Janae Marie “Kroc” Kroczaleski is a transgender woman who also identifies as gender fluid and non-binary. Prior to transition, she was a world champion and a record-holding powerlifter, and a national-level bodybuilder. 

Also, she is a United States Marine, who was selected to work in presidential security under President Clinton, a cancer survivor, a published author, a licensed pharmacist, a public speaker, and a proud parent of three sons. Janae was the subject of the award-winning documentary, Transformer, which is currently available on Netflix and many other streaming services. She hopes that by openly sharing her experiences, she will inspire those who can relate and help educate those who don’t understand.

In this episode we discuss:

When Janae realized she didn’t identify as her gender and why she identifies as fluid, non-binary

What the biggest misconceptions are around pronouns and the gender binary system

What Janae thinks about transgender women competing in sports competitions

Why labels can cause misunderstandings and yet, labeling is inherent in all of our nature

Why it is a detriment to resist who you are

How culture is progressing to embrace androgynous individuals

What Janae wants most as a transgender woman

Connect with Janae
Instagram: @janaemariekroc
Website: www.janaekroc.com

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Instagram: @ashleydrivard
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com

Janae Marie Kroc: Pronouns and Everything in Between

Aurélie Galois is a painter and a writer.

While studying literature (at Sorbonne University) and history of art (at the
School of the Louvre), she learned every traditional technique of painting,
drawing, and engraving in a private studio in Paris. As a young editor in chief for
several magazines and freelance writer, she started to paint the portraits of
those she was interviewing. Faces and bodies become her favorite landscape,
and erotism has also been a frequent inspiration.

Christian Lima, is of Portuguese origin and was born in Paris and lived his entire life.
As an entrepreneur, he owns two cheese shops called “Fromages et ramage”
and is passionate about gastronomy and wines. He plays piano and pétanque
for many years and is renowned for being loud. He’s a lover of music, cinema, and human beings.

In this episode we discuss:

•What are the culture codes in France

•Why pleasure is the driving force behind their choices

•How the French view love/ romance/ sensuality and why the stereotype is
outdated

•Why it’s important or true that the French like to show off with nice clothes
and nice cars

•Why French have a different kind of openness than the American opens

•Love is friendship with sex

•Why men are just as vulnerable as women in France

•What sex means to the them

•France is deep in culture- but is it deep in self-awareness

•Why real artists are full of doubt and knowingness simultaneously

•What other countries could learn from the French culture

•Why a good conversation must have good food and good wine

•Why French think they are the best and why the men have huge egos

Connect with Aurelie:
Instagram: @aureliegalois
Website: www.aureliegalois.com

Connect with Ashley:
Instagram: @intothedawnpodcast/ @ashleydrivard
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com

Aurelie Galois and Christian Lima - French culture and the art of pleasure

Steve Leder is the senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. After receiving his degree in writing and graduating cum laude from Northwestern University, and spending time studying at Trinity College, Oxford University, Leder received a master’s degree in Hebrew letters in 1986 and rabbinical ordination in 1987 from Hebrew Union College. He is the author of five books: The Extraordinary Nature of Ordinary Things, More Money Than God: Living a Rich Life Without Losing your Soul, the bestsellers More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us, and The Beauty of What Remains, and his latest For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story.

In this episode we discuss:

12 essential questions to ask self for your life story
What is an ethical will and why it’s imperative we all have one for our loved ones at any age
Why we need to know if we are living our truth or are we just professing to
Why these 12 questions are vital to open up a person’s life story and help you get to the truth of your life
Why most people regret what they don’t do verse what they do do
Why it’s never too soon to examine your life and align it with your truth
Why life would have no meaning if there was no death
Why excepting dualities as dualities is healing and can lessen anxiety
Why the power of truth and vulnerability is an unburdening of self


Connect with Steve:
Instagram: @steve_leder
Website: www.steveleder.com
Buy his book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09FNZMPFJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2


Connect with Ashley:
Instagram: @intothedawnpodcast
Personal: @ashleydrivard
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com

Rabbi Steve Leder: Twelve essential questions to tell one’s life story

A provocative podcast that looks at all things taboo in society, such as suicide, grief, sex, addictions, cultural codes, and more. Each week, I talk with experts who successfully investigate their areas of interest.

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