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Juanita MORE! is a denizen of the limelight. For almost three decades, the laudable hostess has blitzed San Francisco with high glamour, drag irreverence, and danceable beats that have illuminated the entire city. She inspires those around her to make positive differences in their lives and communities — and doing it all with timeless elegance and an innovative spirit. To date, MORE! has helped raise over 1 million dollars for local LGBTQ charities — among them GBLT Historical Society & Archives, Our Trans Youth, Q Foundation, Queer Lifespace, Transgender Law Center, and more. MORE!’s culinary expressions are an extension of what mothers have been doing in their kitchens for generations — which, simply states, is sharing “loads of love.”  

In this delightful interview we discuss how Juanita created and continues to create their colorful, unique and purposeful path. We get to hear about Juanita’s spiritual spirituality, from childhood until now. We talk about synchronicities and spirituality weaving through our everyday lives. 
 
 We then get a full TEA story about Juanita’s journey trying drag for the first time and all the epic events that  followed, plus all the synchronicities and fabulous players who came together to birth the magic that is Juanita MORE! Next, we chat about their amazing charity work and activism work and what inspires it. And we end chatting about the importance of following one’s passion in life and always seeking joy. 

Learn more about Juanita MORE! here- https://juanitamore.com/

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Jordi Wood is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, medicine carrier, and an advocate for healing. Jordi has spent much of their life learning indigenous wisdom, plant medicine, and sacred music as a means of cultivating their unique curative properties and then combining these learnings to create rich musical and medicinal healing spaces.  Jordi strives to walk the HEART road and is deeply committed to the path of service to those authentically seeking healing, reconnection, and heart opening.  Jordi is passionate about working with individuals who struggle with addiction, PTSD, chronic illness, survivors of sexual abuse, persons struggling with depression, anxiety, or sexual identity, and those within under-represented communities. 

We chat about his unique sacred path and the work he did to follow divine guidance. Even when there were seemingly easier more conventional paths showing up for them to be a successful musician, they kept choosing the heart path, which brought them to beautiful unforeseen places. 

Jordi shares how they worked with ayahuasca alongside tribes from the Amazon to heal critical medical issues he had been dealing with his whole life. Then we discuss the benefits and models of working with other plants from the amazon- using Ayahuasca to interface with these more subtle plants in order to receive learnings from them. We flesh that out hearing about the different categories of plant helpers and the fascinating process of discer'sning what plant wants to work with the person recieiving the medicine. 

Next, we dive into how Jordi works with sound in medicine spaces as a kind of sonar, and utilizes its capacity to transmit packets of information in a sonic form that are registered on an energetic level. It’s really mind-blowing hearing him describe this cosmic technology and how it can be used to heal. 

We explore Ayahueska ability to unlock people’s creative potential and how it calls people back to their natural roles as creators. Finally, we explore the importance of diversity in these plant medicine healing spaces. We look at how the medicine can support folks to recieve more self-love and how important this is for all people, and especially people who are part of marginalized communities. 

Jordi’s album, "The Wheel of Time - An Ayahueska Journey," provides a channel for those who are open to receiving the vibrational medicine of the Master Plant allies of the Amazon. In this episode you'll get to hear two samples from this powerful album, one at the top of the interview and one at the end.  Enjoy!

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Hello Beloveds!

I'm back for my 2nd solo podcast, a bit of a continuation of my first solo podcast. Put together they read "Allow me to Introduce Myself" "I Am Sylvia WIl Gather Rainbow." And they serve as a way for you to get to know me a bit better. In this one, I share about myself by telling the story of my full chosen name and where each of its parts came to be. 

You'll hear about the rite of passage Kambo ceremony that connected me with the power of "I Am."  Next, you'll hear about the origin of my Drag Name, Sylvia London, and what that name means to me. I tell you more about my radical fearie name, Gather, and why I identify with that word. And finally, you'll hear the story of being gifted the name "Rainbow" and why that word is so special. to me. 

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Adam Jackson is the co-founder of Sacred Sons and host of Sacred Sons podcast.  Sacred Sons is the world’s largest organization dedicated to modern Men’s Work. 
 
 Adam holds a vision for ushering brotherhood to the forefront of our community as a means for conscious healing. Fatherhood has set Adam on a heart-opening journey of conscious parenting, commitment and continual inner work. He is walking his spiritual path with the power of self-love and the intention to raise the collective consciousness of our human family.

