Oct 25, 202640 minS7
SUMMARY How does someone go from quietly questioning her sexuality to sharing her story in The New York Times? In this episode of Coming Out and Beyond, Anne-Marie Zanzal is joined by Tonda McKay and Barbara Rowlandson...
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Coming Out & Beyond | Support for Women Questioning Their Sexuality
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Coming Out & Beyond is a podcast for women questioning their sexuality later in life — no matter where you are or what your life looks like right now. Maybe you're sitting with a question you've never said out loud. Maybe you fell for a woman or something woke up recently, everything shifted and you can't put it back. Maybe you're untangling years of religious conditioning or compulsory heterosexuality and trying to figure out who you actually are underneath all of that. Whatever brought you here — this space is for you. Hosted by Anne-Marie Zanzal — Yale Divinity School graduate, ordained progressive minister, grief counselor, and LGBTQ+ coach who came out in midlife — Coming Out & Beyond offers real conversations, emotional clarity, and grounded support for women coming out after 30, 40, 50, and beyond. We talk openly about late bloomer experiences, being married with kids and questioning, single and not finding someone who is right for us, catalyst relationships, faith deconstruction, divorce, grief, identity shifts in midlife, and learning to trust the voice inside you that’s getting louder. This isn’t about rushing labels or blowing up your life. It’s about integration. Self-trust. And the kind of community that changes everything. Because women navigating later-in-life coming out do better — emotionally and practically — when they’re not doing it alone. New episodes weekly. Join the conversation on YouTube, and when you’re ready, step inside Authentically Us (https://community.annemariezanzal.com/)— Anne-Marie’s private community for women on this journey. This journey is yours and you are coming home to yourself. https://annemariezanzal.com/maybe-im-not-straight-guide/
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Coming Out & Beyond is a podcast for women questioning their sexuality later in life, no matter where you are or what your life looks like right now. Maybe you're sitting with a question you've never said out loud. Maybe you fell for a woman or something woke up recently, everything shifted and you can't put it back.
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Recent episodes include "Coming Out Later In Life? Here's What Can Help" (25 October 2026, 40 minutes), "I Have a Crush on My Only Lesbian Friend… Should I Tell Her?" (18 October 2026, 52 minutes), and "Coach vs. Therapist? Knowing What You Need" (2 October 2026, 47 minutes).
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Coming Out & Beyond | Support for Women Questioning Their Sexuality publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 48 minutes.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 18, 202652 minS7
Summary: In this episode of Coming Out & Beyond , Anne-Marie Zanzal is joined by her wife, Tonda McKay, and Barbara Rowlandson to answer real questions from Reddit about lesbian dating, intimacy, and relationships later...
Episode #40
Coach vs. Therapist? Knowing What You Need
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Episode #39
Starting Over in the Sapphic World
Sep 25, 202658 minS7This week on Coming Out & Beyond it is the three of us again: Anne-Marie, dating and relationship guide Barb Rowlandson, and Anne-Marie's wife and resident realist, Tonda McKay. Twice a month we set the dating talk to...
Episode #38
The Best Sex of Your Life Can Come After 50
Sep 18, 202659 minS7Note for Listeners: This episode contains explicit language and conversation about sex and sexual pleasure. Listener discretion is advised. What if the best sex of your life is still ahead of you? In this episode of...
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- Sep 11, 202652 minS7
This month on Coming Out and Beyond it is our monthly dating and relationship show, and Anne-Marie is joined by her co-coach Barbara Rowlandson, a psychotherapist and dating coach, and her wife Tonda McKay. Before the...
- Sep 4, 202642 minS7
This month's episode with Anna Empey is the one we have all earned after a tender chapter of heavier conversations. It is lighter, there is a lot of laughing, and it is about the signs. Not the ones we noticed at the...
- Aug 28, 202651 minS7
This is the start of something new. The episodes you have told us you love most are the ones where the three of us sit down together, so we are making them a monthly gathering. Once a month, Tonda, Barbara, and I will...
- Aug 21, 202642 minS7
Some mornings change everything. Marissa Mitchell was 39, a teacher and army veteran in southern Indiana, married to her junior high sweetheart and quietly certain that the distance she felt in her marriage was a...
Episode #32
How to Stop Letting Fear Run Your Life
Aug 7, 202632 minS7What if fear is not a stop sign but a signal that you are growing? In this month's first Friday conversation, Anne-Marie is joined by regular guest Anna Empey, business development consultant and LGBTQ+ coach, for an...
- Jul 31, 202645 minS7
This week we return to one of our most beloved conversations from the archives, my talk with Dr. Mallory Hanfling, a fellow later in life queer woman, therapist, and the creator of the term Firefly. Mallory shares her...
- Jul 24, 202652 minS7
What if the single biggest factor in whether we come out, when we come out, and how we heal along the way is the community around us? Dr. Mallory Hanfling returns to the show, this time with research in hand. Mallory...
- Jul 17, 202641 minS7
Content note: This conversation includes language that references homophobic slurs and a discussion of suicidal ideation and mental health struggles. Please listen with care, and reach out for support if you need it...
Episode #27
🏳️🌈Allyship That Truly Matters
Jul 3, 202651 minS7When you come out to someone, you learn very quickly to tell the difference between the half embrace and the full embrace. The half embrace turns the conversation back to your husband, your children, your family system...
- Jun 26, 202644 minS7
In Part 2 of this conversation, Anne-Marie Zanzal continues her talk with Dahron Johnson, a trans woman, advocate, lifelong cyclist, and chair of the Metro Human Relations Commission in Nashville, who came out in her...
- Jun 19, 202644 minS7
Dahron Johnson grew up surrounded by voices. Thousands of books in her parents' home, two people who met in divinity school, and a faith that taught her every person is fearfully and wonderfully made. And still, for...
- Jun 12, 202647 minS7
This month we return to our lesbian dating and relationship conversation, the one we share on the second Friday of every month, and by popular request Tonda is back at the table! Anne-Marie is joined by her wife, Tonda...
- Jun 5, 202642 minS7
TW: This episode includes honest discussion about grief, estrangement and suicidal ideation. Listener discretion is advised. There is a kind of loss that arrives without a funeral. No casserole on the doorstep, no card...
Episode #22
Loving Someone Newly Out: Tonda McKay's Story of Falling in Love With a Later in Life Lesbian
May 29, 202655 minS7In this revisited Season 5 favorite, Anne-Marie sits down with photographer Tonda McKay, who also happens to be her wife. Tonda came out at eighteen as a good Southern Baptist girl whose prayer partner became her first...
- May 22, 202654 minS7
<p>This week on Coming Out & Beyond, Anne-Marie sits down with Keith Aron (he/they), a trans and queer transformational coach, writer, proudly witchy weirdo, and self-described honorary tree. Keith writes the Substack...
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David Hulse
founder and spiritual leader of the Academy for Spiritual Awakening, Academy for Spiritual Awakening
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Anne-Marie Zanzal
divinity school graduate, ordained minister, hospice chaplain, bereavement counselor, coming out expert, divorce coach, Anne-Marie Zanzal Coaching
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Sarah Locke
founder, CEO and president, Locke’s Promise
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David Cunningham
chair of Sociology at Washington University in St Louis, The Love Matters Collaboration
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