102 episodes

For Love of Team™ is THE podcast where Leaders Simplify Teamwork, helping you: SURROUND yourself with others doing work they LOVE. Business mentor and strategist, Winston Faircloth believes that it is your love of TEAM, and not just your love of products and customers that sets you apart in the marketplace. Explore the multiplier effect having a team you love has on your impact, your income, your margin and your freedom as a business owner. Connect directly with Winston via text or voice mail at 1-754-800-9461 to share your journey on building a team you absolutely love.

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For Love of Team™ is THE podcast where Leaders Simplify Teamwork, helping you: SURROUND yourself with others doing work they LOVE. Business mentor and strategist, Winston Faircloth believes that it is your love of TEAM, and not just your love of products and customers that sets you apart in the marketplace. Explore the multiplier effect having a team you love has on your impact, your income, your margin and your freedom as a business owner. Connect directly with Winston via text or voice mail at 1-754-800-9461 to share your journey on building a team you absolutely love.

    100: Team Love Redeems Founder

    100: Team Love Redeems Founder

    This week, we wrap up Season 2 with a significant milestone - our 100th episode! To celebrate, we're having fan favorite Mark Ross return to interview Winston about his entrepreneurial journey to creating, For Love of Team.

    “You know the term “For love of the Game”?

    I was on a walk one day, and somehow, it just came to my mind that for love of team was what I was missing as the CEO of a very successful multi-million dollar company.

    I had started a business because I had an idea of how I could help other people with a product and a service that I loved. When that was established, I moved to loving the client. I wanted to give them the ultimate experience that was just as good or not better than the product itself. I knew that if they had a great experience with what we were offering it would help us win more business.

    But I only kept my focus right there.

    Instead of looking at my team as the foundation of our success, I saw them as an impediment to being more creative and serving our clients. 

    More often than I should have I took the side of the client. Even though our team had a good process, had good boundaries, and good guardrails, they were to blame if client expectations were not met. 

    My team was looking for how we could protect the quality of the service, they were looking for ways to protect and scale how we could do it. And I would inevitably take the side of the client and I put our team under tremendous pressure. 

    That works for maybe a short season, but if that's constantly the culture that you're creating - it's a toxic work culture. That was a reflection of me as a toxic leader back then. 

    Now I see our work here at  ‘For Love of Team’ as a redemption story. Helping founders and leaders avoid the mistakes I made and instead multiplying their impact and income by…

    Doing work you love, in a business you love, with a team you love.”

    - Winston

    • 33 min
    099: Three C’s of Culture at The Refuge Center with Amy Alexander

    099: Three C’s of Culture at The Refuge Center with Amy Alexander

    Amy Alexander is Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Refuge Center for Counseling in Franklin, Tennessee, where the Center serves more than 30,000 counseling sessions to over 4,000 clients annually.

    As a nonprofit, Amy is always wrestling with how to retain quality people on her team. And for her, it's the culture they create day-to-day that retains the best people.

    Amy encourages and supports culture through her ‘Three C’s approach’ of connection, character, and continuous growth within the organization.

    “Our team has to be the first priority and Client Services has to be the second priority. Because if we're not healthy, if we're not in a good place, if we're not taking care of ourselves and one another, then the quality of our work is not going to be what it should be. And our clients deserve us to be at our best.”
    - Amy Alexander

    She has a very unique way of framing leadership and culture and values within her organization by modeling a ‘servant first perspective’.

    Listen to our full episode to learn more about Amy’s Three C’s approach!


    Connect with Amy
    Website - https://refugecenter.org 
    Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-refuge-center-for-counseling
    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/therefugecenter
    Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/refugecenterforcounseling
    YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxzP8YpKRKo
    Email - info@therefugecenter.org

    Connect with Winston
    LinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth    
    Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteam
    Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam
    Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteam

    • 27 min
    098: Conquering Digital Distractions with Dr. Kristy Goodwin

    098: Conquering Digital Distractions with Dr. Kristy Goodwin

    In this week’s episode, we're chatting with Dr. Kristy Goodwin who is on a mission to promote employee wellbeing and bolster workplace productivity. With the pandemic accelerating the work from home (WFH) movement, how we work online and how we disconnect while living in the same place is more important than ever. 

    “I've never had a genius idea looking in my inbox or working in an Excel spreadsheet. I have most certainly had one when I've been swimming or been for a run, or in the shower. And this is because our brain needs that mind-wandering mode. And we just don't get enough of that because we now fill every moment of whitespace with a digital device.”  - Dr. Kristy Goodwin

    Put simply, she helps people thrive online.

    We have all accepted that technology is an integral part of our professional and our personal lives to the point that it's impacting our physical and mental health. We also know that it's having a very significant and pronounced impact on our productivity.

    Kristy studies how our brain and body operate in this digital landscape. She takes research and science on this issue and translates it into practical realistic strategies that people can use to utilize technology in a way that aligns with our neurobiology.

