I'm Emily P. Freeman, and welcome to the next right thing.

You're listening to episode 194.

This is a podcast about making decisions, but also about making a life.

If you struggle with decision fatigue, chronic hesitation,

or if you just need a few minutes away from the constant stream of information,

and is sometimes delightful, but also distracting hum of entertainment,

you're in the right place for a thoughtful story, a little prayer,

a simple next right step, and sometimes a conversation.

My guest today believes that life was a series of unlimited choices

until she discovered at age 35 that her body was racked with cancer.

In the years that followed, Kate Boller has wrestled honestly with the reality that she's been handed,

and the terrible advice she's received along the way,

like that everything happens for a reason.

Her's is a voice I never want to stop listening to,

and in her new book No Cure for Being Human,

she's honest, vulnerable, and delightfully human.

Saying the words we all know better sometimes afraid to say

that life is beautiful and terrible.

Full of hope and despair and everything in between.

I'm delighted to sit down with Kate to talk about that,

and the truths we all need to hear.

Listen in.

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