Led by VMLY&R’s LGBTQ Powered by Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) group, our new “PROUDLY SAID” podcast series launched last Friday in honor of National Coming Out Day in the United States and Canada. This podcast series will feature monthly open, honest, and unscripted dialogue on topics across the rainbow spectrum, including challenges and trending subjects pertaining to the LGBTQ+ community. The first episode is with Joel Barrett, a speaker, writer, and survivor of conversion therapy, who shares his compelling coming out story and how he lives an authentic life. Find this, and our sister DEI Podcast, “Women Around the World,” here.