Our episode this week involves interviewing a Christian pastor. Our guest is an Ally and Help NSFW is 100% supportive and celebrating of all genders, sexual orientations, and gender orientations. This episode is not intended to be a plug for church. If you need to skip this episode due to religious trauma or any complicated feelings about faith, we understand and support you. Take a look at The Trevor Project for great resources on healing https://www.thetrevorproject.org

Jonny and Kendall keep running into pastors at the brewery. One of them is Ryan Busby. He’s the head pastor of a Baptist church, as well as a member of Collidescope https://www.collidescopeva.org, Danville’s local LGBTQIA network. Tune in to hear an affirming perspective living your best life.

Call to Action: Be fully alive, which means be fully yourself. Inspired by a quote from the Christian saint Irenaeus, “The glory of God is a human fully alive,” Ryan wants you to be fully, authentically, passionately yourself.

Charity to Support: House of Hope in Danville, Virginia, or your local homeless shelter. Danville’s House of Hope is currently applying for grants to expand their facilities, as they are the only homeless shelter in Southern Virginia. You may not know this: grant-funders prefer to give money to organizations that have raised their own money. Funders look at how much an organization has raised but also how many different people make donations. So your donation of even a small amount will have double impact for HoH!

Tag us with your action steps! Use the hashtag #HelpNSFW and @JonnyFairplay on Twitter and Instagram and @kayratyl on Instagram.

Success Through Authenticity

Social worker, elementary school teacher, suicide hotline operator, podcaster and Survivor Brice Izyah brings his full self to everything. From his clients to reality tv casting, Brice is a force of justice. Tune in to hear how Brice uses radical empathy and self-care to get results.

Call to Action: Take care of yourself one time this week or month with an action that is intentional and for you. Brice is going to take a bath, Jonny is going to run before a show, and Kendall is still figuring it out.

Charity to Support: The Mahogany Project, which aims to reduce social isolation, stigma, and acts of injustice in TQLGB+ Communities of Color. https://themahoganyproject.org

Tag us with your action steps! Use the hashtag #HelpNSFW and @JonnyFairplay on Twitter and Instagram and @kayratyl on Instagram.

Connect with Brice on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube @BriceIzyah and his website linktr.ee/BriceIzyah and listen to the Purple Pants Podcast each Tuesday.