❤️🩹The Catalyst Experience Changes EVERYTHING!
Anne-Marie's Podcast
"The Catalyst Chapter: #For WLW Navigating Love's First Chapter and Beyond" Learn more about the course and register at "Strengthening Love: Building Secure Bonds for Lesbian Couples": A course for building better communication and strong relationships. ❤️🩹The Catalyst Experience Changes EVERYTHING! This week on Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, we're revisiting an episode from season 4 on the ups and downs of catalyst relationships. Host Anne-Marie Zanzal sits down will fellow coming out and catalyst relationship coach, Barbara Rowlandson. In this episode....
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Uncloseted Media Brings Much Needed LGBTQ+ Lens to Journalism
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Lotus Community Coaching | For women navigating coming out & the "messy middle": "Strengthening Love: Building Secure Bonds for Lesbian Couples" TW: Hate groups, racism and homophobia are discussed. Some strong language is used. Listener discretion is advised. Uncloseted Media Brings Much Needed LGBTQ+ Lens to Journalism This week on Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, host Anne-Marie Zanzal chats with Spencer Macnaughton, Editor-in-Chief and founder of Uncloseted Media, a nonprofit LGBTQIA+ -focused newsroom. In a time when America is...
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❤️🩹 Healing Your Grief When Coming Out- Part 2
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Lotus Community Coaching | For women navigating coming out & the "messy middle": "Strengthening Love: Building Secure Bonds for Lesbian Couples" TW: This episode explores grief as related to the coming out experience and may be difficult for some to hear. If you are grieving and are experiencing a mental health emergency, call 9-8-8 for crisis support. Download our grief guide and worksheets here: ❤️🩹 Healing Your Grief When Coming Out- Part 2 In this part 2 episode on healing grief host Anne-Marie Zanzal and her fellow coach, Barbara...
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❤️🩹 Healing Your Grief When Coming Out- Part 1
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TW: This episode explores grief as related to the coming out experience and may be difficult for some to hear. If you are grieving and are experiencing a mental health emergency, call 9-8-8 for crisis support. Download our grief guide and worksheets here: or ❤️🩹 Healing Your Grief When Coming Out- Part 1 In the episode of Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, host Anne-Marie Zanzal and her fellow coach, Barbara Rowlandson explore the complex emotions surround grief when coming out later in life. This is a MUST listen episode for anyone coming out and radically changing...
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📷”I Want To See These Women’s Faces”
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Lotus Community Coaching | For women navigating coming out & the "messy middle": "Strengthening Love: Building Secure Bonds for Lesbian Couples" 📷”I Want To See These Women’s Faces” In the episode of Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, host Anne-Marie Zanzal speaks with documentary photographer, Morgan Lieberman. Morgan's work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Bloomberg, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angles Times, among others. Morgan's current documentary project, tentatively...
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🤔Unpacking Compulsory Heteronormativity
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This week on the pod: pull up a chair and lean in as host Anne-Marie Zanzal and her fellow coming-out coach, Barbara Rowlandson, unpack all things 'comp het.' Compulsory Heteronormativity (sometimes used interchangeably with 'compulsory heterosexuality) represents the systems in place that keep women from understanding or realizing their needs and desires. If you're just starting out on your coming out journey and have ever asked yourself, "Why the heck did it take me so long to realize I am gay/lesbian/bi/queer?" then this episode is for YOU! 🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:...
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✊🏼Values in Action: Maxine Kroll's Life of Acceptance, Sex-Positivity & Activism
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Note: This episode contains content about sex and is NSFW. Listener discretion is advised. ‼️SPECIAL FOR COMING OUT & BEYOND LISTENERS! This episode's guest, Maxine Kroll, founder/owner of Provincetown's renowned sex shop & museum, Toys of Eros, is offering 10% off purchases for our listeners! Just use the coupon code COB when completing your order to receive your discount. Shop everything Toys of Eros has to offer at Wing Women Weekend | Annual Conference in Provincetown, MA, during Women's Week | "Strengthening Love: Building Secure Bonds for Lesbian...
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📣Dakarai Larriett's Fight for Fairness in Alabama!
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Wing Women Weekend | Annual Conference in Provincetown, MA, during Women's Week | "Strengthening Love: Building Secure Bonds for Lesbian Couples" 📣Dakarai Larriett's Fight for Fairness in Alabama! This week on the podcast, host Anne-Marie Zanzal sits down with Alabama Senate candidate Dakarai Larriett. Dakarai Larriett is the son of a U.S. Army veteran, a successful entrepreneur, longtime community volunteer, and — above all — a proud Alabama native, deeply committed to serving the citizens of his home state. Dakarai’s passion for public service was...
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🫣OK, I'm Gay, Now What?
Anne-Marie's Podcast
Reclaiming Your Sexual Self Workshop | with Mallory Hanfling, LCSW | Friday, Oct. 17th, 2025 | The Provincetown Inn, Provincetown, Massachusetts during Women's Week | 9:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. | Reclaiming Your Sexual Self Tickets, Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM | Eventbrite Mallory Hanfling, a late-in-life lesbian/firefly, queer therapist, and sexuality educator provides attendees with the SexEd that you wish you got in high school. Covering everything from anatomy and the mechanics of all different types of queer sex, to toy maintenance, and to sexual communication and consent, Mal will help you...
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✨Shine Bright, Fireflies! Connecting with Authentic Sexuality & Shedding Compulsory Heterosexuality
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Reclaiming Your Sexual Self Workshop | with Mallory Hanfling, LCSW | Friday, Oct. 17th, 2025 | The Provincetown Inn, Provincetown, Massachusetts during Women's Week | 9:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. | Mallory Hanfling, a late-in-life lesbian/firefly, queer therapist, and sexuality educator provides attendees with the SexEd that you wish you got in high school. Covering everything from anatomy and the mechanics of all different types of queer sex, to toy maintenance, and to sexual communication and consent, Mal will help you reconnect with your sexual self, learn how to listen to...
info_outlineTW: This episode explores grief as related to the coming out experience and may be difficult for some to hear. If you are grieving and are experiencing a mental health emergency, call 9-8-8 for crisis support.
Download our grief guide and worksheets here: Free Grief Guide For The Later In Life Community or https://bit.ly/amz-grief-handout
❤️🩹 Healing Your Grief When Coming Out- Part 1
In the episode of Coming Out & Beyond: LGBTQIA+ Stories, host Anne-Marie Zanzal and her fellow coach, Barbara Rowlandson explore the complex emotions surround grief when coming out later in life. This is a MUST listen episode for anyone coming out and radically changing their lives in other ways, such as divorce or moving! Anne-Marie and Barb discuss the five stages of grief, emphasizing that the grief journey is not a linear path. Three grief stages - denial, anger, and bargaining - are discussed, and the conversation highlights the importance of recognizing and naming grief feelings/stages. Understanding societal expectations, navigating relationships during this emotional journey and practical advice and resources for listeners are shared in this episode. Next week - Part 2 will tackle the remaining stages of grief: depression and acceptance.
🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
❤️🩹Why the 5 stages of grief are not linear and can 'loop back.'
❤️🩹How grief can manifest as avoidance or intellectualization.
❤️🩹How letting go of societal expectations can be accompanied by anger.
❤️🩹Why finding community is critical in the grief journey.
🏳️🌈 and much more!
Read Anne-Marie's article, "The Unexpected Grief of the LGBTQIA+ Coming Out Experience." https://annemariezanzal.com/the-unexpected-grief-of-the-lgbtqia-coming-out-experience/
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