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…
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…
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…