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Queerly Beloved
by Wil Fisher
Join your host, Wil Fisher (AKA "I Am Sylvia Wil Gather Rainbow"), for playful and profound interviews with amazing LGBTQIA+ peeps working in the field of spirituality and personal growth. Wil is a life coach, spiritual healer, and drag queen who loves getting super wu and chatting with fascinating folx about all things spiritually queer and queerly spiritual. You'll love hearing guests' spiritual path stories and gain knowledge as they share discoveries, insights and wisdom. Plus, these interviews tend to be a lot of fun- so expect to have some of that as well...!
Episodes
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Casting a Vote, Casting a Spell: Queer Liberation & Sacred Activism with Murray Edelman
Send us Fan Mail What if casting your vote could be an act of love? And what if the same collective power that fueled the Gay Liberation movement could help us transform our world today? In this episode of Queerly Beloved, host Wil Fisher welcomes Murray Edelman, a pioneering gay liberation...
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From the Archives: Awakening the Sleeping Spiritual Giants with Clyde Hall
Send us Fan Mail Originally released in October 2022, this re-released episode is a conversation with Clyde M. Hall which remains one of Wil's all-time favorite interviews on Queerly Beloved. Four years later, he's bringing it back to share the wisdom of a man he deeply admires and whose...
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Connecting with the Warrior Within
Send us Fan Mail What happens when you intentionally ask life for “warrior training”… and life responds by putting a 50-pound backpack on you and sending you straight up a mountain? In this solo episode, Wil shares the story of an eight-day, 32+ mile backpacking journey through Sequoia National...
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Trading Grind Culture for Nature’s Rhythm with Emily Greenway
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil speaks with Emily Greenway, a former clinical researcher who now works as a burnout and stress coach, energetic reader, and teacher of ritual and energetic mastery. Through Rise to Her and the ROOTED community, Emily blends her research...
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Saving Our Souls from the Clutches of Technology with Shannon Algeo
Send us Fan Mail What if the thing you reach for dozens or hundreds of times a day isn’t simply a tool? In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil sits down with psychotherapist, author, and teacher Shannon Algeo (he/him), MA, AMFT, APCC, author of Trust Your Truth and the new book The Power in Your...
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Who’s Holding the Phone: You or Your Parts?
Send us Fan Mail What if the things that hook you on your phone could actually teach you something about yourself? In this solo episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil shares insights from a recent intentional MDMA journey that led him into a deeper exploration of his relationship with technology,...
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Letting Things Be Exactly as They Are with Rev. Yolanda
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil is joined by Rev. Yolanda Mapes, a trans femme genderqueer actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, and interfaith minister. Yolanda is currently working on her tenth studio album and recently released the singles “Did Ya Know” and...
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Hedwig, Wholeness & Queer Magic with John Cameron Mitchell
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil Fisher (aka. Sylvia Wil Gather Rainbor) sits down with the legendary John Cameron Mitchell, the actor, writer, director, singer, and cultural icon best known for creating, directing, and starring in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. John also…
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Queer Love is the Medicine the World Needs Now (Encore Episode)
Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is an encore/ re-release from the Queerly Beloved archives. Whether you’re hearing it for the first time or returning to it with fresh ears, we hope it meets you in exactly the way you need. 🤗 In this special Pride Month solo episode, Wil Fisher honors Pride by...
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Queering Plant Medicine with Tina Kat Courtney
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil is joined by Tina “Kat” Courtney, a plant medicine pioneer, author, traditionally trained Ayahuasquera, psychedelic integration coach, and CEO and Co-Founder of Plant Medicine People. Kat has spent two decades in deep relationship with…
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Helping Spirits, Ancestors, and Queer Medicine with Langston Kahn
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil is joined by Langston Kahn, a Black, queer teacher and shamanic practitioner whose work focuses on radical human transformation, ancestral healing, and restoring an authentic relationship with our emotions. Langston’s work lives at a…
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ALIVENESS with Aya in Costa Rica (Solo Episode)
Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil shares reflections from a recent journey to Costa Rica, where he sat with Grandmother Ayahuasca and received powerful teachings about aliveness. After moving through a season of heaviness, collective grief, personal transition, and...
