Entering the Comfort Zone: Breast Cancer Awareness and Research with Easy Spirit

Next Question with Katie Couric

Katie Couric Media

News, Health, Society & Culture, Commentary, Documentary,, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In this special live recording of Next Question in New York City at the Paley Center for Media, Katie Couric enters her "Comfort Zone" for a powerful conversation in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, in partnership with comfort footwear brand, Easy Spirit! Katie shares her personal experience as a breast cancer survivor alongside the surgeon who treated her, renowned breast cancer researcher Dr. Lisa Newman. They are joined by Sharon Joseph, CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem, who is currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer herself. Together, they discuss their personal journeys, the importance of early detection, and the groundbreaking research funded by Marc Fisher’s Easy Spirit.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. It's Katie Couric. If you're looking for smart comfortable shoes made for the way we really live,
0:06.4	you've got to check out easy spirit.com. They've got everything you need for fall in extended widths and sizes.
0:14.2	Enter the comfort zone and shop sneakers, loafers,
0:16.8	comfort heels and more at easy spirit.com today.
0:20.9	Listeners get 20% off with the code, Next20.
0:24.3	Hi everyone, I'm Katie Couricic and this is next question.
0:36.7	Welcome everyone to this live taping of next question with me Katie Couric.
0:42.1	I am very excited to be having this important conversation
0:46.2	produced in partnership with Easy Spirit here at the Paley Center for Media in New York City
0:51.8	in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
0:54.8	And in our audience are lots of breast cancer survivors, people who may be in treatment
1:00.5	right now, and people who are trying to raise money and awareness for
1:05.2	this disease. This of course is a topic that is very near and dear to my heart
1:10.9	literally. As some of you might know and some of you
1:14.8	listeners out there I was diagnosed with stage 1A breast cancer in
1:18.9	22. I had spent the previous 24 years as a cancer advocate after losing my husband when he was
1:27.7	42 years old to colon cancer going as far as getting a colonoscopy on the today show because let's face
1:36.7	that nothing says good morning like showing your colon on national television at 7.30 a.m.
1:45.8	Then a number of years later
1:49.1	after a mammogram and a breast ultrasound
1:51.8	I went from advocate to patient myself.
1:55.0	I was really grateful through my breast cancer journey to have access to incredible care
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