
01/08/2025
FRIENDS!... The Ascent Radio Podcast is BACK! 🎙️💜🎧☺️
We are ECSTATIC to release this new project to you -
gets in on the fun with us to kick off season two! 🤩✨🏳️🌈💗
Here’s what’s up:
Matthew Paul Turner is living every day as his whole self. And the journey to get to that place is nothing short of extraordinary (and gorgeous!)
🎙️In this episode (AND in the accompanying feature on the blog! 💻) we sit down with the New York Time’s bestselling author and gay dad of three to talk 🌈 PRIDE, to share his coming out journey, and to weave his remarkable story together with the songs that have carried him through all of the healing and trauma into his own beautifully-gay liberation. ✨🏳️🌈
From his rebellious days sneaking Amy Grant CDs behind his fundamentalist parent’s backs, to transcendent experiences on the Jagged Little Pill tour and Lilith Fair, to the salvation of Brandi Carlile, Wilson Phillips and Taylor Swift in his coming out journey, follow Matthew through the songs that provided the safe and transformative spaces along his path to inner freedom, joy and flamboyance! 🥹💞
We are DELIGHTED to pick back up in our “conversations at the intersection of great music and social change” with Matthew - and SO grateful to him for joining us! 🙏💜🥹✨
🎧 To hear our interview with Matthew in its entirety - including clips of the music and his thoughts on all the songs we’ve highlighted from his story - look up the Ascent Radio Podcast 🎙️ wherever you get your podcasts, click the link 🔗 in our bio to locate the show on your preferred provider, or listen directly in the Ascent Radio app 📱 - available for free(!) in both the Apple and Google Play stores.
To read our feature story on Matthew on the Ascent Radio Blog, 💻 click the link 🔗 link in our bio as well, or click on the Blog tab in the Ascent Radio app!📱
Did Matthew share a song or story that connects with YOU? Let us know below!
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