#026: Coming Out as Your Highest Self with Raphael Cano

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Raphael Cano is a love activist and warrior. He and I met very serendipitously in a coffee shop in NYC, and from that day onward our friendship has continued to evolve and expand. Raphael’s mission is to elevate humanity through universal truths and his own divine shine. Raphael’s friendship has been life-changing for me in so many ways, and in this episode I wanted to highlight how Raphael has supported me in having the space to understand how heteronormativity affects people in the LGBTQ+ community. Raphael walks us through his pathway to coming out, then later, to becoming a love warrior. His courage and energy is inspiring and I am so honoured that he shared his story with us for my podcast. Episode Highlights: 4 mins - How Raphael and Mark first connected - Raphael’s first breakup. 9 mins - Intuition, gut feelings and following your joy. Is it all just love and light? 16 mins - Raphael’s life story - his first kiss, his story of coming out and his upbringing. 26 mins - The HighSchool Bully - and the projection and rejection of being gay. 33 mins - Raphael’s years of denial of his sexuality and the stress of living out of alignment. 39 mins - Raphael’s stepping into alignment, his first boyfriend. 42 mins - Raphael’s family’s response and finding his voice and confidence - how ‘Prayers for Bobby’ impacted him. 50 mins - The Stages of Coming Out - trauma, acceptance and authenticity. 55 mins - Elevating and changing, how dating changes and the dating pool changes. 64 mins - The equality that occurs in a mind, body and soul connected relationship. 70 mins - Come out as your highest self - whatever that might mean for you. Episode links: Raphael Cano Podcast Raphael Cano Instagram Find LGBTQ+ resource centres here! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Mark Groves podcast.
0:18.5	It has been a wild couple weeks, Let me tell you, I have been all
0:22.2	over the place getting to meet so many of you. I was in D.C. for work. And then I went over to
0:28.9	San Diego, sold out shows in San Diego, L.A., San Francisco. So it was so great to meet those of you
0:35.3	that came out. And I can't wait to meet the ones that didn't.
0:38.2	I will be bringing in some new cities into the circulation.
0:41.5	Coming up soon, if you want to find me in Calgary on June 21st in the evening,
0:46.0	you can go to the link in my bio on Instagram at Create the Love.
0:49.9	Okay, so this week, my gosh, one of my good friends, Rafael Cano, he's amazing.
0:59.6	And we actually met very synodipitously. I tell the story in the podcast, but I just love how life works out.
1:07.3	You know, I'm very much a believer that as you get more on your purpose, as you get
1:12.8	more inauthentic alignment with who you are and how you self-express and all those things,
1:18.6	I just really do believe that somehow, man, we just end up on this path where we meet amazing
1:25.1	people. Good Lord, it's been unbelievable. So before I get
1:30.0	started with Rafael, I just like saying it like that, I wanted to let you know or ask, I should
1:37.2	say, is probably the better way of saying it. If you can give this a five-star rating wherever
1:42.2	you listen to this, that is super helpful for me and also
1:46.2	if you can leave a written review so grateful when you guys do that it really bumps up where my
1:50.9	podcast ends up in searches and then more people can get this information to their ears
1:55.4	raphael and i are good friends he is all about being a soldier of love. He has a very fascinating story
2:02.8	about his experience of love and coming out. And man, this guy is just heart. And his
2:09.3	mission on the planet is one that inspires me. So I'm really excited to be able to share our
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