Mama Bear Cancer Coach

In this week's episode, I have the wonderful pleasure of interviewing Matt Zinman! He is a personal success trainer whose varied experiences as an entrepreneur, athlete, single parent, caretaker, consultant, and nonprofit founder drive him to be a difference-maker and positively impact as many people as possible. Tune in to hear his amazing story!

In this week's episode, I have an amazing time interviewing Dorri Morales with the Green Living Magazine. She is the Publisher and Editor in Chief of Green Living magazine, Arizona’s premiere eco-conscious lifestyle publication. The monthly publication aims to educate, inspire and empower readers to make eco-conscious choices for a healthy life and healthy planet.

In this week’s episode, Donita Mama Bear interviews Dr. Kimberly Corson on caregiving and self-compassion! Dr. Kim has a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies and works as a resilience coach for individuals and professionals. She is also a Certified Family Life Educator through the National Council of Family Relations. Her training allows her to work with individuals to help them be authentic leaders, to increase levels of balance and mindfulness in their lives and families, to improve productivity, and to manage stress--all from a foundation in behavioral science. Tune in as we dive into how we can apply these skills as we move out of a global crisis.

In this week's episode, Donita Mama Bear talks about being on lockdown and how it's different than before. Tune in to hear how her amazing journey has lead to three separate long term quarantines, how Covid-19 compares, and what tips on what you can do to help get you through. We're in this together!

In this week’s episode, I have the wonderful pleasure of interviewing Christie Ribary. She has been working as a coach for many years in corporate America, but her heart always pulled her to working with woman. Tune in to hear her amazing story and how she is utilizing it in today's world!

In this week's episode, I have the pleasure of interviewing Ashley Smith! At first glance, it may not seem like a past career in medical device sales and a multi-business entrepreneur have anything in common. But for Ashley Smith, the common denominator is communication. Whether helping hospitals find the right tools they need to save lives, inspiring moms to prioritize time to fill their soul’s cup, helping women be heard, or creating a fashion line that empowers/employs/and educates women globally, Ashley is passionate about clear communication to move projects and people towards their goals. Tune in to hear her amazing story and how it's helping her navigate the world today!

In this week's episode, I have the wonderful pleasure of interviewing Dr. Wendy Labat! Tune in to hear her amazing story as we dive into some of the many topics facing all of us doing COVID-19.

In this week’s episode, I have the wonderful pleasure of interviewing Tamera Anderson-Hanna! She has been working as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Certified Addiction Counselor, and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor for over 20 years. Tune in to hear us talk about how to handle me time while quarantined!

Join Donita in this week’s podcast as she gives us direction and advice on how she creates a stance she feels good about in all that’s happening today. Using tools like education and self-knowledge, you’ll find overcoming your fears and cutting through the barrage of COVID-19 Dos and Don’ts is possible!

In this week’s episode, I wanted to touch on the important topic of the balance of being a patient and being a survivor. Have you defined survivorship and what that means to you? Tune in to hear my journey on how I overcame being on autopilot for so long.

In this week's episode, I have the pleasure of interviewing Mindy Griffith, M.Ed. She worked as a Program Coordinator at the University of Arizona, an elementary school teacher, and a school administrator before joining BAG IT in 2016. With a background in education and a passion for helping others, Bag It is a perfect fit as we provide the educational tools to help individuals navigate their cancer experience. Tune in to hear her incredible story on this week's episode!

In this week’s episode, I have the wonderful pleasure of interviewing Sophia Garber. She is one of the leaders at the Ulman House Foundation an organization that changes lives by creating a community of support for young adults, and their loved ones, impacted by cancer. Tune in to hear their story and some of the amazing work they do!

In this week's episode, I wanted to talk about overcoming fear and how to deal with fear in our daily lives.

In this week’s episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Shannon Norris, founder of comfychemocarebagproject.org. At 34 years old she was diagnosed with stage 2, estrogen positive (ER+) breast cancer. After her diagnosis, during treatment, and to this day, she has been blessed with a large outpouring of love and support from friends, family, and her community. During her own battle, she decided she wanted to pay it forward so she began donating comfy chemo care bags to my fellow fighters. Tune in to hear her amazing story!

In this week's episode, I have the wonderful pleasure of interviewing Heather Stang! Heather is the author of Mindfulness & Grief and the host of the Mindfulness & Grief Podcast. She has a master’s degree in Thanatology (death, dying and bereavement) and is a certified yoga therapist and meditation instructor. Her own journey of love, loss and posttraumatic growth fuels her passion for teaching bereaved families and grief professionals how to use mindfulness-based techniques to cope with grief, cultivate resilience, and prevent burnout. Tune in to hear her amazing story!

