https://youtu.be/u_Nv5bZSM0U In this rebooted episode of Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, we revisit host Anne-Marie Zanzal's conversation with Dr. Robin Sesan. Robin is the couples expert facilitating the "Strengthening Love: Building Secure Bonds for...
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Podcast Season 5
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 5 Episode 37 | Sarah St John
https://youtu.be/lWm_ABMNtYE Coming out is often an ongoing process, and sometimes people come out selectively to the people around them. It is not unusual for our family members to be the last to know this important piece about our identity. Podcaster Sarah St. John...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 5 Episode 36 | Jillian Abby
https://youtu.be/xkW1nqk9LRs In her book, "Perfectly Queer," author Jillian Abby recounts her journey of coming out later in life and overcoming chronic perfectionism. Jillian began her metamorphosis as a wife in a heterosexual marriage, a home-school mom,...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 5 Episode 35 | Emily Bettdur
https://youtu.be/_JwlGWCt9vM After 10 years of unravelling her sexual identity, later-in-life lesbian Emily Bettdur came out and transformed her life. Now a later-in-life dating coach for women, Emily helps others feel connected to their authentic sexuality, navigate...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 5 Episode 34 | Juliana Allen
https://youtu.be/XVrHSrOG_Bg Have you ever felt so disconnected from your body that you don't know what you feel or want? This week's guest on Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories is Juliana Allen, a certified somatic breathwork facilitator who helps people...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 5 Episode 33 | Wes Schmitz
https://youtu.be/oeSqQ9TCMAk This week's guest, Wes Schmitz, was raised in a small farming community in central Illinois. While growing up, he retreated deeper and deeper into the closet, forced there by the rhetoric around him. In college, homophobic jokes on campus...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 5 Episode 32 | Raymond J Brune
https://youtu.be/mGW-CzvdPS0 Raymond J Brune is Anne-Marie's special guest on this week's episode of Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories. So many people are a slave to their trauma; trauma that results from sexual abuse, accidents, the loss of a loved one,...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 5 Episode 31 | Jamie Winter
https://youtu.be/bU81Gt-yAy4 This week on Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ stories, host Anne-Marie Zanzal chats with psychotherapist and art therapist, Jamie Winters. Jamie's professional experiences encompass a variety of roles, including social worker, educator,...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 5 Episode 30 | Rhonda Landers and Jonda Valentine
https://youtu.be/2FlkLKku7s4 In this very special Part 1 episode of Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, host Anne-Marie Zanzal speaks with identical twins Ronda Landers and Jonda Valentine, both later-in-life lesbians and founders of Nashville's iconic bar, The...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 5 Episode 29 | Dr. Andreya Jones & Angie Zimmerman
https://youtu.be/_y2fQS0URnY Therapist Dr. Andreya Jones and sex and relationship coach Angie Zimmerman are kink-aware practitioners whose work is centered on helping individuals have more rewarding relationships and fulfilling sex lives. Deconstructing from...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 5 Episode 28 | Ayce Kyptyn
https://youtu.be/_C3zcIkbRwI This week on CO&B, host Anne-Marie Zanzal welcomes somatic embodiment and sex coach, Ayce Kypton. Ayce's story relates a journey of coming into his authentic gender, embracing transmasculine identity, emerging from conservative faith...
Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories | Season 5 Episode 27 | Anne Russo
https://youtu.be/nmQnq2MW3CE Anne Russo is a licensed clinical social worker, sex-positive therapist and founder of AMR Therapy. A therapist with over 20 years of experienced, she specializes in servicing marginalized communities, particularly in areas of sex...