For people who come out later in life, it can feel like they have a lot to lose. Rev. Anne-Marie Zanzal is here to say that when she came out at 50, she gained everything. In this talk, Rev. Zanzal, founder of LGBTQIA+ coaching company Coming Out & Beyond, will share her coming out story, how her company serves the needs of her new community, and how claiming her queerness helped her become a successful entrepreneur and business owner.
Anne-Marie Zanzal is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and an ordained minister in the progressive United Church of Christ. She is a clinically trained chaplain completing both an internship and residency within the Yale Healthcare System and worked in hospitals and hospices. She is a bereavement counselor certified by the MissFoundation. Anne-Marie came out as a lesbian at fifty after a 25 year marriage and four children. After this challenging coming out later in life experience, she founded Coming Out & Beyond | LGBTQIA+ Coaching. Anne-Marie works with cisgender and trans women plus non binary people comfortable in those spaces who are in the process of coming out later in life. Anne-Marie and her team provide one-on-one and group coaching programs as well as workshops and retreats. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her wife photographer Tonda McKay