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Collaborating As A Business Owner
Nov 6, 2023 | Purposeful Empowerment Group Coaching
Learning about life, do we ever stop? I have truly hoped that one day I would be finished. Complete, with no more lessons, enlightened and all loving, filled with compassion and acceptance. That is...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 24 | Lora Brown
Oct 27, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://youtu.be/MH5g9CryAWg Lora Brown is a self-proclaimed hippie Jew, the owner of a small business, a wife and mother, dog mom, activist, a corporate dropout, and LGBTQIA+ ally. She is an active...
COMING OUT & BEYOND: LGBTQIA+ STORIES | SEASON 4 EPISODE 23 | Amanda Farat
Oct 13, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://youtu.be/tTR8z4q6H0s This week we welcome Amanda Ferrat to the Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Podcast! Amanda is the founder of Value Yourself Counseling. Amanda is a certified advanced...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 22 | Frank McGowan
Sep 29, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://youtu.be/K0r97wtxFkA This week on the Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories podcast, we are thrilled to feature film and television producer and storyteller, Frank McGowan. TW: Frank's...
COMING OUT & BEYOND: LGBTQIA+ EPISODE 20 | Kristin Jones
Sep 15, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://youtu.be/9pGsQN5VGJ8 Kristin Jones (she/they) is a genderqueer and bi parent of 3, spouse, speech-language pathologist, and small business owner. They are passionate about social justice and...
COMING OUT & BEYOND: LGBTQIA+ EPISODE 20 | Keith Brown
Sep 1, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://youtu.be/vu_y3ITQF3E Dr Keith Brown is a speaker, teacher, coach, author, podcaster, and theologian with over 30 years of experience within the LGBTQ+ arena. He is a married, bisexual man...
How to Find Clarity As An Online Entrepreneur
Aug 21, 2023 | Purposeful Empowerment Group Coaching
I came to the coaching world with a background in adult development, ministry, chaplaincy, and bereavement counseling. I brought to this work and educational background the adult life experiences of...
COMING OUT & BEYOND: LGBTQIA+ EPISODE 19 | Jennifer Bourdrye
Aug 18, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://youtu.be/sqJuoR2Skmc Jennifer Bourdrye is the founder of Parent With Care LLC where she helps parents of LGBTQ+ youth, teens, and young adults to understand, connect and celebrate their kids...
COMING OUT & BEYOND: LGBTQIA+ EPISODE 18 | John Sovec
Aug 4, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://youtu.be/62HzvfAz4bo John Sovec is a therapist, coach and counselor based in Pasadena, California. He is a nationally recognized expert on creating affirmative support for LGBTQIA+ teens and...
COMING OUT & BEYOND: LGBTQIA+ EPISODE 17 | Mike Iamele
Jul 21, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDTCs0ZfFks This week on Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, we have our first ever man as a guest! Mike Iamele has a remarkable coming out later in life...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Episode 16 Part 2 | Leela
Jul 7, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://youtu.be/mqzID5jA1Vw This week on the Coming Out & Beyond podcast we're back with part 2 of our interview with Rev. Leela Sinha. Leela is a genderqueer, spiritually grounded,...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Episode 16 Part 1 | Leela
Jun 23, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2gCBkYz9rk Rev. Leela Sinha is a genderqueer, Queer-as-fuck entrepreneur. Ze is intense, spiritually grounded, real, funny, compassionate, and mostly interested in...
Purposeful Empowerment History
Jun 23, 2023 | Purposeful Empowerment Group Coaching
When I came out as a lesbian in 2016 my life changed in significant ways. After all, I was in my early fifties, married forever, mom of four, a lifetime of work experience, a move to another state,...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 14 | Dr. Lulu
Jun 9, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
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...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 13 | Lynda and Lisa
May 26, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
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...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ STORIES | SEASON 4 EPISODE 12 | Carla and Sherry
May 12, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
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...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 11 | Kwavi
Apr 28, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
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...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 10 | Hannah
Apr 14, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
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...
Banality of Evil in Tennessee
Apr 8, 2023 | News and Events
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...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 9 | Laz and Nick
Mar 31, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
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...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 8 | Amy Vaughn
Mar 17, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
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...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 7 | Energy Healing With Linda Moore
Mar 3, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
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...
Silent Sorrow: When a Catalyst Relationship Ends by Barb Rowlandson
Feb 24, 2023 | Relationships
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...
Share the Love Week 4 Catalyst Relationship | Season 4 Episode 6
Feb 24, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4, Relationships
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...