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The Cost of Living With a Secret | Geena Rocero

Published: May 26, 2023, 7 a.m.

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We\\u2019re going to start experimenting with these Friday episodes. Historically on Fridays, we\\u2019ve dropped guided meditations \\u2013 and we will still do that \\u2013 but we\\u2019re also going to try some different formats, including some shorter episodes with guests that might not be a fit for our traditional Monday and Wednesday shows.


Today we\\u2019ve got Dan\\u2019s new friend Geena Rocero. She has an incredible story about what it\\u2019s like to live with an all-encompassing secret.


Geena was born and raised in the Philippines. There, she became a star on that country\\u2019s thriving transgender beauty pageant scene. Then she moved to America to launch her modeling career. But here, in this new country, she was justifiably very worried about letting anybody in the fashion world know that she was transgender. So for many many years, she lived with a secret -- one that could destroy her livelihood at any moment. In 2014, she decided to come out publicly in a TED Talk that now has more than 4 million views. She\\u2019s now a public speaker, trans rights advocate and an award-winning producer/writer/director.


She is also an author, just out with a new memoir, called Horse Barbie. You\\u2019ll hear her explain what that title means. We also talk about the cost of living with a secret, why she decided to come out, and the overlap between gender and spirituality.



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