Podcasts about cancer survivors

A cancer diagnosis or an end-of-life transition can be one of the heaviest moments a person ever faces. Most people go through it without knowing what support is out there for them.This special episode of Navigating Cancer TOGETHER is a replay of the webinar Holding Space Through Life's Transitions: How Cancer and Death Doulas Can Support You. Host Talaya Dendy is a cancer doula, and she is joined by Reverend Shewon McGee, a death doula.They share why they do this work and who they serve. They explain how cancer doulas and death doulas work with the medical team without replacing it, and they bust common myths about both roles.✨ Episode Highlights:06:12 "I had to become the person that I needed." Talaya was diagnosed with stage 3 Hodgkin's lymphoma a year after her first doctor dismissed the lump on her neck. She explains how that experience gave birth to Talaya the advocate.09:04 A father's wishes left unhonored. Reverend Shewon lost her father to cancer in 2020, and his end-of-life plan was never carried out. That loss led her to become a death doula who advocates for what each person wants.20:01 "There is no manual on how to receive a cancer diagnosis." Talaya explains why survivors, especially leaders, often feel they can't show weakness once treatment ends.29:10 "The hearing is one of the last things to go." Reverend Shewon encourages families not to step out of the room. Share memories, laugh, and let your loved one hear it.Letter of Medical Necessity: https://www.metlife.com/stories/benefits/letter-of-medical-necessity/The 2nd session in this series will be released on December 2, 2026.Connect with our guest:Reverend Shewon McGee, Death DoulaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alternativeevolution/Connect with Talaya:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/talayadendyTranscript: https://bit.ly/podscript186Call to ActionIf this episode moved you, do two things: subscribe and follow Navigating Cancer TOGETHER so you never miss an episode, and forward this to someone who may need support during life's transitions. New episodes on Wednesday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your preferred podcast app. https://bit.ly/NCTpodcastSponsor: This episode is brought to you by On the Other Side, a cancer doula and survivor strategist helping leaders redefine life after cancer. If you finished treatment and you are wondering what comes next, connect with an experienced cancer doula at ontheotherside.life.Hosted, Produced, Written, and Edited by: Talaya Dendy⚠️ Disclaimer: The information shared on this podcast is for general informational purposes only and SHOULD NOT be used as a substitute for sound professional medical advice, evaluation, or care from your physician or other qualified health care provider.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Get your FREE copy of "Your AZ Guide to Staying Cancer Free" here: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/azcancerfree?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=ovarian_cancer_survivors Most ovarian cancer survivors leave treatment with a scan schedule and nothing else. Nobody explains what actually lowers recurrence risk in between. If you just finished treatment or you are years out, you know how quiet it gets once the appointments slow down. That quiet is where most women are left guessing. This isn't about hype. It's about simple changes you can start today. So let me show you how it's done. Join the Cancer Freedom Program Apply HERE: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=ovarian_cancer_survivors #cancerfighter #cancersurvivor #breastcancer #breastcancersurvivors #cancerrecovery #cancernutrition #mastectomy #tamoxifen #anastrozole #letrozole #exemestane PS: Whenever you're ready, here are the 2 best ways I can help you. Get your FREE copy of "Your AZ Guide to Staying Cancer Free" here: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/azcancerfree?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=ovarian_cancer_survivors Join the Cancer Freedom Program Apply HERE: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=ovarian_cancer_survivors Let's Connect: Website: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=ovarian_cancer_survivors  

Jenny Opalinski has spent more than a decade inside hospitals where people lose the ability to speak, breathe, swallow, and sometimes survive. A medical speech language pathologist by training, she worked in ICU, neuro rehab, and long term acute care settings, including a Level 1 trauma center, where she watched clinicians absorb 10 to 15 traumatic events in a single shift and then get told to move the crash cart faster next time.That lived reality pushed her to co found The Wellness Shift, an advocacy and education platform focused on healthcare worker burnout, suicide, and assault. In this conversation, Opalinski walks through the moment that changed everything for her: standing in a hospital hallway listening to a family wail after a failed code, followed by a debrief that addressed logistics and ignored grief entirely.She also explains how that work led to Humanity Rx, her podcast about the human cost of medicine, and Dragon's Breath: Calming Tricks for Big Feelings, a children's book that translates evidence based breathing and regulation strategies into language kids can actually use. The episode covers moral injury, time scarcity, false wellness, respiratory muscle training, and why empathy keeps getting treated as an optional expense instead of clinical infrastructure.RELATED LINKSJenny Opalinski on LinkedInHumanity Rx PodcastFEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review Out of Patients on your favorite podcast platform. For guest suggestions or sponsorship email podcasts@matthewzachary.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode #1460: Today, Chris Reeves joins the show to talk about the menagerie of animals that Xi Jingping brought from China and how dealers are giving back to their hospitals. Before Sunday's Norfolk Tides game, childhood cancer survivors ( https://ww...

This year Ash Eagles won the 1700km TransAtlantic Way which was his first ever ultracycling event. What makes this even more incredible is that it came almost 5 years after surviving a very rare form of bone cancer where doctors warned him he may never ride his bike again.The day after going through the operation, Ash promised himself that he'd cycle 100kms within a year and it's incredible to learn more about his story and see exactly what he has achieved on the bike since. This includes cycling 4,300miles across the USA on the TransAmerica Trail, then cycling LEJOG a route he'd dreamt of doing for 20 years, albeit Ash thought he'd be hiking it!LEJOG was the tester to see if an ultra like the TransAtlantic Way in Ireland could be possible. The results certainly speak for themselves, with Ash ending up first place finisher for the 1700km category at this years race. To keep up with Ash's future adventures check him out on instagram - @AshEaglesYou can also listen to his partner Becky's experience on teh TransAmerica Trail here. Check out Old Man Mountain's Ponderosa Panniers Support the showBuy me a coffee!I'm an affiliate for a few brands I genuinely use and recommend including:

How do you stay mentally strong when cancer changes your life more than once?Australian author, motivational speaker and cancer advocate Kate Gale joins Rita De Michele on Beyond Diagnosis to share her extraordinary experience of living through breast cancer, supporting others through cancer, and now facing Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.After more than 18 years of as a cancer survivor, caregiver and patient, Kate speaks openly about resilience, fear, family, mental strength and what life really looks like after a cancer diagnosis.Through her upcoming memoir Angry. Grateful. Still Alive., Kate is using her experience to help cancer patients, survivors and their families feel seen, supported and less alone.

Ann sits down with Bruceville-Eddy residents Natalie Moore and her 13-year-old cancer-surviving son, Terry, to talk about the incredible journey that the Moore family has endured and how their community has come together to help them along the way. Features musical performances by Zachary Hill.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Erin Mignano is Vice President and General Manager of Turner Construction, Cincinnati. After graduating from The George Washington University with a major in mechanical engineering in 2005, Erin joined Turner and has held a variety of assignments and positions in the delivery of the company's work; however, the majority of her career has been spent in the field on projects before moving into leadership roles as Project Manager and SPD/Interiors Manager. Under Erin's leadership, Turner has expanded its resume with award winning projects in Hospitality, Education, Healthcare, and Commercial Interiors. Because of Erin's unique management style, over the years she was consistently nominated for projects that require highly technical insight and a collaborative approach to project execution. She is skilled in helping all team members understand the importance of working together and finding strategic ways to make projects successful. Erin remains actively involved in all aspects of the Turner and Local Community. She is married and has a young son at home that keeps her on her toes.

Shop the exact supplements I recommend in my Fullscript dispensary here: https://us.fullscript.com/s/cancerfreedom/shop/plans/TXVsdGlQYXRpZW50UGxhbi0xMzk3NTc= Most cancer survivors are taking supplements that do absolutely nothing — and a few that could quietly work against everything they just went through. The supplements for cancer survivors that actually matter are almost never the ones on the front shelf. Walk into any health store and you will find a hundred bottles promising to boost your immune system. Nobody tells you which ones have real research behind them, which ones matter more once treatment ends, or which ones your oncology team would genuinely want to know you are taking. If you were recently diagnosed, advice is coming at you from every direction. If you finished treatment years ago, you may still be taking something you started back then and never questioned since. So let me show you how it's done. Join the Cancer Freedom Program Apply HERE: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=best_supplements_survivors #cancerfighter #cancersurvivor #breastcancer #breastcancersurvivors #cancerrecovery #cancernutrition #mastectomy #tamoxifen #anastrozole #letrozole #exemestane PS - Whenever you're ready, here are the 2 best ways I can help you… Get your FREE copy of "A-Z Guide to Staying Cancer Free" here: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/azcancerfree Join the Cancer Freedom Program Apply HERE: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=best_supplements_survivors Let's Connect: Website: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=best_supplements_survivors  

