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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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You’re out, dating, mating, or just hooking up. Things are going smooth, awful, or so, so. Yet the same broken wheel keeps rolling along. Maybe you’re having trouble with sex and intimacy. Or it could be problems with guilt, shame, or body issues. And of course who can forget the ever so popular – not…
Lights, camera, action. Instead of hiding, I want you to imagine, putting your LGBTQ self out there on the big screen or stage, and not being ashamed of who you are. You are a star. A bright shining star, and worthy of being yourself. This is exactly why I’m excited to introduce you to Daniel…
As of today, there are 19 states where gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders have workplace protections in place that prevent them from being fired based on their sexual orientation, and gender identity. There are an additional three states, that protect gays and lesbians, but not transgenders. Do you get the picture? If not, here’s the…
Nothing is off limits. Nothing. When you’re learning to step into your truth, embrace your gifts, question the status quo, and coming out of your own closets, nothing is ever off limits. And, I’m here to tell you that if you believe otherwise, you’re kidding yourself. In fact, I’d invite you to step into everything…
Sometimes, well actually most of the time, the way to show up in the world is in the moment. That’s exactly how my guest and I met today. No we weren’t on some hook-up app, or cruising each other in a club. We were both putting our stuff out on the proverbial hookup site –…
Real talk. No fluff. And finding your truest calling…maybe even while being gay but not making it the focus of who you are, for yourself and the world. Today we’re exploring what it’s like to be a guy, a gay guy, who keeps coming face-to-face with his destiny, but often finding it slipping away, only…
Welcome to the Actors’ Studio…I’m just kidding, but not really. You see in life, hiding in the closet, it’s all an act. It’s a script we decide to run through, day after day, after day. It’s very similar to an actor’s life, and how they see themselves. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, yet often an actor doesn’t…
Isolation. Rejection. Lack of love. All are very common fears that those who are hiding in the closet face. Yet at the core, all of those represent the need to connected and cuddled into the warm arms of acceptance. So how do you get past those fears? Today we’re going to take a unique approach...
Let’s play ball. Or hockey, ice skate, run track, do gymnastics, or any other sport…but if your LGBT, let’s don’t ask don’t tell. Now that might sound weird in this day and age, but it’s not. While not as prevalent as it used to be hide your truth on the playing field, courts, or rinks,…
When tragedy hits…we all suffer. When hate prevails…we all pay. When darkness descends…we all have opportunity to create light. My thoughts on the Orlando Mass Killings and what this event has taught me to choose!
I want you to take a journey with me. A journey where the truth of who you are is as follows. You’ve never been married. You’re an avid motorcyclist who’s traveled from the Pacific Coast all the way to the Great Lakes. You love your cats, attending church, cooking and you even had the thrilling…
Instead of talking about just living our truth, today I want to focus on being more self-reliant, self-loving, self-aware, and mindful. Why? Without these abilities, and exercising those muscles to become more self-reliant, self-loving, self-aware, and mindful, you’ll be fighting a steeper uphill battle to change your beliefs about who you are as a LGBTQ…
Empty. The life you’d envisioned, just became an empty episode of Portlandia…so to speak. You never saw it coming. Up until this point in your life, you were doing what you love. Acting, composing, mastering your craft as a pianist, and then while on the set of a film all your questioning about who you…
Ever feel like you don’t fit the mold? Wonder how you’re going to fit into that box the world’s told you to step into? Yeah…it sucks. Doesn’t matter if you’re not gay enough or too gay. Not man enough or woman enough. You just can’t seem to find your place to say…”Ah, I fit in!”…
Most of us, love a good story. In fact, most of us, love to create stories…you know the ones that sometimes get us in trouble. Stories that cause us to believe we can’t, shouldn’t, and aren’t supposed to be who we are. But what does that do for us living authentically in the world? Well,…
One of the greatest challenges we face as humans is the ability to find balance between being ourselves and being what others expect from us. Factor in the fact that we’re gay and you have a whole other world to contend with. That’s not to say that it’s just us gay people who have to…
The conversation we’re going to have today is going to go all over the place, but the reason I’m going to allow this one to just free-flow and go wherever we want it to is because it’s about being creative and just being in the moment and seeing what happens. Frank Rogala is a lot…
Coming out. Why does it still matter? Why does stating “Frankly My Dear I’m Gay” need to be said? Is it really anyone’s business someone else’s sexual orientation? Do we still need to be having this conversation? How could this conversation finally heal the planet? In this short rant, I take on the three key…
Today we’re going to the roots. To where it all started. Could be to where you were born, or to that place you call home. Doesn’t really matter. What matters is grounding yourself. Learning to ground yourself in who you are regardless of where you live. That can be a rather daunting task, especially when…
In this special episode of The Coming Out Lounge, the script gets switched as I’m interviewed by my friend, Joel Barrett, of Joel Speaks Out. We talk about my new book, Frankly My Dear, I’m Gay., and the importance of why, even later in life it is so important to step out to be your…