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.
🎧 Join me to reflect, connect, and take the next intentional step on your own path.
Episodes
19 episodes
Episode 18 - The Wisdom of No
This episode is about the No’s in our lives. Not the most pleasant topic perhaps. Or maybe it is? I would argue it’s just as significant as a Yes. It can be a re-direction, a point of re-orientation. A gift that may disappoint at first and reve...
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Episode 17 - Stormy weather
This episode is about storms. Storms in life. Stoms in nature. Storms in our emotions. Real storms. Imaginary storms. And how the energy and metaphor of a storm lives through us and in us. And here, as always, is an invitation to re...
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Episode 16 – On Completions, Pausing, and Becoming
This episode comes with a personal story of a forced pause in the middle of completion in the larger arc of becoming. When the body speaks, we need to listen and the wisdom it holds and shares with us (sometimes through in challenging signals) ...
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Episode 15 – Happy New Year! What’s moving you?
Happy New Year! Here’s episode 1 in 2026, and 15th since the start of the podcast in September 2025. I could easily write “time flies!” and I just did, but this episode is not about speed or time. It’s a short reflection on what is moving me at...
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Episode 14: Where is the script?
“Where is the script?” is a question that has been with me in the last months of 2025. Asked by a voice of one of the learning systems I have been part of it did express what was on the mind of many people this year. Don’t we al...
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Episode 13: Transitions, transitions
🎧 Episode 13 – Transitions, transitionsI keep catching myself writing November dates in my journal. 😮 But it’s December now… so here’s an episode on transitions. Clearly there’s something from last month I’m still hold...
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Episode 12: "Why would you do that?!?"
🎧 Episode 12 – “Why would you do that?”A genuinely asked question, a simple conversation. And tons of reflection and realizations. This is what this episode is about. “Why would you do that?” can be a tricky question. It can ...
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Episode 11: On Listening, Depth, Connection
These three words – listening, depth, connection – characterized my last few weeks in painful and beautiful ways. I’m bringing them to episode 11 where I’m exploring insightful constraints, somatic wisdom, and the power of human listening and c...
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Episode 10: Power is...?
This episode is a personal reflection on the meaning of power. What it is, how it shows up, and how our relationship with it can evolve over time. Power has so many meanings. Our relationship to our own power is shaped by our own unique meaning...
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Episode 9: Who Are You Today?
This episode is an exploration of identity in motion. The fluid, ever-changing sense of who we are. I found myself reflecting on how much we change, sometimes subtly and sometimes profoundly, and how easy it is to cling to past versions of ours...
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Episode 8: On Feeling Your Feelings
In this episode, emotions come to show themselves. It felt tender and vulnerable to reflect on my own relationship with emotions: how it has evolved, deepened, and softened over time. This episode is a personal tribute to emotions and an invita...
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Episode 7: Pssst… Listen to the Silence
This episode felt more spacious. After days away from the day-to-day noise, it's silence that invited itself to the podcast. As the main character of these 18 minutes. Often avoided and labeled as unnecessary. it can be truly revealing and empo...
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Episode 6: I don't know. Do you?
How does it feel to not know? And what does not knowing make possible? It can feel unsettling, even uncomfortable to let go of the need to know. Beyond the discomfort lies a gift of possibility and creativity. In this episode ...
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Episode 5: Space and Choice (is all we need)
This episode is about space. Ironically, it turned out to be the shortest one so far. And hopefully filled with enough spaciousness to explore and begin anywhere around the topic of space and choice related to it. As always, no scri...
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Episode 4: What Are You Wrestling With?
In this episode of Begin Anywhere, I share my reflections sparked by watching the World Wrestling Championships 2025. Wrestling is more than a sport - it’s a dance ...
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Episode 3: What Are You Learning?
In this episode of Begin Anywhere: Less Script, More Presence, I explore the many shapes of learning—not just the knowledge we gain, but the ways it stretches us, transforms us, and invites us to become more of who we are.Learni...
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Episode 2: Preparation is Everything... or is it?
The theme of preparation kept showing up for me recently—in my mornings, before work calls, during workouts, even in playtime with my daughter. It wanted to be explored. And what better way to do that than with presence and freedom?In Ep...
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Episode 1: Beginnings and Endings, Endings and Beginnings
✨ In this debut episode of Begin Anywhere: Less Script, More Presence, I explore the tender space where endings and beginnings meet. I share a personal story of a recent major ending and beginning and reflect on how prese...
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Begin Anywhere: Launch Announcement
Here it is! Announcing the podcast launch felt exciting and daunting. It's an idea that has been lingering for many years. What can emerge when we are fully present and share what shows up? No overplanning. I feel the fear: what if it's not goo...
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