Fitz Koehler is a fitness expert, race announcer, author, and breast cancer survivor whose career spans decades of helping people move, train, and live healthier lives. After earning a master's degree in exercise and sport sciences, she built the Fitzness brand, launched the Morning Mile school fitness program, and became one of the country's most recognizable voices at endurance events before cancer abruptly shifted the conversation. She spent 15 months enduring chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation after discovering breast cancer shortly after receiving a clean mammogram. She kept traveling, announcing races, and working through treatment while watching the body she had spent a lifetime building become weaker by the week. Instead of asking why cancer happened, she focused on the only things she believed remained under her control: movement, nutrition, sleep, and mental health. The conversation explores where personal agency ends and biology takes over. Koehler argues that exercise is not about chasing perfection or preventing every diagnosis. It is about building physical reserve before illness arrives and preserving strength, mobility, and independence during treatment. She rejects wellness snake oil, fad supplements, and miracle cures in favor of practical habits rooted in exercise science and lived experience. The discussion also confronts a harder truth. Koehler did everything “right” and still developed cancer. That tension becomes the center of the episode. Fitness cannot eliminate randomness, but it can influence how people experience treatment, recover from surgery, and reclaim their lives afterward. The conversation moves beyond motivation and into survivorship, exercise oncology, cancer rehabilitation, evidence-based nutrition, and the limits of individual control inside a healthcare system that often tells patients what they should do without showing them how to do it. Along the way, the conversation wanders through kickboxing, Cinnabon, Jean-Claude Van Damme, chocolate-covered Cheetos, Jerry Seinfeld playing during chemotherapy stretches, and why the simplest advice is often the hardest to follow. Beneath the humor sits a larger argument: preparing the body for hardship is not about living forever. It is about living better when life inevitably gets difficult. RELATED LINKSFitz Koehler⁠Fitzness⁠The Morning Mile⁠You. Supercharged!⁠My Noisy Cancer Comeback⁠Your Healthy Cancer Comeback⁠UF Health Cancer Center⁠American College of Sports Medicine Exercise Is Medicine⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review Out of Patients on your favorite podcast platform. For guest suggestions or sponsorship email podcasts@matthewzachary.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Clara Starkey is a wife, mother, and active member of her community whose life was suddenly turned upside down when she was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer that nearly took her life.In this powerful conversation, Clara opens up about her fight for life, the challenges she has faced, the strength she has discovered along the way, and what lies ahead. Her story is one of courage, faith, perseverance, and an incredible determination to keep moving forward.Thank you, Clara, for having the courage to share such a personal and difficult journey with me and our listeners. You are truly a brave and resilient warrior, and your gratitude, strength, and love are an inspiration to all of us.Thank you for reminding us that even in our darkest moments, there can still be hope, strength, and a reason to keep fighting.

Keep Going: Alicia Staley on Four-Time Cancer Survivorship, Patient Advocacy, and Building Better Clinical ResearchPeter Murphy Lewis sits down with Alicia Staley, Chief Patient Officer at Medidata and a four-time cancer survivor, for a conversation about identity, resilience, and why patient experience should shape healthcare technology.Alicia shares how surviving cancer four times changed the way she sees time, work, and purpose, and why she now fully embraces patient advocacy as part of who she is. They also discuss the overlooked roles that make clinical research work, the stubbornly outdated parts of healthcare that still frustrate her, and the simple message she would put on a billboard for anyone facing hard seasons: keep going.KEY TOPICSAlicia's Four-Time Cancer Survivor Story• Processing what it means to survive cancer four times• Her first diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma in college• Learning to embrace survivorship as part of her identityHow Personal Experience Shapes Leadership• Connecting an engineering background with patient advocacy• Improving the experience of patients in clinical trials• Putting the right tools in front of patients at the right timeThe Unseen People Behind Clinical Research• Clinical research site workers• Engineers and product teams• Patient-facing staff whose work often goes unrecognizedWhy Healthcare Technology Feels Extraordinary• Connecting patient data across systems• Improving access to medical information• Making clinical trial opportunities easier to exploreWhat Still Feels Outdated• Alicia's frustration with fax machines in healthcare• How outdated communication methods can damage the patient experienceMentorship and Personal Growth• The impact of Alicia's career coach, Jill• Learning from multiple mentors and relationships• Turning personal experiences into a resource for othersA Book Worth Reading• The Magic of Thinking Big• Why Alicia recommends it to her team and othersThe Message She Would Put on a Billboard• “Keep going”• Resilience, persistence, and taking life one step at a timeEPISODE TIMESTAMPS00:00 – Introducing Alicia Staley, four-time cancer survivor and Medidata Chief Patient Officer01:12 – Wrestling with what it means to survive cancer four times02:08 – How a college diagnosis reshaped her outlook on time and purpose04:19 – Why she stopped resisting the cancer survivor identity06:05 – Bringing an engineer's mindset into patient advocacy07:28 – Using technology to improve the patient experience in clinical trials09:05 – The clinical research roles that rarely get public recognition10:42 – How Alicia encourages and celebrates her team's impact13:00 – Why healthcare data integration is extraordinary14:23 – How modern patient tools changed access to information16:11 – Why fax machines still feel shocking in healthcare17:57 – The value of a career coach and learning from many mentors20:03 – Why The Magic of Thinking Big is her most recommended book21:40 – The billboard message she would share with the world: “Keep going”ABOUT PEOPLE WORTH CARING ABOUTThank you for listening to People Worth Caring About. If you found value in this episode, please follow the podcast and leave a 5-star rating to help others discover these important stories.For more information and to connect with our guests, visit:https://peopleworthcaringabout.com#HealthcareLeadership #PatientAdvocacy #ClinicalResearch #CancerSurvivorship #PeopleWorthCaringAbout

Innate–Adaptive Balance and BWH 85 Beta-Glucan with Functional Medicine Physician Dr. Rob Rountree: He brings a nuanced view of immunity that rejects the simple “immune boosting” dimmer-switch model and emphasizes immune regulation and readiness. He reviews innate immunity as sentinel cells using pattern recognition receptors (e.g., macrophages) and explains how innate and adaptive systems interface, with innate signaling training adaptive responses; chronic inflammatory disease is framed as rooted in innate dysregulation. He reveals how immune responses can both protect and harm (candida, cytokine storm concerns during COVID) and why test-tube “stimulation” doesn't equal human effects. The focus is a purified brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) beta-1,3/1,6-glucan (BWH 85, 85% purity), its triple-helix structure, receptors (Dectin-1, CR3), dosing (100–500 mg), evidence for improving vaccine response in elders, and potential relevance for autoimmunity, athletes, and cancer surveillance alongside lifestyle and key nutrients like vitamins A, C, D and zinc.

For Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, host Talaya Dendy sits down with James Waddington, a prostate cancer survivor, longtime educator, and advocate for early detection. James was diagnosed in 2020 after a routine PSA test flagged something he was not aware of, caught during blood work for his diabetes. Having lost his own father to late-stage lung cancer just four months after diagnosis, James knows exactly what early detection bought him. In this honest and warm conversation, he talks about getting the news by phone while walking past his own house, choosing surgery after a second opinion at Sloan Kettering, why so many men, especially Black men, stay silent about their health, and how he redefined manhood after losing his prostate. His message is simple and urgent: early detection can save your life, and you do not have to go through this alone.✨ Episode Highlights:[8:20] No symptoms at all. How a routine PSA during a diabetes check caught James's prostate cancer.[12:03] Why his late father's four months made early detection everything.[18:07] The silence around men's health.[22:49] Faith and purpose: why he calls his cancer "a mission, not a curse."[33:09] The one thing James wants every newly diagnosed man to do first.Transcript: https://bit.ly/podscript185Key stat: About 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. If caught early, the five-year survival rate is nearly 100 percent. If caught late, it drops to about 38 percent. Black men are about 70 percent more likely to be diagnosed and roughly twice as likely to die from it. (Source: American Cancer Society)About the guest: James Waddington is a public school educator with 34 years of experience, a husband and father of two, a prostate cancer survivor, and an advocate with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.Call to ActionIf this episode moved you, do two things: subscribe and follow Navigating Cancer TOGETHER so you never miss an episode, and forward this one to a man you love. It could be the nudge that saves a life. New episodes on Wednesday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your preferred podcast app. https://bit.ly/NCTpodcastSponsor: This episode is brought to you by On the Other Side, a cancer doula and survivor strategist helping leaders redefine life after cancer. If you finished treatment and you are wondering what comes next, connect with an experienced cancer doula at ontheotherside.life.Hosted, Produced, Written, and Edited by: Talaya DendyVideo Editor: Shawn Smith⚠️ Disclaimer: The information shared on this podcast is for general informational purposes only and SHOULD NOT be used as a substitute for sound professional medical advice, evaluation, or care from your physician or other qualified health care provider.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Get your FREE copy of "Your Ultimate Anti-Cancer Food Guide" here: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/foodguide?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=nutrients_survivors_miss Four nutrients quietly run low after cancer treatment, and most women never hear about them. The fatigue and slow healing get blamed on everything else. Whether you finished treatment last month or five years ago, these gaps show up as low energy, weak immunity, and thinning bones. Almost nobody gets told to look. You don't need a cabinet full of supplements. You just need to know which four matter. So let me show you how it's done. Join the Cancer Freedom Program Apply HERE: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/apply?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=nutrients_survivors_miss #cancerfighter #cancersurvivor #breastcancer #breastcancersurvivors #cancerrecovery #cancernutrition #mastectomy #tamoxifen #anastrozole #letrozole #exemestane PS: Whenever you're ready, here are the 2 best ways I can help you. Get your FREE copy of "Your Ultimate Anti-Cancer Food Guide" here: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/foodguide?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=nutrients_survivors_miss Join the Cancer Freedom Program Apply HERE: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/apply?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=nutrients_survivors_miss Let's Connect: Website: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_content=nutrients_survivors_miss  