In this week’s episode, I wanted to talk about what it looks like when life is falling apart. Sometimes no matter what you do, life just falls apart, and we must adjust. What do you do? Tune in to hear how I’ve been able to navigate the curve balls life has thrown me!

In this week's episode, I am very excited to interview Megan Cannone! Megan Cannone is a licensed clinical young adult oncology social worker/patient navigator at Anne Arundel Medical Center, in partnership with Ulman Foundation. She provides psychosocial support and assistance with resources for any young adult and their loved ones facing cancer, no matter where they are in treatment/post-treatment. Megan’s mission is to ensure that no patient feels alone. Tune in to hear her amazing story and more about the Ulman Foundation.

In this week’s episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Charlotte Shaff a great friend, author, and cancer sister! With a strong background in Television as a promotion producer and Emmy-nominated writer, she has been the founder of The Media Push, LLC since August 2005. Tune in to hear her amazing journey!

In this week's episode, I have the pleasure of interviewing Veronica Bahn! She is an attraction marketer, entrepreneur, momboss, sales expert, author, and speaker. Her work inspires collaborative connections with likeminded people who desire a world that expands in abundance, success, and kindness. Tune in to hear her amazing story of overcoming difficult challenges and being a survivor!

Best known as the #tutulady, Kristine an elementary school teacher and Girls on the Run coach/site coordinator. As both an award-winning, veteran classroom teacher and coach, Kristine knows how to make connections and emphasize the strengths of her students and others. In addition to teaching and coaching, Kristine is a business woman and fashion stylist. You can always find her in her tutu, challenging others to relentlessly pursue their immeasurable potential. Tune in to hear her amazing story

In this week’s episode, I am excited to interview special guest Aislinn N Ellis, AKA Ms. Organized, is on a mission to reach and motivate 25,000,000 people with her motto, “Why Organize? ... Because it matters!” She is the Owner and Operator of Ask Aisi, LLC and developing her company, Always Organized – Workspace Solutions. Tune in to hear her amazing story

In this week’s episode, I get the pleasure of interviewing Elena Porter! She is another amazing author from the Lemonade Stand book, a survivor, and pioneer of Christ Centered Yoga. In 2002, Elena created a unique version of yoga where she combined her Christian faith with the practice of yoga. At that time, if you searched for Christian Yoga on the web, there was nothing to be found. She started this journey with just two students and over the past 17 years, the yoga ministry has grown to thousands of students. Elena's yoga practice inspires people at a soul level. She knows that for each life, each soul she impacts to see life differently, to gain a new perspective, to see life through the lens of love, to give more, to accept others, to seek peace, that one lovingly impressed soul affects multiple other souls. Tune in to hear her amazing story!

In this week's episode, I am very happy to interview co-author, survivor, and CEO of Brand Ethos Alicia Laszewski! Alicia has not only been an amazing person to work with but a close friend tune in to hear her amazing story

I'm so excited to share the first episode in our special series of the Donita Mama Bear Podcast! Mama Lyons is the owner and founder of Tribe Authentic Women. She is passionate about her purposeful personal journey towards feeling good inside and out. She now shares her passion for personal development with others. Armed with a lot of knowledge in personal development, growth mindset, and instructional design, in March 2018, Davina launched TRIBE Authentic Woman. TRIBE is designed to be a safe place for women to do the work of discovering her true self, learning to walk and talk in alignment with her core values, and live her truth unapologetically.

In this week's episode guest host Talaya is interviewing Al Harris founder of Cancer Who? Nearly eight years ago, Al and Marjani “MJ” Harris received some devastating news – Al’s older cousin was diagnosed with stage-4 breast cancer, Al’s younger cousin had brain cancer, and MJ’s stepfather was diagnosed with colon cancer. It was a hard time for their family. Not to be discourage Al with the help of others started an organization dedicated to helping not just those going through cancer but their families and communities as well. Tune is to hear Al's amazing story

In this week's episode we have Guest Host Talaya interviewing Reona Berry. Reona Berry is a founding member and current president of the African American Breast Cancer Alliance, Inc. (AABCA). Established in 1990, AABCA provides information, advocacy, emotional and social support to Black/African American women, men, and families dealing with breast cancer.

This week I was fortunate to have Cassie Nguyen on the show. When she was 16, she was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, had surgery, 6 months of radiation and a year of chemotherapy. With her experience as a pediatric cancer patient, she was involved in several cancer outreach programs that provided an outlet to bring a sense of normalcy back into the patient’s lives. She wanted to create that feeling for others going through and recovering from such a traumatic time in their lives. That is why she created Spotlight On Hope Film Camp, a free film instruction camp for pediatric and young adult cancer patients and their families.

