A Life Changing Phone Call with Alexis Floyd

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Society & Culture, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality

5 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Grey's Anatomy's Alexis Floyd joins the podcast today to discuss her unique upbringing in a military family with a queer dad. We dive deep into navigating family dynamics where emotions are not always encouraged, figuring out your queer identity, and learning to listen to your body. Alexis shares how her and her dad’s queer journeys led her to become a crisis worker at the Trevor Project, a vital organization for LGBTQ+ youth. Learn more about The Trevor Project here: https://www.thetrevorproject.org JOIN OUR SUBSCRIPTION COMMUNITY FOR NEW SHOWS, ASK MAL ANYTHING & MORE!!! madeitout.supercast.com Follow our guest @alexisgfloyd, follow the podcast @madeitoutpodcast and follow mal @malglowenke For all other inquiries, please email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, y'all, welcome back to Made It Out.
0:02.1	Today's episode is with an actress that you may recognize from inventing Anna or Grey's Anatomy.
0:09.3	It's Alexis Floyd.
0:10.9	And we originally planned to talk about her work with the Trevor Project, which is an organization that helps with suicide prevention for the LGBT community. She's in crisis
0:23.4	management for them. But the conversation took so many surprising turns. We talked about
0:30.2	her life, her family life growing up. She comes from a military family. She has a queer
0:35.5	parent that she found out about later in life. We talked about
0:39.1	her own queer journey and feeling queer enough. There's so much in this episode. I love it so
0:45.6	much. I always love when a conversation kind of goes rogue and turns out so much better than
0:50.9	I even expected. So you're going to love it. Thank you for being here.
0:55.5	Season two. Finding affordable, accessible mental health care can be really tough. And even though we
1:04.0	try to spread the knowledge through our what are you working on in therapy segment, I know you
1:08.6	sometimes just need your own space with someone to talk about your own
1:11.7	specific needs and Rula is on a mission to make high quality mental health care from a licensed
1:16.6	professional easy and affordable for everyone. Thousands have already trusted Rula to support them
1:22.6	in their journey toward mental health and overall well-being. Head over to rula.com slash made to get started today.
1:30.3	After you sign up, they're going to ask you who sent you. So please support our show and tell
1:35.9	them that our show sent you. Go to rula.com slash maid and take the first step toward better
1:42.1	mental health today. You deserve quality care from
1:45.4	someone who cares. There are some things in life that are okay to be a total crapshoot, like trying
1:51.1	a new milk in your coffee, an impulse buy off of an Instagram ad, or trying a new takeout spot.
1:58.5	But finding the right doctor should not be a crapshoot.
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