Podcasts
Episode 34: Making Fearless Food Decisions with Cathy Leman
Cathy Leman is a Registered Dietitian that helps women with hormone-positive breast cancer learn to make fearless food decisions. Many cancer survivors use food as a coping mechanism and control...
Episode 33: Riding in the Courage Classic with Bernie Gehris
Bernie started riding for research after his son passed from a brain tumor. This will be his 27th year riding in the Courage Classic raising funds for the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at...
Episode 32: Healing Through Art with Nerissa Balland
You probably don't think of yourself as an artist, but no doubt about it, you are creative in your own way. Most of us don't think to turn to our creativity for healing, but that's exactly what...
Episode 31: Write Your Life with April Stearns
Write your life stories down and keep them, burn them, eat them, or publish them, but write them down because there are others who could benefit from your words of wisdom. This month I'm focusing on...
Episode 30: The Anti Cancer Lifestyle: An Evidence-Based Approach with Meg Hirshberg and Nancy Kane, RN
If you’re done with treatment, you’ve probably asked the question “now what?” In this episode Meg, Nancy, and I explore this question through the lens of making sure your remedies are...
Episode 29: Advocating for Young Women with Courtney Shihabuddin
Advocating for young women with breast cancer became a passion and mission for Courtney Shihabuddin after her own diagnosis of breast cancer at a young age (35 years old), during a pandemic, with...
Episode 28: Lessons Learned from a Year of Podcasting
I wanted to devote a whole episode to the lessons I've learned from a year of podcasting, because I feel like I've had some real AHA! moments and that they were different than the highlights from...
Episode 27: First Anniversary Episode!
Happy first anniversary episode for the Life Well-Lived Podcast! The idea for this podcast came two years ago. I mulled it over for a whole year before I got started and now I'm celebrating one year...
Episode 26: Estate Planning with Stephanie Freeman, Esq.
Estate planning is one of those things we just don't want to think about. Stephanie Freeman, Esq. explains why you should do it while you are healthy and sane, and sooner than later. Just like...
Episode 25: Complementary Healing Practices with Sandy Priester
One of my favorite things about self-care is that you can choose what therapies you want to use to accomplish your goals. In this episode, Sandy Priester gives us a high-level view of two...
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...