108: Tia Stokes and Choosing Happy: Finding the Good Through Cancer, Covid, and Grief

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🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tia Stokes is a 35-year-old mother of 5 kids who was diagnosed on April 24, 2020, with acute myeloid leukemia. And every day since, she has been documenting her journey of fighting cancer.

Tia is a dancer, choreographer, owner of two dance studios, and former backup dancer to celebrity singer Beyonce (no big deal!). Today, Tia shares the raw and real ups and downs of having cancer, getting COVID and pneumonia, needing a bone marrow transplant, and also losing her mother after her first round of chemo.

Tia has a fiercely loyal following of supporters, who dance and cheer her on, and are inspired daily by her positive attitude, her dedication to her family, her faith, and her choice to find the good in everything. She tries to choose happiness every day, no matter the circumstances she's going through. Happiness is a choice and a free agency that we've been given. And she hopes that her story and her experiences can shed light and love to all those around her.

This interview was one of the most inspiring stories I've ever heard and if you need some positive motivation to just keep going, no matter what trial you're facing in life, this episode is just for you!

In this episode, you will hear:

What her life looked like before her diagnosis
We never want to hear the word, cancer, and we never think it's going to happen to you – but a part of her had that feeling that she was more than just being sick.
When she got the final diagnosis, she had to be admitted to the hospital to have her first chemo induction for 31 days – at a time of COVID.
Social media became a great outlet for her so she wouldn’t feel alone and her family would have Zoom call with her every single day
Hearing the news that her mother had passed away that morning after her first round of chemo
What her life was like doing chemo treatments and getting COVID
Learning she had acute kidney failure and pneumonia (She’s currently recovering from her transplant.)
How her faith played a huge part in everything she’s going through
Her decision to choose positivity every day and some things she does to really make that choice to be positive
The power of gratitude that’s scientifically proven
How the community she found on TikTok has lifted her spirit

Supporting Resources:

Tia’s Instagram @thetiabeestokes

https://www.instagram.com/thetiabeestokes

Tia’s Tik Tok @thetiabeestokes

https://www.tiktok.com/@thetiabeestokes?lang=en

Tia’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHy4zEbH__dzvZUszzV6a6w

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0:00.0	Tia Stokes is a 35-year-old mother of five kids who was diagnosed on April 24, 2020 with acute myloid leukemia, and she's been documenting her journey everyday sense of fighting cancer.
0:14.1	She has a fiercely loyal following of supporters who dance and cheer her on and are inspired daily by her positive attitude and dedication to her family and faith and looking for the good and everything.
0:26.6	Tia is a dancer, choreographer, and owner of two dance studios and former backup dancer to celebrity singer Beyonce, No Big Deal.
0:34.7	Tia has shared the raw and real ups and downs of having cancer, getting COVID and pneumonia,
0:40.5	needing a bone marrow transplant, and also losing her mother after her first round of chemo.
0:45.8	This interview was one of the most inspiring stories I've ever heard.
0:49.8	And if you need some positive motivation to just keep going, no matter what trial you're facing in life, this episode is just for you.
1:00.3	I have a new friend with me today, and her name is Tia Stokes, and I have just admired and loved her so much from afar for
1:13.7	quite a while now and I'm so excited to have the chance to talk to her today and share her
1:18.5	love and joy with so many of you. So Tia say hi and tell us a little bit about you, who you are
1:24.7	and what you do and all of all of those things. Yes. Hello, hello,
1:29.3	hello. I'm Tia Stokes. I'm a mother of five major legend Mays, Taz and Rose. I am married to
1:37.2	the handsome Andrew Stokes. I'm 35 years old, just turned 35 years old, just barely. And 273 days ago, I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
1:49.9	And so I have been sharing my journey and documenting my experiences because I know that one day I will
1:58.0	beat this and ring that bell and I will be able to see the fight that was
2:01.6	in it and how hard I actually fought. So I love documenting the good days as well as the bad and
2:08.8	the hard, ugly days that give me strength and help me to rely on my savior and my Heavenly Father.
2:15.4	And I'm grateful to be here. I try to choose happiness every day, no matter the circumstances that I'm going through.
2:22.1	I know that happiness is a choice.
2:24.5	And that's something that's free agency that we've been given.
2:27.9	And I hope that my story and my experiences can be able to shed light and love to all those around me.
2:35.9	So that's a little bit about me.
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