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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...