A two-time Grammy-nominated music professional, retired firefighter/EMT, cancer survivor, author, and first responder advocate shares what happens when the helper becomes the one who needs help. Spotify / Apple Podcasts Description: What happens when a man who spent more than two decades running toward emergencies suddenly finds himself facing one of his own? On this episode of the ToosDay Crüe, we sit down with David Dachinger—retired Fire Lieutenant and EMT, Stage IV cancer survivor, two-time Grammy Award nominee, bestselling author, peer coach, and host of Responder Resilience. David's story spans worlds that rarely collide. Before entering the fire service, he built a career in the music industry, working behind the scenes with artists including Celine Dion, Roberta Flack, Usher, and The Isley Brothers. Later, he found his way into firefighting, eventually serving more than 21 years in emergency services and rising into leadership. Then life changed again. A lump discovered during a routine haircut led to a diagnosis of Stage IV cancer. David was forced to step away from the job, undergo chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, and confront the reality that the person who had always helped others was now the one fighting to survive. In this deeply personal conversation, David opens up about the culture of first responders, the emotional weight carried home after difficult calls, the long-standing belief that “silence equals strength,” and why asking for help can actually make someone a stronger firefighter, leader, spouse, parent, and human being. He also shares how cancer reshaped his definition of a bad day, why retirement can create a loss of identity and purpose for first responders, and how trauma—when addressed instead of buried—can become the beginning of growth rather than the end of the story. This episode explores: • First responder mental health and accumulated trauma • Firefighter burnout, sleep disruption, withdrawal, and emotional triggers • The impact emergency-service careers can have on marriages and families • Peer support and why seeking help is not weakness • Life after the badge and the struggle to replace purpose, identity, and brotherhood • David's Stage IV cancer diagnosis and recovery journey • Post-traumatic growth and turning adversity into service • Lessons from David's work with 22Zero • The mission behind Responder Resilience • Leadership, compassion, mentorship, and resilience • Why the hardest step may simply be making the first call for help David's message to first responders is clear: you were a human being before you ever put on the badge—and you still deserve the same care, compassion, and support you give everyone else. If you are a firefighter, EMT, paramedic, law enforcement officer, dispatcher, veteran, spouse, family member, cancer survivor, or anyone carrying more than the people around you realize, this conversation is worth hearing. Connect with David Dachinger & Responder Resilience: Website: https://www.respondertv.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ResponderResilience LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/responder-resilience-podcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/responder.tv/ Connect with The Misfit Nation: https://www.themisfitnation.com If this episode speaks to you, follow the show, share it with someone who needs the message, and help us keep these conversations moving forward. Be humble. Stay hungry. Keep hustling. We are MisfitNation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ella Alberta and her father Mike, share their journey from, Ella being diagnosed with A.L.L. (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) at the age of 12, to her recovery, meeting 2 time Super Bowl Champion, Eli Manning, the official captain of Team TKC and giving back by raising money for his organization, Tackle Kids Cancer.Go to www.tacklekidscancer.org for more information.Please subscribe and help the Towncast continue to bring you stories like this.

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— Today's conversation explores a powerful question: What if the most difficult moment of your life became the beginning of your most meaningful work? At the heart of this episode is From Patient to Advocate: Turning Survivorship into Impact, a book about what can happen after the shock of a life-changing diagnosis—when fear, uncertainty, and survival begin to transform into purpose, service, and hope. This is not simply a cancer story. It is a roadmap for anyone who has ever wondered what to do with the wisdom gained through adversity. We'll explore how lived experience can become a form of expertise, why our stories matter, and how people can move from feeling powerless to becoming active participants in their own healing and in the systems that shape their lives. We'll also talk about the emotional realities of serious illness, the role of mindfulness, therapy, community, and resilience, and the surprising ways advocacy itself can become part of the healing process. Ultimately, this is a conversation about turning pain into purpose, finding meaning in what we never would have chosen, and discovering that even our hardest chapters can become a source of contribution, connection, and hope. Valeria sits with Tim McDonald  — He is the author of  "From Patient to Advocate: Turning Survivorship into Impact: A Healthcare Advocate's Guide." Tim is also a healthcare advocate, speaker, and community builder who turned his stage IV colorectal cancer diagnosis into a mission for change. He translates patient experience into meaningful action for researchers, policymakers, and healthcare organizations through leadership roles with Fight Colorectal Cancer, Man Up To Cancer, HOPA, and the PAN Foundation. Now host of Advocacy at Work, Tim uses storytelling and advocacy to raise awareness and drive impact. He is the author of the brand-new book, From Patient to Advocate. To learn more about Tim McDonald and his work, please visit: https://www.timmcdonaldadvocate.com/

Jeremy Heffner, MD, FACS is a board-certified trauma surgeon, former Chair of Surgery at Lima Memorial Health System, and cofounder of Surgery Unified, one of the largest physician-led communities in surgery. His perspective carries weight because he has spent decades inside operating rooms, hospital leadership, physician culture, and the growing collision between medicine and corporate healthcare. He grew up in a blue-collar Ohio family of firefighters, railroad workers, police officers, and tradespeople. Medicine represented something rare: a career that combined service, stability, and purpose. He pursued engineering, earned his medical degree, completed trauma surgery fellowship training at the University of Michigan, and entered a profession that taught physicians to sacrifice themselves for patients.Then the rules changed.This conversation traces the gap between the medicine physicians were trained to practice and the healthcare industry that emerged around them. Administrative burden expanded. Insurance companies gained influence over treatment decisions. Prior authorization became routine. Hospital systems consolidated. Physicians retained responsibility for outcomes while losing authority over the conditions required to achieve them.Heffner describes watching colleagues struggle with burnout, moral injury, PTSD, and growing frustration with a system that increasingly inserts business incentives between clinicians and patients. He explains why younger physicians are entering medicine with a level of visibility that previous generations never had. They see the paperwork, the denials, the loss of autonomy, and the personal cost before they ever finish training.The discussion moves beyond physician dissatisfaction and into the broader consequences for patients. When insurers delay care, hospitals absorb costs, clinicians absorb stress, and patients absorb uncertainty. The financial incentives remain intact while trust erodes across every level of the healthcare system.At its core, this episode examines what happens when a profession built around service finds itself operating inside an industry built around extraction. The result affects physicians, nurses, caregivers, and every patient forced to navigate the consequences.RELATED LINKSJeremy Heffner⁠Surgery Unified⁠SurgeOn⁠University of Michigan Department of Surgery⁠KevinMD⁠Suck It Up Buttercup⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review Out of Patients on your favorite podcast platform. For guest suggestions or sponsorship email podcasts@matthewzachary.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Loretta Brooks was diagnosed with a Head and Neck Cancer known as Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma when she was 13 years old in 1991, causing her to miss almost all of her 8th grade school year. Loretta recovered well from that form of cancer and now has dedicated her life to advocacy work for Pediatric Cancer, with a particular emphasis on the subject of survivorship, which is always a difficult issue for former Pediatric cancer patients as they move into young adulthood and then adulthood. 

