Life (UN)Closeted: LGBTQ+ Coming Out Stories & Advice for living out and proud!

Life (UN)Closeted: LGBTQ+ Coming Out Stories & Advice for living out and proud!

Stop it! No more mediocre living and hiding your LGBTQ+ truth. Start dreaming, doing, and living your life without apologies. Host Rick Clemons – bold move badass and LGBTQ+ expert – sez “Live Life Uncloseted dammit!” Each episode he takes you on a brash, fun, in your face, provocative storytelling ride to escape your crazy making thoughts, explore your fears, and unabashedly elevate your self-expression so you can live your LIFE (UN)CLOSETED as an LGBTQ+ proud member of society.

Episodes

645: Get Out To Vote to Live Your Life (UN)Closeted – Alex Jamieson

October 16, 2024 • 34 mins
There's nothing more important, as a human being, than having the rights to live life on your terms - provided it doesn't intentionally hurt someone else. From body autonomy, to loving who you love, and worshipping the way you choose to worship. Everyone deserves these rights. Yet, in the politically charged environment - not only in the U.S., but across the globe - the war against personal human rights is on. Helping me unwrap ...
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    644: Living Your Life (UN)Closeted Part 14 – Embracing the Right Choice, Isn’t The Easiest One – Rick Clemons

    October 9, 2024 • 13 mins
    Life is full of choices. Some easy, and some not so easy, right? Coming out, changing jobs, finding that just right soulmate. All of these decisions come with choices. Ironically, we put  a lot of emphasis on making the right choice, and too often try to find the easy choice simultaneously. Yay, who doesn't want the easiest way when given the chance. But, what if the easiest choice isn't always the right choice. That's what we're u...
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    643: Living Your Life (UN)Closeted Part 13 – How To Daily Embrace Uncertainty – Rick Clemons

    October 2, 2024 • 11 mins
    Uncertainty is a part of life, and definitely it is a part of coming out. The good news is, it doesn't have to be a part of your journey, nor a reason to keep yourself in the closet -in any aspect of life. But, how do you face these feelings of uncertainty, head on? That's the focus of today's podcast - navigating and embracing uncertainty. In this episode you'll...
    • Learn what uncertainty triggers are and how to listen ...
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    642: Living Your Life (UN)Closeted Part 12: Your Past Doesn’t Get A Seat at Your LGBTQ+ Present – Rick Clemons

    September 25, 2024 • 12 mins
    For many LGBTQ+ individuals, our past is what kept us in the closet and is still what haunts to this day. Even though we are out of the closet, we suffer from the past dictating our present and future. Today we dismantle that invitation for our past to have a seat at our present and future table, so that we can live rich and happy LGBTQ+ lives In this episode you'll...
    • Define what elements of the past keep you hostage
      • ...
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    641: Living Your Life (UN)Closeted – Having the confidence to know the world needs you Part 11– Rick Clemons

    September 18, 2024 • 15 mins
    That piece of your that is hiding, you know the truth of who you are, is what the world really needs to see and get to know. In fact the world needs that - unless they are right wing crazies. But don't let them win. Realize that what the world needs now is YOU, sweet, confident, YOU. Here's how to have the confidence to release what is inside you to the world. In this episode you'll...
    • Learn how to showcase your beautif...
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    640: Living Your Life (UN)Closeted Part 10 – Make our confidence louder than you insecurities – Rick Clemons

    September 11, 2024 • 13 mins
    Whether you're coming out of the closet, going for a job change, or choosing to start a relationship, insecurities have a way of screwing with your confidence. Truth is you confidence is actually louder than your insecurities. In this episode you'll...
    • Uncover the truth about your confidence and how to leverage it in any situation
    • Learn how to quell your insecurities and set them aside
    • Explore what it takes to con...
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    639: Living Your Life (UN)Closeted Part 9 – Live the life of your choosing and Freak Others Out – Rick Clemons

    September 4, 2024 • 12 mins
    It's time. Time for you to truly live your life (un)closeted. Yet, too often we are afraid of living our life in a way that FREAKS OTHERS OUT! To bad! You have the right to live your life on your terms, and if it freaks others out, that is on them. In this episode you'll...
    • Be invited to take the risk of living life on your terms
    • Learn how to embrace the risk of offending others in a loving way
    • Explore what it tak...
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    638: Living Your Life (UN)Closeted Series Part 8 – Let your F*cking Intuition Guide You – Rick Clemons

    August 28, 2024 • 11 mins
    Our intuition is our friend. But not if you don't tap it. If you ignore it, it will ignore you. Today we explore how to let your f*cking intuition guide you in those big decisions of life - coming out, careers, relationships, health, friendships, finances, etc. In this episode you'll...
    • Tap into how to discover your intuition and leverage it
    • Learn simple the signs that your intuition is guiding you to live your truth
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    637: Living Your Life (Un)Closeted Series: Part 7 – What Happens When You Unfollow The Rules – Rick Clemons

    August 21, 2024 • 11 mins
    Rules, rules, rules. They are meant to be broken, and meant to be followed. But they are also meant to be rewritten. When you come out of the closet you lovingly rewrite the rules for you. In fact most the time when we shake up our lives we are rewriting the rules so that life can be better. Having the courage to unfollow a rule, break it and rewrite is what we are exploring today. In this episode you'll...
    • Discover the...
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    636: Living Your Life (Un)Closeted Series: Part 6 - How to have the courage to love and befriend yourself – Rick Clemons

