Hello, beautiful beans and welcome to the episode of today.

So this is a head noise episode for those those of you that are new to the party,

head noise is where I go in and I answer your emails.

I answer your questions.

And I'm trying to, with a lot of the head noise episodes,

now I say this, but probably I'm not going to be consistent with this, but I'm trying to kind of get the head noise episodes, now I say this, but probably I'm not going to be

consistent with this, but I'm trying to kind of get the head noise episodes to semi-stick to a theme.

So sometimes I try and keep them about friendships, dealing with parents, dealing with in-laws,

that kind of thing. For this particular episode, I actually want to talk about, there's two things,

well, there's three questions that I'm going to be answering. there's two things, well, there's three questions

that I'm going to be answering. And this is about coming out, but also dealing with homophobia as well.

Now, granted, I myself am not gay. I am not speaking about this from a first person perspective,

but I am speaking about it as, well, obviously an ally, so many of my best

friends are gay, but more importantly, as setting boundaries, because a boundary doesn't change

depending on what scenario you're talking about. I'm going to be talking about how to protect

yourself, how to live in your truth as you should and deal with the people

around you and how to kind of navigate that. So you could apply that, of course, to being

gay, but also to many other aspects in your life that you, you know, struggle to get other

people around you to, quote unquote, accept whatever, I'm going to go into

this whole accepting and understanding thing, which grinds back in. Anyway, so there's a lot to

break down and delve into in this particular episode. But if you are someone that is, you know,

you don't have, basically what I'm saying is that you don't have to be going through this exact situation to find value in what I am going to be talking about.

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