In 1971, the National Cancer Act transformed cancer into a national research priority. More than 50 years later, the next frontier is no longer defined solely by scientific discovery, but by how quickly knowledge, lived experience, and patient voices can reshape healthcare itself.The concluding chapter of The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship explores how the cancer advocacy movement continues to evolve in an era of digital communities, social media, precision medicine, and grassroots activism. Building on the work of pioneers such as Mary Lasker, Rose Kushner, and the generations of survivors who followed, today's advocates are expanding the movement beyond awareness to demand health equity, trusted information, patient-centered research, and meaningful representation in healthcare decision-making.The episode examines how technology has transformed advocacy from local support groups into global communities capable of organizing in real time. Researchers, policymakers, nonprofit leaders, and survivors reflect on the growing influence of digital storytelling, online education, and peer-to-peer networks that connect patients across diagnoses, generations, and geographic boundaries. At the same time, they acknowledge new responsibilities: ensuring accurate medical information, combating misinformation, protecting trust, and keeping patients at the center of innovation.The story also looks ahead to the next generation of advocates. Young leaders are applying lessons learned from decades of cancer activism while drawing inspiration from broader movements for social justice, public health, and community organizing. Their work reflects a simple but enduring truth: meaningful change rarely begins inside institutions. It begins when ordinary people refuse to accept that the system cannot improve.Cancer survivorship has never been a finished story. Every generation inherits the progress achieved by those who came before while confronting challenges uniquely its own. The future of survivorship will be shaped not only by scientific breakthroughs, but by those willing to listen, organize, educate, and ensure that every patient's voice helps define what comes next.RELATED LINKSNational Cancer Institute⁠Cancer Moonshot⁠Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Division of Cancer Prevention and Control⁠HopeLab⁠Tigerlily Foundation⁠Stupid Cancer⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship on your favorite podcast platform. For more information, visit CancerMavericks.com. Please send any questions to podcasts@matthewzachary.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Get your FREE copy of "The A-Z Guide to Staying Cancer Free" here: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/azcancerfree The cancer system does an incredible job keeping you alive — and then leaves you completely on your own. Most survivors are sent home after treatment with no plan, no guidance, and no idea why they still don't feel well. That gap is where so many women get stuck. Whether you finished treatment last month or years ago, no one hands you a real strategy for staying well and protecting yourself from recurrence — so the worry never fully goes away. The good news is that the steps that actually move the needle are things you can start on your own, right alongside whatever your medical team has you doing. So let me show you how it's done. Join the Cancer Freedom Program Apply HERE:https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_content=cancer_freedom_podcast #cancerfighter #cancersurvivor #breastcancer #breastcancersurvivors #cancerrecovery #cancernutrition #mastectomy #tamoxifen #anastrozole #letrozole #exemestane PS - Whenever you're ready, here are the 2 best ways I can help you… Get your FREE copy of "The A-Z Guide to Staying Cancer Free" here: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/azcancerfree Join the Cancer Freedom Program Apply HERE: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_content=cancer_freedom_podcast Let's Connect: Website: https://www.cancerfreedomprogram.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_content=cancer_freedom_podcast  

In this episode, Stu Epperson sits down with Donna Jo Abernathy, a cancer survivor, author, and gifted pianist who has been using her musical talents to serve and encourage others for more than 70 years. Donna Jo shares how her faith, family, music, and journey through leukemia have taught her to remain grateful through every season. She also talks about her book, From Him to You Through Me, a memoir about the many ways God opened doors for her to share her gift of music.

In 1987, Mary P. Lovato, a member of Kewa Pueblo in New Mexico, was diagnosed with acute leukemia. To receive a bone marrow transplant, she had to travel more than 800 miles from home because specialized cancer care was unavailable through the Indian Health Service. When she returned, she discovered another obstacle: many in her community feared cancer so deeply that they avoided speaking about it altogether.This episode examines how cancer survivorship exposed profound inequities in the American healthcare system. Long before health equity became a national priority, advocates from underserved communities were confronting disparities rooted in geography, poverty, racism, language, underfunded healthcare systems, and historical mistrust of medical institutions. Their work demonstrated that scientific advances alone cannot improve survival if patients cannot reach, afford, or trust the care available to them.The story follows pioneers including Mary P. Lovato, who built the first national Native-led cancer support and education program for Indigenous communities, and Maimah Karmo, founder of the Tigerlily Foundation, whose breast cancer diagnosis inspired a movement to improve early detection, clinical trial participation, and representation for Black women. Their advocacy challenged longstanding barriers to culturally competent care while highlighting persistent inequities in access to screening, fertility preservation, navigation, and innovative treatments.The episode also explores why diversity in clinical research matters. For decades, many cancer clinical trials disproportionately enrolled White patients, limiting both access to promising therapies and the scientific understanding of how treatments perform across different populations. Researchers, patient advocates, and community leaders responded by redesigning outreach, improving patient navigation, reducing logistical barriers, and insisting that affected communities help shape the research itself.Cancer survivorship cannot be measured solely by scientific breakthroughs. It also depends on whether every patient has a meaningful opportunity to benefit from them. The pursuit of health equity remains one of the defining challenges and enduring responsibilities of modern oncology.RELATED LINKSNational Cancer Institute | Cancer Health Disparities⁠Indian Health Service⁠Tigerlily Foundation⁠National Cancer Institute | Cancer Clinical Trials⁠American Indian Cancer Foundation⁠Abramson Cancer Center | University of Pennsylvania⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship on your favorite podcast platform. For more information, visit CancerMavericks.com. Please send any questions to podcasts@matthewzachary.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Imagine being in the BEST SHAPE OF YOUR LIFE, completing a 140.6 mile Ironman, and then finding out you have CANCER not once, but TWICE.DR. JEFFREY REYNOLDS is the President and CEO of Family and Children's Association, one of Long Island's largest health and human services organizations. He has spent more than 35 years working in public health, addiction services, mental health, HIV and AIDS advocacy, and community leadership. He holds a doctorate from Stony Brook University and has dedicated much of his life to helping people through some of their darkest moments.He is also an endurance athlete who has completed more than 30 triathlons, 15 marathons, and the legendary full Ironman distance.But just months after reaching the peak of his physical fitness, Jeffrey received a diagnosis that changed everything.PROSTATE CANCER.Then, after successfully getting through treatment and returning to running, a routine colonoscopy revealed another devastating diagnosis.STAGE 3B COLORECTAL CANCER.Jeffrey would go through radiation, chemotherapy, and months of treatment while confronting his own mortality and discovering that decades of endurance training had unknowingly prepared him for the biggest challenge of his life.That experience became the foundation for his book, EVERY MILE MATTERS: HOW TRIATHLON TRAINED ME FOR TRIUMPH OVER CANCER, a powerful story about resilience, vulnerability, purpose, early detection, and what happens when life forces you to reevaluate everything.And that's where we're going to spend a lot of time this week. JEFFREY is going to walk you through what it's like to face cancer twice, including…Being diagnosed with cancer while feeling completely HEALTHYWhy routine screenings may have SAVED HIS LIFE TWICEThe moment doctors discovered Stage 3B colorectal cancerWhy so many MEN refuse to talk about their healthThe difference between being TOUGH and being VULNERABLEHow completing an Ironman prepared him mentally for chemotherapyWhat happens at MILE 18 when your mind tells you to quitWhether he ever asked himself “WHY ME?”How he continued exercising and maintaining his routine during treatmentWhy he stopped saying “I HAVE TO” and started saying “I GET TO”Watching other cancer patients around him lose their livesThe spiritual questions cancer forced him to confront about GOD, DEATH, and LEGACYWhy surviving something difficult becomes proof that you can survive what comes nextFinding more BALANCE, GRATITUDE, and PURPOSE after cancerWhy he believes SILENCE can be deadly when it comes to men's healthMy interview with Jeffrey is one of the most powerful and thought provoking conversations I've had.What struck me most is that Jeffrey doesn't pretend cancer was a gift. He doesn't sugarcoat what treatment was like, and he doesn't pretend that strength means never being afraid.Instead, he shows how DISCIPLINE, VULNERABILITY, GRATITUDE, PURPOSE, and the willingness to keep moving forward can completely change how we experience the hardest moments of our lives.By the end of this conversation, you may find yourself asking the same questions I did.What really matters?What kind of light are you bringing into other people's lives?And are you waiting for something terrible to happen before you finally start appreciating everything you already GET TO DO?→ → → CONNECT WITH DR. JEFFREY REYNOLDS ← ← ←▶︎ BOOK | Every Mile Matters:https://www.everymilematters.com/every-mile-matters/▶︎ WEBSITE |https://www.jeffreyreynolds.com/→ → → CONNECT WITH PEDRO FRIAS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: ← ← ←▶︎ YOUTUBE | https://www.youtube.com/realpedrofrias▶︎ INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/pedromfrias▶︎ FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/pedro.frias.7927408▶︎ LINKEDIN | https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrofrias/▶︎ TWITTER | https://www.twitter.com/pedromfrias▶︎ WEBSITE | https://www.pedrofrias.co

Thomas is a listener that was tested for prostate cancer at our screening event last year and tested positive. He tells Rich is story and how he is doing today.

Christine started modeling at 11. 30 years later, she started a long series of aggressive treatments for breast cancer. She later noticed that so many stories about breast cancer, whether fiction or otherwise, tend to end in tragedy. Things have come a long way, and Christine herself is proof. It's time to start telling the stories of triumph.You can find Christine's book, Walk Beside Me, as well as her other ventures at https://christinehandy.com/.This guest was booked using PodMatch! Interested in being a guest on the show? Reach out to us at https://www.podmatch.com/member/tombarnardpodcast.

