When you find yourself with a match in your hand,
contemplating burning the ship you’re in to climb aboard another
that will take you in a different direction, having the opportunity
to make an impact is about the best destination you can chart a
course for. And that’s exactly what Mike Beckham did.
This week, Warwick speaks to Dan Wolgemuth, whose burn the
ships moment looks a little different on his resume than it does in
his heart. After nearly three decades of working in the corporate
world, he followed his faith into becoming president of a nonprofit
Christian ministry. But he’d have never gotten there if...
In this episode of our special winter series BURN THE SHIPS,
we talk to Donte Wilburn about how he wound up selling drugs in his
teens and 20s – recognizing the danger but embracing the lifestyle
that dealing allowed him to live. But that lifestyle, he explains,
came perilously close to ending his life.
Go do it! That's the counsel, the hope, the legacy the mother
of our guest this week, Joel Hungate, gave her son. He’d need those
words more urgently than he ever could have imagined when she died
by suicide, leaving him to question everything on which he had
based his life.
You are more than your failures and setbacks. We share stories of leaders who have moved beyond life’s most difficult moments to lead lives of significance, and insights on how you can do the same. Hosted by Warwick Fairfax.