Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. If you have not listened to the previous episode, you are going to want to before you listen to this one.

Sister, in case people are going to disobey me and not listen to the

episode. Woe to those who disobey you. Woe and to them! I mean truly woe to them because they don't know what's about to hit them. But can you, in just a quick sentence, tell us what we are continuing to talk about today.

Yes, we are continuing to talk about the fact

and the effect of me learning three weeks from when we are recording this that I have

breast cancer and that I will be having one week from right now a double mastectomy in an effort to remove all of the cancer from my body and that God willing that

my sectomy will do all the work that we need to be done and if not

there will be other steps to take including removing lymph nodes

possible radiation possible chemo possible endocrine therapy etc to take care of it and that the prognosis is very good and that whether this is a little blip or a longer period that all systems say we're

going to be all set you bet after a hot minute of going through what we'll need to go through.

So we're just talking about we talked a lot about the logistics in the last episode and some of the deep big questions

that this has got you thinking about.

And right after we stopped recording that one,

we started talking offline, off recording,

I don't know.

Off tape? Whatever don't know. Private tape?

Whatever.

About what we're going to do next in terms of sharing.

In terms of what we're going to share with you, the Pod Squad, and what we're not going to share.

And it turned into a very interesting conversation about how to walk through this as a public person and that opened up a lot of other questions.

So Abby said there's so many people going through this and going into surgery like maybe you should

talk about it right before and then my perspective on that there's a cost to that like I don't

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