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Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 14 | Dr. Lulu
https://youtu.be/T3PkZ9x_HU4 This week on Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, host Anne-Marie Zanzal welcomes certified parent and life coach Dr. Lulu Dr. Lulu is Queer, Nigerian-born, a pediatrician, mom of a transgender daughter, and TEDx speaker. Her work...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 13 | Lynda and Lisa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk8Jrc2CskM&feature=youtu.be This week on Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, host Anne-Marie Zanzal chats with Lynda Spann and Lisa Yaeger about the nuances of lesbian relationships. As therapists and creator/facilitators of...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ STORIES | SEASON 4 EPISODE 12 | Carla and Sherry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpevTONXB_s This week on Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, host Anne-Marie Zanzal digs deep into the topic of co-dependency with special guests Carla Romo and Sherry Gaba. Carla, a certified Life and Dating & Relationship...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 11 | Kwavi
https://youtu.be/kuGzdv60nn0 For the first time on the Coming Out & Beyond Podcast, we welcome...a Straight Ally! Host Anne-Marie Zanzal and her guest, Kwavi, have a great deal of sympatico in their work lives. Both work to help women overcome ageism, the...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 10 | Hannah
https://youtu.be/3WQcBRkDOxk This week on the Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories podcast, you'll meet Hannah Jones. Hannah is a self described 35 year old "gaybaby!" She came to the realization she is gay during a stay in drug rehab 3 years ago - and has...
Banality of Evil in Tennessee
By Anne-Marie Zanzal, M.Div. In the Christian religious tradition, this is Easter weekend. If you are unfamiliar, Easter is the holiday that recognizes when Jesus Christ was put to death by the religious elite who were the power holders in his community. With great...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 9 | Laz and Nick
https://youtu.be/PAwbDofB8XE In this episode of the Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories podcast, Anne-Marie Zanzal speaks with trans activists Pastor Lazarus Jameson and Nick Mundwiller. Laz and Nick share their personal coming out stories, they're calling to...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 8 | Amy Vaughn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJdVcuQjwTE Amy is an expert in facing fears and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. Through what she thought was the darkest time in her life, she began to wake up to aspects of her life she didn’t know existed. These realizations...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 7 | Energy Healing With Linda Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtAascgaGfU On this week's episode of Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, we're getting some good energy flowing with Linda Moore! Linda Moore's vocation in life is healing others. She has a long career in nursing and, in recent...
Silent Sorrow: When a Catalyst Relationship Ends by Barb Rowlandson
Catalyst relationships have a way of turning our lives upside down. In the LGBTQIA+ community a catalyst is a person who helps us realize that we might not be as straight as we thought we were. A catalyst can also be a life changing event, but let’s save that for...
Share the Love Week 4 Catalyst Relationship | Season 4 Episode 6
https://youtu.be/3uuJ2__dL-Y Ready for some laughter, tears, and lots of wise, loving advice? Our final Share the Love February episode of the Coming Out & Beyond podcast has dropped, and it's a good 'un! Every Friday in the month of February in 2023, host...