# Ep.311: Juan Galan: Digital Nomad Life, Grindr & Rejection Wounds, and Deconstructing Christianity as a Gay Man

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Podcast: [Everything & Anything...and a bit gay Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-anything-and-a-bit-gay-podcast-6752108)
Published: 2026-09-13T08:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.everythingandanythingpodcast.com/
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## Resource

Juan Galan has spent the last four years living as a digital nomad, splitting time between Bali, Colombia, Peru, and beyond while running a coaching practice that helps gay men break free from compulsive hookup cycles and anxious attachment. In this conversation, Juan traces those patterns back to their root: growing up gay in a religious, machista household in Colombia, being bullied for being "soft," and the abandonment wound left by his parents' divorce at age seven. He opens up about using Grindr and validation-seeking behavior to try to fill that hole, and how healing has meant integrating — not erasing — that wounded younger self. The conversation moves into Juan's own religious journey, from rejecting organized religion to unexpectedly becoming a Christian while living in Bali. He shares his research into the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek biblical texts, reframing loaded words like "sin," "repent," and "salvation" in ways that strip away the shame often projected onto queer people. Juan and Zach also swap past-life regression stories, dig into reincarnation and the "quantum leap" concept from quantum physics, and talk candidly about the current political climate for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. compared to Spain. Juan closes by sharing how people can work with him — through his spiritual mystery school, Inner Sanctum, or his private 90-day coaching program for gay men. Follow Juan on IG: https://www.instagram.com/healingwithjuan/ Meet with Juan: https://juangalan.co/

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