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...
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Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 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+ Stories | Season 4 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+ Stories | Season 4 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+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 15 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...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 6 | Share the Love Week 4 Catalyst Relationship
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...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 5 | Share The Love Week 3 Joy
Feb 17, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpTJuJG9_W8 We're sharing the love in February with podcast listeners! This episode is all about finding, celebrating, and cultivating joy after coming out later in...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 4 | Share the Love Week 2 Grief
Feb 10, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Grief, Podcast Season 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abwzxRkd2Fo We're sharing the love in February with podcast listeners! This episode is dedicated with love to all of you in the late-in-life community who are...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 3 | Share the Love Week 1 Divorce
Feb 3, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4, Relationships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n3Ia__c2dQ We're sharing the love in February with podcast listeners! If you're someone in the late-in-life community who needs some loving encouragement about...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 2 | Joan’s Story
Jan 20, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKqtsNifVkE&feature=youtu.be Joan Alexander is a Spiritual Director & Supervisor who came out as a lesbian in her mid-forties. Twenty years later, she is here...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 1 | Stephannie’s Story
Jan 6, 2023 | Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast, Podcast Season 4
https://youtu.be/URiNibi0SAQ Stephannie Weikert is a Certified Yoga Therapist and creator of the Make Peace with Stress method. She wants to live in a world where all women flourish because she...
I’m Glad You’re An Ally, but Please Don’t Kiss Me On The Lips By Barb Rowlandson
Jan 6, 2023 | LGBTQ+
By Barb Rowlandson In 2017, I joined the Alphabet Mafia, and let me tell you: flipping from the straight world into the Queer world is WILD. Up until my gay reckoning, I'd been with the same man for...
Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming Out 5. Joy
Dec 13, 2022 | Coming Out
https://youtu.be/QpTJuJG9_W8 Anne-Marie Zanzal and Barb Rowlandson as we discuss finding JOY!!!! in the coming out journey. In the beginning we know it feels very difficult to find joy in the...
Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming Out 4. Grief
Dec 13, 2022 | Coming Out
https://youtu.be/abwzxRkd2Fo Join Anne-Marie Zanzal and Barb Rowlandson as we discuss grief In the coming out journey. In the beginning we know it feels very difficult and we sometimes grieve many...