In 2000, Katie Couric underwent a live colonoscopy on national television following the death of her husband, Jay Monahan, from colorectal cancer at age 42. The broadcast demystified a procedure many Americans feared, led to an estimated 20% increase in colonoscopy screenings, and became one of the clearest examples of how public storytelling can change healthcare behavior.This episode examines how celebrities, journalists, filmmakers, and entertainers helped reshape the public conversation about cancer during a period when survivorship was becoming increasingly visible. As breakthroughs in targeted therapies, immunotherapy, and early detection allowed more people to live beyond cancer, public figures used their platforms to encourage screening, reduce stigma, and accelerate research. Their influence extended far beyond awareness campaigns, helping transform cancer from a private diagnosis into a national public health conversation.Central to this story is Laura Ziskin, the Hollywood producer behind Pretty Woman and the Spider-Man films, whose metastatic breast cancer diagnosis inspired the creation of Stand Up To Cancer. Working alongside Couric and leaders from entertainment, journalism, and biomedical research, Ziskin championed a new funding model that required multidisciplinary scientific collaboration, helping accelerate discoveries that contributed to multiple FDA-approved cancer therapies. The episode also highlights the advocacy of actor Patrick Dempsey, whose family's experience with ovarian cancer led to the creation of the Dempsey Center, expanding support for patients and caregivers beyond medical treatment.The story also asks what celebrity advocacy often leaves unsaid. Financial toxicity, caregiver burden, chronic pain, mental health, and the long-term effects of treatment rarely receive the same attention as dramatic diagnoses or breakthrough cures. As cancer survivorship continues to evolve, the greatest challenge may not be convincing people to care about cancer, but helping them understand what it truly means to live with and beyond it.RELATED LINKSStand Up To Cancer⁠Katie Couric Media⁠Dempsey Center⁠American Association for Cancer Research⁠National Cancer Institute⁠Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Adult Survivorship Program⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship on your favorite podcast platform. For more information, visit CancerMavericks.com. Please send any questions to podcasts@matthewzachary.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In 2006, a landmark report titled Closing the Gap: Research and Care Imperatives for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer confirmed what young survivors had been saying for years. While survival rates for children and older adults had steadily improved, adolescents and young adults had experienced decades of stalled progress. They had become cancer's lost generation.This episode explores how young adult survivors transformed their shared isolation into one of the most influential grassroots movements in cancer advocacy. Diagnosed during the years typically devoted to education, careers, relationships, and starting families, patients between the ages of 15 and 39 confronted challenges that extended far beyond treatment. Fertility preservation, sexual health, employment, financial toxicity, insurance, and long-term quality of life were rarely discussed in oncology clinics, leaving many to navigate survivorship alone.The episode follows advocates including Tamika Felder, Lindsay Avner, Heidi Adams, Doug Ulman, and Dr. Archie Bleyer, whose research and advocacy fundamentally changed how medicine understands adolescent and young adult cancer. Through organizations including Planet Cancer, Fertile Hope, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, and later Stupid Cancer, survivors built online communities, educational resources, conferences, and national partnerships that challenged long-standing assumptions about cancer care. Their work helped establish fertility preservation as a standard discussion before treatment, expanded research dedicated to adolescent and young adult oncology, and elevated quality of life as a critical clinical outcome alongside survival.The movement also demonstrated the power of lived experience to reshape medicine. Survivors became researchers, educators, nonprofit founders, and policy advocates, insisting that cancer care account not only for years of life saved, but for the lives patients hoped to build afterward.What began as a search for peers evolved into a national movement that permanently transformed adolescent and young adult oncology. Today, dedicated research programs, clinical fellowships, survivorship resources, and patient advocacy organizations continue to build on the foundation these young cancer mavericks created.RELATED LINKSNational Cancer Institute | Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Program⁠Closing the Gap: Research and Care Imperatives for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer⁠American Society of Clinical Oncology | Fertility Preservation Guidelines⁠Stupid Cancer⁠Livestrong Foundation⁠Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship on your favorite podcast platform. For more information, visit CancerMavericks.com. Please send any questions to podcasts@matthewzachary.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us Fan MailSummary:The voice behind Cincinnati's Reds—Joe Zerhusen—reveals the stories, moments, and lessons from nearly three decades at GABP that make him one of baseball's most recognizable voices. Imagine walking into Crosley Field as a kid and turning into the iconic voice announcing every batter at Great American Ballpark for the past 24 years. Joe Zerhusen, the beloved Reds public address announcer, shares how his journey from a local Kentucky kid to the voice of a historic franchise was fueled by passion, perseverance, and a love for the game—and music.In this episode, Joe takes us through his early memories as a Reds fan growing up in Park Hills, Kentucky, and how those childhood moments developed into a lifelong career. You'll discover how a chance conversation at a gas station kickstarted his radio journey in the late 70s, and how his unique voice became a Cincinnati staple, from local stations to the Reds' ballpark. Joe discusses the art of introducing players, the fun and challenges of handling memorable moments in live broadcasts, and how he navigated his battle with cancer in 2017—all while keeping the spirit of baseball alive. We break down: The legendary figures and managers who shaped Reds history, from Sparky Anderson to Dusty Baker, and how they influenced Joe's perspective. The quirky, heartwarming, and sometimes hilarious behind-the-scenes moments that make game days unforgettable—like Mr. Red's mishaps and the fire on the power stacks. The subtle craft of engaging fans, making every introduction meaningful, and the importance of consistency and passion in live announcing. The inspiring story of overcoming health challenges and returning to the mic, reminding us why Team Voice is vital to the game. This episode is essential listening for baseball fans and aspiring broadcasters alike—whether you're curious about what makes the perfect game intro, or how a voice can become as iconic as the players themselves. Joe's reflections remind us that behind every pitch and hit is a voice that amplifies the magic of baseball—it's about more than just words; it's about creating moments that fans carry in their hearts forever.Join us for an inspiring, humorous, and heartfelt conversation with one of baseball's most beloved voiceovers. Perfect for Reds fans, sports enthusiasts, or anyone who believes live moments are about connecting stories, voices, and memories that last a lifetime. Key TopicsJoe Zerhusen's early baseball memories and local roots in Park Hills, KentuckyHow he got into radio and transitioned into the Reds' PA announcer roleInfluences from legendary announcers like Paul Summercamp and Harry KalasMemorable moments at GABP, including debuting Ken Griffey Jr. and the 2017 cancer battleHis favorite Reds players, managers, and uniform stylesUnique stories and humorous mishaps during broadcastsFuture plans and reflections on his voice being part of Reds historyTimestamps00:00 - Introduction to Joe Zerhusen, voice of the Reds at GABP 02:08 - Joe's earliest memories at Crosley Field and childhood baseball experiences 05:33 - Favorite Reds players over the years, including Joey Jay, Pete Rose, and Joey Votto 09:34 - Influence of legendary managers and mentors like Sparky Anderson and Dusty Baker 12:23 - How Joe entered the radio industry and transitioned into a public address role 16:12 - Career highlights, including first game at GABP and working at WLQA 22:23 - Impact of Paul Summercamp and influence of announcers like John Facenda and Harry Kalas 26:52 - Joe's cancer diagnosis in 2017, his treatment journey, and return to broadcasting 30:57 - Interactions with Reds players like Joey Votto and special moments on air 32:40 - Memorable introductions, including Ken Griffey Jr. and favorite broadcast highlights 36:10 - Challenges with pronunciations, technical bloopers, and funny moments at the ballpark 41:30 - Historic trade decisions and rivalries that shape baseball passions 45:27 - Reds players or teams Joe despises, especially Wrigley Field visitors and the Cubs 49:06 - Players Joe would invite to a fantasy dinner including Sean Casey and Joe Knoxau 53:11 - Favorite baseball movies: For Love of the Game and others that inspire him 55:47 - Top play-by-play commentators, with praise for Tommy Thrall and Jeff Brantley 56:23 - Joe's walk-up song: Midnight Rider by the Allman Brothers 56:44 - Favorite Reds uniform from 1961, with a focus on sleeveless styles 62:50 - Balancing game observation with announcing duties and in-game focus 66:32 - Who would win a baserunning race: Deion Sanders, Billy Hamilton, or Ellie Daylock? 69:35 - Joe's future at GABP; thoughts on retirement and legacy plans 70:16 - Final words, gratitude, and induction into the "We Love Our Team Hall of Fame"Resources & LinksPaul Summercamp's Reds Announcing Style (Search for related broadcasts)[Ken Griffey Jr. Biography](https://www.mlb.com/player/ken-griffey-jr- строг)Harry Kalas - NFL Films VoiceJohn Facenda NFL FilmsFor Love of the Game (Movie)Connect with Joe ZerhusenTwitterLinkedInGABP Official WebsiteCelebrating decades of Reds baseball and storytelling — thank you, Joe, for sharing your voice and stories! 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Merck Moderna's success with a personalised cancer vaccine designed to keep melanoma at bay opens a new avenue of treatment that doctors hope will work against many types of tumours. Unlike chemotherapy, which kills both healthy and cancerous cells, or immunotherapy, which revs up ‌the immune system, personalised cancer vaccines train the immune system to specifically target mutations found only on a person's tumour. To react to this development, Alan Morrissey spoke with Skin Cancer Survivor from Quin, Kate Moloney. Photo (c) Андрей Клеменков from Getty Images via Canva.com

Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn joins Rev. Dr. Robin Swan for a powerful conversation about cancer, cannabis, resilience and finding purpose after a life-changing diagnosis. Ethan's life had already taken him from professional soccer to winning CBS's Survivor: Africa when, at age 35, he was diagnosed with a rare form of Hodgkin lymphoma. What followed was an intense medical journey involving chemotherapy, radiation, clinical trials and two stem cell transplants. In this episode, Ethan shares his personal experience with medical cannabis and how it became part of the way he managed some of the physical and emotional challenges surrounding cancer treatment and recovery, including nausea, pain, sleep difficulties and anxiety. Ethan and Robin also discuss the changing conversation around cannabis in professional sports, the importance of responsible education and advocacy, and why patients need honest information when making decisions about their health. The conversation goes far beyond cancer. Ethan explains how surviving a life-threatening illness reshaped his sense of purpose and strengthened his commitment to helping others. He discusses Grassroot Soccer, the nonprofit organization he co-founded that uses the power of soccer to improve the health and lives of young people around the world, as well as Kicking Back, his High Times series exploring the intersection of soccer, cannabis and community. In this episode: Ethan's journey from professional soccer to winning Survivor: Africa Being diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma at age 35 Chemotherapy, radiation, clinical trials and two stem cell transplants Ethan's personal experience using cannabis during cancer treatment and recovery Cannabis for nausea, pain, sleep and anxiety The emotional and psychological challenges of cancer survivorship How attitudes toward cannabis are changing in professional sports Cannabis education, responsible use and patient advocacy Turning personal crisis into purpose The story and mission behind Grassroot Soccer Ethan's Kicking Back series with High Times Soccer, cannabis and community Using lived experience to help others facing serious illness Learn more about Ethan Zohn Ethan Zohn:https://ethanzohn.com Grassroot Soccer:https://grassrootsoccer.org Cannabis Health Radio Visit:https://cannabishealthradio.com If this conversation could help someone you know, please share the episode. Subscribe to Cannabis Health Radio for more conversations with patients, advocates, researchers and others exploring cannabis, health and healing. Connect with Cannabis Health RadioVisit us at CannabisHealthRadio.comExplore products and resources from Swan ApothecaryFollow Cannabis Health Radio on Facebook and InstagramImportant DisclaimerThe views and opinions expressed by guests on Cannabis Health Radio (CHR) are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of CHR, its hosts, producers, affiliates, or sponsors. CHR is not responsible for statements or opinions expressed by its guests.Nothing presented in this episode constitutes medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or a recommendation regarding what you should do. This content is provided for informational and entertainment purposes only. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional regarding your health, medical conditions, medications, or treatment decisions. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Recorded live at the Healing Pen & A Mic journaling workshop in St. Paul, this episode brings you straight into the room.Nancy stepped out of a afternoon of writing alongside fellow cancer patients and survivors to sit down with host Talaya Dendy. Diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia in 2018, Nancy speaks with quiet honesty about the specific kind of isolation that can follow you even in a crowded room. She shares what happened when treatment ended and the appointments stopped, how her perspective on healing transformed, and what keeps her grounded when disconnection creeps back in.If you have ever felt isolated after a diagnosis or wondered what comes next when treatment stops, this conversation offers a space to process those feelings alongside people who understand.✨ Episode Highlights:01:32 Nancy shares her 2018 leukemia diagnosis and its sudden onset01:45 What it feels like to write in a room surrounded by people who understand: "a freeing sensation and just a validation"02:37 The reality of feeling alone even when supported by medical staff and family03:33 Redefining healing as an ongoing practice rather than a quick fix04:03 Practical advice for navigating isolation after a diagnosis04:33 The abrupt transition after chemo ends and the quiet that followsAbout the Guest: Nancy Tepley-Mimbach was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia in 2018. She joined the Healing Pen & A Mic workshop seeking the community connection that felt missing after her active treatment ended.Take the Next StepAttend a Workshop (Twin Cities): Join us for the next Healing Pen & A Mic journaling workshop on Saturday, October 4th. Save your spot: https://bit.ly/healingpenwaitlist

In 2006, the Institute of Medicine published From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition, concluding that millions of Americans were surviving cancer only to find themselves navigating a healthcare system unprepared for life after treatment. The report challenged oncology to recognize that curing cancer was not the end of care, but the beginning of survivorship.This episode explores how the growing cancer survivorship movement exposed the long-term consequences of cancer treatment that medicine had largely overlooked. As survival rates improved following the National Cancer Act of 1971, millions of survivors faced chronic fatigue, neuropathy, infertility, cognitive impairment, financial hardship, employment discrimination, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress. These were not rare complications. They became defining features of survivorship for many patients.Drawing on the work of oncologist Dr. Patricia Ganz, survivor advocate Ellen Stovall, and researchers, clinicians, and survivors across the country, the episode examines how survivorship research expanded beyond recurrence and mortality to include quality of life, psychosocial care, rehabilitation, and long-term follow-up. Their efforts helped establish survivorship care plans, multidisciplinary survivorship clinics, and a broader understanding that cancer affects every aspect of a person's life long after treatment ends.The episode also confronts persistent inequities in survivorship care. Insurance coverage often ends when treatment stops, supportive services remain inconsistent, financial toxicity continues to drive medical hardship, and racial, geographic, and socioeconomic disparities still influence who receives comprehensive follow-up care. For many survivors, finishing treatment simply marks the beginning of another struggle.Modern oncology increasingly recognizes that surviving cancer is measured by more than years of life. It is also measured by quality of life, dignity, access to care, and the ability to rebuild a future after treatment. That evolution remains one of the most significant legacies of the cancer survivorship movement.RELATED LINKSNational Academy of Medicine | ⁠From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition⁠National Cancer Institute Office of Cancer Survivorship⁠American Society of Clinical Oncology | Survivorship Compendium⁠CancerCare⁠HopeWell Cancer Support⁠National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship on your favorite podcast platform. For more information, visit CancerMavericks.com. Please send any questions to podcasts@matthewzachary.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Max Mallory Foundation podcast, hosted by Joyce Lofstrom, features testicular cancer survivor Jay Erickson, who was diagnosed in 2013 after persistent back pain and an abdominal lump. His widely metastasized disease was initially suspected to be sarcoma with a grim prognosis before blood markers confirmed testicular cancer, specifically rare, fast-growing choriocarcinoma with very high HCG and lung involvement. He describes a year of treatment including three months of intense chemotherapy, four major surgeries, and complications. He explains how Memorial Sloan Kettering facilitated immediate sperm banking, enabling him and his wife to have a daughter via IVF during treatment. Now, some 13 years later, Jay participates in three clinical trials. He explains how cancer reshaped his priorities, as well as his efforts to give back through Sloan Kettering's Cycle for Survival fundraising, where he and his team have raised about $750,000. After writing a poetry book, Bloom, during his treatment, Jay now focuses on improving the patient experience and oncology care through his work in digital healthcare communications and marketing. Send us Fan MailSupport the showFind us on Twitter,  Instagram,  Facebook  &  Linkedin. If you can please support our nonprofit through Patreon. 