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Sitting With What’s Real with Oneika Mays
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil is joined by Oneika Mays, a mindfulness teacher, yoga teacher, licensed massage therapist, and author whose work is devoted to making contemplative practice more accessible to communities that have too often been left out of mainstream...
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Claiming Cosmic Sovereignty with Maria Martinez
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil sits down with Maria Martinez, a Cosmic Weaver, Quantum Alchemist, and multidimensional healer who has been aware of the unseen realms since childhood. Coming from a lineage of shamans, Maria describes a life shaped by early encounters with...
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Surrendering into Freedom with Simon Magnus
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wil Fisher sits down with Simon Magnus, a facilitator, teacher, and creator who has spent the last 25 years blending movement, intimacy work, conscious kink, ecstatic dance, somatic practice, and theatre into powerful, playful, and transformational experiences....
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Catching Healing Waves with Annie Schuessler-Zam
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wil Fisher sits down with Annie Schuessler-Zam, a trauma healer who uses Brainspotting and Parts Work to help people release stuck emotional pain. Annie was a licensed psychotherapist for 20 years and now works outside of the medical model. She also runs…
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Fire Horse Energy: Stop Performing Your Life 🔥🐎
Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode, Wil Fisher explores the energetic invitation of the Year of the Fire Horse and what it’s calling forward—especially for the Achiever-Performer archetype in gay culture: the successful, polished man who looks like he’s thriving… but feels a quiet ache...
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Alchemizing "Source Material" with Ash Ryzen Witham
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wil Fisher sits down with Ash Ryzen Witham, a queer, nonbinary trauma-informed Somatic Coach and Connection & Embodiment Facilitator. Ash supports personal and collective transformation by guiding people into deeper connection with themselves, each other, and…
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Queering Theology with Brian G. Murphy
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wil Fisher sits down with Brian G. Murphy, an activist, educator, and certified relationship coach. Brian is the co-founder of QueerTheology.com (a resource hub, podcast, and online community exploring how queerness and spirituality enrich one another) and the...
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Bridging Science & Spirit with Mira Funk
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wil sits down with Mira Funk, LCSW (she/her), a Harvard-educated queer, nonbinary psychotherapist and psychedelic guide specializing in 5-MeO-DMT, N,N-DMT, and salvia divinorum. Mira brings a rare “neuroscience geek meets sacred mystery” approach to psychedelic...
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Discovering Discernment
Send us Fan Mail In this first solo episode of the season, Wil explores discernment- the skill of knowing what’s inner truth and what’s conditioned noise, so you can choose from your center. Using the metaphor of an “inner committee” (intuition, wisdom, higher guidance… plus anxiety, ego…
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Aligning Your Soul Calling and Your Business with Beth Weinstein
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil is joined by Beth Weinstein, a Spiritual Business Coach & Soul Liberation Guide, three-time entrepreneur, certified Master Transformational NLP practitioner, and a leading voice in soul-led business and psychedelic-assisted transformation....
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Listening to the Gnostic Heart with Graham Norton
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil kicks off Season 4 and episode 76 with a tarot reading for collective for this new season of the podcast, and for this new season of your life. Wil is joined by Graham Joseph Norton, an integrative psychotherapist, spiritual teacher…
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Making the Spiritual Political with Yaron “Dashboard” Schweizer
Send us Fan Mail In this final episode of season three of Queerly Beloved, I drop in with Yaron “Dashboard” Schweizer: a community weaver, theatre maker, and director of Chinkapin Craftstead. From kibbutz days to the Eggplant Faerie Players to a hand-built, off-grid life in rural Tennessee,...
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Remembering Our Multidimensional Selves with A'Sha Love
Send us Fan Mail In this SUPER wu episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil sits down with A’sha Love, a multidimensional guide, speaker, and author who supports healers, empaths, and visionaries in aligning more deeply with their soul’s essence. Her journey began in 2008 after the passing of her father...
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Exploring Chakras and Energetic Intuition with Joel Collier
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Wil Fisher sits down with Joel Collier, an energy-intuitive practitioner and multi-media artist (8 years as lead vocals for synth-pop duo DOLL MUSCLE), who’s now studying sustainability with a focus on home construction and permaculture. Together, we explore...