    August 14, 2024 • 12 mins
    You've heard it before and you will hear it again - "If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” - RuPaul and Amen! But it's hard, hard, hard to love yourself unless you give yourself permission to love all your self - every little bit form your head to your toe. That takes courage. That's what we'r also exploring this week is the courage to love and befriend yourself. In this episode you'll
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    635: Living Your Life (Un)Closeted Series: Part 5 – Drop the BS of the inconceivable and thrive – Rick Clemons

    August 7, 2024 • 13 mins
    If you've ever caught yourself saying, " I can't conceive of that," then you've blown the possibility of what's possible. That mindset prevents us as LGBTQ+ individuals from becoming our own version of a Disney Imagineer for our lives. Break free of the BS of the inconceivable and get curious about what's truly possible. In this episode you'll
    • Learn how to spot your BS inconceivable patterns
    • Breakthrough negative thi...
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    634: Living Your Life (Un)Closeted Series: Part 4 - Who created those beliefs? You or the others? – Rick Clemons

    July 31, 2024 • 11 mins
    To begin to unpack our direction and our desires, we have to realize that our beliefs and values will guide us or fight us. Of course, we'd prefer they guide us. In order to make those beliefs serve us and serve us well, whether we're coming out of the closet, choosing a new career, or letting go of toxic people in our lives, we have to get ready to re-evaluate our beliefs in order for them to serve us and our long term goals of be...
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    633: Living Your Life (Un)Closeted Series: Part 3 - Let’s Get Naked With Our Truth(s) – Rick Clemons

    July 24, 2024 • 11 mins
    Here' the naked truth about being in a state of confusion. You can't get out of confusion until you get naked with your truth! Whether you are coming out of the closet, walking away from a bad relationship, going for a promotion, or letting go of people in your life that no longer serve you, you have to get fully naked with the truth behind that decision or situation to leave the confusion behind. In this episode you'll
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    632: Living Your Life (Un)Closeted Series: Part 2 – Why Your Closets A Mess – Rick Clemons

    July 17, 2024 • 12 mins
    Before you can step out of the confusion of your life's closets, you have to do this one thing! Admit your closet is a mess. It's in the messiness of our life's closets hat we find the path forward. We reveal the hidden secrets so that they are out in the open, and we free ourselves to be ourselves. In this episode you'll
    • Learn how own that your closet is messy so that you can thrive
    • Organize the messiness and pre...
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    631: Living Your Life (Un)Closeted Series: Part 1 - Freedom and Desire – Rick Clemons

    July 10, 2024 • 14 mins
    We're kicking off a new series entitled "Living your life (UN)Closeted. Designed to make you think and to guid you out of the closets of your life, host Rick Clemons guides you by the hand to the freedom of living your life (un)closeted. We kick of the series exploring desire and freedom. In this episode you'll
    • Learn how to get real with your desires
    • Awaken to the vision of what true freedom means for you outside ...
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    630: Ry Levey – Silencing LGBTQ+ Christian Music – Not on God’s Watch!

    July 3, 2024 • 47 mins
    For too long the voices of Christians have tried to silent the LGBTQ+ community. But what happens to their voices when Christian music artists sing the Lords praise, and those performers happen to be members of the LGBTQ+ community? Do they abandon them? Call them fake Christians? Film producer Ry Levey brings his newest documentary to life - Song Silenced - where he explores the intersectionality of Christian Musician and the L...
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    629: C. Travis Rice – Celebrating Pride with Gay Romance For Your Summer Beach Read

    June 26, 2024 • 34 mins
    As we wind up Pride Season, why not think about your next beach read. Even more provocative, why not think about the importance of having LGBTQ+ representation in our fiction life. After all, art imitates life...right? Proving that point, author Christopher Rice, writing under the pen name of C. Travis Rice shares a sizzling romance between two gay men in a luxurious coastal beach setting that not only enables you to be taken aw...
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    628: Mark Pettit – Living your truth and being the ANKRBOY you were meant to be

    June 19, 2024 • 45 mins
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    627: Jamie Marich – You Lied To Me About God

    June 12, 2024 • 43 mins
    The journey of an LGBTQ+ persons life, more often than not, requires the GOD TALK. And even more often that not, that conversation kills their desire to talk about GOD. Today we have a candid discussion, just in time for Pride month, about the relationship you can have with GOD and all the lies you've been told. Author Dr. Jamie Marich shares her forthcoming book - You Lied to Me About God: A Memoir - is a captivating journey to...

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    628: Don Mamone – How to be an unapologetic rebel – no guilt, no shame.

    June 5, 2024 • 47 mins
    Living your truth, and being who you are, is every human beings right - provided it doesn't hurt someone. Which is always the tricky thing to discern. Yet, how is someone being gender fluid hurting anyone? In reality it is just another aspect of whom a person is. So live and let live, and just go be your own version of an unapologetic rebel. Speaker and coach Don Mamone joins us for the pride celebration podcast about living their ...

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