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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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If anything goes wrong today, blame it on Friday The 13th, then forgive it. I know, forgiveness is easier said than done…until you listen to this episode. I’ve been going through a lot of forgiveness stuff these past couple of months and discovered a 3-Step Forgiveness process that’s helping me get through it quicker and…
It’s time to learn a lesson. Are you listening? Whether it’s a lover, a friend, or family member, those relationships that we think defines us, often involve people who have been in our lives the longest, that we simply need to remove from our lives. While the change can be difficult, and we struggle with…
Fact: you’ve got 168 hours in a week available to you. Fact: You probably aren’t using all those hours to your maximum potential. Truth: We can all do better at using our time…especially to come out of the closets of our lives. All it took was hearing a friend talk about the number of hours…
Life is a series of transitions. Every day we wake up to new challenges, adventures, and directions. For some of us, those transitions lead not only to a physical transition but also to our life’s work that we’ve been called to do. Danny Terrero is a transition-ist at heart. From his own physical transformation as…
To0 often, the crap of life is because we simply can’t let something go. I recently sat down with a music artist who inspired this post, and realized, so often, my own stress, frustrations, anxiety, stems from my unwillingness to let something go. Yet, when I simply ask myself to let it go…I’m at peace.…
Imagine being in a foreign country, learning to stumble through the language barriers, adjusting to cultural expectations, and realizing that you’re going to come out of the closet. Hard enough to do around people within your own culture, but how do you do this thousands of miles away from your own country, family, and friends?…
A quick visit to support my friend, and inspiration guy, Chris Guillebeau, on his book tour for his new book Side Hustle: From idea to income in 27 days, led me to as the question that he posed…”What’s good and what could be better?” Learn the five things I came up with that are good but…
You’ve heard me talking about it, the new podcast, you know the one entitled – Life Uncloseted. I know it’s been a long time coming, and we are almost there. Tentative kick off is October 13th. But what does it mean to live a life uncloseted? How do you release yourself into that space? Why...
Porn gets a bad rap. That’s my opinion and I’m not even an avid porn watcher. It’s goes in phases for me. But porn has helped me be more me and more comfortable with who I am as a person and sexual being. In fact, I don’t personally find anything wrong with porn…but that’s just…
Assumptions make an ass out of you and me. Or so that’s what they say. And, in the case of today’s guest, that is what has happened more often than not. The moment he’s labeled as an adult film star and producer, he gets dropped into a proverbial category of…however you the listener perceive what…
The last one is leaving the nest. My youngest is off to college today, and my husband and I become empty nesters…that is provided she or her sister don’t move back home…fingers crossed…we love you…but it’s time for all of us to start new chapters in our lives. So who would have thought that coming…
Episode 205: Exploring The Dance Party Of Coming Out & Spirituality – Christopher Logan & Sam Coffie
Coming out. It can be a challenge but also a celebration. A celebration that makes you want to dance. But, for many of us, the moment we come out, we find ourselves trying to fit in. Fit in within our own community. We hit the bars, hang out at the clubs and before we know…
Coming out is full of emotions. In fact, any journey of change and transformation is laden with baggage filled with emotions. But what if instead of trying to avoid the emotions you simply allowed yourself to dance with them? In fact, what if you just danced with the emotion that brought you to this point…
Parenting. It’s a labor of love and a love of labor. Now add to the mix, a twist of a same-sex household and all sorts of interesting things begin to happen. Especially when it’s a gay household with two Dads. There seems to be this expectation that two guys can’t do this together. Ok, maybe…
I have to be honest. Being honest was one of the hardest things I ever learned to do. Ok, maybe I haven’t mastered the full art of it yet, but for the most part I’ve learned that raw honesty trumps (not to be confused with 45) fake honesty any day. Yet, one of the things…
Isolation, loneliness, not fitting in. All are common feelings on the journey to coming out to be one’s self. In the darkest of moments, you may feel the need to give up or give in, yet the real kick ass triumph comes when you Reverse The Beat and thrive. Calling all of us back into…
I’m 54, he’s 50 something. We’re celebrating 200 Episodes of The Coming Out Lounge. He’s celebrating 35 years in the music business rocking the dance music industry. All that is to say, you’re never too old to rock the world, your way. But it does beg the question, “How do you continue to bring yourself…
So what is the difference between self-love and being an arrogant asshole. A lot! It’s just one small step to the right when you move from self-love to conceit and narcissist. From gas lighting to fake love, we’re exploring how narcissists have a deep effect on our coming out journey’s. In today’s episode we go…
Attention. So hard to grab yet so valuable when you do. For the past six weeks I’ve been traveling and putting a real effort into trying to pay attention to things happening around me. It’s helped me learn stuff about myself as well as about my fellow habitants of the earth. This week I take…
He’s a repeat offender, but actually he’s a repeat guest that is back to talk about the art of using Improv to communicate more clearly in the throes of change. Yes, I said Improv when your deep in the tornadoes of change. Whether you’re coming out, making a career change, going through a relationship break-up,…