Crossing Finish Lines and Finding the Breasties with Jessica Fox

Badass Basic Bitch

Brianna Dunbar-DeMike

Self-improvement, Entrepreneur, Life Coach, Career, Mom Boss, Mom, Working Mom, Parenting, Education

4.2 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Diagnosed at 43 with ER+ Breast Cancer, a second opinion identified a tumor in the same breast with positive lymph nodes as well. Jessica was never officially given a stage, and she never asked; she didn’t want to give that power to her cancer. She lives on a small peaceful farm in New York with her loving husband, two charismatic children, dog, and chicken. When cancer knocked, she opened the door with the same vigor she puts into any project. She&nb...

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0:00.0	What's up, Badi Bees?
0:11.4	I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.
0:18.5	Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary
0:23.5	things and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real
0:30.3	and dive into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club. Out of curiosity,
0:37.4	did you ever run that half marathon?
0:40.0	I trained for a full year.
0:42.1	My husband took me, just the two of us.
0:45.4	We flew down to Disney.
0:47.2	Okay.
0:47.9	And I crossed that finish line on 13.1 miles while I was on oral chemo. Wow. And I had an expander in my chest. And when I crossed
1:00.5	the line, I was crying and I said to my husband, would it have been different? Sorry, would it have
1:06.6	been different if I wasn't a treatment? So he said, I don't know, let's do it again.
1:13.6	So I ran a second time when I was out of treatment.
1:16.5	Oh, my God.
1:17.2	I cut an hour off my time.
1:19.2	And yeah, it was an incredible uplifting experience.
1:23.4	And now it's not a cancer experience.
1:25.7	Now it's just something that is part of who I am.
1:29.5	Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch. On this week's episode, we have Jessica
1:35.3	Fox, who is an ER plus breast cancer survivor and the lead of community support at the
1:41.5	nonprofit organization, The Breasties. And today, we're going to be hearing
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