Hosted by Hamish Niven · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 40 episodes
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Awakenings often force us to confront our deepest fears and beliefs. The Crucible: Conversations for The Curious explores the transformative journeys of ordinary people who've navigated life-altering events. Join us as we dive into their remarkable stories of hope, resilience, and self-discovery.
Hamish Niven hosts The Crucible:Conversations for the Curious, a education show with 40 episodes published.
Hamish and Juliana rip open the invisible cage of belief. How does unconscious programming dictate decisions, limit potential, and keep us trapped in societal scripts? Through raw war stories and unflinching self-examina
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This episode marks the beginning of a series designed to provoke thought and inspire listeners to take charge of their own lives. Are you prepared to challenge your current reality? Ready to embrace the notion that exist
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Highlight I couldn't understand regular social nuances as a kid. Sarcasm was lost on me. I was gullible, and people took advantage. I used drugs to find a way around that - in those social circles, everyone seemed nicer.
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Highlight "So you quit. So you've been to the gym for two weeks and it's impossible. That's okay. Step back, reassess what was important. Was it that important? If it was, what can you do to get there? Chances are, like
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Highlights "Growing up with albinism isn't easy. A lot of questions are asked... When I was very young in my childhood, doctors had basically told me that I would be completely blind by the age of eight or nine. They did
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Highlight "If I'm not feeling okay, I find out right away. And instead of sitting with the emotion, I try to make friends with it so I can say, right, I can walk with this... Recovery is a journey. It's not an end destin
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Highlight "When I see people on the streets, I see future nonprofit leaders, I see future teachers, parents, retaking the head of their families. The days of going into a hospital after overdosing and some social worker
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Highlight "For the first time in a long long time I was given the grace of a period of time just to reflect for me it was almost like my body and my head had said right you're not going to stop through your own accord so
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Highlight "Your path to healing might start with a concerned friend, then maybe a doctor or a family member - each one gently suggesting something isn't right. It could be a coworker, a friend, or even a stranger at a ba
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Highlight "For me it was that it was small simple steps but taken consistently had massive changes. Like my life is unrecognisable now compared to how it used to be... if I can do that, anybody can do that. It's not diff
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Highlight "I was endlessly thinking about my life problems from morning to night. And I just lost control of my thoughts. The only thing that really helped me a little bit was you could smoke a cigarette. That would stop
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Highlights "I remember five nights out of seven, I'd be in a bar until 3 AM, then up at 6 AM to serve breakfast to chalet guests. Looking back, I was surviving on fumes, pushing my body to extremes just to keep up with t
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Highlight "I had an identity imposed upon me, one which I swallowed hook, line and sinker at the time. I was taught, like we all are, to identify with who I am by society standards, by external validations, basically. So
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Highlight "Nine and a half years down the line, having sorted out many of those problems, although there is still a little bit of DIY I haven't got around to, but no one's perfect. I am so glad that I managed to get myse
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Highlight "Shame and guilt were huge for me. It was like shame is such an inward emotion. Like it's not projected out to other people, it's hidden, and it's more casting in on yourself. And that's what it feels like. And
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Highlight "I was the golden boy, you know? Perfect life, perfect job, perfect wife. Then the divorce hit, and suddenly, I didn't know who I was anymore. Everything I'd built my identity on just crumbled. That's when I st
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Highlight "You become a liar, you know, you become deceitful, you become all these horrible things to try and hide everything from everybody. I mean, when I go back and think about it all now and how I even thought it wa
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Highlight "And a month and a half after we got married, I lost my job. So here she's thinking that she married a guy who is this wonderful guy who has his shit together, has held a job for 24 years, making good money to
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Highlight "We are stalwart characters, we keep on going on, and we think that we are superhuman. And then I finally got the phone call to say that I wasn't successful in my interview and I was put at risk for redundancy.
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Highlight "Midway through my 57th year, I had been asked by a business person where I live to attend a networking event. It turned out that it was an evening with him... old patterns started to emerge again in me, trigge
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The Crucible:Conversations for the Curious is hosted by Hamish Niven. The show is categorised under education (self improvement) and has published 40 episodes.
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