 150 years, leaving him to examine not only his own shortcomings and losses, but also his life’s principles and the lessons he learned from family members who came before him and some of history’s greatest leaders. By sharing these insights as a leadership adviser, Fairfax enables others to learn from their own crucible experiences and emerge to lead lives rooted in their unique designs.

Beyond the Crucible’s quantitative data from more than 11,000 respondents shows great need for the hope and equipping Fairfax’s experience and perspective spotlight. That data additionally found that 42 percent of men and women who have suffered a crucible experience — including accomplished professionals and business leaders — admit to being held back from living the lives they truly want by those setbacks and failures.

Fairfax has also captured, on his podcast Beyond the Crucible, a collection of stories nearing 100 from a vast array of leaders who have leveraged their crucible moments to bounce forward into lives of fresh, fulfilling significance. He has identified the growth milestones and emotional beats all journeys from crucible to significance take — no matter how diverse or unique the stories and people behind them are.

He is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance (Mount Tabor Media, 2021). In the book, he discusses for the first time his thoughts and actions in launching the John Fairfax Ltd. takeover and explains what he learned about himself from that crushing failure — who he was and was not and what his unique design, purpose, passions and vision really were. He has come to regard the loss of the company, as painful as it was, as a gift that allows him to live a life on purpose dedicated to serving others.

Fairfax holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an International Coach Federation (ICF) certified executive coach and an Elder at Bay Area Community Church. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife, Gale. They have three adult children who are in the process of developing their own unique paths to lives of significance.

Website: https://beyondthecrucible.com/

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