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...
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Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 4 | Share the Love Week 2 Grief
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 struggling with grief surrounding your coming out experience. Every Friday in...
Coming Out & Beyond LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 3 | Share the Love Week 1 Divorce
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 getting a divorce, this is a must-listen episode! Every Friday in the month...
I’m Glad You’re An Ally, but Please Don’t Kiss Me On The Lips By Barb Rowlandson
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 24 years. My straight life went pretty much like this: Wake up Take...
Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming Out 5. Joy
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 process. We promise you it is there and you will find it. Want to find more...
Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming Out 4. Grief
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 things. Grief is our intellectual, spiritual, emotional and spiritual...
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Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 6 Ep. 2 | Dating Readiness with Barbara Rowlandson
https://youtu.be/t7YsufPLbRw Please download, like & subscribe! You can also tune into this episode of Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Dating later in life can feel like tricky business! That's why we've asked our in-house...

Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 6 Episode 1 | 2024 – The Year in Review!
https://youtu.be/AvVjWNg_phg Another year of podcasts is in the history books! In this first episode of Season 6, host Anne-Marie Zanzal and her fellow coach/producer Barbara Rowlandson review some of their favorite episodes of 2024, and give us a peek into topics...

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Coming Out is About More than Who You Sleep With
I once met a woman who said she was fine with the LGBTQ community, but was sick of seeing Pride flags up around her neighborhood. She said that she didn’t want to know the details about people’s sex lives and who they were sleeping with. She entirely missed the...
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Although living authentically is a huge source of joy and fulfillment, coming out is rarely an easy part of that and comes with its share of anxieties and fears. This is often compounded when you’re coming out later in life because you have established complex and...
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It’s Not a Lifestyle by Marissa Mitchell
By Marissa Mitchell The word lifestyle is often used to describe what it means to be LGBTQIA+ in this world. My friend Marissa Mitchell has written a great piece that captures many of my feelings. Especially the “record scratch” moment. I first...
Claiming Our Courage
https://youtu.be/UIG-VJ0i3qU In this coming out journey we are required to find our courage again and again. It is not a one time static event, but something we have to chose. How can we chose to be courageous if everything we know as women tell us differently? How do...
Internalized Homophobia
https://youtu.be/p7G3_rh-BCs Internalized homophobia, heterosexism and compulsory heterosexuality are real issues and the reasons why this journey can be so hard! Learning about it and acknowledging it when it pops up can make all the difference in the world! I am a...
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