If you’ve ever caught yourself saying, ” I can’t conceive of that,” then you’ve blown the possibility of what’s possible. That mindset prevents us as LGBTQ+ individuals from becoming our own version of a Disney Imagineer for our lives. Break free of the BS of the inconceivable and get curious about what’s truly possible. In …
634: Living Your Life (Un)Closeted Series: Part 4 – Who created those beliefs? You or the others? – Rick Clemons
To begin to unpack our direction and our desires, we have to realize that our beliefs and values will guide us or fight us. Of course, we’d prefer they guide us. In order to make those beliefs serve us and serve us well, whether we’re coming out of the closet, choosing a new career, or …
633: Living Your Life (Un)Closeted Series: Part 3 – Let’s Get Naked With Our Truth(s) – Rick Clemons
Here’ the naked truth about being in a state of confusion. You can’t get out of confusion until you get naked with your truth! Whether you are coming out of the closet, walking away from a bad relationship, going for a promotion, or letting go of people in your life that no longer serve you, …
630: Ry Levey – Silencing LGBTQ+ Christian Music – Not on God’s Watch!
For too long the voices of Christians have tried to silent the LGBTQ+ community. But what happens to their voices when Christian music artists sing the Lords praise, and those performers happen to be members of the LGBTQ+ community? Do they abandon them? Call them fake Christians? Film producer Ry Levey brings his newest documentary …
629: C. Travis Rice – Celebrating Pride with Gay Romance For Your Summer Beach Read
As we wind up Pride Season, why not think about your next beach read. Even more provocative, why not think about the importance of having LGBTQ+ representation in our fiction life. After all, art imitates life…right? Proving that point, author Christopher Rice, writing under the pen name of C. Travis Rice shares a sizzling romance …
628: Mark Pettit – Living your truth and being the ANKRBOY you were meant to be
Imagine being a young, closeted TV newscaster trying to make your way during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Then because of one innocent move out in public, your whole world shatters. Joining us today on the podcast is three-time Emmy® award-winning anchorman and best-selling author turned actor, Mark Pettit, to share his journey of …
627: Jamie Marich – You Lied To Me About God
The journey of an LGBTQ+ persons life, more often than not, requires the GOD TALK. And even more often that not, that conversation kills their desire to talk about GOD. Today we have a candid discussion, just in time for Pride month, about the relationship you can have with GOD and all the lies you’ve …
628: Don Mamone – How to be an unapologetic rebel – no guilt, no shame.
Living your truth, and being who you are, is every human beings right – provided it doesn’t hurt someone. Which is always the tricky thing to discern. Yet, how is someone being gender fluid hurting anyone? In reality it is just another aspect of whom a person is. So live and let live, and just …
625: Dr. Lulu – Embracing your transgender black child
Embracing your transgender child is hard enough for many parents, but then add to the mix that your child comes from Nigerian descent and is part of the people of color community, and that brings on a whole new set of challenges. Sharing her own journey as a queer parent of a black transgender child, …
624: Izzy Wagner – Get Your Lesbian Self-Love on and Rock Your Body
Fitness, looking good, wanting to be accepted for who you are as a Lesbian woman. It’s all such hard work. Then add to the fact that being accepted as a Lesbian just compounds those feelings of acceptance from others and yourself, and life can really suck. Or does it? It’s actually a mind game and …