Episode Playlists
A guide to help you find the episodes you need.
Here is our guide to help you navigate through it all and find the episodes that most interest you or are most relevant to your situation.
Here is our guide to help you navigate through it all and find the episodes that most interest you or are most relevant to your situation.
with Yejin Lee
Yejin tells Jodi-Ann about losing her mother to breast cancer during her first year in undergrad. S1, E2
with Sharon Eldridge
Sharon shares the history of cancer in her family and its impact on how she sees her own health and mortality. S1, E4
with Erika Stallings
Erika Stallings, an attorney, writer and BRCA awareness advocate, shares her story about uncovering her BRCA2 gene mutation. S1, E5
with Jared
Jared shares his experience navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, his father’s cancer diagnosis, and his father’s unwelcoming reaction to his engagement to his partner. S1, E8
with Angelica Garcia
Angelica shares her experiences caring for her cousin’s cancer journey in the US, her father’s in Colombia, and then her own years old scare coming back to haunt her. S2, E5
with Shayla Martin
Shayla shares how her journey of surviving cancer and her mastectomy changed the trajectory of her life. S1, E1
with Yejin Lee
This conversation hits on hard lessons about how we, as women of color relate to our bodies as we process pain and what it takes to heal. S1, E2
with Janice Omadeke
In this episode we talk about how we at times must split ourselves to be strong, and arduous but necessary processes of grief. S2, E1
with Tamika Felder
Tamika is a successful nonprofit founder, a cancer advocate, an award-winning director, an inspiration leader, and so much more. Her organization is called Cervivor and it’s a movement to end cervical cancer. S3, E3
with Lauren Tarpley
Lauren is a wife with a toddler and “three little boys in the freezer.” We discuss her diagnosis path and her family planning - specifically navigating this as a young adult. S3, E4
with Kessoon
with Shayla Martin
Shayla shares how her journey of surviving cancer and her mastectomy has changed the trajectory of her life: how do you cope with cancer when it's the thing that put you on the path for your purpose? S1, E1
with Juliette Austin
Juliette Austin tells Jodi-Ann about what happened to her when she disclosed her thyroid cancer diagnosis at work nearly a decade ago and just how toxic a reentry process to work can be. S1, E3
with Dr. Kavita Jackson, M.D.
Dr. Kavita Jackson draws on the strength of those who support her to navigate treatment and her relationship with her body. We work through understanding that our mind and our bodies - they’re fighting the same war. To heal ourselves. S2, E2
with Kelvin Yates
Kelvin Yates uses his experiences living with multiple myeloma to advocate for change in his community. He’s a father, husband, son, hobby woodworker, and a survivor — surviving in ways that continue to make an impact on me. S3, E2
with Tamika Felder
Tamika is a successful nonprofit founder, a cancer advocate, an award-winning director, an inspiration leader, and so much more. Her organization is called Cervivor and it’s a movement to end cervical cancer. S3, E3
with Erin Douglas
Erin Douglas shares a perspective we don’t often get to hear from when it comes to cancer narratives: the caregiver. Specifically, the family member who re-prioritizes their life to put the needs of their loved one first. S1, E6
with Frantz Berthaud
Frantz and I talk about his journey with his sister’s triple negative breast cancer, its malignancy, and the tools his sister sent for him to change the course of cancer for other women of color like her. S1, E7
with Janice Omadeke
In this episode, we talk about our duty as the children of immigrants to actualize more than what our parents dreamed of for our lives, and arduous, but necessary processes of grief. Grief how it looks, feels, and sounds like to us. S2, E1
with Kim Young
Kimberly Young led the team of her siblings and family members to support her mother’s journey with multiple myeloma. We talk about her mother’s diagnosis journey and faith works in tandem with the process. S3, E1
with Kandis Draw
At 30 years old, Kandis found herself with a full-time job taking care of her mother who received a Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer diagnosis, and taking care her younger siblings. It’s easy to lose yourself in the shuffle. In this episode, we talk about the work - THE WORK of caregiving. S3, E5
with Shayla Martin
Shayla shares how her journey of surviving cancer and her mastectomy has completely changed the trajectory of her life: how do you cope with cancer when it's the thing that put you on the path for your purpose? S1, E1
with Dr. Kavita Jackson, M.D.
Our guest on today’s episode is Dr. Kavita Jackson - breast cancer warrior M.D. We talk about her experience from launching her career as an emergency room physician to facing Stage 2 Invasive Ductal Carcinoma - breast cancer. S2, E2
with Michelle Audoin
Michelle Audoin created the Breast Recognition Project - a beautiful catalogue of the mastectomy scars of women of color. Her journey with her body and her breasts started when she was just 14 years old. S2, E4
with Marissa Thomas
Our guest on today’s episode is Marissa Thomas, breast cancer survivor (stage 2 estrogen positive) and founder of For the Breast of Us, a breast cancer community for women of color. S2, E7
with Lauren Tarpley
For the breasties out there, Lauren is BRCA-, HER2+ and hormone receptor negative. She’s a wife with a toddler and because of her cancer diagnosis, “three little boys in the freezer.” Lauren and I talk about her diagnosis path and what it means (for both of us) to be in a statistically unlikely situation. S3, E4
with Erika Stallings
Erika Stallings shares her story about uncovering her BRCA2 gene mutation in her 20s, the importance of medical literacy, and her journey to a preventative mastectomy. S1, E5
with Dr. Kavita Jackson, M.D.
Our guest on today’s episode is Dr. Kavita Jackson - breast cancer warrior M.D. We talk about her experience from launching her career as an emergency room physician to facing Stage 2 Invasive Ductal Carcinoma - breast cancer. S2, E2
with Michelle Audoin
Michelle Audoin created the Breast Recognition Project - a beautiful catalogue of the mastectomy scars of women of color. Her journey with her body and her breasts started when she was just 14 years old. S2, E4