Begin Again with Winston Faircloth

Episode 17: Bless and Serve Release Movement Release doesn't end with being set free. It ends with being set free for someone. In the fourth and final part of the Release movement, Winston explores what happens when the whole journey turns outward.  He tells, for the first time on the podcast, about a retired minister named Rev. Kelly, who put a hand on his shoulder at youth group and said he woul...

Episode 16: Befriend and Forgive Release Movement Release, as Winston has come to see it, has four parts: 1) name and honor, 2) grieve and lament, 3) befriend and forgive, and 4) bless and serve. This episode takes up the third part of Release.  Befriending is a growing openness to what's being revealed in you, about who you've been and who you're becoming. It doesn't come by force; it grows slowl...

Episode 15: Hair on Fire with Teresa McCloy Release Movement — A Conversation with Teresa McCloy All season, listeners have heard her name: the balcony is her image, and the farm in central Illinois where so much of this story happened is her family's farm. Today, you meet Teresa McCloy. Teresa is the founder of The REALIFE Process, a coach, a certified spiritual director, and the author of Do Wha...

Episode 14: The Grief I Skipped Release Movement Nothing is released until it has first been thanked and grieved. Episode 13 was about the thanking. This episode is about the grief. Winston names the four parts of the Release movement for the first time: name/honor, grieve/lament, befriend/forgive, and bless/serve.  Then he sets two griefs side by side.  When his father's health declined, he stepp...

Episode 13: Honoring by Name Release Movement At the end of Episode 12, Winston made a promise: to show what it looks like to honor, by name, specifically and out loud, what a pattern built in you before you ask it to stand down. This episode keeps that promise. Winston sets the record straight on how his discharge speech came to be, from a reading assigned weeks before the Effingham retreat, to a...

Episode 12: This Side of the Transom Release Movement — A Conversation with Erica Vinson Stearns A few episodes ago, Winston told the story of page 43: a coach handing him Richard Rohr's Falling Upward with one instruction. If you can't finish the whole book, at least read "Discharging the Loyal Soldier." Today, you meet that coach. Erica Vinson Stearns has walked alongside Winston in coaching and...

Episode 11: The Porch Release Movement — Solo Episode Episode Ten traced the four days that led to a truce. Episode Eleven goes back to one specific morning inside those four days — a quiet Sunday, before anyone else was awake — when a decision that had settled quietly the day before turned into actual words on a page. No one assigned this. Winston tells the story of what moved him to write his ow...

Episode 10: The War Is Over The Release Movement, Opening Episode Recognize ended with a question: what would it look like to formally thank what has carried you this far, and then let it go? Episode Ten begins answering it — not with a technique, but with a true story. Winston takes listeners back to the fall of 2021: a compass that arrived in the mail from a grandmother long gone, a four-day per...

The Recognize Movement, Closing Episode Episodes Six through Eight named the vow, told its origin, and honored the Loyal Soldier who carried it. In this episode, Winston tells the story of the day it all finally came into focus — a coaching retreat, a reading assignment he almost skipped, and one page of Richard Rohr's Falling Upward that gave him permission to hold two things at once: gratitude f...

Episode Seven told the story of where Winston’s vow of self-sufficiency began. Episode Eight turns and looks directly at the part of him that carried that vow out into the world — the part he calls, borrowing from Richard Rohr, the Loyal Soldier. Before naming what the vow cost, Winston pauses to honor what it built. Then he names the cost — not as shame, but as an honest accounting. The episode c...

Winston’s Recognition Story — Recognize Movement Episode Six named the Wall and introduced the vow of self-sufficiency at a high level. In Episode Seven, Winston keeps the promise he made at the close of that episode — telling the specific, personal story of where the vow began, what it built across three domains of his life, and what years of spiritual direction and map work eventually helped him...

“What If the Life You Crafted No Longer Fits?” There’s a question I’ve been sitting with for years.  Not a question I invented. A question I lived inside — for a long time, without knowing it had words. What if the life you crafted no longer fits who you are becoming? This is the opening episode of the Recognize movement — the second movement of My Reunion Tour. And it begins here: with a question...

