Ep.36 What Cancer Taught Me About Life & Love with Lauren Mahon
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
sophie@grace-beverley.com
4.2 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Creator of the online community Girl vs Cancer, and host of You, Me and the Big C, Lauren Mahon has launched a social media community with the aim of raising awareness and driving support towards women with cancer. After being diagnosed with breast cancer at 31, Lauren has used this to drive important conversations about cancer and raise awareness of the disease.
In March 2018, Lauren’s BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C was born with the focus on sharing Lauren’s cancer journey and experience in a positive light. Having originally co-hosted with Deborah James and Rachael Bland, who sadly passed away in 2018 and 2022 respectively, she is now the show’s sole surviving host. The podcast ensures that there is a platform for important conversations on body positivity, sex and masturbation. She has also been an advocate for charity, designing and selling ‘tit-tees’ raising £60,000 for cancer research and in 2019 she was awarded the Triumph Award at the Stylist Remarkable Women awards for prevailing in the face of adversity.
- introduction into Lauren’s story
- background to Lauren’s diagnosis
- what led to Lauren’s diagnosis
- the day she found out she had cancer
- Lauren’s response to receiving the news
- the mindset shift that Lauren had in that moment
- the biggest learnings from cancer
- lucky girl syndrome
- start seeing your life as your soulmate
- her experience with the death of Lauren’s friend
- it’s okay to ask for help
- understanding when it’s okay to say no
- manifestation
- what does a good relationship look like?
- Lauren’s experience on First Dates
- dating stories
- what’s next for Lauren?
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| 0:32.1 | I found a lump by accident. So for the whole week I was telling my friends and family, |
| 0:36.1 | I was like, I think I've got cancer and they were like, no. |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.3 | And I was really hoping they were wrong, but I knew it. |
| 0:40.3 | The cancer thing, through my world as I knew it, into disarray, start seeing your life |
| 0:45.3 | as your soulmate. |
| 0:46.3 | And actually, like, when things happen, like you said, you can't go somewhere. It's funny what else presents itself that day, and maybe that's what you needed. |
| 0:55.0 | Rather than seeing, like, trauma or things not working out, |
| 0:58.0 | bad breakups work as moments of crisis, see them as moments of opportunity. |
| 1:02.0 | Rather than putting energy into finding someone that will feel this void in my life, |
| 1:06.0 | I have created a life that is so abundant in love. |
| 1:10.0 | It's friends, it's family, it's the way I love |
| 1:12.1 | myself, it's my work. You're pushing on this door that one bloody open, but there's a window |
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| 1:33.9 | Hey guys and welcome back to Working Hardly Working the podcast. Today I'm speaking to Lauren Marn. This was one of my favorite conversations I have ever, ever, ever had, not just on the |
| 1:38.5 | podcast, but ever had, which is a big, big claim because this girl chats a lot. So if you're |
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