655: Piers Kowalski: Shameless Transgender Dad

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Piers Kowalski is an average father of two with a not so average story. Born and raised in Colorado, Piers lived and worked on the west coast for 11 years before moving back to Colorado with his wife. He started building a career in his dream field of performance psychology, his wife went back to school for nursing, and they had two children. They seemed to be living a typical life. But at the age of 36, Piers was seven years, two kids, and two dogs into marriage when he discovered he was transgender. He was afraid he was going to lose everything and everyone he loved. On a mission to change the world, Piers shares his story of pain, self-discovery, fear, love, and hope to help others better understand the transgender experience, community, and humanity. We have had parents of trans kids on the show in the past, but Piers is our first trans parent to come on the show. I am so grateful and honored that he said yes. This was a really special and important conversation. I hope you’ll listen and then share it widely. Listen in to hear Piers share: The unexpected process of realizing he was trangender at the age of 36 The choice he had to make to either live with his family as a women - internalizing destructive pain - or take the risk of transitioning to living in his full male identity and potentially lose everything that meant the most to him The social conditioning of shame that creates immense and unnecessary pain for trans people His experience coming out to his mom and where she made missteps out of love that ultimately caused harm Simple steps cisgender people can support transgender people His 4 part advice for parents of a child who identifies as trans/non-binary or who are gender expansive/diverse in their gender identity or expression Links mentioned: Piers’s Personal IG Piers’s Professional IG Sponsor info and promo codes: Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/ Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 65 with Pierce Kowalski. Show notes for this episode,
0:07.0	including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking
0:11.6	on episode 655. Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other
0:23.3	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:29.5	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:34.9	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other
0:40.6	shameless moms just like you.
0:42.5	You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook.
0:47.1	All right.
0:47.6	Let's dive into today's episode.
0:54.0	Hey, Mamas. Before we dive into this episode, a quick note. We are in this impossibly difficult
1:01.0	time right now. In the last couple of years, just keep feeling like they get harder and
1:05.1	harder. And we feel like we just keep having the rug pulled out from under us. And we want to feel more powerful. And we want to feel hopeful. And we want to feel like we just keep having the rug pulled out from under us and we want to feel more powerful
1:12.3	and we want to feel hopeful and we want to feel like we're agents of change. And because I know
1:16.7	that so many of you are coming to me and commenting on things I'm sharing on social media saying
1:21.4	that you're feeling powerless and maybe isolated and possibly stuck and honestly afraid in a lot of instances, I wanted to create
1:31.0	an opportunity to make sure that you feel some support and make sure that you have the opportunity
1:35.3	to learn and grow and really use your voice in new ways because I know so many of you are wanting
1:39.9	to do that, but you don't know where to start. And also because you want to connect with other
1:43.9	moms and just be able to have a safe place where you can come together with other women who
1:48.4	are wanting to be agents of change, who are wanting to step into leadership and who are really
1:52.3	wanting to not just sit back and watch the world unfold as it is, but really step into power
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