Coming out, and living as yourself

5 stories.

Kintsugi Heroes

Overcoming Drug Dependence by Escaping to Australia with Luiz Ferreira

After seventeen years of hidden cocaine addiction driven by a secret he could not tell his family, Luiz Ferreira discovered that moving to Australia and finally accepting himself as a gay man was the only treatment that worked.

Pride in Stories

The 20-year fog

Karl discovered his authentic self only after leaving the corporate world that demanded he hide it, at 48.

Kintsugi Heroes

The Closet Is a Performance: How Gene Moore Unlocked Homophobia as the Hidden Enforcer of Masculinity

Gene Moore spent 20 years in silence building a paradigm that dismantles homophobia by revealing it as a system that harms everyone.

Grit Diaries

The Memoir That Transformed a Mother-Daughter Tragedy Into Gold

A decade of estrangement ended when Ingrid stopped assuming what her mother thought and simply held the door open with love.

Kintsugi Heroes

From Saddle Making to Global Tech Leadership with John Dwyer

A school dropout who left at fourteen to stitch leather goods went on to lead global teams at Microsoft, Nokia, and Amazon — and found his deepest purpose not in technology, but in helping people discover their own strengths.