Begin Again with Winston Faircloth

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...

The fall of 2001 felt a lot like it does right now.  People and businesses were dazed, confused. Uncertain.   Not only had America just witnessed the horrific attacks on our homeland a mere month before, the stock market was entering a season of volatility which would later be called the "dot-com bubble".   At this same time there were a group of engineers and designers working behind the scenes o...

Before becoming a mother, Jacqueline Kincer was a very successful stock broker, at the top of her profession.  Everything changed once her son was born. She just knew she couldn't leave him as a mother, feeling torn between her new calling and promised advancement in her career.  Over the next few years she discovered her calling closer to home and heart. She had been supporting others through a m...

During this season of "social distancing", today I invite you to Be Contagious.   As a pre-teen, there was one person who fundamentally changed my life by the way she lived.  And it wasn't until she passed did I come to understand all of the trials she had personally endured.  She lost big chunks of her life to a medical condition that required her to be cut off from human contact for weeks or mon...

There are times in life when we have that new car, showroom feel.  Business, relationships and finances are all prospering.  And without warning, something unexpected happens (like the current situation in the world) and our shiny "new car "gets smashed and we get a dented fender.  It's those roadblocks/moments that often define our lives.  And when we invite God into those moments, He helps us de...

County music artist/musician/producer, Chad Jeffers epitomizes Steve Martin’s famous saying, “be so good they can’t ignore you”.   His self proclaimed “major in a minor instrument” (aka: slide guitar), natural talent and heart for others has propelled his country music career since the age of 8 after  being chased by thousands of teenage girls.   After a Billboard top 25 hit with his own band, Cha...

In our last episode, Teresa shared about her season of waiting as she transitioned from a calling/ministry she loved into a new world of her vocation which would give her greater time and financial freedom to be even more intentional in her one and only Real Life.   As I was relistening to episode 34, not only did her words resonate with me, they echoed in my soul.   You see, today, March 10, 2020...

Mastermind friend and executive coach, Teresa McCloy shares her Begin Again story of courage to start over as an entrepreneur after a business failure and 15 years in ministry.  Teresa and I share a love of the imagery of "seasons" of life.  Listen carefully about her season of waiting and preparation: this will speak to you if your plans are not progressing as quickly as you would like.  Her rich...

Perhaps you remember being by the edge of a body of still water.  You pick up a big rock and you throw it as high and as far away as you possibly can.  In a few seconds, you hear it ... "ker-plunk". Then, in concentric circles in every direction, you begin to see the ripples move across the pond.  Drifting closer and closer to you.  Bigger and bigger circles of impact.   Our lives are a lot like t...

Aspiring authors.  Make sure to check out THIS interview with David Hancock. His superpower: teaching authors how to leverage the power of their book to grow their business. This episode covers David's rise from banker to publisher with the authority building power of a book.  Wall Street Journal bestselling author and Morgan James' Publishing founder, David is recognized by NASDAQ as one of the w...

Last Friday morning, I had just recorded a Facebook Live in my series " Walk with Winston ".  The topic?  Creating more margin and time freedom in your business.  90 minutes later, everything changed.  A call from my sister to meet her at the hospital made the words from my Facebook Live even more prophetic.  A week later, I have an even deeper perspective on the need for intentionality around cre...

I have a question for you, online business owner?  Are you hiding?  I sometimes hide behind a cloak of invisibility.   I’m now entering month three of building business three, this time almost exclusively in the online world. Yet, I'm finding how easy it is to hide behind my screen.  It’s so darn easy to hide, even in online business, behind the cloak of invisibility.  We can spend days writing ou...

My question to you.  Why Begin Again? I have three quotes in this episode which will encourage and inspire you.   I get some pretty interesting reactions when I talk about persistence, perseverance and worthy failures.  Most people who know me well, see me as an optimistic, inspiring and uplifting leader.  Many times they don’t say this to me, but you can see the wheels turning in their mind:  the...

Over the past few days, I’ve met so many people who are WAITING for just the right time, the right idea, the right resources to Get in the Game of business.   They get a tiny spark of an idea and before they even give it a chance to grow, it gets doused with doubt.  I’m here today to ask you to draw upon your existing resources and your resourcefulness to protect that spark and begin to fan it int...

We're returning to our interview format with this episode and it's a special one.   Sara Anna Powers is the host of the Faith Forward Online Business podcast and is an amazing coach, mentor, speaker and friend.  She's been my 1:1 business mentor for almost two years now and I initially hired her because of how open she is about her faith and her business journey.  In this episode, we hear about se...

Lesson Seven from 7 Lessons from Building a 7 Figure Business .  Why prioritizing profit gives you leverage to accelerate your business.  And a lesson I learned from giving each dollar in my business a purpose in advance helped me grow.  You will need this cash to become a Future 7 Figure CEO. In the final part in this multi-part series, I’m gave you a behind the scenes glimpse into the difference...