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The Sacred Stretch of Waiting
Send us Fan Mail What do you do when your heart longs for something and it just hasn’t arrived yet? In this episode of Queerly Beloved, I share a personal story about calling in my romantic partner and the long, sometimes painful stretch of waiting it took before he appeared. Along the way, I...
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Becoming VISIBLE with Julian Crosson-Hill
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil sits down with Julian Crosson-Hill, a spiritual life & business coach, human design coach, and speaker whose superpower is helping people get visible and live authentically. Julian works with gay men over 50 to overcome the challenges of...
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Getting Divinely Disruptive with Rev. Karmen Michael Smith
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, I’m joined by the luminous and liberatory Rev. Karmen Michael Smith- a Black queer theologian, cultural strategist, and author of Holy Queer: The Coming Out of Christ. As the creator of Prophetic Intelligence™ and the founder of the inclusive...
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The Elusiveness of Enoughness
Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode, I'm exploring my realtionship with enoughness and sharing some of the learnings this exploration has brought me so far. We look at it from multiple angles indluing from the material (“Do I have enough?”); the relational (“Are others enough for me?”), to the...
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Healing Through Vibration with Bodhi Calagna
Send us Fan Mail In this soulful episode, Wil Fisher is joined by Bodhi Calagna, a psychedelic guide, hypnotherapist, sound alchemist, and musical artist based in Boulder, Colorado. Known for their ecstatic tribal beats as CALAGNA and ceremonial soundscapes as bodē, Bodhi shares how they’ve woven...
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Dancing Through Faith and Doubt with 'Wicked' Author Gregory Maguire
Send us Fan Mail In this soulful and thought-provoking episode of Queerly Beloved, Wil Fisher sits down with literary Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Gregory Maguire—author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.…
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Queer Love is the Medicine the World Needs Now
Send us Fan Mail In this special Pride Month solo episode, Wil Fisher honors Pride by reading his Queer Manifesto essay titled, "Queer Love is the Medicine the World Needs Now," featured in the upcoming queer anthology Spirits Queer, Spirits True. Wil explores queer love as a sacred, rebellious,...
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Awakening the Intuitive Self with Juan Francisco
Send us Fan Mail In this episode I’m joined by the radiant Juan Francisco, a gifted psychic medium and tarot reader based in New York City. After experiencing a spiritual awakening in his twenties, Juan stepped fully into his intuitive path, eventually launching his global podcast Third Eye…
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Exploring Heaven on Earth with Andrew Sartory
Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I have the joy of speaking with Andrew Sartory, someone who began as my mentor and coach and who I am now honored to call a dear friend. Andrew loves supporting people in creating and running businesses, and leading organizations from a foundation of true…
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Harnessing Hope
Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode, I take you on a heartfelt exploration of my evolving relationship with hope. I share that we're not talking about the grasp-y, wishful thinking kind, of hope, but the solid, grounded, spiritually aligned energy that helps us move through uncertain times and...
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Creating Jungle Sanctuaries with Shelby Clark
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Queerly Beloved, I’m joined by the multi-faceted Shelby Clark, a visionary entrepreneur, investor, embodiment facilitator, and founder of The Jungle Gayborhood, an LGBTQ+ focused retreat located center in the beautiful jungles of Costa Rica. You may remember me...
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The Power of Unconditional Love with Ally Sheedy & Beckett
Send us Fan Mail In this heart-opening episode of Queerly Beloved, we welcome an extraordinary mother-son duo whose journey embodies the transformational power of unconditional love. Acclaimed actress and advocate Ally Sheedy joins us alongside her incredible son, Beckett, a passionate community...
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The Journey of a Sacred Tattoo
Send us Fan Mail In this solo episode, I take you deep into the transformative journey of my sacred chest tattoo. What started as a simple request for power animals on my arm evolved into a spirit-guided, deeply spiritual experience that taught me powerful lessons about patience, surrender, and...
