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The Ryan Sallans Book Series

Welcome to the Ryan Sallans Book Series! Take a short break from your day and listen to my story, chapter-by-chapter, book-by-book. We"ll begin with the opening of my forthcoming book Finding Me: Finding We. Then we will go back to the beginning of my story which was captured in my first book Second Son, before leaning into Transforming Manhood and circling back to Finding Me again.

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21:35

Finding My Soul in the Heartland

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/12/21

Over the years I’ve noticed our transgender brotherhood and our experiences have turned us into mentors in the community. There are so many aspects to transitioning: the name change, surgical procedures and options, hormones, insurance coverage, legal protection, and finding peace with one’s body. It helps when people are willing to sit down and talk about each aspect, one issue at a time.

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26:38

My Family Comes Together . . . Sort Of

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/12/14

In preparing to do what I felt would be the impossible, I accepted the fact that my family may very well disown me and never want to see me again. If I could accept losing everything and still move forward, I knew that things couldn’t get any worse for me in life.

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1:28

Tips on Coming Out to Family

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/12/08

Many people question how to come out to family. In this brief trailer, Ryan provides a few tips on how to navigate the process.

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32:24

Sexless in the City

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/12/07

In preparing to do what I felt would be the impossible, I accepted the fact that my family may very well disown me and never want to see me again. If I could accept losing everything and still move forward, I knew that things couldn’t get any worse for me in life.

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31:15

The Incredible Shrinking Coed

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/11/30

The strong smell of latex paint and a mixture of bleach hit my nostrils as the door swung open to the single dorm room I would be residing in during my sophomore year of college. I was wearing a black tank top to show off my tan, which I had acquired from working the summer on a road construction crew. I also wore a pair of jean shorts that were five sizes too big for me. I kept pulling them up as I was carrying boxes up to my room. My waistline had gotten smaller over the summer. The diet I had

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16:00

Resetting My Biological Clock

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/11/23

After a few weeks in college, I began to wonder if I would be able to reach either of my goals that I set after high school (to not to gain weight and to find a boyfriend who would want to marry me). The embarrassment I felt on account of my body, and the fight I had against my biology, affected my development as a person, especially within romantic relationships.

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22:42

My Life Among the Awkward Adolescents

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/11/16

By my twelfth birthday I quit wishing to turn into a boy and started to wish that my body would just stop turning more female. With puberty I saw my breasts developing and my hips widening. The changes were taking away my androgynous build.

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29:54

Superman Versus My Mom

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/11/09

“Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird. . . It’s a plane. . . It’s Superman!” My seven-year-old body shot up, off the ground. My right arm lifted above my head as my feet, clad in red-trimmed sweat socks pulled up to my knees, darted mearound the room. My idol and mentor, like any other boy’s fantasy, was a superhero.

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20:28

My Origin Story

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/11/02

In this episode, take a step back into the mid-1960's in small town Nebraska where my parents first met. I am happy to share that their romance and love story is still strong, 60 years later.

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10:15

The Start of Second Son

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/10/26

In this episode we enter into Ryan's current best-selling book, Second Son. By age four, I was labeled a tomboy—a label that made my dad happy, I think. I became his shadow. Everywhere he went, I followed. I wanted to be his helper. I wanted to be just like him.

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31:21

Death By Scotch

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/10/19

It was death by Scotch. By jeez, by gosh! Yes . . . death by Scotch. Multiple computer coroners thus professed. The killing of Ryan's computer was just the start of things comically going further downhill after his break-up.

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20:11

Things I Miss

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/10/12

In this episode, Ryan is taking you to the San Jacinto Mountain Range of Southern California. He went there to escape from heartache, but he is learning there is no escaping grief.

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5:58

Love Spun Undone

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/10/05

In this episode, we are entering into chapter 3 "Love Spun Undone," from my forthcoming book Finding Me: Finding We.

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13:05

God's Land

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/09/30

Look to the sky, whenever one's in doubt. Look to the sky and wander all about. In this episode, Ryan will read chapter 2, God's Land from his forthcoming book, Finding Me: Finding We. Get ready to smell like a camp fire after hearing this story.

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8:10

Listening to Fink to Pitter, Patter

The Ryan Sallans Book Series ·

2025/09/23

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Ryan Sallans Book Series!Ryan has been entertaining audiences with his storytelling across the globe for the past 20 years. Now, it time to go behind the microphone to read his stories, book-by-book, chapter-by-chapter. In this episode, Ryan shares the prologue, Listening to Fink and first chapter, Pitter, Pitter: Patter, Patter from his forthcoming book Finding Me: Finding We, a dive into the psyche and human spirit.

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