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Podcast Season 7

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 29 | The Boy Who Skated Anyway: Stef Vachon’s Story

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 29 | The Boy Who Skated Anyway: Stef Vachon’s Story

https://youtu.be/IQYw1DkPkeY Content note: This conversation includes language that references homophobic slurs and a discussion of suicidal ideation and mental health struggles. Please listen with care, and reach out for support if you need it. What happens...

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Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 28 | Real Talk on Sapphic Dating and Relationships With Special Guests Tonda McKay & Barbara Rowlandson

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 28 | Real Talk on Sapphic Dating and Relationships With Special Guests Tonda McKay & Barbara Rowlandson

https://youtu.be/NXWUe52DKmM It is the second Friday of the month, which means Anne-Marie is joined by dating coach Barbara Rowlandson and Nashville photographer Tonda McKay to talk all things sapphic dating and relationships. This month, the trio takes on four real...

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Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 27 | 🏳️‍🌈Allyship That Truly Matters Featuring Special Guest Anna Empey

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 27 | 🏳️‍🌈Allyship That Truly Matters Featuring Special Guest Anna Empey

https://youtu.be/K3WHdswmEVk When you come out to someone, you learn very quickly to tell the difference between the half embrace and the full embrace. The half embrace turns the conversation back to your husband, your children, your family system within the first...

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Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 26 | Finding a Self I Couldn’t Name: Part 2- Dahron Johnson’s Story of Learning to Trust Her Inner Voice

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 26 | Finding a Self I Couldn’t Name: Part 2- Dahron Johnson’s Story of Learning to Trust Her Inner Voice

https://youtu.be/MofiVTAqPJg In Part 2 of this conversation, Anne-Marie Zanzal continues her talk with Dahron Johnson, a trans woman, advocate, lifelong cyclist, and chair of the Metro Human Relations Commission in Nashville, who came out in her late forties after...

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Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 25 | Finding a Self I Couldn’t Name, Part I: Dahron Johnson on Faith, Advocacy, & Making Room for Us

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 25 | Finding a Self I Couldn’t Name, Part I: Dahron Johnson on Faith, Advocacy, & Making Room for Us

https://youtu.be/prgA_80EnuI Dahron Johnson grew up surrounded by voices. Thousands of books in her parents' home, two people who met in divinity school, and a faith that taught her every person is fearfully and wonderfully made. And still, for decades, she could not...

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Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 24 | Your Sapphic Dating Dilemmas, Answered with Love (and Zero Filter) With Special Guest Tonda McKay & Barbara Rowlandson

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 24 | Your Sapphic Dating Dilemmas, Answered with Love (and Zero Filter) With Special Guest Tonda McKay & Barbara Rowlandson

https://youtu.be/pnO_UTEIIlk This month we return to our lesbian dating and relationship conversation, the one we share on the second Friday of every month, and by popular request Tonda is back at the table!  Anne-Marie is joined by her wife, Tonda McKay, our...

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Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 23 | Grieving the Living: The Estrangement No One Prepares You For With Anna Empey

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 23 | Grieving the Living: The Estrangement No One Prepares You For With Anna Empey

https://youtu.be/z3zB5owko7U TW: This episode includes an honest discussion about grief, estrangement, and suicidal ideation. Listener discretion is advised.  There is a kind of loss that arrives without a funeral. No casserole on the doorstep, no card in the mail, no...

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Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 22 | Loving Someone Newly Out: Tonda McKay’s Story of Falling in Love With a Later in Life Lesbian

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 22 | Loving Someone Newly Out: Tonda McKay’s Story of Falling in Love With a Later in Life Lesbian

https://youtu.be/x3I6s7O5oPE In this revisited Season 5 favorite, Anne-Marie sits down with photographer Tonda McKay, who also happens to be her wife. Tonda came out at eighteen as a good Southern Baptist girl whose prayer partner became her first love, and she has...

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Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 21 | Twice Out, Once Home — Keith Aron on Sexuality, Gender, and the Long Way Back to Yourself

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 21 | Twice Out, Once Home — Keith Aron on Sexuality, Gender, and the Long Way Back to Yourself

https://youtu.be/qy26-YeLvQA This week on Coming Out & Beyond, Anne-Marie sits down with Keith Aron (he/they), a trans and queer transformational coach, writer, proudly witchy weirdo, and self-described honorary tree. Keith writes the Substack Big Blue Sky...

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Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 20 | Hurricane Lessons: Betrayal, Becoming, & Coming Out Later in Life

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 20 | Hurricane Lessons: Betrayal, Becoming, & Coming Out Later in Life

https://youtu.be/MTRpCGVLbSc A decade ago, Anne-Marie and Katrina Anne Willis met inside a small Facebook group that no longer exists — a quiet corner of the internet where women who had Googled "late in life lesbian" found each other. They were both raising kids....

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Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 19 | The Surprise Truth About Sapphic Sex: What Nobody Tells You Before You Get Here!

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 19 | The Surprise Truth About Sapphic Sex: What Nobody Tells You Before You Get Here!

https://youtu.be/FQ8NdgP0u3Q A woman in our community wrote in and asked: "What if my lesbian sex experience doesn't live up to the hype? Does that make me not gay?" That question deserved more than a one-line answer. So Anne-Marie brought in two of her favorite...

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Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 18 | Clarity Is a Thousand Small Permissions With Anne Empey

Coming Out & Beyond Support For Women Questioning Their Sexuality Later in Life | Season 7 Episode 18 | Clarity Is a Thousand Small Permissions With Anne Empey

https://youtu.be/g2AGyBj8JXU Join the 3-Day Clarity Experience, May 5–7. A live space for women in the long middle who are ready to stop doing it alone — not to get a fix, but to sit with the questions alongside a community of women in exactly the same...

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