408: How to Lead a Life of Significance by Embracing Your Trials with Warwick Fairfax
Read to Lead Podcast
Jeff Brown
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
I have so much respect for today’s guest. Most people, especially at age 29, would have crumbled under the weight of losing control of their family’s one-hundred-fifty-year-old company. Not Warwick Fairfax. Now, that’s not to say what he went through wasn’t incredibly difficult. It certainly was. But Warwick is not your average guy. Now 30+ […]
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 408. |
| 0:12.9 | What I wanted to do, what my gifting was, was completely irrelevant. |
| 0:16.7 | It was all about the cause and about duty, and I was going to fulfill my duty no matter what. |
| 0:21.5 | From the ashes of losing his family's 150-year-old media dynasty at a cost of $2.25 billion, |
| 0:28.8 | Warwick Fairfax has forged a philosophical and practical breakthrough that helps men and women from all walks of life |
| 0:35.6 | bounce back from their own setbacks to become the leaders |
| 0:39.1 | they were born to be. Hello and welcome. This is the Read to Lead podcast, and my name is |
| 0:44.7 | Jeff Brown. This is the podcast designed to help bring you the key insights and main ideas from some |
| 0:50.0 | of today's best business books. I began the podcast nearly nine years ago because I believe that |
| 0:55.6 | if you want to achieve true success in your business and in your life, an intentional and consistent |
| 1:00.8 | reading is a must. Today, you and I will be joined by Warwick Fairfax. He's the author of |
| 1:07.0 | Crucible Leadership. Embrace your trials to lead a life of significance. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm going to ask Warwick to share his views about how trying to be what others want you to be |
| 1:17.3 | is one of the biggest mistakes you can make, the role of faith in defining your purpose, |
| 1:22.9 | why character is the key link between your faith and how your faith manifests itself in leadership |
| 1:28.5 | and lots more. Well, since the release of my book, last August, read to lead the simple habit |
| 1:35.0 | that expands your influence and boosts your career, requests for speaking and virtual and |
| 1:40.6 | in-person workshop training has gone up considerably. In fact, I had the chance last month to do some virtual training for the company, Docket. |
| 1:49.3 | Docket helps you have the best meetings you've ever had. |
| 1:52.7 | They're the only meeting productivity platform designed to make meetings better before they start while they're happening and long after they're over. |
| 2:02.4 | They integrate with Zoom too, which is pretty cool. I had the chance to get in front of them |
| 2:06.2 | and their staff last month for some virtual training. Here's what their CEO, Darren Brown, |
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