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When The Holidays Feel Different As You Navigate Coming Out

SummaryWhen the holidays arrive in the middle of questioning your sexuality, coming out, or changing your family life, familiar traditions can carry unexpected grief. Wha

Coming Out Later In Life? Here's What Can Help

SUMMARY How does someone go from quietly questioning her sexuality to sharing her story in The New York Times? In this episode of Coming Out and Beyond, Anne-Marie Zanza

I Have a Crush on My Only Lesbian Friend… Should I Tell Her?

Summary:In this episode of Coming Out & Beyond, Anne-Marie Zanzal is joined by her wife, Tonda McKay, and Barbara Rowlandson to answer real questions from Reddit about le

You Look Great for 200! Celebrating Our 200th Episode and National Coming Out Day

Content note: this episode includes discussion of conversion therapy and religious trauma. Two hundred episodes. We still can't quite believe it either. To celebrate thi

Coach vs. Therapist? Knowing What You Need

What is the difference between a coach and a therapist, and how do you know which one you need? Anne-Marie Zanzal welcomes back her frequent guest and longtime business c

Starting Over in the Sapphic World

This week on Coming Out & Beyond it is the three of us again: Anne-Marie, dating and relationship guide Barb Rowlandson, and Anne-Marie's wife and resident realist, Tonda

The Best Sex of Your Life Can Come After 50

Note for Listeners: This episode contains explicit language and conversation about sex and sexual pleasure. Listener discretion is advised. What if the best sex of your

Should You Run? Unfiltered Sapphic Dating Advice

This month on Coming Out and Beyond it is our monthly dating and relationship show, and Anne-Marie is joined by her co-coach Barbara Rowlandson, a psychotherapist and dat

🚩 The Signs We Only See Now: Were We Ever Really Straight?

This month's episode with Anna Empey is the one we have all earned after a tender chapter of heavier conversations. It is lighter, there is a lot of laughing, and it is a

Straight Women Don't Lie Awake Wondering if They're Gay

This is the start of something new. The episodes you have told us you love most are the ones where the three of us sit down together, so we are making them a monthly gath

Coming Out at 39: When the Puzzle Pieces Finally Fit

Some mornings change everything. Marissa Mitchell was 39, a teacher and army veteran in southern Indiana, married to her junior high sweetheart and quietly certain that t

High Libidos, Straight Girl Crushes & Coming Out Later

It is the second Friday of the month, which means Anne-Marie is back with the company she loves most: her fellow coach Barbara Rowlandson and her wife Tonda McKay. This i

How to Stop Letting Fear Run Your Life

What if fear is not a stop sign but a signal that you are growing? In this month's first Friday conversation, Anne-Marie is joined by regular guest Anna Empey, business

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Coming Home to Yourself (Originally Aired Season 5)

This week we return to one of our most beloved conversations from the archives, my talk with Dr. Mallory Hanfling, a fellow later in life queer woman, therapist, and the

The Firefly Journey: What the Research Tells Us About Coming Out Later in Life

What if the single biggest factor in whether we come out, when we come out, and how we heal along the way is the community around us? Dr. Mallory Hanfling returns to the

The Boy Who Skated Anyway: Stef Vachon's Story

Content note: This conversation includes language that references homophobic slurs and a discussion of suicidal ideation and mental health struggles. Please listen with c

Real Talk on Sapphic Dating and Relationships

It is the second Friday of the month, which means Anne-Marie is joined by dating coach Barbara Rowlandson and Nashville photographer Tonda McKay, to talk all things sapph

🏳️‍🌈Allyship That Truly Matters

When you come out to someone, you learn very quickly to tell the difference between the half embrace and the full embrace. The half embrace turns the conversation back to

Finding a Self I Couldn't Name: Part 2 - Dahron Johnson's Story of Coming Out as Trans & Learning to Trust Her Inner Voice

In Part 2 of this conversation, Anne-Marie Zanzal continues her talk with Dahron Johnson, a trans woman, advocate, lifelong cyclist, and chair of the Metro Human Relation

Finding a Self I Couldn't Name, Part I: Dahron Johnson on Faith, Advocacy, and Making Room for More of Us.

Dahron Johnson grew up surrounded by voices. Thousands of books in her parents' home, two people who met in divinity school, and a faith that taught her every person is f