E2 | "There's Only One Jeff" with Jeff Goodwin

The Andrew Mychal Podcast · Oct 1, 2026 · 34m · transcript

Not everyone who changes your life appears while you’re writing your story. Sometimes they arrive after you think the chapter is finished. I met Jeff shortly after joining the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida, where he was assigned as my singing buddy. What began as rehearsing music quickly became conversations about childhood, identity, perfectionism, and the masks we learn to wear in order to feel accepted.

In this conversation, Jeff shares his journey of growing up gay in Southeast Texas, learning to become whoever he thought other people needed him to be, and how those early adaptations…