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.
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.
Episodes
Episodes



Sep 30, 2025
God's Land
Sep 30, 2025
Sep 30, 2025
13 min
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.



Oct 5, 2025
Love Spun Undone
Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025
5 min
“Hello?” my voice and body quiver as I answer the call.
It is her.
We haven’t been together for nine months and haven’t spoken in six.
The last time I saw her, she was parked out front of the apartment I was renting downtown. My heart sank as I took in a person and vehicle that have become ghosts of my past.



Oct 12, 2025
Things I Miss
Oct 12, 2025
Oct 12, 2025
20 min
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.



Oct 19, 2025
Death By Scotch
Oct 19, 2025
Oct 19, 2025
31 min
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.



Oct 26, 2025
The Start of Second Son
Oct 26, 2025
Oct 26, 2025
10 min
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.



Nov 2, 2025
My Origin Story
Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025
20 min
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.



Nov 9, 2025
Superman Versus My Mom
Nov 9, 2025
Nov 9, 2025
29 min
“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.



Nov 16, 2025
My Life Among the Awkward Adolescents
Nov 16, 2025
Nov 16, 2025
22 min
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.



