277: Not Today Cancer! Navigating Cancer in the Family with Jen & Darren Delvaux
Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill: Fat Loss, Hormones & Health for Women Over 40
Natalie Jill
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Jen Delvaux is a health and fitness coach and founder of Team EmpowerNation. InFebruary 2021 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had always enjoyed researching new health hacks prior to her cancer diagnosis, but now she's made it her mission to help others take back the power over their diagnosis as well as to thrive during and after treatments.
Along with her husband, Darren, she hosts the podcast show Not Today Cancer, where they talk openly and honestly about their own struggles-her husband was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2009-and how they've been able to get through it in a positive way. She also interviews other breast cancer thrivers and experts to help in the healing process after a diagnosis. She's also a new author of the book Not Today Cancer-A non-typical survival guide for the girls who wants to thrive, not just survive.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Signs of cancer
- How you can thrive with and through cancer
- Where to go to get more information
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Natalie Jill, fat loss expert turned lifestyle and high performance coach. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Listen Up, the podcast. On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated |
| 0:13.2 | information that is relevant to us now and breaking it down simply with actionable steps |
| 0:18.9 | you can implement to level up your life. |
| 0:22.1 | I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring and courageous men and women on |
| 0:26.7 | the planet who, at their worst, learned how to achieve success greater than anything they |
| 0:31.6 | ever dreamed possible, creating everything from nothing. |
| 0:35.2 | If you are new here, I encourage you to go back and listen |
| 0:37.5 | from episode one when this podcast was previously called Leveling Up for the full transformative |
| 0:43.0 | experience. Today on Listen Up, I've got my friends, Jen and Darren. And can you imagine for a |
| 0:50.4 | moment if you were given 18 months to live, you had one of the worst diagnosis |
| 0:55.9 | from your doctors and you were told you have 18 months to live, like what that would do to you, |
| 1:00.1 | what that would do to your family. Jen and Darren are here today because 13 years ago, |
| 1:06.0 | Darren was given 18 months to live with a cancer diagnosis And he's here 13 years later and he's thriving |
| 1:12.2 | right now. And his wife, Jen, who I have on, has also recently navigated a cancer diagnosis. |
| 1:19.0 | So I have so many questions for them about their, about their energy, about their mindset, |
| 1:23.0 | about their journey, about their relationship, about those gut-wrenching conversations that you have with |
| 1:28.2 | a spouse when you're faced with this. So thank you both for being here today. We are so excited |
| 1:33.3 | to be here. All right. So I'm going to just start from the beginning. Take us back. Like take us |
| 1:38.8 | back to that time 13 years ago. Yeah. It's so crazy. So with Darren, it was all such a whirlwind. |
| 1:45.4 | We had no idea what we were dealing with when he was first diagnosed. |
| 1:49.8 | It was in 2009, he was going, just didn't feel right like he was having problems like writing |
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