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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
 
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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

You can learn more about my work here- https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/

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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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Laura Hartley is an activist, coach and the founder of Public Love Enterprises, a liberatory space and online school.  She sees self-work and world-work as interconnected, and through coaching & group programs, she empowers changemakers to get free, dismantling capitalism & patriarchy from the inside out; get power to make real change, and, find what's theirs to do in this time. She hails from Sydney, Australia but currently lives in Toronto, Canada.

We talk about how queerness really shaped her spiritual path and taught her to orient to what was whole, true and authentic to herself. Laura then defines for us internalized capitalism and internalized patriarchy and we talk about how to detox ourselves from those patterns. I share about combatting my own internalized capitalism and the process of letting go of things on my calendar that weren’t 100% aligned with me and my purpose.

We get to learn more about the "Unholy Trinity": capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy- 3 major systems of oppression that we see in the world today. And, together, Laura and I create a new “Holy Trinity" to guide and support a new way forward

We also chat about the potential pitfalls of personal growth and spiritual development work when some of the "unholy trinity" creeps in and how we can combat it to avoid spiritual bypassing, narcissism and selfishness in our work. 

Finally, we end with some wisdom in the message, "It is not your job to fix the world, it is your job to love it."
 
 Check out Laura's work at: 

https://www.laurahartley.com/
 
Connect with Wil here:
 
https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/

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Terry Bartley is the writer of the upcoming collection of short stories, Tyranny of the Fey and the host of the podcast “Most Writers are Fans,” about the intersection between writing and fandom. Terry has won awards for writing and broadcasting from the West Virginia Associated Press, the National Broadcasting Society, and MarCom. 

We talk in this interview about all things related to faeries, wizards, goblins and trolls including where do they come from? Do they exist on another plane? Can they interact with us? How are they queer?

When it comes to spirituality, we speak about why he chooses Agnosticism and what that means for him. We also talk about the queerness of a spiritual smorgasbord-picking and choosing from various culture's religious customs the things that resonate for you and putting them together to create your unique altar and spiritual practice. 

Finally, we discuss his path as a storyteller and he shares some insights around the process of creating something (like a book)

Check out Terry's book "Tyranny of the Fey" :  https://books2read.com/u/3nDX9e

Check out Reclaiming Our LGBTQ Spiritual Heritage virtual summit happening June 17-24 and sponsored by Queerly Beloved:
 https://presenter.consciousleaderssummit.com/wilf

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Gord, who join us from the UK, is a dynamic and insightful individual who brings a unique perspective to spirituality and personal growth. As a non-binary, autistic tarot reader and meditation guide, Gord has a wealth of life experience and a deep understanding of what it means to be on a spiritual journey. With a sense of humor and an open heart, Gord helps people navigate life's changes and unlock their inner potential through tarot readings, guided meditations, and journaling. 

In the interview we chat about them getting deeper and deeper involved with different organized religions, including the notoriously homo hating Baptist church, all the way to almost becoming a priest, and then eventually discovering a different way. Eventually they land on Ignosticism, which they explain the meaning of. I share a similar story of almost getting. baptized into the Mormon church. 

They they chats about discovering their path with tarot. Next, we pull some cards for me and my relationship to this podcast. You can watch the card pulling on YouTube via the link below- it’s a really cool process. 

https://www.youtube.com/@willfullyliving4357

Gord is offering a discount for Queerly Beloved listeners. Use this link to get 10% off a reading:

watchfulsoul.com/queerlybeloved 

Here’s infö for my upcoming retreat!

https://www.wil-fullyliving.com/events

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