This episode is a bonus one to increase awareness for #pridemonth and represents an extract of our very first podcast in June 2021, focused on authenticity versus safety, pride, coming out, and the challenges faced by the LGBTQ community.

What Exactly is Pride Month? Every year from June 1 to 30, all the members of the LGBTQ community and their allies celebrate their identities through Pride Month. They recognize their accomplishments and their struggles in maintaining their equality with the world. They celebrate this month by organizing various events across the world to progress their idea of equal identity and create awareness globally.

I really only got to understand and feel empathy for the reality and struggles lived by LGBTQ people, through the conversations I had in the past with Anthony Hitt, who openly shared what it meant to be gay in Missouri in the late 80s-90s, how he didn’t even have the freedom to say a simple “I love you” to who he really loved, and how authenticity and coming out played a major role in his happiness. 

I hope this episode contributes to your awareness as much as it contributed to mine.

Anthony Hitt is president & CEO of Engel & Völkers Americas since January of 2014, member of Forbes’ Real Estate Council, recognized on the Swanepoel list of “Top 200 Most Powerful People in Residential Real Estate” for four consecutive years, noted as a Real Estate Influencer by Inman News and honored as a RIS Media Newsmaker. In this episode extract, we talk about: 

🌻 #Happiness & love (and meaning of 3), 

🌻 Authenticity versus safety, pride and coming out, 

🌻 Most impactful books read: The Four Agreements 

🌻 #Simplicity and what you take with you in case of fire, 

🌻 Wheel of life and the #sunflowerofhappiness, 

🌻 The Importance of #PLAY in our lives and more… 

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🌻 Stay happy & happy, keep smiling and nurture #happinesscontribution! And tune in for the next episode!