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I had just turned 30. My birthday is 2 days before my partner’s birthday, and we always take the week to travel somewhere. As soon as we returned from our diving trip, I found a lump. After weeks of dismissing it, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Hearing the words “you have cancer” is unlike anything I’ve ever exper
Next week is my 11-year cancerversary, which brings a mixture of feelings. I’m incredibly grateful to see another year. My daughters were just 3 and 5 years old at the time of my diagnosis, and I was so scared that I wouldn’t see them grow up. Now that they are teenagers, and my main job is annoying the heck out of the
This piece of writing was inspired by a conversation with a friend with whom I recently reconnected. I met this particular individual many years ago when I was building a product to address mental health and burnout in front line workers. This was pre-pandemic, and sadly we closed it down because back then, it wasn’t s