We start the interview by hearing a story about Adam’s early exposure to drag while working with one of the members of the notorious drag squad, The Ruby Girls. I then share about my time with my drag squad from the early 2000’s, Snapdragon and tell Adam about drag houses and drag culture in general. We get deeper into this from a spiritual perspective, looking at how drag can be an access point to transformation and to stepping into fuller versions of ourselves.
 
 Adam shares his understanding and appreciation for unity, bringing together people from all walks of humanity, and shares from his perspective as a biracial person. And we also look at queer folk's roles as unifiers.

Adam then describes men’s work- what it is, what its lineage is, and what Sacred Sons does in the world of men’s work.  We discuss the healing that takes place when men are given safe space to experience platonic, brotherly, intimacy together. And also the healing of play.

We then explore the love languages through the lens of men’s work, and we close exploring the masculine archetypes and how to effectively work with that framework. 
 
 Sacred Sons' Convergence 8 is coming up October 5-8th!
 https://www.sacredsons.com/convergence8
 
 More info about Sacred Sons and the podcast:
 https://www.sacredsons.com/    https://open.spotify.com/show/13MNzScptw2xqgkCTrgAEJ?si=3f37a2a1475448c0
 
 Info for contacting Wil 
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The LGBTQ History Project maintains that Don Kilhefner is the most dangerous gay activist alive in America. For over 50 years, he has fought to secure civil rights for LGBTQ people. Without a doubt, the fruits of his work have changed the world. He was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front in 1970, one of the first organizations to bring gay rights to the general public’s attention.  He co-founded the Los Angeles LGBT Center, which has become the model of all LGBTQ Centers around the world with a $172 million yearly budget and nearly 800 employees. In 1978, he co-founded the Radical Faeries, a counter-culture network and movement that explores queer consciousness and queer spirituality and is alive and well today all around the world. He has dedicated the second chapter of his life to the exploration of queer consciousness and his community-based psychology practice.

We start this interview by discussing the importance of intergenerational connections in the LGBTQ community. Next, we get into a juicy conversation addressing how heterosupremacy defined who we are based on sex, and now it’s time to re-envision who we are and what it means to be gay beyond sex. We explored the possible purpose and roles of LGBTQ folks from a historical and anthropological perspective. Two possible roles we identified are the altruistic impulse, and the cooperative principal which Don describes. 

Don then shares the origin story of the radical faeries and the part he played in starting the radical faerie movement along with Harry Hay. Delightfully we get to learn some of the beautiful details from the very first radical faerie gathering. 

We end with Don sharing his thoughts on what our community’s biggest challenges. This included a concept called "elite capture" meaning we’ve moved from a grassroots community-based movement to a movement where the elite have monopolization the LGBTQ community and it’s fight for rights. This shift is failing, and Don and I consider what needs to change.

This is a pretty epic interview with a very epic figurehead of the LGBTQ history!

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Welcome to the 2nd Season of Queerly Beloved!

In this inaugural episode I'm releasing my first solo podcast. In the episode I share my personal story of walking the queer and spiritual path. 

Stories include:
Almost converting to Mormonism;
Losing all my friends in 8th Grade because of rumors about me being gay;
Some of the books that shaped my path;
Discovering the radical faeries; 
Connecting back with my Native American (Osage) Ancestry;
Living and working at an LGBT Retreat Center;
Working with plant medicines;
And starting this podcast..!

This new season promises to deliver more interviews with incredible folks talking about queerness and spirituality, plus some of these solo podcasts sprinkled in. I hope you enjoy it! Please feel free to send thoughts, ideas and feedback! 

You can reach me here-  https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/contact

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Cory Thorell is a seasoned Insight and Personal Development Coach, Circle Way Facilitator, and the visionary Founder of the Dream Intending Workshop. With a rich background of 40 years in show business, he honed the art of manifesting on demand, bringing miracles to life on opening night.  Now, Cory shares his expertise and teaches the teachable skill of manifesting for the greater good. For over three decades, he has passionately followed the shamanic path, facilitating true change and transformation with groups, organizations, and individuals, all guided by the sacred heart. Cory is a storyteller, speaker, and teacher, empowering dynamic individuals to embrace their authentic selves and create lives filled with purpose and fulfillment.

We start by chatting about Coyote energy, this trail blazing, speaker of truth energy that Cory very much identifies with and quickly deemed Coyote as one of his main power animals after he shared two epic coyote stories from the wild. 

