The next Monthly Inspiration Session where all GumGummers are encouraged to join in is here! In honoring Pride month, our June series will focus on the LGBTQIA+ experience. We hope you'll join us in this special edition and stay on for a thoughtful discussion.

For this session, we’ll watch a 15min TedTalk on I've lived as a man and as a woman — here's what I've learned with Paula Stone Williams.

Today Paula Stone Williams is a pastoral counselor and woman — but for the first 60 years of her life, Williams identified as male. After coming out as transgender in December 2012, Williams was swiftly fired from a position as an evangelical Christian leader. In this talk, she reflects about the male privilege she once had and how she's being treated now as a woman. "I am learning a lot about what it means to be a female, and I am learning a lot about my former gender," she says. "I'm here to tell you: The differences are massive."

For those newer to GumGum, these sessions are an opportunity for us to slow down, listen to an inspiring podcast or TedTalk and (optional) open up to a round table discussion on what we've just watched.

Bring your coffee, lunch, etc., and let's get inspired!