Podcasts
Episode 24: Fighting Pretty with Kara Skaflestad
More and more young women are being diagnosed with breast cancer. In this episode Kara Skaflestad shares how she started her non-profit organization supporting women going through cancer treatment,...
Episode 23: Bring Your Sexy Back with Dana Donofree
Nobody asks to join the cancer club. It's just something we're thrown into. Some of us younger than others. Dana Donofree was diagnosed at 27 years old and not only lost her breasts. She lost the...
Episode 22: Finding Your Strength and Living to Tell About It with Lianne Saffer
Finding your strength and living to tell about it is something Lianne Saffer is familiar with. She survived her first marriage which was marked by emotional and financial abuse, only to find herself...
Episode 21: Going After Your BHAGs with Devora Peterson
Devora Peterson didn't know that learning to mountain bike would help her overcome cancer, but it did. Her Big Hairy Audacious Goal related to biking helped her focus her energy on something she...
Episode 20: Celebrating Holiday Traditions with Malena Perdomo
Celebrating holiday traditions with Malena means focusing on family. We start this episode like so many others, by talking about Malena's cancer connection. In particular, her family history and how...
Episode 19: Bonding with Someone Who’s Been There with Susan Buckley
When it comes to cancer, there's nothing like bonding with someone who's been there. As my guest, Susan Buckley and fellow dietitian says, your family and friends may have the best intentions and...
Episode 18: Feeling Grateful for the Important Things
I love Thanksgiving for all the gratitude and kindness it brings into the world. It's a perfect time to be feeling grateful for the important things in life. And when I say things, I don't actually...
Episode 17: Lifelines to Cancer Survival with Mark Roby, PA-C, ND
What do you do when you are faced with the impossible? Mark Roby created his own lifelines for cancer survival relying on doctors, scientists, family, friends, scientific research, new screenings...
Episode 16: Embracing and Evolving Along the Cancer Journey
My guest on this episode is doctor Shari Fox, and in it we explore embracing and evolving along the cancer journey. Like many cancer survivors, she didn't see it coming and couldn't understand how...
Episode 15: Finding Resilience Through Faith with Rabbi Jamie Arnold
Part of my healing journey included relying heavily on my faith. Finding resilience through faith meant observing traditions and rituals I hadn't grown up with or observed as an adult for most of my...
Episode 14: Ain’t Nobody Got Time For Cancer with Nadine Shapera
After watching both of her sisters go through cancer diagnosis and treatment, separately at different times, Nadine Shapera thought to herself, "ain't nobody got time for cancer." But before long,...
Episode 13: Finding the Right Medical Team with Scherri Woodard
It's hard for most people to imagine being diagnosed with a serious illness like cancer. It's even harder if you don't get your questions answered from the start. That's exactly what happened to...
Episode 12: Cancer and Hair Care with Angie Defrancis- Cox
One of the most traumatic things about cancer treatment is the loss of hair that accompanies chemotherapy treatment. In this episode, we talk about cancer and hair care with my personal stylist,...
Episode 11: Clean Makeup with Salty Girl Beauty
Very often cancer patients are concerned with two things - what goes in their body and what goes on their body.Leah Robert, Oncology Nurse and Co-Founder of Salty Girl Beauty I certainly know this...
Episode 10: Relationship Remedies with Tracey Coates, Esq.
Relationships are one of the most important things in our lives, but sometimes they can be a double-edged sword. In this episode, we're talking about relationship remedies with Tracey Coates, a...
Episode 9: Staying Resilient with Dalia Topelson Ritvo
Sometimes life hands us the unexpected and we are left trying to figure how to fit it into our already busy lives. My guest this week, Dalia Topelson Ritvo, was a young professional busy starting a...
Episode 8: Professional Perspectives from a Medical Oncologist with Dr. Dev Paul
The scariest three words you could ever face in your life are "you have cancer". And yet, the American Cancer Society states that more than 1,762,450 people (cases) were expected to be diagnosed in...
Episode 7: Learning to meditate using Sahaja Yoga with Oleg Kotliarsky
One of the most helpful things on my healing journey was learning to meditate. Not for the sake of meditation or to talk about it at parties, but to relieve my own stress and anxiety I was feeling...
Episode 6: Navigating Financial Resources During Cancer with Nancy’s List
Nancy Novack started Nancy's List as a way to help cancer patients find financial resources to get through treatment. It became so much more. Nancy was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer in 2004...
Episode 5: The one thing you need to overcome alcoholism and cancer with Nancy McKay.
My guest today has had a long history with alcohol. Her parents drank and she started drinking at a young age too. Her struggle with alcohol and journey in getting clean paved the way for her...
Episode 4: Paying It Forward with Gail Nussbaum
The central theme of this podcast was all about making life better for others! A concept I can definitely get behind! Gail Nussbaum started out as an employee at Amgen working to help people with...
Episode 3: Restoring health and fitness with Jason Butler
Exercising while you're going through cancer treatments can be tricky. Some days you may feel so tired you just barely have enough energy to get from one room to another in your own home. As my wise...
Episode 2: Reignite your passion and get behind a cause with Dafna Michaelson Jenet
In her groundbreaking book, Radical Remission, author Kelly Turner identifies living a life of purpose as one of the nine attributes of cancer survivors who've had a "radical remission". In this...
Episode 1: Welcome to the Life Well-Lived Podcast!
Brene Brown said it best, FFTs (F***ing First Times) are never easy. But you have to get uncomfortable to create. In this first episode, I get real personal and share my story and the tools I used...