We then looked at Cory’s experience of spirituality as a boy, knowing that even as a gay boy he knew nothing was wrong with him and rejected the idea of conditions put on love. Next Cory offers some practical steps to move through pain in a good way and also how to use our intellect, memory and kinesthetic responses to choose joy.  

Finally, Cory shares some awesome tips for becoming a master manifestor that you can start applying now!

Learn more about Cory here: https://corytimecoaching.com/

Learn about Wil's work here: https://wil-fullyliving.com/

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David Monticalvo began to celebrate his gayness in his mid-30s, after experiencing an unplanned period of transition. During this process of beautiful challenge, David discovered the teachings of New Thought, which empowered him to view his journey as divine and perfect. Currently he leads the Gay Men’s Spirituality Group based out of Unity Church San Francisco. He earned a master’s degree in public health from the University of Florida and has a bachelor’s in social work. As a teacher on gay men’s wellness, he has spoken on rejection, creativity, and substance use disorders. His first book will be finished this year.

This interview starts with David sharing (perhaps the most!) well thought out drag avatar that embodies who he is at this moment. We then talk about his experience coming out later in life and the energy that has resulted as he embraces being totally gay and totally spiritual- a combination he used to not believe was possible. In fact, originally for David, choosing Christianity was his attempt to hide his queerness. This eventually lead to his experience of Miso theism (which is hating, or resenting God). And what a journey has taken to come to loving God and loving his queerness.

I speak about my journey to being unabashedly spiritual and my growth edge with prayer, admitting that sometimes I feel a bit in being shy about praying. And this leads to us chatting about how following our intuitive hits enables our true gifts to be revealed.

Next, we chat about Spiritual hobbies- distinct from spiritual practices. And we talk about connecting with spirit through creativity (and connecting with creativity through spirit). We also touch on how Play is a magic sauce to create heart centered connectivity.

We end envisioning a world where gay folks embrace their true spiritual selves, and they heal world.

David on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidmonticalvo/ 

Wil's Personal Retreats: https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/events

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In this interview I speak with Julio G. Alvarez, who, from Apple to Open AI, is a trusted coach & advisor to extraordinary leaders in tech. He’s the creator of ‘Out in Tech’ and host of the popular Let’s Go With Julio Podcast. Julio is a powerful coach on a mission to help high achievers change the world by changing themselves, first.

We talk about Julio stepping through the drag portal recently while at a gay coaches conference we both attended and what that meant to his spiritual and personal growth journey. Within that we also talk about Julio's decision to lean into discomfort and to view his resistance as an invitation to explore and learn. 

Then we get into some juicy AI talk starting with me sharing Chat GPT’s response to my famous opening question in this podcast, Who are you but tell me by describing the perfect drag avatar. Chat GPT’s drag avatar is pretty great!

Julio, who is a very good friend of Sam Altman, the founder of Chat GPT, shares his thoughts on the impact AI is going to potentially make on society and what our roles are as healers, spiritual thinkers, practitioners, coaches, etc. We explore how we can influence the tech to be used to make the world better to counteract the potential destruction and manipulation of AI in the hands of bad actors. 

We speak about how AI might impact the spiritual movement, and the spiritual community, and even possibly play a role in helping people find their purpose and live out their highest dharma.

Let's Go With Julio Podcast- https://www.letsgowithjulio.com/podcast

Wil's Personal Retreats- https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/events
Book one this summer and enjoy San Diego during it's finest months- while also healing, expanding, and accelerating your soul's evolution!

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Court Vox is a trained Sex and Intimacy Consultant and Sacred Intimate. Founder of his practice The Body Vox, he brings opportunities for his clients to learn about and embrace their bodies and the bodies of others. Court’s work breaks down the walls of shame and anxiety around intimacy and sex. Vox is a sex educator and is experienced working with clients of all sexualities and genders. He offers workshops around the world. 

In this interview we talk about Court's very diverse career path all leading up to becoming a sex coach. We explore the parallels of entering trance space while performing as a musician, and finding that same space while exploring eroticism and sexuality. 

We look at how we can use eros to connect with a bigger part of ourselves and show up in all our fullness. Next we get into some discussion on self-pleasure practices as a meditative practice to shut off the mind (and we even discuss where pornography fits in with all that). We end the interview diving into the power of group work (like at retreats) as a means to help folks see the truth of who they are and the impact they’re making.

 Here's a link for the upcoming Prism festival: https://www.cielos.co/pryzm

And for other ways to connect with Court check out: https://thebodyvox.com/

To connect with Wil, click: https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/

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