The Coming Out Chronicles – Details, episodes & analysis

Meet Kailey Gilchrist, the inspiring Founder and Sauce Boss at NONA Vegan Foods LTD. She delves into her entrepreneurial journey, from coming out in college and meeting her fiancé in a cooking class to creating a food brand with her late mother’s delicious Italian recipes.

Discover how joining CGLCC’s Out For Business program and finding mentorship helped her business thrive.

Key Points:

• Coming out about her Sexuality in College

• Meeting her fiance in her highschool cooking class

• Creating a food brand around her late mother’s Italian Recipes

• Coming out to Dad

• Joining the CGLCC’s Out for Business Program

• Business growing through mentorship

• Becoming a Certified Diverse Supplier

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Join Nancy Shadlock & Dr. Jackie F. Steele スティール若希 for a captivating conversation touching on the complex journey of transgender youth, diversity of thought, family law rights, and the role of Democracy.

They delve into cognitive bias, freedom of conscience, and the importance a variety of voices and yet maintaining emotional safety in democratic dialogue. The episode also explores law reform's role in creating equality for Queer folks in Japan and policy-based solutions for societal issues. Drawing on Jackie's extensive experience in Japan, they discuss the country's evolving understanding of Queer identities. Tune in for a rich exploration of how we can create emotionally safe spaces for dialogue with those who have a diversity of perspectives.

Key Points:

• Law Reform & Equality

• The struggle for rights and acceptance of transgender youth 

• Access to affirming care and support is crucial for the well-being of trans youth.

• Informed consent requires access to diverse perspectives and support networks.

• Exploring Queerness in Japan

• Women Empowerment in Japan

• Desire for Emotional Safety amongst divergent voices

  
  

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During this winter’s hibernation season, The Coming Out Chronicles are taking a break from putting out new material. 
We didn’t want to leave you hanging though so we’ve got some of our older episodes set to automatically pre-release. 
We hope you enjoy them!
We always get something new every time we re-listen.

A faithful listener of the Coming Out Chronicles wrote in with her coming out story.  Listen in as Nancy reads it on the show and share’s what it brings up for her.  This exciting tale goes from being a youth pastor to building a tiny house to coming out as queer, with many twists and turns that are very relatable.

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02:09: Became a Christian to be saved from gayness

04:50: Being a Youth Pastor

07:37: Conversion Therapy

11:55: So You Think You Can Dance Anxiety Attack

13:37: Built a tiny house as a way to focus on 1 thing

14:45: Coming Out Poem

19:05: Started looking for life partner

22:53: Highlights from The Shift Retreat

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During this winter’s hibernation season, The Coming Out Chronicles are taking a break from putting out new material. 
We didn’t want to leave you hanging though so we’ve got some of our older episodes set to automatically pre-release. 
We hope you enjoy them!
We always get something new every time we re-listen.

Elaine Alec joins Nancy this week to focus on two of her most impactful coming out stories, firstly as an alcoholic and more recently as an author. She touches on the ways in which she has found healing over the years that ultimately gave her the courage to follow her calling as a leader, teacher, advocate, and finally, a writer. 

01:53: Introduction
05:50: Coming out as an alcoholic
19:27: Coming out as an author
30:55: Calling My Spirit Back

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During this winter’s hibernation season, The Coming Out Chronicles are taking a break from putting out new material. 
We didn’t want to leave you hanging though so we’ve got some of our older episodes set to automatically pre-release. 
We hope you enjoy them!
We always get something new every time we re-listen.

Joe Boivin returns to the show this week to reminisce with Nancy about their shared experience at a Missionary Kid boarding school in Kenya. Back before either of them had fully come out, Joe describes what it was like as he gradually came to terms with his queerness during that time. As they discuss how their relationship with each other developed throughout the following years, both reflect on how time has allowed them to change in so many ways, all of which have ultimately led up to where they are today.

After spending many hours of childhood catching insects and looking them up in the encyclopedia, Joe went to college to study Biology. He now has a PhD in Neuroscience and is completing his postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, where his research focuses on how brain cells form connections with each other during development.

