QUEER CONFIDENCE w/ Coach Alex Ray [Queer Confidence Coach]

Explicit content warning

06/23/21 • 64 min

EPISODE 86
QUEER CONFIDENCE
🏳️‍🌈🦄COACH ALEX RAY joins to talk mental health, coming out journey, his attempted suicide to becoming the Queer Confidence Coach, Queer Confidence Coaching Steps, and more!

We play MENTALLY STIMULATE ME with Grapefruit Soda & Beer!
WATCH: https://youtu.be/6tlxSWYeBPo
BLOG: https://www.jampackedshow.com/post/queer-confidence

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ABOUT:

✨🏳️‍🌈 Coach Alex Ray use to be extremely insecure. After hitting rock bottom with his depression in 2017, he went on a search to find out what made people confident. After taking several year to work on his own confidence, he now helps others in the LGBTQIA+ community become confident through his proven process.
@coachalexray
about.me/coachalexray

We play MENTALLY STIMULATE ME with Grapefruit Soda & Beer!
WATCH: https://youtu.be/6tlxSWYeBPo
BLOG: https://www.jampackedshow.com/post/queer-confidence

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Previous Episode

PRIDE & JOY w/ Elena Joy Thurston [Founder of the nonprofit, Pride and Joy Foundation]

EPISODE 85
PRIDE & JOY

✨🏳️‍🌈ELENA JOY THURSTON [Founder of the nonprofit, Pride and Joy Foundation] joins talk her coming out journey while being in the Mormon Church, how “couples therapy” turned into gay conversion “therapy,” coming out to her husband and kids, and more!

We play THE INTERROGATION and 2 TRUTHS AND A LIE w/ beer!
WATCH: https://youtu.be/SVkKXsYjj_8
BLOG: https://www.jampackedshow.com/post/pride-and-joy
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ABOUT:
✨🏳️‍🌈 Elena Joy Thurston is an inspirational LGBTQ speaker, trainer, and founder of the nonprofit Pride and Joy Foundation. A Mormon mom of four who lost her marriage, her church, and her community when she came out as a lesbian, Elena’s viral TEDx talk on surviving conversion therapy has been viewed 40,000+ times and landed her media and speaking opportunities with ABC, CBS, FOX, Boston’s First Event, and Seacoast Wellness Series. Elena Joy recently joined the publishing world with Pride and Joy Publishing, the only LGBTQ+ publisher of solely LGBTQ+ empowerment and business books.

@pridejoyfoundation
bit.ly/2NzjhLoSHOW NOTES:
0:00 Show Intro
1:30 Elena Joy Thurston Intro
3:27 Meet Elena Joy Thurston
5:00 Pride Night / Dyke Beer

Los Angeles Dodgers Pride Night
Arizona Diamondbacks Pride Night
Phoenix Mercury Pride Night

6:30 Diana Taurasi - Phoenix Mercury
8:07 Drink of Choice: “Sangria” & Beer
8:30 Drinking Game: THE INTERROGATION

Do you believe in God?
Would you eat a decomposing rodent if it saved a loved ones life?
Would you chew food and feed your significant other if they needed it?

10:00 Religion for many people
14:09 Auditory gross out
15:10 Being a Mormon mom that started having unsettling thoughts and what happened next
19:13 Mormon undergarments
21:20 How she started fly fishing
22:20 Falling in love with her best friend
23:50 When her husband found the text messages between she and her best friend
24:34 Couples Counseling / Couples Therapy
28:45 First time she thought about suicide after talking to counselor
29:50 Elena was about that Mormon Life
33:40 Learning about “the guy in town” that ended up being Gay Conversion Therapy
35:58 Different types of Gay Conversion Therapy sessions
38:20 Her sessions of conversion therapy
43:00 Feeling suicidal after conversion therapy
45:30 How it felt to finally go to a licensed professional therapist

47:00 New Chapter of life

47:30 Raising kids in the mormon church

49:00 Coming out to the kids

50:50 How her kids responded to coming out to them

52:06 What else held her back from wanting to come out (other than her marriage)

55:00 DRINKING GAME: 2 Truths & a Lie

1:03:12 Gay Conversion Therapists - Dave Matheson and many others that have come out as gay

1:07:05 Realized tides were going to conversion therapy. Religion Loopholes for conversion therapy

1.17:00 Trying to ban conversion therapy will be hard to get on the ballot.

72:00 Germany has banned conversion therapy, but other countries

73:22 Googling and finding conversion therapy place walking distance from an interviewers house that said it was mainly a problem in the US. She was in London.

75:40 Pride & Joy Foundation

78:17 What the Elena now would say to the 15-16 year old Elena

79:39 Words of Wisdom

82:35 Contact Elena

Next Episode

BE THE MATCH w/ Jared Lipscomb [Leukemia Warrior/Be The Match Ambassador, Celebrity Makeup Artist & Podcast Host of Back On Air]

EPISODE 87
JUNE 30, 2021

BE THE MATCH

✨🏳️‍🌈 JARED LIPSCOMB [Celebrity Makeup Artist, Podcast Host of Back On Air & @bethematch Ambassador] joins to talk how he found out he was diagnosed with leukemia, how he almost didn’t get his transplant in time, need for diversity in bone marrow registry, the LGBTQ+ community is welcome to donate with Be The Match vs. blood donation verbiage with others, and more!

We play STORYTIME to create names for makeup lines with a country twist with Diet Dr. Pepper & 805 Beer!

WATCH: https://youtu.be/95Wh4E-GMpY
BLOG: https://www.jampackedshow.com/post/be-the-match
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ABOUT:
✨🏳️‍🌈 Jared Lipscomb is a celebrity makeup artist, host of the podcast Back On Air, and as of april 2021 a Leukemia Survivor. He uses his platform to share his beauty work as well as to advocate for the queer cancer community by spreading awareness for Be The Match. As an ambassador, he is focusing on diversifying the bone marrow registry and spreading the importance of signing up. Jared loves chihuahuas, the color pink and Britney Spears.
@jaredlips
#bethematch

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SHOW NOTES:

0:00 Show Intro

1:30 Jared Lipscomb Intro

3:25 Meet Jared Lipscomb

8:50 Growing up around the south to moving to Florida

11:50 finding confident gay kids at his high school

13:20 Moving to LA from Florida

14:40 power of positive thinking

going from the Venice bubble to how his philanthropy got him started as a makeup artist

22:00 when he began to feel sick and found out he was diagnosed w/ leukemia

30:00 how he almost didn’t get his transplant in time w/ the travel ban

34:00 what it was about pop music that got him through that also helped him with his breathing

37:20 Drinking Game: STORYTIME remix, making up cosmetic lines with a southern twist

55:00 importance to Be The Match for someone that needs a transplant.

59:00 donating blood

Process of how to find if you’re a match
Process of donating blood (not intrusive)
What being on a private registry means
How Be The Match is lgbtq+ friendly

1:06:16 Words of Wisdom

The mantra that I lived by in the midst of the most suffering that I was going through with my cancer treatment.

This is temporary. For me it meant, that pain, suffering and hardship of what I was going through, that it was all temporary. If you’re going through a rough patch, remember it’s temporary.

1:08:00 fighting laws that homophobic legislature and language in donating blood.

homoglobin is fighting for the LGBTQ+ community

1:10:00 outro