In reflecting back recently I noticed that it has been 10 years since my triple-negative breast cancer survivor. I was thinking what does pink mean to me and what memories impacted me the most?

In this week's episode, I'm excited to speak with Jean Robor! Jean Bailey Robor, author of “She Has a Big ‘But’! Get Past Your Excuses & Realize Your Dreams,” is the creator of Fit After 50, the Revolution. Her No Buts About It attitude plus an understanding of the challenges of getting fit, after 50, gives her a unique perspective and a passion for helping others achieve their fitness goals, mind, body and soul. She shares resources, provides motivation and schedules fitness events to encourage others to living their best lives….starting now. For several years, Fit After 50 has participated in Relay for Life, raising funds for cancer awareness and encouraging patients to increase their quality of life through functioning better physically, improving self-esteem and feeding their soul.

I am super excited to talk about my move from Florida to Seattle and some of the emotions good and bad that came with the trip. I had a to reconcile some of my pushed down fears and overcoming them and it has been invigorating.

In this week's episode I'm super excited to speak again with Alene Nitzky! Alene Nitzky is an oncology nurse and author who works with cancer survivors in her community. Before she became a nurse, she earned a Ph.D. in recreation from Colorado State University where she studied health benefits of leisure in outdoor settings, and has taught health promotion, wellness, and exercise science at the university level. As a registered nurse she has worked in critical care and oncology. While working in traditional healthcare, she found that cancer patients’ needs for restoring quality of life after treatment were not being adequately addressed by the clinical approach to survivorship. Survivorship care plans tell people what they should do for medical followup, but don’t address individual preferences, questions, and needs for a wide range of supportive resources in everyday life outside of the doctor’s office after treatment. Her flagship program, Cancer Harbors®, is a restorative program for cancer survivors who have recently completed treatment, to build new skills to address a variety of issues common to cancer survivors, such as fatigue, physical activity and nutrition, emotional and mental health, cognitive, social, workplace, and occupational functioning, self-advocacy in follow-up care, health literacy, and self-care. Alene is author of Navigating the C: A Nurse Charts the Course for Cancer Survivorship Care, a look at all the stakeholders in healthcare and how each can do a better job of serving cancer survivors’ needs. It’s available in print and Kindle versions on Amazon. She is an advocate for nurses and healthcare professionals in improving their working conditions to better serve patients, and for improving the public’s cancer literacy. She is an accomplished ultramarathon runner. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with her husband and their two Australian Shepherds.

In this week's episode I wanted to talk a little bit about myself and the journey that I have been through with cancer as well as suicidal thoughts.

In this weeks episode I speak with Tiah Tomlin who had similar cancer to myself. After experiencing gaps in resources and supportive services, Tiah wanted to be part of the solution and co-founded My Style Matters, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit organization based out of Atlanta, Ga. One of their signature programs called, Kick Can’t-cer, provides cancer warriors with educational materials on making healthy choices along with a free unique care package containing non-toxic household and personal care items to help them get kick started with making lifestyle changes.

In this weeks episode I talked with Tracy Quadro Arietti on the chemistry of conflict and the psychology of disagreement. We get into some of the details on how technology is changing how we communicate and some conflict communication within our society.

In this weeks episode we are presenting the final episode about Oxidative Stress, and we are focusing on the brain. Understanding Oxidative Stress is essential to living a healthy life. When we understand it we can determine if we are making the best decisions for our health and setting up a healthy oxidative system.

Before I created 7 Stitches Boutique I was a kindergarten teacher, military wife and MOM. I loved my life. Then one day we got military orders to move overseas so I had to leave my teaching profession and became, for the first time in my, life a stay-at-home mom. Travel is a huge part of our lives now. In our many travels we have spent a lot of time in planes, trains, and automobiles. And with 5 children I am always looking for ways to make our lives, travel friendly and more comfortable. My husband bought me a sewing machine one Christmas, and had to teach me how to turn it on, LOL. I taught myself to sew after baby #3 and absolutely fell in love with the new ability to be able to create things for my children and those I love. Through my growing interest and our growing lives, I discovered that I could create products designed to enhance our lives and others while traveling. I was then approached by a customer who LOVED my travel pillows. He had a friend who was going through breast reconstruction and asked me to create a pillow that would help alleviate some of her discomfort from the seat-belt. Thus, the creation of “MY BREASTFRIEND”. My mom has since been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and did not have any type of breast/chest surgery but had a port placed so I created the “Port Pal”. I decided to set out to create the most unique as well as the largest variety of travel and recovery products for the most amazing customers from all around the world and those they love. It turns out, the road was more difficult than I imagined. Being a homeschooling mom to 5 and military wife, moving every 2-3 years across the states and overseas has proved to have many challenges. Shipping and working with foreign post offices is a huge challenge when living overseas. And when moving from overseas back to the states or vice versa, I have to shut my business down for several weeks to months unsure of when exactly I would be able to set up and reopen. When it’s time to pull up roots once again, I mail my sewing machine to our next location, pack my fabrics in our suitcases (14 to be exact) and off we go. Ready to hit the ground running once we arrive. My amazing customers have stuck with me every step of the way. Always willing to support me, try new products and refer me to friends. Through it all, we persevered. We continue to add new products and the response has been pure love from everyone who sees or uses them.