There is a place between where you were and where you’re going. The Remember movement has done its work. The maps have been completed. The stories have been laid out, named, and honored. And now — before the deeper work of Recognize begins — there is this: the in between space. The threshold. The place where you are no longer who you were, but not yet who you are becoming. This short-form episode...

Every story has a place.  In this episode of Begin Again, Winston Faircloth sits down with Sibyl Towner — his spiritual director, and the co-author of the oneLife Maps that form the Remember movement of My Reunion Tour — for an unhurried conversation about where the maps came from, what they’ve surfaced in her own life, and what she knows about helping people find their way home to themselves. Sib...

Before we can release what no longer fits, we have to know what we’ve been carrying. Before we can name it — we have to map it. In this episode, Winston Faircloth walks through the four oneLife Maps that form the core of the Remember movement of My Reunion Tour — and shares what each one surfaced in his own life. This is not a survey of a tool. It is the story of a man who sat down with four hones...

What does it actually look like when the identity you’ve built your whole life around stops working? Not gradually. Not with warning. Just — stops. In this episode, Winston Faircloth goes to the specific anatomy of his own identity collapse — October 2019, the crickets, the 401k, the coping mechanism that finally failed. This is not a pivot story. It is an identity story. And it is the most honest...

Begin Again is back. And Winston Faircloth isn’t the same person who recorded that last episode.   After a season away — five years of honest reckoning, spiritual formation, and the slow daily writing of nearly 1,000 poems — Winston returns with a relaunch that is less a resumption and more a homecoming.  This episode is his most personal yet: the story of what broke at 59, what the silence held,...

Welcome to Begin Again. This is Episode Zero — a brief introduction to the show, to host Winston Faircloth, and to what’s waiting for you in both seasons.  It opens with a poem: “Tour Day 713. Reunion.” Sixty episodes of perseverance and starting over live in Season One.  The deeper identity journey — Remember, Recognize, Release, Reunion — lives in Season Two.  Start wherever you are. There is no...

As our final episode of Season One of the Begin Again Leadership podcast, we've saved our BEST begin again story for last.  A second chance.  Three of the most beautiful, hopeful words ever spoken.  Victoria Mininger never set out to write a book, much less a book about depression.  In fact, she didn’t really even aspire to be an author. Yet, after a season when overwhelm turned to darkness, Victo...

Perhaps you are feeling overwhelmed, lost or just worn out.  You’re missing that spark, that fire you had at the beginning of the year.  I definitely hit that wall myself just a few months ago and ReFIREment is the process I used to help me rediscover my passion and my fire and today, others tell me how peaceful, surrendered and relaxed I look.   If you’ve never heard of the term ReFIREment, this...

Perhaps you are feeling overwhelmed, lost or just worn out.  You’re missing that spark, that fire you had at the beginning of the year.  I definitely hit that wall myself just a few months ago and ReFIREment is the process I used to help me rediscover my passion and my fire and today, others tell me how peaceful, surrendered and younger I look.  And this journey begins from within.   If you’ve nev...

There IS a way out of the darkness of overwhelm and comparison: ReFIREment.  This bonus LIVE episode of the Begin Again Leadership podcast builds on last week's UNPLUG with practical ways to UNLEARN.  This is step two of four of a process of creating the space to rediscover the passion and flame from within. Other practical resources to help you UNLEARN mentioned in this bonus episode: The Ruthles...

Perhaps you are feeling overwhelmed, lost or just worn out.  You’re missing that spark, that fire you had at the beginning of the year.  I definitely hit that wall myself just a few months ago and ReFIREment is the process I used to help me rediscover my passion and my fire and today, others tell me how peaceful, surrendered and younger I look.  And this journey begins from within.   If you’ve nev...

In our free Facebook #Future7FigureCEO online community,  we presented some practical ways to UNPLUG in your first season of reFIREment.   In this episode, we're bringing you audio from that LIVE presentation.   Other practical resources to help you UNPLUG mentioned in this bonus episode: News Feed Eradicator for Chrome Freedom Moment App The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer Digita...

Perhaps you are feeling overwhelmed, lost or just worn out.  You’re missing that spark, that fire you had at the beginning of the year.  I definitely hit that wall myself just a few months ago and ReFIREment is the process I used to help me rediscover my passion and my fire and today, others tell me how peaceful, surrendered and younger I look.  And this journey begins from within.   The four step...