Send us a text🤗 Do you feel safe relating your authentic truth? 🗫 “When I was in college, I got really interested in studying intentional living communities, co-ops, cohousing communes. 🏡 […] A lot of what the co-ops would run into were these continuous communication problems. […]🤫There were conflicts, they just wouldn't get dealt with because no one knew how to do it.” Often, we find ourselves in challenging situations of socializing and communicating: 🍸 the awkward small talk at our fr...

Send us a text🤔 Is it okay to not want sex? ❤️‍🔥 💬 “I just thought I was a broken gay guy for 20 years.” 💬 When Cody Daigle-Orians first posted a video 📹 on TikTok, outing 📣 himself as asexual, he immediately received hundreds of comments from young ace (asexual) people saying “Wow, I didn't know ace adults existed!” 🙏🏽 He was 42 back then. In our culture, love and sex are dominant themes everywhere you look – in movies, books, advertisements, conversations with friends,...

Send us a text🖌️ What if the most vulnerable parts of your story were painted on your skin? 🎨 This can be a scary thought. We all navigate the sweet tension between wanting to be SEEN for who we are and wanting to hide 🙈 certain aspects we feel uncomfortable showing.While the latter might apply to arguably “minor” things like bad moods, particular quirks we are embarrassed about, or our perceived weaknesses, it especially applies to more delicate parts of our story: 😨 😥 Traumatic experie...

Send us a text😳 Is disability a tragedy? 🤔 “We shouldn’t think of disability as a tragedy but it was that I could have died - which was the tragedy.” 💬 At 28 weeks of her pregnancy, Anja Christoffersen’s mom was told that her baby 👶 had no stomach and would not be able to survive. 17 years later, her beautiful daughter was walking the runway of Amsterdam Fashion Week. 💃 Between those two moments lie years of 🏥 👩‍⚕️ hospital admittances, surgeries, the fight for self-determination in Australia...

Send us a text🏝️ A life happening on land, a vacation on a boat - we have heard of that option before. But who says it can’t be the other way round? ⛵ Former electrical engineer Brian Trautman figured an 18-month sabbatical at sea would get him over a “freakout about life” 👻 when he left shore in Seattle back in 2009. He went all in, sold his house 🏡, his cars 🚗, his career 🕴️ – all in exchange for a 53-foot, 2-mast beauty called Delos and the promises of a vague future.12 years la...

Send us a textDo you get the sex you want? 🔥 Oops, what a bucket-of-cold-water type of question. 🥵😅 Especially for those of you who don’t usually find yourself in conversations about sex. Why should one even podcast about it? Well… I dare say, sex, love, and relationships are a vital part of everyone’s life. 🌱 ❤️ 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 This applies in some ways even to people who do not “practice” one or the other for any reason. There is no wholesome, authentic living without integrating 🔗 the body you have ...

Send us a text🏃‍♀️Running away from where it hurt? We all have done that. But walking back towards it? 🚶‍♀️Being rejected for who you are takes a toll on a soul. Especially so if the ones rejecting you are the very people you love most - your family, your community. 💔This happened to Meagan after being outed as a gay woman 👭. One day she is a valued member of the local athletic and Christian community ✝️, on the next her “choices” are condemned as sinful and appalling. She left Mississippi. 🧭...

Send us a text🛑 When will you stop treating your passion as a hobby? 🛑 To Ady Parzentny, music is everything. Has been for decades. When the working day was over, he used to hit the rehearsal room and play the night away. 🎸 👨‍🎤 But making music for a living? 💰 Unthinkable. After all, is it really appropriate for a punk rocker to make money with his music? Just when he got a taste of financial success through his music, the gravity of "ULP" (upper limit problem) would bring hi...

Send us a textWhat if you chose YOU today? “By making that choice I became significantly happier. And from then on, every time I made a choice that literally felt authentic, I would gain freedom, I would gain happiness.” 🤗Those are the words of Sam Sheppard. A kind woman with a big heart and a beautiful warm laugh. A teacher👩‍🏫 all her life, a facilitator with engaging energy. An eloquent speaker who can lift you up by the craft of words.Also, a woman scarred by childhood bullying, having str...

Send us a text„Why do white people hate black people?” This is an honest question ⁉️ which people visiting Candidly Speaking events might seek answers to. In other contexts, (white) people might read this as an accusation and begin to push back – but not in the intimate space ❤️ Adolpha Cole & her team create for their participants. Candidly Speaking is a concept for 💬 authentic conversations 💬 between people from all walks of life 🌈 - on topics that have the potential to...