Paddle for the Cure (PFC) is a pioneering effort to raise awareness of breast cancer and culminate our urgent need to help survivors in their road to recovery. Simply put, our organization is founded on Practice + Perseverance = Power, which celebrates life and support the cancer survivors within the immediate community and our diverse network of national and grassroots organizations. As a specialized support organization for breast cancer survivors, we offer a unique survivorship program that uses recreational dragon boat paddling to manage treatment side effects for breast cancer survivors and promote a positive and healthy lifestyle. Organized by survivors ourselves, we paddle our way to recovery with each other and a tremendous group of supporters and paddling enthusiast along our side. The PFC team has created and introduced programs that will engage individuals, survivors, support groups and cause-oriented organizations with a myriad of sports activities in partnership with government agencies, hospitals, and current member organizations. Having widely recognized for our water sports activities, we aim to spearhead festivities to continue to build our 3 A’s: awareness, action and advocacy in our road to cancer recovery. Paddle for the Cure is a 501(c) 3 Charity. All donations and tickets for our fundraisers and events are 100% tax deductible.

Shondelle Solomon discovered her passion for fitness and body transformation upon graduating from Columbia University in 1996. In 2006 years after graduating with her Masters in Sports Medicine from University of Miami, Shondelle established Synergize, a multifaceted small-group personal training center specializing in body fat loss and weight management for adult men and women. ‘I wanted to create an affordable and results-driven alternative to traditional health clubs and one-on-one personal training. I really wanted to help people get permanent, and not ‘quick fix’, results and most of all, have fun doing it.” In June of 2009, Shondelle discovered CrossFit after months of neglecting her own personal fitness regimen. After realizing the effectiveness of the CrossFit methodology, Shondelle became certified as a CrossFit trainer in 2010, and in early 2011 Synergize! became a CrossFit 954. Since, Shondelle has become a Level-3 CrossFit coach and also has earned her credentials as an Eating Psychology Coach, helping individuals explore the deeper riggers of their eating and body issues.

Hello, my name is Deanne Edwards and I founded Shalom Honeycomb in 2016. I started gardening organically in 2010. Over the years I have focused on creating a thoughtful and nourishing garden made up primarily of edible plants. In 2015 I noticed that I had very few pollinators, and I began to wonder what it would be like to bring my own pollinators into the garden, meaning a beehive. I was well aware of colony collapse disorder and the rapidly decreasing bee population. The thought of being part of a movement which supports the health and welfare of the bees felt just right. So, I set out to get my first colony. I went to a class on beekeeping and met other like-minded folks who were out to rescue bees and away I went, joining a group of primarily middle-aged ladies who were dedicated to rescuing bees. As my bees began to produce an abundance of honey I started sharing the honey with family and friends and loved sharing a piece of comb in each jar. I now manage multiple hives and have rescued many pollinator colonies that were in danger of being destroyed. Shalom is a Hebrew word simply translated as “peace.” Shalom, derived from the Hebrew root shalam, which means to be safe, complete, to make happy. Shalom holds rich definition drawn from many traditions to mean prosperity, welfare, tranquility and wholeness, not only for the individual but also for the whole world. Shalom describes the feeling I get when working with the bees and in the eating and sharing their honey.

Tatiana Morales is a bilingual English/Spanish licensed esthetician trained in oncology esthetics. She is South Florida’s leading oncology trained esthetician holding double certifications from the prestigious educational programs Oncology Spa Solutions® and Oncology Skin Therapeutics™. She has been helping men, women and teenagers address their skin issues in a holistic way, devoting her time to study and evaluate esthetician protocols and skin care products aimed at preventing and alleviating the most frequent skin problems clients can encounter. Tatiana also volunteers her time at Cleveland Clinic in Weston, FL offering complementary skin care treatments for cancer patients going through chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. In addition, she also facilitates the Look Good Feel Better® program for the American Cancer Society on a monthly basis.