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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

Your Sapphic Dating Dilemmas, Answered with Love (and Zero Filter)

This month we return to our lesbian dating and relationship conversation, the one we share on the second Friday of every month, and by popular request Tonda is back at th

Grieving the Living: The Estrangement No One Prepares You For

TW: This episode includes honest discussion about grief, estrangement and suicidal ideation. Listener discretion is advised. There is a kind of loss that arrives withou

Loving Someone Newly Out: Tonda McKay's Story of Falling in Love With a Later in Life Lesbian

In this revisited Season 5 favorite, Anne-Marie sits down with photographer Tonda McKay, who also happens to be her wife. Tonda came out at eighteen as a good Southern Ba

Twice Out, Once Home: Keith Aron on Sexuality, Gender & the Long Way Back to Yourself

This week on Coming Out & Beyond, Anne-Marie sits down with Keith Aron (he/they), a trans and queer transformational coach, writer, proudly witchy weirdo, and self-descri

Hurricane Lessons: Betrayal, Becoming, & Coming Out Later in Life

A decade ago, Anne-Marie and Katrina Anne Willis met inside a small Facebook group that no longer exists — a quiet corner of the internet where women who had Googled "lat

The Surprise Truth About Sapphic Sex: What Nobody Tells You Before You Get Here!

A woman in our community wrote in and asked: "What if my lesbian sex experience doesn't live up to the hype? Does that make me not gay?" That question deserved more than