From Diagnosis To Empowerment: How To Cope With Cancer With Mollie Kallen

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

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4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

For many people, receiving a cancer diagnosis is one of their worst nightmares. The initial shock can come with waves of grief, fear, confusion, and even anger. So, what tools can patients utilize to cope with these immense emotions? What role do caregivers serve as a part of this process? In today’s episode, Mollie Kallen joins us to share her insights into this important topic…

Mollie is an entrepreneur, speaker, cancer survivor, patient advocate, and the author of the upcoming book, It’s Not About Me: How to Be Your Own Advocate Through Cancer. As the founder of Cancer Coach Connection, she works with patients, their loved ones, and providers to help them navigate the challenges of their diagnosis and treatments – empowering them to advocate for themselves for the best care possible.

Mollie earned her master’s in counseling from Northwestern University and has helped countless patients receive rehab care after workplace injuries over the past 30 years. During this time, she owned her own company, Mollie Kallen Case Management, which employed 600 case managers serving more than 200 customers nationwide.

This conversation covers:

Why mentors are so important after a cancer diagnosis.
The importance of having a medical team that cares about your best interests.
How to approach the all-consuming nature of cancer from a mental health perspective.

How has Mollie’s battle with AML Leukemia inspired her to become an advocate for other cancer patients and their families? Listen now to learn how she teaches coping skills to proactively assemble patients’ support teams and help them overcome feelings of abandonment, disenfranchisement, and non-supportive providers.

You can keep up with Mollie’s ongoing work by following her on Instagram @kallenmollie!

Keep up with Mollie Kallen socials here:

Twitter: https://x.com/molliekallen

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mollie.b.kallen

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Molliekallen

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0:28.1	and more. Here come the geniuses. This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs.
0:37.5	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast.
0:41.3	I guess today is Molly Callan, she's an entrepreneur, a speaker, a cancer survivor,
0:45.8	nation advocate, and the author of the upcoming book, it's not about me.
0:49.2	So we're going to talk about how to cope when you're first diagnosed with cancer,
0:52.3	which I know from personal experience and tends to cause your insides to liquefy or feel like they're liquefying and, you know, your whole life is coming to an end. So it's a very, very big deal. But welcome, Molly. Thanks for coming. I appreciate for having me and welcome everybody who's listening. Yeah, if you would, tell me a bit about your background, you know, what you're able to say. And I don't want you to repeat things that are too difficult to repeat, but, you know, tell me a bit about your background, you know, what you're able to say. And, you know, I don't want you to have to repeat things that are too difficult to repeat, but, you know, tell me a bit about yourself in the audience.
1:15.9	Yeah, absolutely. No problem. I'm very comfortable talking about everything pretty much. So my background is, I'm originally from Newark West. I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio. And I studied elementary school education. I was a teacher for quite a few years
1:29.6	in suburbs of Chicago, and then I got my master's in counseling because I was kind of frustrated.
1:34.9	So many things, the issues children were going through because both parents are working and so many
1:39.2	things going on sociologically and everything. So I decided I wanted to be a counselor and
1:43.7	work in the schools, but then once I got my master's and school counseling, I decided I wanted to be a counselor and work in the schools. But then
1:45.0	once I got my master's and school counseling, I saw that most of the counselors were doing a lot of
1:49.3	testing. It really weren't doing a lot of the one-on-one kinds of counseling I wanted to do. So I then
1:55.4	kind of got, you know, into the field of workers' compensation through the back door, actually through
2:00.6	an ad in the newspaper, which I always told people, you'd never find jobs through the back door, actually through an ad in the
2:01.1	newspaper, which I always told people, you'd never find jobs through the paper back in the day
2:04.9	when you used to get the Sunday paper and look for jobs. And I answered an ad. It was for a case
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