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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…
19 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