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Praying at the Altar of Maybe with Micaiah Deull
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we go deep with Micaiah Deull— who is a psychospiritual coach specializing in guiding people through significant transitions and transformation, addiction recovery, and psychedelic integration. He is a master kambo practitioner with 10 years of experience, a…
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Elemental Balancing with Kevin Kahakula’akea John Fong
Send us Fan Mail In this illuminating episode, I sit down with Kevin Kahakula’akea John Fong —an internationally recognized cultural translator, facilitator, and speaker whose work bridges ancient wisdom with modern healing. We begin by exploring how history can offer perspective on today’s…
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Healing My Father Wound
Send us Fan Mail In this deeply personal solo episode of Queerly Beloved, I recount my transformative journey of healing my father wound during a Conscious Kink retreat at the Jungle Gayborhood in Costa Rica in late 2024. Amidst the lush jungle, a profound memory emerged during a naked hike,...
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Living Unapologetically with Rick Clemons
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we’re diving deep into the power of authenticity, self-expression, and unapologetically living your truth with someone who’s made it his life’s work to guide others out of their metaphorical closets. My guest for this episode is Rick Clemmons—a mindset shifter,...
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(Re)Claiming our Weirdness with Dr. Michael R. Smith
Send us Fan Mail Today we've got Dr. Michael R. Smith who has helped connect individuals with their Divine potential for over 20 years. As a doctoral trained counselor, spiritual medium, and healing practitioner of indigenous ceremony, Michael's great joy is to serve as a spiritual guide for…
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All Our Relations with Wolf Martinez
Send us Fan Mail Today’s guest is the incredible Wolf Martinez who identifies a Human Being, as an In-Between person, between male and female and a person with Native and Hispanic roots. Wolf leads retreats and ceremonies across around the world and practices healing arts based in Indigenous and...
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ReUnion with Grandmother - A Plant Medicine Journey 🌱
Send us Fan Mail In this special solo episode, I’m diving into my recent reunion with Grandmother Ayahuasca after an 18-month pause since my last journey. This eleventh sit—symbolically aligning with 1/11 and the new moon on Día de los Muertos—came at just the right time, ushered in by signs and...
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Bringing Consciousness into Kink with Shadi Terra
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode of Queerly Beloved, I sit down with Shadi Terra, a Wild-at-Heart, Kink-positive, Relationship & Sexuality Educator who’s paving new pathways in the world of shamanic kink, conscious relationships, and transformational ritual. Shadi draws from a powerful…
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"Dot by Dot" A Story-rich Interview with Justin Elizabether Sayre
Send us Fan Mail Hello, Beloveds! This is the premiere episode for Season Three! Thanks for all your continued support! Speaking of support.. if you’re willing to help me reach my goal of 100 or more reviews, I would greatly appreciate a 5-star review! In this premiere episode, I interview the...
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The Valor of Our Ancestors' Hearts
Send us Fan Mail In this solo podcast episode, I share about my recent travels. Specifically I talk about choosing to visit Scotland to do some ancestor work after learning that I'm 45% Scottish. Outside of ancestor work, I reflect on other ways that travel is a powerful and effective approach to...
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Surrendering Into Authenticity with Rocky Heron
Send us Fan Mail Surrendering Into Authenticity with Rocky Heron Rocky is an internationally renowned yoga and movement educator, performer, human design mentor and content creator. He is devoted to unlocking the codes to our most authentic self-expression and empowering his students and…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Join your host, Wil Fisher (AKA "I Am Sylvia Wil Gather Rainbow"), for playful and profound interviews with amazing LGBTQIA+ peeps working in the field of spirituality and personal growth. Wil is a life coach, spiritual healer, and drag queen who loves getting super wu and chatting with fascinating folx about all things spiritually queer and queerly spiritual. You'll love hearing guests' spiritual path stories and gain knowledge as they share discoveries, insights and wisdom. Plus, these interviews tend to be a lot of fun- so expect to have some of that as well...!
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Join your host, Wil Fisher (AKA "I Am Sylvia Wil Gather Rainbow"), for playful and profound interviews with amazing LGBTQIA+ peeps working in the field of spirituality and personal growth. Wil is a life coach, spiritual healer, and drag queen who loves getting super wu and chatting with fascinating...
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