Living Life Out Loud with LZ Granderson

T is for Transformation

Alex Coloreo

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

LZ Granderson is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times. After meeting at a wedding, Shaun and LZ hit it off right away. In an inspiring interview, LZ shares with us his pathway to success and living through moments of discrimination as a gay man, realizing god doesn’t give you anything too cant handle in life, and his podcast, “Life Out Loud with LZ Granderson”. Discussed on the show: LZ’s life trauma including being shot at, mugged at knife point and even at his darkest, trying to take his own life. His closeted life in New York and living through the HIV AIDS pandemic. Working in the sports industry and being told he could not get a job simply because he was gay. Fighting through imposter syndrome when you may not feel you belong. Listen to season two of “Life Out Loud with LZ Granderson” now wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes post Thursdays. Follow along @trustandbelievepod on Instagram for all of the latest updates! Review The Trust and Believe Podcast here Become an ad-free member at https://plus.acast.com/s/trust-and-believe-with-shaun-t. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome to Trust and Believe. I'm your host, Sean T, and today is a cut-up. But we're also going to talk about some very important things. We're going to school you on what it was like to grow up in the earlier pandemic, the HIV-AIDS epidemic. We're also going to talk about how race and sexuality affects your growth. I have an incredible guest today.
0:22.3	His name is L. Z. Grandison.
0:24.7	But I'm just tell you all right now, buckle your seatbelts and strap in.
0:29.3	Because it gets all the way real, we're going to the gay club.
0:34.2	Somebody says, hey, yeah.
0:36.2	No, no, no.
0:37.7	What's up?
0:39.8	He's better than Oprah.
0:41.3	Come on, y'all.
0:43.3	This is Sean T, and it's time to trust and believe.
1:04.8	So, So before I even met you through our friend Brian at a wedding, so I just want to let you know, I met LZ at a wedding.
1:09.9	He was officiating a wedding of Brian and Bill, our friends.
1:28.6	But anyway, before I met you, you know, I knew of you. You know what I mean? You have a big personality. You have, I was always kind of fascinated by your hair, which is why one of the reasons why I don't have my dreads in. You know, you're a lot of extensions. But you just, you just have a big personality, a big smile. You literally live out loud.
1:30.8	So where does it come from?
1:34.7	Because, you know, we all have a story, you know, and we all have like kind of this coming of age story.
1:36.2	And I see you, especially when I see you on the commentating tennis and seeing you in
1:41.3	these roles.
1:42.1	But then I also know you personally.
1:44.9	And I just love how you're able to marry it together.
1:48.5	But I just want to know what is the coming of age story of you?
1:53.2	First of all, thank you for those really kind words.
1:56.3	I was a huge fed of yours before Brian's wedding.
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