03:50: Joe’s experience at RVA
00:15: Oranges and sexuality
20:05: Reconciling their relationship

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Would you like to donate coming out support for a deserving person?  Click this link to donate via PayPal.

During this winter’s hibernation season, The Coming Out Chronicles are taking a break from putting out new material. 
We didn’t want to leave you hanging though so we’ve got some of our older episodes set to automatically pre-release. 
We hope you enjoy them!
We always get something new every time we re-listen.

Last time she was on the show, Heather Morgan spoke about her experience of coming out with a chronic illness. This week, she returns to the podcast to talk with Nancy about her second coming out as neurodivergent. In doing so, she shares some of the overlap she’s found in the intersection between the unique experiences that neurodivergence and queerness have to offer. 

01:47: Connecting autism and queerness
27:00: Changing the metric for relationships
34:30: Embracing all “bodies” of our identity

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During this winter’s hibernation season, The Coming Out Chronicles are taking a break from putting out new material. 
We didn’t want to leave you hanging though so we’ve got some of our older episodes set to automatically pre-release. 
We hope you enjoy them!
We always get something new every time we re-listen.

What happens when you embody a marginalized identity while knowing that you can hide it more easily than others? Carly Hutton offers her own perspective in her conversation with Nancy as she speaks from her experience as a biracial, bisexual woman. In her decision to come out to her community, she not only wanted to demonstrate her support with other queer people but to also show others that there are people who look and love like she does within the queer community that have valid experiences, as well. 

Carly Hutton is an Indigenous-Mexican woman living on unceded Sehmiahmoo lands, also known as Langley, BC. She is a writer, a musician, a wife, and a mother whose passion is to be an advocate for the marginalized. You can follow her family's journey on @carlymbutton on Instagram.

03:50: Coming out as bisexual
13:48: What prompted you to come out?
23:25: Support as an ally
31:56: What’s next…

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During this winter’s hibernation season, The Coming Out Chronicles are taking a break from putting out new material. 
We didn’t want to leave you hanging though so we’ve got some of our older episodes set to automatically pre-release. 
We hope you enjoy them!
We always get something new every time we re-listen.

Prior to discovering her sexuality and coming out as a lesbian, Elena Thurston was formerly a dutiful Mormon wife and mother of four. In this episode, she opens up about her experience in conversion therapy after realizing that she was gay and how she is now an advocate working against conversion therapy in the church. She then updates us with how life has treated her since finally embracing herself fully for who she is and who she loves, as well as how that has affected her role as a mom. 

04:50: Joining the Mormon church and discovering her sexuality 
10:20: Falling in love with a woman and experiencing conversion therapy
20:50: Coming out to her kids
45:53: What’s next...

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Josiah Boivin talks with Nancy about the several stages that have encapsulated his coming out as a trans man. After experiencing coming to terms with his own identity, he now desires to focus on telling his story so that it might be an example of hope and comfort for others, which includes giving advice to parents and those whose loved ones may be transitioning.

After spending many hours of childhood catching insects and looking them up in the encyclopedia, Joe went to college to study Biology. He now has a PhD in Neuroscience and is completing his postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, where his research focuses on how brain cells form connections with each other during development. 

02:30: Coming out
10:20: Learning new language for my gender
18:22: Advice to parents of kids who are transitioning
24:00: Next chapter of coming out

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During this winter’s hibernation season, The Coming Out Chronicles are taking a break from putting out new material. 
We didn’t want to leave you hanging though so we’ve got some of our older episodes set to automatically pre-release. 
We hope you enjoy them!
We always get something new every time we re-listen.

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Want a life hack for how to really rock your next coming out chapter?  In this episode Nancy Shadlock, the lead Coming Out Coach at Centered Life Coaching shares with us what she has come to see as the main steps most people take in their coming out journey.  By learning these 10 steps and being more aware of them you can help make any growth or change in your life feel more fun and empowered and less scary.  

Stay tuned til the end to hear about the time she almost married a gay man!

02:15 Download your Coming Out Guide

3:50 The 10 steps of Coming Out Powerfully

11:05 When I almost married a gay man

11:58 Then he got arrested…

Download the 10 Steps to coming out powerfully. 

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