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The One Practice That Makes Hard Things Easier and Good Things Better
Season 4 Episode 40
Some relationships feel harder than they should be. The conversations that used to flow now feel careful. The distance keeps quietly growing. Most ad…
8 hours ago
The Transgender Millionaire You've Never Heard Of
Season 4 Episode 39
Reed Erickson used his fortune to quietly build the foundation of transgender healthcare in America. The first gender clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospita…
1 week ago
How to Actually Change Someone's Mind About LGBTQ+ Issues
Season 4 Episode 38
At some time in your life, you've probably tried to convince someone that LGBTQ+ people deserve respect and equality. You presented facts, you raised…
2 weeks ago
Joe & Rya TAKE FIVE: Watertown LGBTQ School Board Scandal
Season 4
Students rehearsed Omar Thomas's "A Mother of a Revolution" for months. Then their school board banned it. Joe and Rya unpack the Watertown Wisconsin…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Bible's Famous Marriage Vow Is Quietly Queer
Season 4 Episode 37
You probably know the words "Where you go, I will go." Maybe you've heard them at a wedding. What most people don't realize is that this famous weddi…
3 weeks ago
Avoid These 4 Toxic Patterns Before They Destroy Your Loving Family
Season 4 Episode 36
You love your family. But love alone does not protect a relationship from the patterns that tear families apart. Research shows that four specific to…
4 weeks ago
What We've Learned About Hard Family Conversations, 10,000 Downloads Later
Season 4 Episode 35
What does it actually take to hold a family together across a divide most people would call too wide? After over three years of conversations with pa…
1 month ago
How Other People's Words Almost Destroyed Me
Season 4 Episode 34
What if the voice telling you you're not good enough isn't even yours? Professional figure skater, Stef Vachon came out at 18 and thought the hard pa…
1 month, 1 week ago
How Small Town Allies Can Make a Big Impact
Season 4 Episode 33
You probably imagine the worst when you think about LGBTQ+ life in a small town. Rya lives in a Midwestern town of 1,300 people where she knows her n…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
We Asked a Scientist If Being Gay Is Natural
Season 4 Episode 32
"Being gay is unnatural." If you've ever had someone throw that line at you in a conversation about LGBTQ+ people, you know how hard it is to respond…
1 month, 3 weeks ago