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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.
Guilt, shame, anxiety, depression. These are some of the most common traits affecting the LGBTQ community as a whole. Today, my guest Nick Santo, Psychotherapist, and I share our own experiences on our journeys to combat these issues as well as provide ways to step into self-love and self-awareness to enrich who we are as...
We all have trauma. Yes, that’s a truth. But if you don’t embrace that truth, you are actually causing more trauma to yourself. Guiding the direction of unpacking trauma as a LGBTQ+ individual, Riana Milne (CCTP-II) brings her expertise of facing our traumas and learning the power of holding hands and moving beyond them. This...
We all have many layers and facets to who we are as human beings. Yet, we hide some parts and voices of ourselves. How fun is that? Instead when we unleash all aspects of ourselves into the world we discover the power of living our truth and being exactly who we’re meant to be. Dr....
Just because a guy is not the epitome of masculinity doesn’t mean he isn’t a man. Yet, so many sensitive men get given a bad rap – especially gay men, but even more so the straight guys who get mislabeled as gay because they are sensitive guys. Author William Allen shares his new book Confessions...
Baseball and a love for country music. That’s about as heteronormative as… Wait that would be generalizing and putting someone in a box, which is not we want in the LGBTQ+ community. So why would you think a major league baseball player, and country singer doesn’t really fit the gay box. Because that is making...
Using her own life experience of trauma – coming out late in life, hiding herself for years, and then a traumatic brain injury, Sarah Salisott is now on a mission to helps parents and children navigate past the traumas to live their best lives. Here is her coming out story. About Sarah Sarah is a...
Born with the gene of needing to make everyone like you, this Tomboy was afraid of being abandoned and being alone. She lived her life as a chameleon, blending in to keep the peace and make everyone happy. That trauma lead to mental, and physical pain until she finally did the work she needed to...
Rick DellaRatta is an ally of the LGBTQ+ community, who believes the only way to bring peace to the world is to unite is all in our empathy and understanding of one another. Share himself and his music today on the podcast Rick takes us on a journey of why embracing the LGBTQ+ community is...
You’d have to be blind, not listening, and burying your head in the sand to not realize LGBTQ+ rights and lives are on the line, as well as other marginalized communities – black, asian, hispanic, jews, muslims, women. It’s a crazy time to be “the others.” But does that mean we hide and let them...
Times are insane. It can make you want to hide, stop watching the news, and pretend you are something that you’re not. But it’s not easy to do that when you are black and queer. Your skin color literally gives you away, and then when it’s revealed that your queer…lawd help ya. Breaking the mold...
Nonbinary. It’s simple. Just ask the questions you’re afraid to ask, in the right way, and you will learn and you will support our nonbinary community. But we make it so much harder than that. Guiding us to have the candid conversations is Author Ocean Atlas as they discuss their book Nonbinary For Beginners: Everything...
Coming out is an act of compassion and courage. But without the clarity to step forward, many of us will continue to hide our beautiful selves from the world. Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, author of Untangled: Walking the eightfold path to clarity, courage, and compassion, joins us today to talk about his journey out and...
Happy Pride and it’s time to celebrate you, your story, and all our queer stories. And why should we tell and share our stories? Because it helps to move you forward into loving and owning your story as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Joining us in celebration of our stories is Molly Sider, ally,...
As a precursor to PRIDE Month, this is a call to PRIDE. To ensure we move forward in the way that we need to, to not have our voices silenced, and our rights taken away. As you celebrate pride, take heed to how we can use P-R-I-D-E as our mantra to celebrate our truth and...
Joy, happiness, being in love with you. Sounds great but as humans we find it oh so hard to get there. Until now! Step into the joy zone and uncover your zest for living. Whether you’ve be through a traumatic coming out experience or one where you just followed your heart and it went really...
Some would say she went to the extremes, but secrets make us do that. Others would say, she isn’t a good Mommy. We say, she uncloseted herself to save herself and step out of the secret life she thought she had to live to survive. Baring it all, Author Marci Warhaft unclosets her life, stripping...
He spent most his life dealing with anxiety, and panic attacks that kept him from speaking his truth. Then a move to the desert, alone, not knowing anyone, and spending a year finding himself led him to his truth, he was a gay man and worthy of happiness. Mark Anthony shares his story and how...
From bullying to finally accepting his truth, Parrish came into his attraction for men from a different perspective on who he is and how he chooses to show up in the world of sexuality. This unique perspective may challenge some of you to think differently about how you talk about your LGBTQ+ self, and I...
After multiple near death experiences, and realizing not all doctors have all the answers, Linn Rivers bundled up all her experiences from trauma and has made it her life’s work to show others how to break the trauma patterns with microshifts for true healing – mentally and physically. Linn shares what you can do today...
From jail time to living on the streets, it takes pure determination and a belief in yourself to trust that who you are is more important that what your life circumstances have handed you. Sharing his heartfelt story of coming out with it’s crazy myriad of twists and turns, author, Burak Yilmaz takes us into...