Write Your Story: Instructions for a Fresh Start
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Here we are, at the start of a new year.
How is it going for you? How does it feel to start fresh?
Beginning something new can feel exhilarating. After all, anything is possible, all is new. But being a beginner can also feel intimidating and overwhelming.
After all anything is possible, all is new.
In today’s episode, I want to talk about what it means to be a beginner (as in: someone who begins again and again) and why it matters so much.
Whether you’re in the “working my resolutions for the new year” camp or the “new years is an arbitrary marker on a man-made calendar camp,” I invite you into the newness of this day, of everyday.
I invite you to see yourself as a beginner.
Host: Ally Fallon // @allyfallon // allisonfallon.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. This is the beginning. Almost anything can happen. |
| 0:07.8 | This is where you find the creation of light, a fish wriggling onto land. The first word of paradise lost on |
| 0:14.0 | an empty page. Think of an egg. The letter A, a woman ironing on a bare stage as the heavy |
| 0:20.2 | curtain rises. |
| 0:21.5 | This is the very beginning. |
| 0:23.5 | The first-person narrator introduces himself, tells us about his lineage. |
| 0:28.0 | The mezzo-soprano stands in the wings. |
| 0:30.6 | Here the climbers are studying a map or pulling on their long woolen socks. |
| 0:35.4 | This is early on, years before the ark, dawn. The profile of an |
| 0:40.6 | animal is being smeared on the wall of a cave, and you have not yet learned to crawl. This is the opening, |
| 0:46.8 | the gambit, upon moving forward an inch, this is your first night with her, your first night without her. |
| 0:53.3 | This is the first part where the |
| 0:55.5 | wheels begin to turn, where the elevator begins its ascent before the doors lurch apart. |
| 1:01.7 | Pick up the pieces of your life, put them back together with the words you write, all the beauty |
| 1:08.5 | and peace and the magic that you'll start to find when you write |
| 1:13.2 | your story you've got the words inside don't you think it's time to let them out and write them down |
| 1:20.0 | uncover what it's all about and write your write your story write your story, write your, write your story. |
| 1:31.3 | Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast. |
| 1:33.8 | I'm Ali Fallon. |
| 1:34.6 | I'm your host. |
| 1:35.8 | And this is your first episode of 2026. |
| 1:38.4 | Welcome to the new year with me. |
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