“Mommy, Are You Going to Die?” | The Story of Shana Alayev’s Fight For Life

Meaningful People

Meaningful Minute

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Jewish, Jew, Meaningful, Self-improvement, People, Judaism

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🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Meet Shana Alayev, a wife, mother of four, and speech therapist who is facing stage four cancer with brutal honesty, raw humor, and unshakable emunah. In this emotional and deeply human conversation, Shana opens up about her journey: from a delayed diagnosis during pregnancy to navigating treatment, parenting through pain, and redefining faith, purpose, and resilience every single day. Her story isn't just about illness, it's about choosing hope when the path is unclear, and finding light in the darkest places.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this week's episode of the Meaningful People podcast. This week we sat down with
0:04.4	Shauna Alaiv. And yes, we are releasing this on Tishabov. This is an ad-free episode in honor of
0:10.2	Tishabov, which one day very soon will be Ayantif. Right now we sit on the floor and we hear
0:15.6	Shauna's story of living with stage four breast cancer. There's a story of survival, a story of grief, a story of struggle,
0:22.6	and this is a story that you're going to want to hear.
0:25.6	This is Shauna Alaev.
0:26.6	I do want to mention that the Meaningful Minute Homeless Documentary is now out in streaming.
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0:35.6	That is www. 9 of.
0:38.4	The link is in the show notes below and go ahead and watch that film.
0:43.1	It is guaranteed to move you.
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0:49.5	at 9 of.com.
0:51.2	We have another episode of meaningful people coming out tonight with the right
0:55.9	Ari Ben Shushan. That is just for Plus members. You can download the meaningful in a plus app and
1:00.1	access it there if you have an account. Go ahead and do that at 9of.plus. This is our episode.
1:05.8	Well, here we are. Meaningful People episode with Shana Alaev. Yeah?
1:11.6	Yeah.
1:12.6	So, Shana, tell me a little bit about yourself, who you are.
1:17.6	Who am I?
1:19.6	So my name is Shana, Shoshana, Shoshana Tova, Basleya, thank you.
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