In 1967, breast surgeon Dr. Harold P. Freeman arrived at Harlem Hospital expecting to treat cancer. Instead, he confronted a healthcare system where poverty, racism, lack of insurance, and institutional barriers often determined who lived long enough to receive treatment. Patients frequently arrived with advanced disease, not because medicine lacked answers, but because access to care had failed them.This episode explores how cancer survivorship expanded beyond medical breakthroughs to include healthcare access, health equity, and organized advocacy. Building on the early work of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS), it examines the recognition that surviving cancer depended not only on research, but also on whether patients could navigate a fragmented healthcare system.Freeman responded by creating one of the nation's first patient navigation programs at Harlem Hospital in 1990. Community-based navigators helped patients overcome practical barriers including insurance, transportation, appointments, communication, and fear. The model dramatically improved timely diagnosis and treatment, increased breast cancer survival in Harlem, and ultimately inspired the Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005, establishing navigation as a cornerstone of modern oncology care.The episode also follows cancer survivor Ellen Stovall, whose leadership transformed survivorship into a national policy movement. Through the NCCS, she united advocates across cancer types, fought for insurance protections, expanded access to clinical trials, helped shape the creation of the Office of Cancer Survivorship at the National Cancer Institute, and organized the landmark 1998 National March for Cancer Survivorship in Washington, D.C. Her work reframed survivorship as a public policy issue rather than a personal experience.Together, Freeman and Stovall demonstrated that scientific progress alone could not eliminate disparities in cancer outcomes. Their work established two enduring principles that continue to shape oncology today: patients need someone to help them navigate care, and survivors must have a voice in the policies that govern it. Modern cancer survivorship depends on both.RELATED LINKSNational Coalition for Cancer Survivorship⁠Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute⁠National Cancer Institute Office of Cancer Survivorship⁠Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005⁠American Cancer Society⁠Tuskegee Study Timeline | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship on your favorite podcast platform. For more information, visit CancerMavericks.com. Please send any questions to podcasts@matthewzachary.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Welcome to a very, very, very special bonus episode of Out of Patients, and one unlike anything published on this feed before. For nearly 20 years, Matthew Zachary has handed these microphones to patients, caregivers, doctors, advocates, troublemakers, and people with something worth saying. This time, he handed them to his daughter. Hannah Greenzweig grew up around this show, and now she has commandeered the studio with 3 of her wonderfully creative high school friends to talk about something they built entirely themselves. There is an enormous amount of Dad Pride baked into this episode, along with the strange and wonderful realization that sometimes your kid grows up, takes your chair, takes your microphone, and produces a better show without you.Hannah Greenzweig, Michael Aidinov, Gwendolyn Baldini, and Astronomy are student artists from the Roundabout Youth Ensemble at James Madison High School in Brooklyn. Working alongside teaching artists from Roundabout Theatre Company, they spent a school year creating an original play from the ground up, writing every scene, developing every character, and producing the performance themselves.Instead of discussing a Broadway production, they dissect one they invented.Their play, Subject Matter, began with a room full of improbable ideas. Murderous bounce houses, pirate family sagas, underwater adventures, courtroom dance battles, and birthday parties at math museums all competed before the group settled on an absurd rivalry between New York's fictional History Museum and Math Museum. From there, they built a fully staged comedy about institutional competition, sabotage, oversized personalities, and the unexpected discovery that history and mathematics need each other more than either side wants to admit.The conversation pulls back the curtain on a creative process most audiences never see. The students explain how scenes evolved through constant rewrites, how characters emerged from improvisation, how costumes came together with last minute ingenuity, and how rehearsals often collapsed into uncontrollable laughter. They recount cutting favorite ideas, solving production problems with limited resources, and trusting each other enough to keep rewriting until the story worked.The episode also captures something harder to script: teenagers speaking honestly about collaboration without adults translating their experience. They celebrate classmates who stepped into unexpected roles, teachers who quietly held the production together, and the strange joy of creating something that exists only because everyone showed up.It is a conversation about theater, friendship, education, creativity, and what happens when 4 young artists get the microphones and the adults get out of the way.RELATED LINKSRoundabout Theatre CompanyRoundabout Youth EnsembleJames Madison High SchoolFEEDBACKLike this bonus episode? Rate and review Out of Patients on your favorite podcast platform. For guest suggestions or sponsorship email podcasts@matthewzachary.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A man is struck by a car on the streets of Los Angeles. In the emergency department, a CT scan ordered to look for traumatic injuries reveals something nobody expected: a mass in his colon. Days later, sitting across from Dr. Belinda Waltman, he calls the accident “a blessing in disguise.” Then he changes the subject. He is less worried about cancer than about whether he can afford to miss another day of work. In this season finale of Standard Deviation, host Dr. Oliver Bogler explores what happens when biomedical science collides with the realities of the healthcare safety net. Dr. Waltman, a primary care physician in Los Angeles County, specializes in expedited cancer workups for uninsured and underinsured patients. Every diagnosis arrives carrying another set of questions about housing, transportation, food insecurity, wages, and survival that rarely appear in medical records or scientific literature. For years, Waltman carried those stories without knowing how to bring them into the academic record. As a full-time clinician without a research lab, grant funding, or publication pipeline, she faced barriers familiar to many working scientists and physicians whose most important observations happen outside traditional research settings. With support from the Life Science Editors Foundation's JEDI program, those experiences became The Margins Matter, a narrative medicine essay published in JAMA that argues the social realities surrounding cancer care are not background details. They are part of the disease itself. Bogler traces how editorial mentorship transformed lived clinical experience into published scholarship while asking a larger question about who gets to shape the scientific record. The conversation examines cancer care, Medicaid, health-related social needs, medical publishing, and the structural incentives that determine which stories become evidence and which disappear from view.The result is a conversation about documentation, visibility, and why the margins of medicine often determine who survives long enough to benefit from its advances.RELATED LINKSDr. Belinda Waltman⁠The Margins Matter | JAMA⁠The Margins Matter | PubMed⁠Life Science Editors Foundation⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review Out of Patients on your favorite podcast platform. For guest suggestions or sponsorship email podcasts@matthewzachary.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In 1986, 23 survivors, physicians, nurses, attorneys, and community organizers gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for a weekend that would permanently change the language and politics of cancer. Working late into the night, they debated not only strategy, but identity, ultimately declaring that from the moment of diagnosis, every person with cancer is a survivor.This episode traces the social and political forces that gave birth to the modern cancer survivorship movement. As advances in early detection and treatment allowed more people to live beyond cancer, survivors discovered that finishing treatment did not mean returning to normal life. Many faced employment discrimination, loss of insurance, social stigma, infertility, chronic health complications, and a healthcare system that viewed survival as the end of care rather than the beginning of a new chapter.Against the backdrop of the civil rights, disability rights, and community health movements of the 1960s and 1970s, physicians, activists, and survivors challenged medicine's paternalistic culture and demanded a greater voice in decisions affecting their lives. Central to this story are physician and survivor Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, whose landmark 1985 essay, Seasons of Survival, redefined survivorship as a lifelong continuum, and community organizer Katherine Logan, whose determination united dozens of grassroots organizations into what became the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship.The coalition's founding established principles that continue to shape oncology today. Survivors were no longer defined solely by disease or treatment outcomes. Their experiences became evidence. Their voices became essential to clinical research, healthcare policy, and patient advocacy. By redefining survivorship as an ongoing experience rather than a destination, the movement challenged medicine to recognize the lasting physical, emotional, financial, and social consequences of cancer.The ideas forged during that weekend in Albuquerque became the foundation of modern cancer survivorship. Nearly 40 years later, the coalition's defining principle, that survivorship begins at diagnosis, continues to influence cancer care, research, policy, and the way millions of people understand life after cancer.RELATED LINKSNational Coalition for Cancer Survivorship⁠National Cancer Institute Office of Cancer Survivorship⁠The New England Journal of Medicine⁠Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA.gov)⁠Library of Congress | Civil Rights History Project⁠White Coat, Clenched Fist by Fitzhugh Mullan⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship on your favorite podcast platform. For more information, visit CancerMavericks.com. Please send any questions to podcasts@matthewzachary.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act, transforming cancer research with an unprecedented federal investment and launching what became known as the War on Cancer. The legislation did not emerge from scientific discovery alone. It was the culmination of decades of relentless advocacy by researchers, philanthropists, journalists, and patients who believed cancer demanded the same national commitment that had put astronauts on the Moon.This episode traces the origins of the cancer survivorship movement by returning to a time when cancer was rarely discussed in public, many physicians withheld diagnoses from their patients, and surgery offered few lasting cures. It follows the pioneering work of pathologist Dr. Sidney Farber, whose early chemotherapy research challenged conventional thinking, and Mary Lasker, whose political strategy, fundraising, and public campaigns helped transform cancer from a private tragedy into a national public health priority. Together, they built the coalition that reshaped federal support for oncology research and forever changed the relationship between science, government, and the American public.The story then turns to journalist and breast cancer survivor Rose Kushner, whose refusal to accept the standard one-step radical mastectomy challenged nearly a century of surgical dogma. Working alongside surgeon Dr. Bernard Fisher, Kushner helped bring evidence-based medicine to breast cancer treatment through randomized clinical trials that demonstrated less invasive surgery could achieve equivalent outcomes. Their efforts changed clinical practice, strengthened informed consent, and helped establish the principle that patients should participate in decisions about their own care.The breakthroughs explored in this episode extended far beyond new treatments. They redefined the role of patients in medicine, accelerated clinical research, and laid the foundation for modern cancer survivorship. The movement that followed would not simply help more people live longer. It would change what surviving cancer meant.RELATED LINKSNational Cancer Institute⁠National Cancer Act of 1971⁠American Cancer Society⁠Dana-Farber Cancer Institute⁠National Library of Medicine⁠The New England Journal of Medicine⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship on your favorite podcast platform. For more information, visit CancerMavericks.com. Please send any questions to podcasts@matthewzachary.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Long before cancer survivors organized into a movement, Hollywood had already shaped how Americans understood the disease. Films rarely used the word “cancer,” physicians often withheld diagnoses from patients, and the people who survived were almost nowhere to be found on screen.Recorded before The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship became a documentary series, this bonus conversation explores where the project first began. Matthew Zachary sits down with his mother, Roz Greenzweig, a retired educator and lifelong film enthusiast whose memories of classic cinema became an unexpected lens for understanding how cancer was portrayed throughout the twentieth century.Together, they revisit landmark films including Dark Victory, Love Story, and other iconic portrayals that reflected an era when cancer was treated as unspeakable, inevitable, and almost always fatal. Their conversation contrasts those carefully constructed Hollywood narratives with the lived reality of a family confronting a brain cancer diagnosis in 1995, revealing how popular culture both reflected and reinforced the fears surrounding the disease.The discussion also foreshadows many of the themes explored throughout the documentary series: the evolution of patient advocacy, the emergence of cancer survivorship, the role of caregivers, and the power of storytelling to influence public understanding. Before policy changed, before advocacy organizations grew into national movements, conversations like these were already challenging long-held assumptions about what cancer looked like and who had the right to tell its story.Consider this the prologue to The Cancer Mavericks. Before the movement found its history, it began with a family trying to make sense of the stories they had inherited.RELATED LINKSAmerican Cancer Society⁠National Cancer Institute⁠American Film Institute⁠ER (NBC)⁠50/50 (Official)⁠Chasing Life (ABC Family Archive)⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship on your favorite podcast platform. For more information, visit CancerMavericks.com. Questions? Email podcasts@matthewzachary.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What would you do if you were told you might only have two years to live?In this inspiring and deeply practical episode of Linda's Corner Podcast, I sit down with Glenn Sturm — bestselling author, astrophotographer, attorney, decorated military officer, and cancer survivor — to discuss multidisciplinary cancer care, emotional resilience, and what it really takes to fight for joy and quality of life after a devastating diagnosis.Glenn's life story is extraordinary. A graduate with honors from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and a decorated military officer with more than three decades of service, Glenn built a remarkable career as both a lawyer and leader. But in 2009, his life changed overnight when doctors discovered he had aggressive T-cell lymphoma.The diagnosis came completely out of the blue. Glenn didn't even realize he had been screened for cancer. Doctors told him there was no cure — only management — and estimated he might survive for only two years.That was seventeen years ago.Since then, Glenn has endured continuous chemotherapy and more than 55 surgeries, yet he continues to live a meaningful and fulfilling life. His perspective is powerful and refreshingly honest. Glenn openly shares what people are rarely told about surviving cancer: how important it is to protect your energy, maintain emotional resilience, and intentionally pursue hope and joy.One of the central themes of our conversation is the importance of multidisciplinary cancer care. Glenn explains why creating a collaborative treatment team can dramatically improve outcomes for cancer patients. He shared research suggesting that multidisciplinary approaches may reduce mortality rates anywhere from 14% to 90% compared to isolated or solo treatment strategies. His upcoming book, More Than Hope, explores these integrated cancer care approaches in greater depth.We also discuss the importance of quality of life during treatment. Glenn shares how finding the right medication dramatically improved his energy levels, which in turn improved both his daily life and longevity. As Glenn explains, improving quality of life is not just about comfort — it can also help people live longer. A true win-win.Beyond medicine, Glenn speaks candidly about the emotional side of survivorship and the daily decision to keep moving forward. His message is grounded in practical emotional survival and the belief that while we cannot control every circumstance, we can choose how we respond. As Glenn says, “Only you can stop you.”This episode is a powerful reminder that hope is not passive. It's something we actively build through connection, resilience, strategy, and purpose.You can learn more about Glenn Sturm and his work at:Glenn Sturm Official WebsiteGlenn is the author of several bestselling books, including:Cancer Set Me FreeWarriors Hate WarSyzygiesThe Great American Eclipse of 2017More Than Hope (upcoming)If you or someone you love has been impacted by cancer, chronic illness, or difficult life challenges, this episode offers practical wisdom, encouragement, and a hopeful reminder that life can still hold meaning, joy, and purpose — even in the middle of hardship.Listen, Share, and SupportIf this episode resonated with you, please share it with someone who may need hope today.Be sure to subscribe, leave a rating and review, and help us spread more healing and inspiration to the world.Free Resource for HealingIf you're ready to release stress, calm your mind, and begin healing from within, visit:

