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 their families during the coming out process. John is the author of...
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Coming Out & Beyond: Stories + Support Podcast
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 17 | Mike Iamele
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 story. Mike thought he was straight his entire life. But a life-changing...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 16 Part 2 | Leela
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, Queer-as-fuck entrepreneur and principal at the Intensives Institute, an...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 4 Episode 15 Part 1 | Leela
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 creating a better world with more pleasure and less pain. To that end,...
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...
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...