A Conversation About Breast Cancer

Coffee + Crumbs Podcast

Ashlee Gadd

Storytelling, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Toddlers, Friendship, Pregnancy, Grace, Coffee, Adoption, Miscarriage, Parenting, Motherhood, Newborn, Christianity, Crumbs

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this honest and vulnerable episode, Katie talks with Sonya, Melanie, and Julie, three Coffee + Crumbs team members who were all diagnosed with breast cancer between 2020 and 2022. You’ll hear how all of these women felt or discovered something abnormal on their own and advocated for themselves to follow up on their intuition. You’ll listen in on the emotions that accompanied the agony of waiting for test results. They’ll let us in on how they shared the news with their kids. And mostly, you’ll hear from each of these women how cancer has forever changed them.

This episode takes us up close to women who have had a life-altering diagnosis, and our hope is that by listening, we can all learn empathy, compassion, or – if this diagnosis is yours – a way to walk forward with both courage and grace for yourself.

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0:00.0	We believe motherhood is a gift and art not a science.
0:09.1	We believe it takes a village to raise our kids and that motherhood is better when we stick
0:13.5	together.
0:14.8	Most of all, we believe motherhood is holy work.
0:18.9	At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged, and loved.
0:24.5	This is the Copping Crumbs Podcast.
0:29.4	Hello everyone and welcome back to the Copping Crumbs Podcast.
0:33.7	Today's episode is a really, really special and really, really important one.
0:38.8	It's going to be a bit heavy friends, but we do have our girl Melanie Dale on today,
0:43.2	so I'm sure there's going to be a few moments to laugh a little bit.
0:47.4	But as most of you know, October is breast cancer awareness month.
0:51.6	Breast cancer is one of those harsh realities of being a woman.
0:54.6	As I doubt there are any of us who don't know someone.
0:58.4	In fact, you might be that someone who's touched by it.
1:02.5	The most recent data about breast cancer tells us that about one in eight US women,
1:07.2	which is about 13%, will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime
1:12.5	and about 85% of breast cancers occur in women who have no family history of breast cancer.
1:21.0	Essentially, what we know about breast cancer is that it does not discriminate and that
1:25.3	a whole lot of women listening to this podcast today, thousands of us really will walk the
1:30.0	journey that we get to talk to my very, very dear friend, Sonia Spillman, Melanie Dale,
1:35.8	and Julie Vellan about today.
1:38.1	For those of you who don't know Sonia, Melanie, and Julie, well, I have the pleasure of
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