The Adventure I Don’t Want To Be On—A Cancer Conversation with BT

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In late spring, Brian’s wife, Lib, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Instead of responding with fear or defeat, the Tome family is approaching the diagnosis as an adventure—one marked by faith, courage, and growth. In this deeply personal episode of The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome, BT opens up about their cancer journey for the first time. He shares the challenges they’ve faced, the risks they’re taking, and the aggressive choices that keep them moving forward with hope. Whether you’re facing cancer, supporting a loved one, or simply looking for inspiration to live aggressively, this conversation will encourage and equip you.

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0:00.0	And it was Dirt's idea to let you in on this.
0:03.8	This is all Dirt's idea.
0:06.5	Dirt's probably going, yeah, that's what we need for podcast riddings.
0:09.8	We need some cancer.
0:11.0	That's what we need.
0:11.7	We need to reach out to the feelers.
0:13.6	And we need to start doing something that makes people cry.
0:15.8	That's right.
0:16.3	Come on. doing. Welcome to the aggressive life. The fun adventures are the ones we sign up for. And I sign up for a number of those, which are a lot of fun. They range from motorcycle trips, hunting trips, a cattle drive, overland, all these things are fine. Love those. Those are fun. But I'll tell you, the most important ones are not the ones you sign up for.
0:56.1	They're the ones that are thrust onto your lap.
0:59.8	We're only in some of those chosen adventures because they should be stealing us and preparing us for the legitimate adventures that are ahead.
1:09.4	Adventures like getting out of dead.
1:11.8	Adventures of finding my purpose,
1:13.7	adventures of building a family,
1:15.4	or adventures in my case,
1:16.7	my latest one that I really don't want.
1:19.8	Sometimes you don't want these adventures
1:21.1	is going through my wife's cancer journey.
1:26.9	Hey, you remember that adventure? when everything went according to plan?
1:30.6	No, no, you don't remember that one. You remember the adventures that were horrible and all your plans
1:37.2	were shot to shit. That's the ones that you remember. And Lib and I are in one of those right now.
1:42.4	And this is not going to be a cancer broadcast.
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