Begin Again with Winston Faircloth

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...

Over this five part series, we’ve been sharing our emerging PLAN of how we’re going to serve three types of business owners going forward. Leaders who either WANT, NEED or HAVE teams to help them multiply their impact by creating, growing and keeping teams THEY LOVE.  We call this process: For LOVE of Team.  Today, another hard truth gained during this season.  The value of WAITING.  During reFIRE...

Last time, we shared about the MOST powerful part of pivoting your business and life. I call it WHYPOWER.   Today, let’s talk about Provision.  The biggest pushback I get when I bring up the concept of taking a ReFirement Sabbatical is financial.  We’ve got bills to pay and we cannot afford to leave the business even for a moment to sharpen our saw and renew our spirit.  I hear this all of the tim...

Last time, we shared how taking a PAUSE gave us the margin needed to unplug, unlearn, rest and relearn.  Otherwise known as ReFIREment.   In this episode, let’s talk about the MOST powerful part of pivoting your business and life. I call it WHYPOWER.   When you’ve taken the time for margin (and by the way, it doesn’t have to be weeks or months, sometimes a long weekend away will do), you will be f...

Last time, we shared the PLAN of how we’re going to serve three types of business owners.  Those who WANT, NEED or HAVE teams to help them multiply their impact.   In this episode, let's talk about what happens when you hit the wall in your business.  Perhaps it's burnout.  Or something less noticeable, like when you start resenting your business or can no longer celebrate the success of your peer...

Think of some successful, long-term, personal brand businesses.  Now that you have them in mind, how many are thriving today as solopreneurs?  Singular leaders delivering for their clients -- all alone.   The American mythology of rugged individualism, pull yourself by your bootstrap is well ingrained in our culture.   Yet, even thriving solopreneurs cannot do it alone.  Someone, somewhere took a...

So many people today are searching for their "calling".  Often times, others see your gifting before you do.  Jennifer Harshman's career took off when she followed her curiosity to learn the difference between British and American style editing as a favor to a friend.  Words and their power for change has always driven Jennifer's passion and now she helps others bring their experiences in book for...

This is one of my favorite interviews so far.  Imagine winning multiple national championships for the most beautiful college campus in America.  At a place where tens of thousands of people are tailgating in the middle of campus during an SEC football weekend late into Saturday night.  And as dawn breaks on a peaceful Sunday morning, the mountains of trash have magically disappeared.  In that mom...

Listening to a podcast on a long commute led to a perfect-fit career as a voice over actress for Carrie Olsen.  If you listen carefully, you will hear her voice in a number of places, like Disney, AT&T, Xfinity, Pandora and others.  Today, Carrie not only serves as a distinctive voice for commercials and online training --she now equips and coaches others who want to join her as a voice over a...

To the outside world Susan Choi was your typical, happy, well rounded go-getter.  An amazing family, a solid group of friends, and a highly coveted corporate job. However, what no one realized was, she was constantly pushing herself harder and harder until one day the body said, “NO”. The never ending need for perfection and the constant negative voice in her head suddenly made itself very clear t...

Asking for higher guidance lead Josiah into his passion and purpose.  From concept to launch within a month the Content Heroes podcast was born.  A new show and an online community for content creators of every type.  His path to this point in his career has had many twists and turns.  A demotion within his corporate career was the catalyst to check in with his heart and take a new leap of faith....

Marianne Renner: leadership coach/author/speaker, founder of a not-for-profit, former bodybuilding champion, fitness instructor.  Her Begin Again story is going to stop you in your tracks.  Accepting that "I can't live like this anymore" lead to a miraculous transformation in Marianne's life.  It all began with gratitude.  So many gems of wisdom in this episode that will give you hope during this...

The Summer of Love during the late 1960s gave me my first taste of the entrepreneurial world.   At age 8, totally bored out of my mind one lazy summer, I started a little "store" in the backyard along our little country lane.  One product lead to another, keeping me busy and  fascinated about how to serve the other kids on our side street.    When desire to serve meets a market need, magic happens...

"Honey, we're going to have to sell the house."  Those were the first words I used to tell my wife I'd just been fired from my career of 18 years.  The only career I'd known since college came crashing down a few days after my 40th birthday.   The next few weeks and the first six months set me on an entrepreneurial path that I could have never imagined in my wildest dreams.  Becoming the founder o...

Kent Julian is a lot of things… devoted family man, champion swim coach, CSP professional speaker with the National Speaker Association, fish-taco lover, and proud bald guy. From humble beginnings, Kent went on to lead several large youth organizations in order to help teenagers who struggled just like him. This work eventually led Kent to become the Executive Director of a national youth associat...