My life hasn’t been all bad. In fact, it’s been pretty great
- Mikaela Taylor
- February 20, 2022
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I’ve shared quite a bit about my life over the past few weeks. The point was to illustrate that you can go through many setbacks and still end up living a great life.
My intent is to help people struggling with gender dysphoria and chemical dependency. No matter how bad things have seemed, or how far down the scale we have gone, we can recover.
I had someone reach out to me yesterday and tell me that I gave her the inspiration to come out that she is transgender publicly and at her job. She wrote a Linkedin post and it has been seen by almost a million people in just a few days.
Congratulations August!!! You are now free to live your life! Link
She is now free to live her life and be herself, and I can tell you firsthand, that there is nothing as liberating as to be able to walk around as yourself in your own skin without having to conform to societal ideals imposed on us by a set of standards developed to control civilization.
Other than the effects of gender dysphoria and chemical dependency, my life has been pretty damn good. I had two parents growing up that loved me and still do. My grandparents, siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles were all good to me and my family made sure that I had the opportunity to go as far as I wanted in life.
I’ve gotten married in Vegas to the woman of my dreams.
My wife and I have 5 awesome, brilliant children, who are good kids and I believe that they are all going to excel far in life.
I have an incredible network of friends and associates that have my back and I recently weeded out the ones that aren’t friends and are no longer even associates.
I’ve worked in major market and small market radio over the past 10 years, with incredible opportunities, like covering the Heisman Trophy presentation in New York in 2012 when Johnny Manziel won the Heisman Trophy.
I own a state-wide news agency that if fired up again, would dominate within a few years if that’s what I desired to do. The news website was able to get 300,000 page views monthly, consistently.
I still have a local news Facebook Group that is viewed by more than 300,000 people a month, consistently.
I attained my real estate license in 2020, and have a successful career in real estate waiting for me, which excites me.
I’ve ridden my motorcycle through the three sisters in Texas. This may not seem like it’s as big as the others but it was a bucket list item.
I’ve gone skydiving. My dad also went separately. The group started with 7 people and when the day came, everyone bailed but my dad and me.
I’ve played my drums on a huge rock stage in a concert hall filled with people.
The stage above is the small stage at that venue. There is a giant stage that we played on a few weeks later to a packed house but I can’t find any videos from it.
I’ve professionally recorded music.
I’ve gone crowd surfing in a crowd of 50,000 people in a gorilla suit. Word of advice: DON’T EVER GO INTO A MOSHPIT IN A GORILLA SUIT. YOU WILL BECOME THE TARGET.
I’ve been backstage at many concerts, front row, in the pit, and have met countless rock stars and musicians.
I’ve learned who truly has my back on this earth more than most people, and that is my great friend and radio sidekick, The Great Radkowski.
My friend, John Barrera, and I started the Kerrville Podcast, which is now up to 47 episodes.
Now imagine what I could have done if I wasn’t battling gender dysphoria and chemical dependency.
I believe that the chemical dependency stemmed from not dealing with gender dysphoria.
This is why it is so important to me to make sure that people know that they don’t have to live in fear and that it’s OK to come out and live their lives.
It’s also important to me to educate people on what people that feel like they have to hide their gender identity go through on a minute-by-minute basis.
We are all human beings, and we all have our battles and struggles. It’s nice to be able to accept who I am these days and embrace it.
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