# Coming Out & Beyond | Support for Women Questioning Their Sexuality Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256.md RSS feed: https://rss.pdrl.fm/61288f/feeds.captivate.fm/comingoutandbeyond/ Official site: https://annemariezanzal.com/coming-out-stories-beyond-podcast/ Author: Anne-Marie Zanzal 1ac1f670-c17c-11f0-806a-ef1502adef07 Episodes: 189 ## Resource 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-… ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256.md ## Episodes - [The Firefly Journey: What the Research Tells Us About Coming Out Later in Life](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/the-firefly-journey-what-the-research-tells-us-about-coming-out-later-in-life) — 2026-07-24T04:00:00+00:00 - [The Boy Who Skated Anyway: Stef Vachon's Story](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/the-boy-who-skated-anyway-stef-vachon-s-story) — 2026-07-17T04:00:00+00:00 - [Real Talk on Sapphic Dating and Relationships](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/real-talk-on-sapphic-dating-and-relationships) — 2026-07-10T04:00:00+00:00 - [🏳️‍🌈Allyship That Truly Matters](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/allyship-that-truly-matters) — 2026-07-03T04:00:00+00:00 - [Finding a Self I Couldn't Name: Part 2 - Dahron Johnson's Story of Coming Out as Trans & Learning to Trust Her Inner Voice](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/finding-a-self-i-couldn-t-name-part-2-dahron-johnson-s-story-of-coming-out-as-trans-learning-to-trust-her-inner-voice) — 2026-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 - [Finding a Self I Couldn't Name, Part I: Dahron Johnson on Faith, Advocacy, and Making Room for More of Us.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/finding-a-self-i-couldn-t-name-part-i-dahron-johnson-on-faith-advocacy-and-making-room-for-more-of-us) — 2026-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 - [Your Sapphic Dating Dilemmas, Answered with Love (and Zero Filter)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/your-sapphic-dating-dilemmas-answered-with-love-and-zero-filter) — 2026-06-12T04:00:00+00:00 - [Grieving the Living: The Estrangement No One Prepares You For](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/grieving-the-living-the-estrangement-no-one-prepares-you-for) — 2026-06-05T04:00:00+00:00 - [Loving Someone Newly Out: Tonda McKay's Story of Falling in Love With a Later in Life Lesbian](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/loving-someone-newly-out-tonda-mckay-s-story-of-falling-in-love-with-a-later-in-life-lesbian) — 2026-05-29T04:00:00+00:00 - [Twice Out, Once Home: Keith Aron on Sexuality, Gender & the Long Way Back to Yourself](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/twice-out-once-home-keith-aron-on-sexuality-gender-the-long-way-back-to-yourself) — 2026-05-22T04:00:00+00:00 - [Hurricane Lessons: Betrayal, Becoming, & Coming Out Later in Life](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/hurricane-lessons-betrayal-becoming-coming-out-later-in-life) — 2026-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 - [The Surprise Truth About Sapphic Sex: What Nobody Tells You Before You Get Here!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/the-surprise-truth-about-sapphic-sex-what-nobody-tells-you-before-you-get-here) — 2026-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 - [Clarity Is a Thousand Small Permissions](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/clarity-is-a-thousand-small-permissions) — 2026-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 - [You Can't Know What You Don't Know: DBT, Queer Joy, and Coming Out at Any Age with Dr. Kiki Fehling](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/you-can-t-know-what-you-don-t-know-dbt-queer-joy-and-coming-out-at-any-age-with-dr-kiki-fehling) — 2026-04-24T04:00:00+00:00 - [I Had Been Waiting For Something My Whole Life](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/i-had-been-waiting-for-something-my-whole-life) — 2026-04-17T04:00:00+00:00 - [Red Flags, Love Bombing & Listening to Your Inner Voice](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/red-flags-love-bombing-listening-to-your-inner-voice) — 2026-04-15T20:55:00+00:00 - [Too Gay to Fit In, Too New to Feel at Home](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/too-gay-to-fit-in-too-new-to-feel-at-home) — 2026-04-03T04:00:00+00:00 - [In the Nick of Time: Light Bird on Coming Out, Starting Over, and Making Music That Matters](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/in-the-nick-of-time-light-bird-on-coming-out-starting-over-and-making-music-that-matters) — 2026-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 - [What Lies Are You Telling Yourself? Kathy Houston on Waking Up to Who You Really Are](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/what-lies-are-you-telling-yourself-kathy-houston-on-waking-up-to-who-you-really-are) — 2026-03-20T04:00:00+00:00 - [🤔So... Are You Actually Ready to Date?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/so-are-you-actually-ready-to-date) — 2026-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 - [The Losses No One Talks About When You Come Out](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/the-losses-no-one-talks-about-when-you-come-out) — 2026-03-06T04:00:00+00:00 - [The Preacher Who Couldn't Pray Away the Gay (And What He Found Instead)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/the-preacher-who-couldn-t-pray-away-the-gay-and-what-he-found-instead) — 2026-02-27T04:00:00+00:00 - [What Heated Rivalry Gets Right About Coming Out](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/what-heated-rivalry-gets-right-about-coming-out) — 2026-02-20T04:00:00+00:00 - [U-Haul University: Stood Up, Stressed Out & Still Looking for Love!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/u-haul-university-stood-up-stressed-out-still-looking-for-love) — 2026-02-14T04:00:00+00:00 - [When the Shelf Breaks: Reflections on Breaking With Faith Tradition and What Lies Beyond](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-beyond-support-for-women-questioning-their-sexuality-3916256/when-the-shelf-breaks-reflections-on-breaking-with-faith-tradition-and-what-lies-beyond) — 2026-02-06T04:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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