Begin Anywhere: Less Script, More Presence
Begin Anywhere: Less Script, More Presence is a podcast about showing up as you are—without waiting for the “perfect moment.”
I’m Irina Pashina—coach, mentor, supervisor, facilitator, and speaker—inviting you into conversations and reflections that are recorded in one take, imperfect by design, and rooted in presence.
Each episode explores themes of authenticity, courage, leadership, transitions, and human connection, offering space to pause and notice what is unfolding in your own life.
This podcast isn’t about scripts or polish—it’s about what becomes possible when we trust ourselves and begin anywhere.
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Begin Anywhere: Less Script, More Presence
Episode 22: On Seeing More
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This episode was inspired by a brief and seemingly insignificant moment earlier today.
My view this morning - as I was writing, and reviewing supervision materials - became a metaphor. A metaphor of seeing in our lives and our world, of how and how much we get to perceive, what could be in the way, and what becomes possible when more of the picture becomes visible for us.
At some point - deep into my work - I heard the sound of blinds going up. When I lifted my gaze, I saw a more complete picture of what was in front of me. In full color, bigger, moving and full of aliveness. There was something powerful about this change and it reminded me of the impact deeper awareness can have on us and our human experience. And it’s part of my own evolution and purpose as a human being and practitioner of coaching and supervision.
I keep wondering with curiosity, humility, and awe - what is there to be discovered when we look deeper? How has all of our life brought us to this very moment of our expression and was is it inviting us to?
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Hello and welcome. Welcome to Begin Anywhere. My name is Irina Pasina. And I'm here to hold space. To hold space for all of us where we can begin anywhere. With less script and more presence. Thank you for joining me. Hello and welcome. It's episode 22 of Begin Anywhere. I'm making a pause, being reminded that it's been the longest break I've had from recording four weeks. And I've missed being in front of the microphone. It's interesting. I wanted to say I miss being myself in front of a microphone. And it's not about the microphone, it's about the ability to express something that's important to me and the ability to express it in connection with others. This is ultimately and foundationally what makes me record. And it wasn't necessarily an intentional break. I didn't plan for it. And it just so happened that April was an intense month from speaking with clients and coaching and supervision with friends, with people around me. It may have been an intense month for many of us. Now intensity doesn't mean it was good or bad. At least I don't mean it this way now. There is no necessarily judgment about it. It's the quality of the energy in me, around me that felt intense. And it felt like it was all consuming. Oconsuming in a sense of not being able to move, like having signals for movement and and then a stop signal. It was this stop and go motion, go and stop motion, and so quite a bit was running under the surface, and I took the time to be with it. And I believe it made a difference. I believe it always makes a difference if we make space for what is. Even and perhaps even especially when it's not pleasant. No, it's been quite an interesting year so far. And today as I was reviewing some supervision materials, and I was writing in a public space, surrounded by other people who were working or studying, and all of a sudden I heard a noise of blinds moving. I looked up and I saw that the blinds around me, in front of me, were going up, and I was seeing just a little bit of space in front of me in between the blinds. And now I have to say that I appreciate both. I appreciate the comfort of the shade and also the warming sensation and the light. But more than anything, I probably appreciate being able to see. Witnessing people go through this process and of extending space for it is fulfilling is an understatement. It's who I'm meant to be. I'm not sharing this to make the episode about me, and and there is something fundamentally important to me in sharing like this alignment. Alignment of who I am and what I do is part of my expression in this period of my life. And it feels right. Not as right and wrong, it it feels like it fits. You know, when a puzzle piece is the perfect fit and it makes a picture more complete, this is what it feels. And I'm looking back now in my mind's eye and just seeing how much of my life has been happening to enable this moment, and how much of life experiences, circumstances, things that happened to me early in life, how I had been with them, then what unfolded later in life, how all of this in many different ways informs who I am as a practitioner now. There is a sense of centering and deep wonder and gratitude for life. I know that the opposite is present as well. The ability to almost relax into what is. So this episode is about seeing and evolving and walking and staying and stopping and taking a break and then going again and all on the way of being more of who we truly are. Isn't life isn't all of life about that? Now I'll complete this episode with this question. And it continues to be something I bring into my own reflections with a sense of wonder and a sense of gratitude and humility. Thank you for listening. And I look forward to the next time I get to sit in front of a microphone, perhaps with a cup of wonderful coffee, and I get to speak with you. Take care.