Posts by Rick Clemons
376: (UN)Closeting Race, Sex, Race Play and Fetishes – Daniel Armando
Race. There’s not a headline in the news today that deal with some form of race relations. But what happens when Race Play – a form of fetish play – goes awry? Many things that actually evoke feelings, insights, and characteristics that make you want to go “Hmmmm,” and wonder is this why America and…
375: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Uncloseting The Bully Within
You’d be lying if you said, “I’ve never been bullied!” Hate to say it, we all have a bully. What might surprise you is that bully resides within. Everytime you put yourself down, or make a snide remark, or find yourself question your abilities, you tend to easily go down the path of bullying yourself.…
374: Bullied A Real Life Story – Frankie Cappello
373: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – I Don’t Know, I Don’t Know, I Don’t Know
372: Making a Bold Escape – Cults and Mixed Orientation Marriage – Aideen Finnola
Imagine living a life of abuse – mental, cult religion, and hidden mixed orientation marriage – where all you did was feel neglected. Now imagine that this went for almost 40 years and you had been so brainwashed and gaslighted that you believed this was the way life was meant to be. From cult religious…
371: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – You can never be limitless without these steps
What does it mean to live in a space of where you feel limitless? If you listed to episode 370 with my friend Laura Gassner Otting, you know her new book –Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life – is all about setting yourself free to be in a…
370: Be Bold. Be Limitless – Laura Gassner Otting
What if success doesn’t equal happiness? What if happiness doesn’t grow on trees? What if you live your life believing you can’t do, blah, blah, blah? What if the problem is you and not seeing that you are limitless? Many of us spend our lives pursuing a singular idea of success, one that was created…
369: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Obliging Your Humanity
Honestly, there’s a lot of humanity damaging going on in the good old USA these days. Mostly from the political arena. Now with the Mueller investigation behind us, it seems that once again certain leaders whom I will not name because it makes me sick to the stomach to even consider typing his name, have…
368: Making Bold Moves to Embrace Our Differences – Craig Pomranz
All of us, in some way, shape, or form in our lives have been perceived as different. Yet, nothing is more painful to a child than to be perceived as weird because of their differences, only to be teased, and isolated simply for being who they are in their own unique way. Imagine for instance,…
367: Uncloseted Riff and Rant – Uncloseting Depression
Depression. Stigma. Shame. Misery. If you suffer with depression you know the stigma, shame, and misery depression causes in your life. To often those feelings lead you to hate your depression and try to fight it. Truth is, there is no fighting depression. Yes you can take medications to help balance it out, but to…