You survived cancer — so why does no one talk about what comes next? In this solo episode, Jen opens up the five conversations every survivor should be having, but almost no one starts: hormones, intimacy, mental health, purpose, and energy. These are the quiet struggles that hit after treatment ends, when the appointments stop and everyone else exhales — and you're left figuring out how to feel like yourself again. This is your permission slip to break the silence. Jen walks through each conversation with warmth and honesty, naming the things survivors feel but rarely say out loud — and giving you one real conversation to start and one small step to take this week for each. In this episode: Why hormone changes after treatment aren't "you falling apart" — and how to advocate for yourself with your care team The intimacy conversation nobody prepares you for (and it's about way more than sex) Why finishing treatment can be one of the hardest mental health moments of the whole journey How cancer rearranges your sense of purpose — and why that's not ingratitude Cancer fatigue vs. regular tired, and how to protect your energy without guilt Whether you're newly out of treatment or years into survivorship, this episode will make you feel seen — and give you the words for something you've been carrying. ➡️ Your challenge this week: Pick the ONE conversation that made your chest tighten. That's the one you need most. Take one small step — send the text, book the appointment, or say the honest thing out loud. If this episode spoke to you, share it with a survivor who needs to hear they're not the only one. And come tell Jen which of the five hit home — solo episodes like this come straight from your questions. Not today, Cancer.

Rebecca Bloom is a former employee benefits and executive compensation attorney who spent more than 25 years helping women navigate cancer, work, insurance, disability coverage, and financial survival. She is the founder and author of When Women Get Sick, a book built from decades inside the legal, workplace, and patient advocacy systems most people only discover after diagnosis.Bloom started in Big Law at Simpson Thacher handling employee benefits and compensation work she originally chose to pay off student loans. Then her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Suddenly the language she used in corporate law offices became the language of survival at home. Explanation of benefits forms. Coverage disputes. Second opinions. Disability protections. Medical leave. Bills no one could explain.That collision changed the direction of her life.In this episode, Bloom explains how serious illness quietly turns patients into unpaid administrators managing paperwork, logistics, financial risk, and emotional labor while trying to survive treatment. She breaks down how employer based health insurance shapes nearly every aspect of cancer care in America and why women often carry the invisible burden of protecting everyone else from discomfort while they themselves fall apart.The conversation digs into workplace power, the illusion of the healthcare “safety net,” caregiver exhaustion, and the class divide hiding underneath patient empowerment culture. Bloom explains why educated, insured women with resources still struggle to navigate healthcare bureaucracy and what happens to patients without those advantages.This episode explores cancer care, health insurance, employee benefits, patient advocacy, workplace protections, caregiving, and the structural incentives that force sick people to become project managers of their own survival.RELATED LINKSRebecca BloomWhen Women Get SickBay Area Cancer ConnectionsSimpson Thacher & BartlettFEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review Out of Patients on your favorite podcast platform. For guest suggestions or sponsorship email podcasts@matthewzachary.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Most people spend their lives trying not to feel broken, but poet and spiritual philosopher Mark Nepo believes that breaking is actually where life begins. In this deeply moving conversation from Making Space, the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awakening sits down with Hoda Kotb to pull back the curtain on how we can stay open, even when we are hurting, overwhelmed, or just trying to get through the day. Mark reflects on the wisdom he gained from his own life threatening cancer diagnosis and a debilitating back surgery, sharing how he learned to ground himself in the present when fear threatened to take over. He and Hoda explore his newest book, The Language of the Soul, discussing why the words we choose matter in a world that often feels divided. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rob Rene spent 25 years in Fortune 500 enterprise tech before five near-death experiences, including cancer, ignited a radical pivot to build Exodus Strong, a faith-based wellness company powered by AI. Top 3 Value Bombs 1. Your body is your true business infrastructure; optimize it first, and everything downstream improves. 2. Corporate experience can be a massive advantage in startups if you leverage systems, discipline, and real-world sales lessons. 3. The future of entrepreneurship is leverage through AI; founders who build systems early will outpace those relying on hustle alone. Check out Rob's website for exclusive offers. Access the Total Body Reset Kit and bonus tools. Learn about AI-powered business systems for founders - Exodus Strong Sponsors HighLevel - The ultimate all-in-one platform for entrepreneurs, marketers, coaches, and agencies. Learn more at HighLevelFire.com. Nexus Install - Have a high-ticket offer? Nexus Install builds you a custom LinkedIn prospect booking system designed to generate more quality sales calls. Email JLD at John@EOFire.com to learn more.

Becca sits down with one of her closest friends, Asha Mevlana, for an honest conversation about becoming a single mom by choice. Asha opens up about choosing the sperm donor route, raising her son with complete honesty about his story, building the village of support every parent needs, and the life lessons she's determined to pass on. It's a heartfelt, eye-opening episode about redefining what family looks like, and why there's no one right way to become a parent.Purchase Asha's book, To Hell With NO! Adventures In Finally Saying YES!: https://www.ashamevlana.com/book Thank you for supporting our sponsors!BabyGang is presented by Better Help. Sign up and get 10% off at https://BetterHelp.com/BABYGANGSkylight Frames: Go to https://MySkylight.com/BABYGANG for $30 off your 15-inch Calendar.HERS: Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://forhers.com/babygang to get personalized, affordable care that gets you.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.