Posts by Rick Clemons
357: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Is your Vision To Big? Not!
356: Suicide or Bucket List. Now that’s a bold choice! – Chase Boehringer
Darkness. Despair. Depression. Divorce. Sounds pretty gloomy and not anything that anyone would but on their bucket list. It was gloomy, ugly, and daunting, and the only way through was either to continue to live his life or to end it. But before ending it, he decided to do one thing that he’d said he…
355: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Uncloset Your Fun and Creativity
If you aren’t having fun and thinking you aren’t creative, then you’re in good company. Most of us forget to have fun. Life gets in the way, demands take over, and before you know it work, eat, sleep; work, eat, sleep; work, eat, sleep. The hamster wheel is on high speed and we glaze over…
354: Bold moves of building relationships In The White House and beyond – John Corcoran
Imagine at 23 you land a gig at the White House. That may or not excite you depending on who’s sitting in the oval office, but, play along here for a moment. You got this gig at the White House, not because you had an Ivy League education, or because your family had money, or…
353: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – FEAR: facing your truth about those silly fears
I know some of you are probably going to balk at this. Go ahead. Balk, balk, balk. But the truth is, most fears in life are short-lived and self-created. Think about it. When fears show up, most the time nothing happens the way we FEAR it will and then we’ve just wasted a whole bunch…
352: Coming Out Of The Closets of Bullying and Drug Addiction – Mark Stephen Pooler
Darkness. The kind that causes you to retreat into yourself because you’ve been bullied so much you actually believe that you’re worthless. You’ve made the conscious and unconscious decision to hide and turn to a life of self-destruction and drug addiction, rather than face one more painful moment of living in this abuse. It’s a…
351: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Transgender Discrimination For No Cause
Let’s be clear. Transgender discrimination is discrimination, plain and simple. Lacking kindness, empathy, compassion is what Transgender discrimination represents. Those three human characteristics are all that is needed to treat people with dignity, respect, and understanding. Yet, with the newly supported Transgender Military Ban upheld by the supreme court, we’ve entered an era of lost…
350: Fears, Permissions, and Discoveries of Going Your Own Way – Melanie Deziel
We all desire to go our own way. Doesn’t matter if it is in love, work, or life in general. But there’s this little, big word that holds us back – PERMISSION. We come to the precipice of doing our thing, going our way, and then we retreat, waiting for someone, maybe ourselves, to approve…
349: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Did Gillette Make A Bold Masculine Move or Money Play?
If you haven’t been on social media or watching the news the past couple of days, there’s been a viral explosion. Not about Trump or Theresa may. It’s about razors. Or let’s say about one of the biggest consumer brands behind razors – Gillette – who just launched an ad that is garnering applause and…
348: Permission to Be Your Own Gay Man – Enrique Panameno
Who are you? One of the biggest questions we can ask ourselves, but it is an especially big question for gay men who often find themselves caught up in the world of material goods, great bodies, and always looking to impress so that they can be accepted. But what would happen if you gave yourself…