#212 Lauren Mahon: The Story Of Girl Vs Cancer
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emma gannon
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Lauren Mahon is a broadcaster, presenter, writer, influencer, charity campaigner and founder of Girl vs Cancer. She is a co-host of the number one iTunes podcast You Me & The Big C, a podcast all about 'kicking cancer’s arse' on BBC 5Live with Deborah James. Lauren won this year’s Inspirational Founder Of The Year award at the Stylist LIVE Retail Awards and the Triumph Award at the Inaugural Stylist Remarkable Women Awards 2019.
In the last two years, she has masterminded the design and distribution of a range of boobie emblazoned slogan t-shirts aka TIT-TEES, raising over 60,000 for her chosen charities, culminating in a special collaboration with Miss Selfridge. She has featured on BBC Breakfast, Stand Up To Cancer and The One Show, talking to millions of television viewers about her life experiences; from cancer, to dating, to fashion and everything in between.
Hope you enjoy listening to Lauren's inspiring story. Check out Girl Vs Cancer here: https://girlvscancer.co.uk/
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| 0:58.7 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-opt Delete. Today's guest is Lauren Mann, she is a broadcaster, presenter, |
| 1:06.8 | writer, influencer and a charity campaigner. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 31, and after that she founded Girl |
| 1:15.8 | versus Cancer as a space to empower and welcome women who were going |
| 1:19.8 | through what she was going through at the time. She felt like there needed to be a space where |
| 1:24.7 | younger people could talk about going through being diagnosed with cancer. She is the award-winning |
| 1:30.1 | co-host of the incredible podcast which is all about in their words kicking |
| 1:35.4 | cancers are for BBC 5 live it's called you me and the big see and I definitely |
| 1:41.9 | recommend you checking it out on iTunes immediately it's a really |
| 1:45.1 | frank and funny podcast she co-hosts it alongside Deborah James who was also a interviewee on |
| 1:51.9 | Control-opt- Delete She is episode 170 if you fancy listening to that after this one. |
| 1:57.6 | Lauren has had quite an incredible year. She won this year's inspirational founder of the Year Award at the Stylist Live Retail Awards, and she also won the Triumph Award at the Stylist Remarkable Women Awards. |
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