The Out Entrepreneur | Bringing Our Whole Selves to Work | Conversations with Leading LGBTQ Bosses

The Out Entrepreneur | Bringing Our Whole Selves to Work | Conversations with Leading LGBTQ Bosses

By Rhodes Perry: Entrepreneur, LGBTQ Advocate, & WriterBusiness
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The Out Entrepreneur | Bringing Our Whole Selves to Work | Conversations with Leading LGBTQ Bosses episodes

  • 071: Learn How a Nontraditional Career Path Can Lead to a Successful Consulting Business with Lyndon Cudlitz, Founder of Lyndon Cudlitz Consulting
    With over 17 years in LGBTQ services and social justice education, Lyndon
    provides training and technical assistance for healthcare providers,
    educational institutions, businesses, and organizations, as well as
    workshops designed for queer and trans communities. Lyndon's background
    also includes 10 year as a firefighter/EMT, running a small art and t-shirt
    business, and founding and directing a number of youth leaderships camps.
    Lyndon serves on the Board of Directors for CRUX, the country's largest
    LGBTQ rock climbing organization, and can often be found scaling rock faces
    around the country.
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  • 070: Live Your Truth with Jaiden Love, Founder of Held and Heard
    Jaiden Love is an author, a soul alignment coach, and the Founder of Held
    and Heard, a professional cuddling business. In 2017, Jaiden published his
    first book detailing his first year living as a transgender man. He is
    passionate about the well-being of humanity, and he believes everyone is
    unique and has a purpose on this planet. Jaiden is committed to inspiring
    anyone he comes in contact with to take steps towards living their truth.
    In alignment with his purpose, Jaiden has now opened up himself, his
    business, and his life to educate those he encounters.
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  • 069: Leverage the Law to Create Progressive Change with the Legendary Lake Perriguey, Founder of Law Works, LLC
    Lake Perriguey owns Law Works LLC, a full service law firm in downtown
    Portland, which handles many types of legal matters, including civil rights
    litigation. Lake is probably best known in the Beaver State for bringing
    the federal lawsuit that established marriage equality for same-sex couples
    in 2013. Last year, he handled the first successful action for non-binary
    legal recognition in the United States by pushing the Oregon Department of
    Motor Vehicles to acknowledge a third gender marker on all licenses and IDs
    in the state. Lake’s been in business as an independent solo lawyer with no
    staff for the past 10 years.
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  • 068: Take the Sexual Empowerment Journey and Change Your Whole Life with Amy Jo Goddard, Author, Speaker, and Sexual Health Empowerment Coach
    Hailing from a Military Dad and a
    Recovering-Catholic-Proudly-Sandra-Dee-Mom, Amy Jo Goddard had no other
    choice but to become a sex educator just to sail the shaky waters of human
    experience and help her family survive. Actually they don’t really take sex
    advice from her. But thousands of others have—Amy Jo is author of Woman on
    Fire: Nine Elements to Wake up Your Erotic Energy, Personal Power and
    Sexual Intelligence and co-author of the best-selling classic Lesbian Sex
    Secrets for Men. She earned her Master’s degree in Human Sexuality
    Education at New York University and has been teaching and speaking about
    feminism and sexuality for over two decades.
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  • 067: Master the Secrets of Building an Online YouTube Community & Business with Nico Moscoso, Founder of Scarlet Moon and Integrative Mysticism
    Nico is the founder of Scarlet Moon and Integrative Mysticism, a YouTube
    channel. He started his business 5 years ago, and connects fellow
    astrologers and tarot card readers from around the globe through his
    virtual communities and in-person retreats. With over 5 million YouTube
    views, Nico humbly shares that all he wanted to do when he initially
    started his YouTube channel was to reach out and connect with other
    spiritual/pagan people. Learn more about Nico’s success in building an
    online community in this episode.
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  • 066: Blend Your Personal Brand and Your Passions to Build a Successful Business with Perry Cohen, Founder of The Venture Out Project
    Perry Cohen realized a lifelong dream of combining his love of the
    outdoors, his commitment to social justice, his own trans & queer identity,
    and his professional life when he founded The Venture Out Project, a
    business that brings the queer community together to experience the beauty
    and fun of the wilderness with trips run by queer people for queer people.
    Perry also serves as the lead facilitator and trainer for the Venture Out
    Project’s gender and diversity training program, where he has presented in
    front of audiences at UC Davis, The University of Maryland, Colby College,
    Middlebury College, The University of New Mexico, and other institutions.
    Perry has two children, a partner, and a chocolate lab, and calls the hills
    and trails of Western Massachusetts home.
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  • 065: Harness Your Rainbow Superpowers in Business with Matthew VanHorn, Co-Founder of LGBTQ Entrepreneur
    Matthew VanHorn co-founded LGBTQ Entrepreneur, a coaching business aimed to
    support rainbow family members take the entrepreneurial leap. Matthew
    started his first coaching business 7 years ago where he supported gay,
    bisexual, and queer men gain more confidence and self-love so that they
    could improve their intimate lives. He and his partner Caleb both
    experienced great success building their own businesses, and now they work
    together helping people in the LGBTQ community gain the confidence,
    clarity, and courage it takes to make a big difference with the work they
    do.
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  • 064: Launch a Powerful Startup Leveraging AI with John Graham, iObjx Co-Founder & CEO
    John Graham is the CEO & co-founder of iObjx (i-objects), a NEW
    entertainment lifeform. His company utilizes artificial intelligence to
    automatically assemble an event’s photos and videos into an automatic
    cinematic experience during a live event. As a seasoned start-up founder,
    John started and self-funded his first business from 1994-2005, and as a
    marketing guru he has led the national marketing for brands including
    McDonald’s, Sony, M&M Mars, and DeVry University. I had the pleasure of
    meeting John through the StartOut online network for LGBTQ entrepreneurs,
    and I’m thrilled to share his entrepreneurial journey.
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  • 063: Triumph Over Adversity with Molly Cameron, Professional Cyclo-Cross Champion and Owner of the Portland Bicycle Studio
    Molly Cameron is an American professional cyclo-cross racing champion
    winning elite competitions including the 2004 Cross Crusade single speed
    series. She is the only out transgender athlete to compete in a UCI
    cyclo-cross world cup. When she’s not racing, she’s runs the Portland
    Bicycle Studio, a business she founded in 2001. In this interview, we talk
    about her pioneering efforts to cultivate a more gender inclusive industry.
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  • 062: Write. Now. Learn How to Be a Creative Writer in Your Business with Elaine Bennett, Founder of Bennett Ink
    An award-winning speechwriter, Elaine Bennett helps leading corporate
    executives tell their stories memorably. She also teaches writing and
    storytelling skills to entrepreneurs and others who want to become leaders.
    A great believer in the benefits of writing every day, Elaine runs writing
    challenges to help people start their own writing practice. Elaine’s daily
    writing streak currently stands at 673 days. Sometimes she's also
    award-winning cabaret singer Elaine St. George, by one account the first
    out lesbian to do a cabaret show in NYC, way back in the ‘90s.
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