    Listen to our full episode to see how Kristy works with companies to help teams with their digital well-being by implementing her peak performance strategies in this digital landscape.


    Connect with Kristy
    Website - https://drkristygoodwin.com 
    Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-kristy-goodwin 
    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/drkristygoodwin
    Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/drkristy 


    Connect with Winston
    LinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth 
    Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteam
    Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam 
    Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteam

    • 29 min
    097: Core Values with Victoria Mininger, Founder of Bear Creek Outdoor Living

    097: Core Values with Victoria Mininger, Founder of Bear Creek Outdoor Living

    In this week’s episode, we're continuing our series on how values drive success in business. We are chatting with industry experts to gain their insight on developing Core Values that create a winning team.

    We're bringing back one of our favorite guests Victoria Mininger, Founder of Bear Creek Outdoor Living. Victoria strives to see each one of her team members thrive, learn, and grow. She shares her journey on how this core value became such a centerpiece of her business.

    “We (my husband and I) once had employers that saw us for who we were, and not just what we brought to the table, they cared for us greatly. That left a definitive mark on our life.

    When we started this company, I said to myself, I want to treat people the way that I was treated during my career. We have learned over the years that when we care for people, the rest takes care of itself. And when we do that, we serve our clients even better.

    It's wanting to have a greater mission and reason for existing other than just getting to the next great project or bringing in revenue. All of those are great, but what I want to leave behind is the impact I've had on people, because other people have impacted me in such a great way”. -- Victoria Mininger

    Our episode with Victoria does a deep dive into how when we care for our teams we empower them to find greatness in themselves, and how this leads to a business that can gain success beyond the bottom line.


    Connect with Victoria

    Website - https://www.victoriamininger.com/
    Business Website - https://bearcreek.co/
    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/victoriamininger
    Episode 60 - https://www.forloveofteam.com/blog/060-building-your-people-victoria-mininger
    Episode 59 - https://www.forloveofteam.com/blog/059-ba-daring-to-fight-with-victoria-mininger

    Connect with Winston

    LinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/
    Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteam
    Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/
    Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteam

    • 31 min
    096: Core Values with Craig Wood, CEO of Premier International

    096: Core Values with Craig Wood, CEO of Premier International

    In this week’s episode, we're continuing our series on how values drive success in business. We are chatting with industry experts to gain their insight on developing Core Values that create a winning team. 
    We're bringing back one of our favorite guests Craig Wood, CEO of Premier International. Craig is a seasoned CEO and Board member who understands how to get the best out of a company and its employees. He is passionate about personal development for his team and the impact that culture has on a company, its growth and its eventual success.
    As leaders, you make the best decisions you can with imperfect data. And then you ask your team to commit to it. And that's what one team united is about. It's about agreeing. It's about committing. And it's about being aligned. And that's certainly what we have built here.
    Our episode with Craig a few months ago is what spurred this core value series and how drilling into how our corporate values drive day-to-day action, brings alignment to our team, and delivers an excellent client experience.
    Connect with Craig
    The Premier Way values
    Website - http://www.premier-international.com
    Linkedin - ​​https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigmwood
    Twitter - @craigmwood
    Episode 78 - https://tinyurl.com/7djkrcpw 
    Connect with Winston
    LinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/
    Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteam
    Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/
    Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteam

    • 40 min
    095: Core Values with Teresa McCloy, The REALIFE Process

    095: Core Values with Teresa McCloy, The REALIFE Process

    On this week's podcast  we introduce a new interview series where we will be chatting with industry experts to gain their insight on developing Core Values that create a winning team. 
    We kick off this interview series with Teresa McCloy -- a Certified Coach, Speaker, and Enneagram Professional.
    Teresa was once a workaholic who spent much of her time looking for affirmation through her productivity. After her family experienced a personal crisis, Teresa knew it was time to look inward and work through her need to always take on more. During this journey, she was able to find her REALSELF and is now helping others do the same through her REALIFE Process program. 
    We talk to Teresa about core values and her own breaking points of when she realized she needed to depend on other people to achieve the success she was envisioning for herself. 

    • 39 min

Customer Reviews

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27 Ratings

27 Ratings

Luke Layman ,

Phenomenal look at building real teams

Wow, this podcast is so refreshing. It gives a comprehensive view of what it takes to build a successful team and the impacts in can have on your business. A must listen for sure

Laurie-Ann Murabito ,

Loving this show on teams

As a professional speaker in the industry of leadership I was drawn to this podcast instantly. Leader ship really is all about the teams that you put together and build. I’m recommending this podcast to all of my executive clients.

Pencrna ,

Bite size business strategy

If you are building your business and want the perspective of someone experienced in building team...take a listen. So many episodes speak to challenges I face on business all the time.

Successful Entrepreneurship requires growth and I love this podcast for that reason...bite sized episodes that promote growth.

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