When we first started out, our goal was to help coaches better understand and support our community, be more inclusive, and practice proactive allyship in their businesses. 

 

What started as a small passion project, just a couple Queers helping their fellow coaches learn a thing or two about allyship, quickly grew into a greater mission. 

 

We learned so much about our own community in the process of creating this training, and it felt deeply important and invaluable. 

 

We hoped to open some eyes and maybe a few hearts if we were lucky. 

 

Then, magic happened. 

 

We couldn’t have anticipated the reactions. 

 

We opened up the floor for questions, and they kept rolling in. 

Big, beautiful, questions. 

Deeply personal questions. 

Questions that many wonder but few ask. 

 

We realized that so many coaches, healers, and space holders wanted to understand but were too afraid of showing up imperfectly, asking the wrong question, or revealing their own inexperience with our community. 

 

Folks in the group saw their own blindspots — and one another’s. 

 

Many left feeling a sense of responsibility to change things for future clients, and even more said they felt a deeper connection to and understanding of the Queer folks in their lives. 

 

We began to see the ripple effect. 

 

We knew this training changed the way these 30+ coaches would show up in the world. 

 

How they’d embrace Queer folks. 

How they’d encourage Queer kids. 

How they’d use their voices for the LGBTQIA+ community in the future. 

And the question shifted from “Who are we to do this?” to “Who are we NOT to share this?”