Coming Out + Beyond | LGBTQIA+ Stories
Hosted by Anne-Marie Zanzal and Anne-Marie · Anne-Marie Zanzal 1ac1f670-c17c-11f0-806a-ef1502adef07
4.3from 68 ratings
- 201
- Episodes
- 16
- Transcribed
- 68
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Coming Out + Beyond | LGBTQIA+ Stories
Coming Out & Beyond is a podcast for women questioning their sexuality later in life — no matter where you are or what your life looks like right now. Maybe you're sitting with a question you've never said out loud. Maybe you fell for a woman or something woke up recently, everything shifted and you can't put it back. Maybe you're untangling years of religious conditioning or compulsory heterosexuality and trying to figure out who you actually are underneath all of that. Whatever brought you here — this space is for you. Hosted by Anne-Marie Zanzal — Yale Divinity School graduate, ordained progressive minister, grief counselor, and LGBTQ+ coach who came out in midlife — Coming Out & Beyond offers real conversations, emotional clarity, and grounded support for women coming out after 30, 40, 50, and beyond. We talk openly about late bloomer experiences, being married with kids and questioning, single and not finding someone who is right for us, catalyst relationships, faith deconstruction, divorce, grief, identity shifts in midlife, and learning to trust the voice inside you that’s getting louder. This isn’t about rushing labels or blowing up your life. It’s about integration. Self-trust. And the kind of community that changes everything. Because women navigating later-in-life coming out do better — emotionally and practically — when they’re not doing it alone. New episodes weekly. Join the conversation on YouTube, and when you’re ready, step inside Authentically Us (https://community.annemariezanzal.com/)— Anne-Marie’s private community for women on this journey. This journey is yours and you are coming home to yourself. https://annemariezanzal.com/maybe-im-not-straight-guide/
- Publisher
- Anne-Marie Zanzal 1ac1f670-c17c-11f0-806a-ef1502adef07
- Category
- health & fitness · health & fitness · religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 May 2021
- Latest episode
- 18 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
16 of 201 episodes have a transcript.
18 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
I Have a Crush on My Only Lesbian Friend… Should I Tell Her?
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
You Look Great for 200! Celebrating Our 200th Episode and National Coming Out Day
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Coach vs. Therapist? Knowing What You Need
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I Have a Crush on My Only Lesbian Friend… Should I Tell Her?
Published 18 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We are at our most vulnerable that we probably ever will be with another person. So asking for something new, not only, can put your partner in a really awkward situation because you're asking them in the spur of the moment to consider something completely different. But it also makes you very vulnerable as well because if you're rejected, it's going to feel terrible when you ask her something and she goes, no, or ew, or how dare you, if she were going to do that. So having mature conversation about it setting aside some actual time to talk about it with your partner, I think is really important. […]
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- Barbara Rowlandson
- Tonda McKay
- Barb Rowlandson
- Anna Empey
- Susan Bratton
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 27 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.2 / 5
- 41 ratings
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Anne-Marie Zanzal and Anne-Marie host the show. Published by Anne-Marie Zanzal 1ac1f670-c17c-11f0-806a-ef1502adef07.
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