For Love of Team™ | Winston Faircloth

About For Love of Team™ | Winston Faircloth

Begin Again is for people in the second half of life who sense that the identity they've been carrying no longer fits. Host Winston Faircloth — spiritual director, daily poet, and fellow traveler — brings honest conversation, personal story, and original poetry to the journey of remembering, releasing, and returning to who God created you to be. Visit www.myreuniontour.com for more resources.

Publisher

Winston Faircloth

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Nov 2019

Latest episode

10 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 128 episodes have a transcript.

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   10 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Grief I Skipped

   Host Winston Faircloth interviews spiritual director Sibyl Towner and Teresa McCloy about the profound impact of unaddressed grief and the practice of lament.

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   3 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Honoring By Name

   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 blank page on the porch, to the nerve-wracking moment he first let someone else read it. Spiritual director Sibyl Towner returns with the story of handing The Springs to its next generation of leaders: speaking words of release before she could fully live them, and letting those words ask her a question. Then Winston names, one by one, what his loyal soldier built, and invites you to do the same. In This Episode Why honoring is "re-membering": gathering the fragments of a life and saying thank you before ever saying goodbye. From the page to a witness: the vertical and horizontal "shape of the cross," and why honoring eventually needs a village, even a village of one. Sibyl Towner on releasing a place she helped build, the grandparent's posture of letting go, and the words that asked her, "Are you going to live me out or die me out?" Why specific naming matters: the difference between "thanks for everything" and naming what a pattern actually built. Winston's loyal soldier honored by name, with two lines from the discharge speech he wrote on the porch. A three-part practice for the week: name the need, name what it built, and let someone hear it. Why honoring comes before grieving, and grieving before releasing. Featured Poems Hundreds of poems available at https://myreuniontour.com/my-reflections (https://myreuniontour.com/my-reflections) Tour Day 987: "Re-Member" (opening) Tour Day 997: "Honor" (closing) Mentioned in This Episode Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Richard Rohr Sibyl Towner, spiritual director and co-author of oneLife Maps (heard in Episode 4) The Springs Retreat center, Indiana (https://www.thespringsindiana.org/) Erica Vinson Stearns (heard in Episode 12) Resources & Links My Reunion Tour program → https://myreuniontour.com/the-journey (https://myreuniontour.com/the-journey) Schedule a conversation with Winston → https://chatwithwinston.com (https://chatwithwinston.com) My Reflections (poems + photos) → https://myreuniontour.com/my-reflections (https://myreuniontour.com/my-reflections) Subscribe → Audible • Apple Podcasts • Spotify • Amazon Music Search for "Begin Again with Winston Faircloth" in your favorite podcast streaming app If This Episode Resonated If today's conversation stirred something in you — visit https://chatwithwinston.com (https://chatwithwinston.com). Schedule a chat with Winston. An honest discussion about where you are right now. And if today's episode resonated — share this episode with them. You're right where you're supposed to be. About Begin Again Begin Again is a companion to the My Reunion Tour program — a faith-based journey for people in the second half of life who sense that the identity they've been carrying no longer fits. Each episode moves through one of four movements of the soul: Remember. Recognize. Release. Reunite. Season One's sixty stories of perseverance and starting over remain in the feed. There is no wrong place to start.

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   27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   This Side of the Transom with Erica Vinson Stearns

   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 friendship since that retreat. What Winston didn't know until this conversation is that Erica had been handed the very same passage years earlier, by Sibyl Towner, in her own season of starting over. Together they talk about what it actually takes to move from naming a pattern to releasing it, and why no one does that work alone. In This Episode Why Erica chose the Loyal Soldier passage, and the discovery that it had first been offered to her by Sibyl Towner after a divorce in the middle of full-time ministry. Honor and grieve: why release begins by naming a way of being and thanking what it gave us, not by skipping straight to letting go. Protection that becomes a prison, and how an identity that kept us safe for a season can quietly start to confine us. "Do you want to get well?" The question from John 5, and why release requires our own participation. Practices of naming: a breath prayer drawn from Genesis, "Let there be light," and learning to notice without judgment what a pattern was protecting, whether fear, approval, or safety. Releasing the need for approval from voices we admire, including the expectations of our own inner voice. The discharge speech as a rough, aspirational first draft, and why having someone witness it mattered. Erica's image of "the shape of the cross": the vertical work between you and God, and the horizontal work of being heard. "I haven't done this yet": a gentler posture for the threshold, and an invitation to befriend and interview our worry. Featured Poems Hundreds of poems available at https://myreuniontour.com/my-reflections (https://myreuniontour.com/my-reflections) Tour Day 991: "Hidden" (opening) Tour Day 998: "Door" (closing) Mentioned in This Episode Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Richard Rohr ("Discharging the Loyal Soldier," beginning on page 43) Sibyl Towner, spiritual director and co-author of oneLife Maps (heard in Episode 4) John 5:1–9 and Genesis 1:3 Erica Vinson coaching → https://ericavinson.com (https://ericavinson.com) Resources & Links My Reunion Tour program → https://myreuniontour.com/the-journey (https://myreuniontour.com/the-journey) Schedule a conversation with Winston → https://chatwithwinston.com (https://chatwithwinston.com) My Reflections (poems + photos) → https://myreuniontour.com/my-reflections (https://myreuniontour.com/my-reflections) Subscribe → Audible • Apple Podcasts • Spotify • Amazon Music Search for "Begin Again with Winston Faircloth" in your favorite podcast streaming app If This Episode Resonated If today's conversation stirred something in you — visit https://chatwithwinston.com (https://chatwithwinston.com). Schedule a conversation with Winston. An honest discussion about where you are right now. And if today's episode resonated — share this episode with them. You're right where you're supposed to be. About Begin Again Begin Again is a companion to the My Reunion Tour program — a faith-based journey for people in the second half of life who sense that the identity they've been carrying no longer fits. Each episode moves through one of four movements of the soul: Remember. Recognize. Release. Reunite. Season One's sixty stories of perseverance and starting over remain in the feed. There is no wrong place to start.

Inside a recent episode

The Grief I Skipped

Published 10 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] My dad had been gone for about a month. And this one is from tour day 940. And it's called Mom. She was with us always. Before we were, she awaited, surrounding us with love, dreaming of our life together. She was there when smiles of recognition arrived. Our first words were formed. Tentative steps became falls. Tying shoes, combing hair, mending our boo-boos, soothing our broken hearts, watching our every move it is not until decades later do we appreciate her fully after we too experience love unconditional and true we see how rare her love how fierce her loyalty how devoted her care this is all this is who she's always been precious, present, powerful. […]

Who has been a guest on For Love of Team™ | Winston Faircloth

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• Sibyl Towner
• Teresa McCloy
• Amy Alexander
• Dr Kristy Goodwin
• Victoria Mininger

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5.0 / 5

26 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

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Engagement

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