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Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

401: The GIFT of Cancer with Maria Kang

Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

Natalie Jill

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Ever feel like life throws you curveballs just when you think you’ve got it all figured out?In this episode of Midlife Conversations, I sit down with Maria Kang, a total fitness icon, who’s sharing her journey through something she never expected—a stage four cancer diagnosis.

Maria’s story is a powerful one. She’s spent her life dedicated to health and fitness, but all of that was flipped upside down. We dive into how she handled it, the struggles she’s faced before (including her battle with an eating disorder), and how her mom’s health issues pushed her to a new level of self-awareness.
Maria also opens up about her spiritual awakening—letting go of emotional trauma, finding self-love, and even using meditation and plant medicine to heal.

We’re talking about everything from leaning into adversity, connecting with your inner child, and leaning on your community for healing. It’s real, raw, and something you’ve got to hear. Are you ready to turn life’s biggest challenges into your biggest transformations? 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And I think, and it wasn't actual physical death. There was like an emotional, it was a death of like

0:06.2

letting go and just being so angry of everything that I couldn't control.

0:11.0

Hi, I want to welcome you to midlife conversations. I'm Natalie Jill, your host and I help midlife

0:15.8

women redefine and rebrand aging. On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated information and conversations around aging

0:24.1

that are relevant to us now and breaking it all down simply

0:27.5

with actionable steps that you can implement to level up your life

0:31.4

because your best years are yet to come.

0:33.8

I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring people

0:36.8

living in their best midlife years.

0:39.1

On this show, I cover topics about our health, hormones, navigating weight, blood sugars,

0:44.5

our mood, focus changes, even our relationships, career changes, beauty, and more.

0:51.5

Imagine the most fit person you can think of, somebody that you admire, look up to, someone who is a vision of health, someone who you feel has been super inspirational to you, motivating, something you're striving for, learning that they have stage four cancer.

1:05.8

Now, imagine yourself finally reaching an area where you felt really great in your life, healthy, strong, empowered.

1:12.9

In fact, you have a brand called No Excuses, No Excuse Moms, and you learn that you have cancer

1:19.0

that turns into stage four.

1:20.3

How would you navigate that?

1:21.8

What would you need to learn about yourself?

1:23.8

How would you talk to your cancer?

1:25.8

What would you do about treatment options? And how would

1:28.3

you just get through life, show up as a mom, show up as a leader in your community with your

1:34.0

clients? What would you do? Today I'm really excited on midlife conversations to talk to Maria

1:39.9

Kang. Now, I have been following her for years. We both launched our businesses around similar times.

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