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Life (UN)Closeted
Living A Bold Life with No Excuses. No Apologies.
No More Mediocre Living
You're done. Done just dreaming and not doing. Done apologizing for living life your way. Done shrinking your light for the comfort of others.
In Life (Un)Closeted, host Rick Clemons and his guests share bold, badass moves for coming out and owning your individuality. Each episode takes you on a brash, fun, and in-your-face storytelling ride to help you escape the crazy, limiting thoughts keeping you stuck and afraid.
No mater if you're LGBTQ, heteronormative, non-binary, or unsure... a closet is no place to hang out in.
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We’re just a couple of days away from the Holiday – Christmas. For many of you, you’ve already celebrated the holiday – Hanukkah. And for all of us, we’re yet to experience the dawning of the new year. Regardless of what you celebrate, what could be better than to celebrate the holidays by being uncloseted?…
This ain’t no fiction. It’s actually pretty damn truthful. Gay men, too often put themselves in a closet of only being attracted to the outside appearance and don’t move past the person’s flaws to get the beautiful human. Ok, this is probably true for most humans – the surface is more appealing initially then what…
Today I’m sharing 5 key ingredients for making a BOLD MOVE. These are lessons I’ve learned as I’ve been boldly making a move from one house to another…one new city to another…downsizing my life…and stepping into a simpler, less hectic way of being in the world. Website Twitter Facebook
Imagine having little to no money…and starting a business. Ok, you’ve heard it before, but what you may not have heard is to come out of the closet and become a successful entrepreneur may only take some coupons, and $500 and a lot of believing in yourself. Let’s save you some time, get you focused,…
Life and moving out of old homes and into new ones are full of contingencies. So how do you use the contingencies? To your advantage or as a crutch to keep you from moving forward in life. Let’s deconstruct this idea of contingencies and as the saying goes…”Make it work!” Website Twitter Facebook
If you’ve ever felt flawed, broken, trying to make the best sense of your life, then it’s not surprising if you feel your life is on fire. Whether you’re struggling with sexuality, death, obsessions, religion, acceptance for who you are, or any number of other life challenges, truth is you’re human and life can sometimes…
It’s becoming an epidemic. Sexual harassment, innuendo, even exposing oneself to another human being in the workplace. Women are crying foul and uncloseting what has been lying here needing to be said. But what does this say about us as humans? As a society? My thoughts on the sexual/gender revolution that has been needing to…
Imagine for a moment, that the closet you live in is your own body. A body that keeps you hostage and you had no control over when you were taken hostage. In the blink of an eye, your entire life went from being free to suddenly being confined. Confined to the closet of a wheelchair....
I’m thankful I didn’t eat or drink as much as I usually do on Thanksgiving. But, I’m also thankful I did a little impromptu Facebook poll to see what the boldest thing people had done in their lives. The answers are what I’m sharing today on the podcast. So, how would you answer that question?…
Sometimes it takes crashing and burning to find your path to freedom. To live a life uncloseted. That crash make take on the form of leaving a record label, moving away from a relationship based purely on lust, and realizing you’re growing up and becoming older and wiser. All good things, in their own way.…
There are five types of buyers at Garage Sales. These five types of buyers are also the five types of personalities that approach making bold moves and coming out of the closets of their lives in the same way. It’s an interesting exploration of who you want to be and how you show up that…
Eating healthy, exercise, being fit. One way to look at life. Or, you can see it as another damn diet, exercise that you hate, and “I’m never going to be fit, so why bother?” Welcome the closet of personal well-being and the battle of the bulge. It’s one deep scary place that most of face…
We all love opportunities. Opportunities to grow, travel, explore, laugh, eat, etc. Each of has our own list of perfect opportunities that we wish would magically come our way. To lead us to a place of feeling uninhibited – uncloseted. But what happens when an opportunity comes with obligations? Get ready to discuss and learn…
Imagine the only way to live your life uncloseted means, failing, with a capital F. Going from creating what’s anticipated to be a Hollywood animation block buster, to a complete box office bust. Your life comes to a halt, to the point that you don’t even desire to get out of bed. The closet of…
Ever had ringing of the ears? It’s called Tinnitus. It’s annoying. Like a pebble in a shoe annoying. But, it’s also led me to an interesting observation. Many of the ways you can avoid Tinnitus also can help you face the honesty and dishonesty of why you aren’t making a bold move in your life.…
Too often the world sees rebellion as an act to get attention or to buck the system just for bucking the systems sake. Yet, when we rebel with intention, out of a desire to be who we are, the way we are, and as our unique self, we actually build confidence and start to live…
Ironically, certainty is fleeting. Even more ironic, uncertainty drives us batting. So what is one to do? Well I’ve got some ideas and solutions that are not complicated, unless we choose to complicate our pursuit of certainty, when all we need to do is…you’ll have to tune in to find out. It really isn’t all…
Impact. That was one of the first words I realized was the reason I had to live my life uncloseted. Then, I happened upon a book entitled, The Art of Non-Conformity, and I knew I had found a voice, a spirit, and a mentor that inspired me. Little did I know that in 2010 that…
We’re all hustling away from or towards something, each and everyday. A lot of us are also hustling things on the side. Is that a good or a bad thing? Not sure it’s either, but it can be. Join me today as I explore how a side hustle can have a major or minor impact…
We all get constrained. Stuck. Shackled by life. But what happens when we finally take the bold step to say, “NO MORE!” That’s the day we start to live our life uncloseted. But how do you do that? You make a bold move to embark upon a bold change. Today, The Coming Out Lounge makes…