Queer Business Success With Anne-Marie Zanzal

Steph Annie is a trauma-informed safe space facilitator. She helps individuals decondition from social and trauma programming to support in the development of their sense of self and self-agency while honing their critical thinking and effective communication skills. This helps cultivate safe, healthy, loving and collaborative relationships across all aspects of their life. Having lived through trauma herself and through her studies at the Arizona Trauma Institute, Steph Annie supports clients through an informed, compassionate lens. In this episode, Anne-Marie talks with Steph Annie about her own journey coming out as pansexual, reviews the most common types of trauma her clients experience, discussing paths to healing and her best advice for anyone who is thinking of working in the area of trauma recovery.

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Lana Mims is an athlete, personal trainer and coach, and creator of Intentional Spectrum Fitness. The daughter of a 4-time Olympian gold and silver medalist, she has been in the company of world-renowned athletes for her entire life. A former semi-pro track and field athlete, Lana parlayed her love of physical activity into a career in personal training. Lana's positivity and belief that there is no such thing as a 'bad' body is integral to her training style. In this inspiring episode, Anne-Marie talks with Lana about her experiences of becoming aware of her Queerness, combating harmful rhetoric around negative body image, and embracing fitness on your own terms.

You can learn more about Lana Mims and her training programs at https://www.intentionalsf.com/

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Steven Diamond is an author, creative director, coach and developer of the Life Skills Master Class program. Steven began his career as a magician who became embroiled in nefarious workings of the notorious 'Doc' Antle of Tiger King fame. Steven's story of perserverance and overcoming adversity is incredible. In this conversation with Anne-Marie, Steven shares how he met, was indoctrinated, and eventually escaped the cult of 'Doc' Antle, how he has overcome OCD, his ascent to fame after authoring his book "OCD: A Life Among Secrets," how appearing on Tiger King changed his life and his challenges, and successes running a 7-figure coaching business.

You can learn more about Steven at www.stevendiamond.com

Find Steven's coaching program at lifeskillsmasterclass.com

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Jonathan Royle is a hypnotist, Master NLP Hypnosis trainer, doumentarian and author. Jonathan's long career includes working as a stage performer and as a professional who helps people overcome addiction and bad habits. In his provocatively named book, 'Shitnosis,' Jonathan shares with readers how to 'get their shit together.' Having overcome numerous traumas and near-death experiences (including having his ear ripped off by a puma), Jonathan has used his mind-empowering skills to sell millions of dollars of products worldwide. In this episode, Anne-Marie explores with Jonathan themes surrounding hypnosis as empowerment tool, the different ways to evoke liminal spaces in the mind, and why Jonathan absolutely does not want to work with you as a coach.

You can learn more about Jonathan Royle at www.magicalguru.co.uk.

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Lauren Smith is an late in life lesbian, author, speaker and host of the Date in Peace podcast. Lauren speaks about mindful dating to help singles avoid heartache and find love faster. She is a certified mindfulness and meditation teacher with additional certifications in Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Freedom Technique (also known as EFT Tapping). In this episode, Anne-Marie and Lauren talk about how the pandemic caused Lauren to stop and reevaluate her work life, the meaning behind 'mindful dating,' and why her journey as a business owner is like floating down a lazy river.

You can tune in to the Date in Peace podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and anywhere you might normally tune in.

Follow Lauren on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mettadate/

Paul Wrightson is a yoga instructor and creator of the Complete Man Program: a 9-week program designed to improve men's mental and physical health. Recognizing that men have high expectations to be strong, but are often expected to do so without help of any kind, Paul crafted a program for men that cultivates emotional balance. In this episode, Anne-Marie talks to Paul about his beginnings in and love for yoga, the trappings of toxic masculinity, and what men need to escape the pressure of unrealistic societal expectations.

To learn more about Paul's Complete Man Program, visit https://loom.ly/KYE8sMc

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Julie Schurr is a mindset and grief coach for the LGBTQ+ community and founder of Apex Community Coaching. Accredited in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), and hold an M.A. in Linguistics (Discourse), Julie uses their diverse skill set and experience to work with clients to set goals, through affirmation, educated counsel, utilization of helpful tools/methodologies, and support. in this episode, Anne-Marie and Julie talk about grief that is associated with coming out as a member of the Queer community, as well as Julie's own coming out story and early business successes.

You can find Julie and Apex Community Coaching online at https://www.coachjulieschurr.com/

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John Sovec, MA, LMFT, is a nationally recognized expert on creating affirmative support for the LGBTQIA+ community. John is a frequent contributor to numerous publications on providing LGBTQ support, speaks at national conferences, and provides training on LGBTQ competencies for community agencies, schools, and non-profits. In this episode, Anne-Marie talks to John about the process of writing his book "Out: A Parent's Guide to Supporting Their LGBTQ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond." Anne-Marie and John discuss the book writing process, the challenges and successes of being an author, and the array of feelings that come with parenting a child who identifies as Queer.

You can find a copy of John Sovec's book here: https://www.amazon.com/Out-Parents-Supporting-Lgbtqia-Through/dp/1839974249

Visit John's website: https://johnsovec.com/about/john-sovec

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This episode features email marketing and automation specialist, Calion Winter. As someone who lives with chronic illness, Calion shares about their transgender journey, offers some sage advice about pacing yourself and underscores why automation can be an enormous benefit to business owners.

You can connect with Calion Winter on LinkedIn here: www.linkedin.com/in/calion-winter/

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Marialexandra Garcia is founder and CEO of Outplay, a gender neutral activewear brand. Outplay's star products are compression tops, which are a safer alternative to binders. Marialexandra has 25 years experience in the garment industry. She spent the majority of her career as a bridal designer, shifting in 2011 to launch a line of wedding attire for brides who preferred non-conventional wedding attire with an emphasis of jackets, vests and pants. Ultimately, designing for women who wanted gender non-conforming wedding attire led Marialexandra to solving another problem by creating compression tops and gender neutral swimwear. In 2014, Outplay was launched and has enjoyed great success. In this episode, Marialexandra and Anne-Marie talk about this journey from bridal wear to compression tops and swim wear and why this work is so meaningful.

You can learn more and shop Marialexandra's line of compression tops and swimwear at www.shopoutplay.com

To learn more about Jack's story and his coaching programs visit www.jackaori.com

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