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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 all have secrets. We all keep Secrets. And, all those secrets cause pain and trauma. Sharing her own secret, as an LGBTQ ally, Elaine Pasqua takes us on a journey of a family secret that took her own Mother and Step Father that led her to turn to one community, that helped her find...
Imagine being gay, and being institutionalized. Imagine being gay and being jailed for being gay. Nothing to imagine, this is reality. The reality of being gay in the 1950’s, just a little over 70 years ago, this was our LGBTQ reality. Robert C. Steele, captures Jim Foshee story in the book he authored, Banned From...
Diversity and inclusion isn’t just a once a year endeavor to be brought out of the closet and then shoved back into the closet. It is a daily practice of learning to stand in other peoples stories. Taking us into the diversity zone, Don Reed – master storyteller and entertainer – guides us to step...
From South Africa to New York City, you never know when you are going on your journey or where you will find yourself to finally be yourself. Speaking straight from a very purposeful heart, Yumna Aysen – aka Yumi – helps people find themselves so they can be the best version of themselves. Funny, insightful...
You need to make more space. Get a storage unit for the crap in your life so you can make space for more PEACE in your life. Why? Without PEACE, it’s a pretty miserable existence here on the good old planet earth. To help us get there, I’ve found an awesome guest – Diana Cutaia...
Imagine, growing up in a cult, being married to a female-to-male transgender individual for 10 years, and through all of that, plus life’s other twists and turns, you find your calling to help others come out of their subconscious closets to live their fullest life! Today, Dr. Frances Yahia, tells her story and guides us...
Religious trauma. Seems to be the norm for a majority of LGBTQ people that you encoutner. “You’re damned to hell!” or “You’re a sinner!” Of course most those people hurling those words for get that they’re divorced (a sin), have committed adultery (a sin), have eaten pig (a sin), worn woven fabrics (a sin), but...
In 2014 when my friend Leah Jantzen approached me to take over her radio show – I scoffed and said, “Not my thing!” Well, it’s very much my thing and here we are at the 500th Episode of Life (UN)Closeted. What started as an Internet radio show known as The Coming Out Lounge, has now...
Imagine, being told by your Commander In Chief – “You don’t matter, you don’t count, and you’re a danger to our military!” The reality is, he got fired and she’s still there, serving the US Space Force and living her best transgender life. Bree Fram, a woman of courage and perseverance, continues to pass the...
Whether you’re stripping your clothes off or coming out of the closet, it’s all about the big reveal. But, what happens when you are terrified to let people see the real you, the you that you’re meant to be? Do you freeze, and get scared of exposing your true self to the world? It’s time...
It’s really easy to get uptight, and lost in the holiday shuffle. Especially when you are part of the LGBTQ+ community, and you may not have fond experiences surrounding the holiday. Yet, in the words of RuPaul – “If you can’t love yourself, then how the hell you going to learn to love anyone elses!”...
You’re parents are aging, you’re settled in your gay life, and all of that gives you plenty of material to come out of the closet as a comedian…until you do. Then life throws you curve balls, and then the comedy comes to you not on stage, but through the words of your book, addressing the...
Nothing anyone did caused them to know they were different. But, they felt it and began exploring it and realized they were on the right path for them. Beyond addiction and into full recovery they found that their music, digital artistry and desire to explore more of who they are, led them to create “Knock...
We all have our story. We live our story daily. And, some of us take our stories, and the stories in our heads and turn them into our passion purpose…as a an author, with thousands of pages of articles and books. Gregory L. Norris is that person, a gay author who writes the stories that...
You had a plan. Marriage – check. Children – check. Your own flesh and blood family – no check. But that didn’t stop you and you went full-in to become a parent – despite the odds, and challenges. Giving full gratitude this Thanksgiving Eve, my friend Liz Grubb and I uncover her route to non-traditional...
“This transgender walked into the bar…” Cringe. Or, “You can tell he’s a man by the apple logged in his throat, no matter what dress he wears!” Cruel, cruel, cruel. These are the types of off-handed, transphobic remarks that can have a painful impact on the person in your office, in the cubicle right next...
You’re a man, with a penis, but you enjoy dressing up as a woman. OMG, you must want to be transgender! Not exactly. Ok, so you want to do strange things to children in bathrooms by dressing up as a woman..HELL NO. Truth is, you are simply a man who likes men and women, and...
The holidays are upon us along with the fun, joy, and STRESS. So how do you not let the stress drive you into your potential addiction, or ratchet up that addiction? You take the necessary steps to say, I need help. You also realize as an LGBTQ inidivual that you are up to 10x’s more...
Sometimes you hit a big block wall life and realize “It’s My Time!” Through heartache, a wake up call or even a simple moment when you realize you do need to put yourself in the driver’s seat of your life, and that’s ok, no matter what anyone else says. Singer, artist, and dancer Joey Salinas,...
Sometimes life throws you a curveball, and before you know it, you find yourself in bed, and not for the funnest reasons. For many of us that would mean – THIS LIFE SUCKS! For others, it means kick yourself in the ass, even though your ass is the reason you’re bedridden and transforming nearly overwhelming...