The One About Breast Cancer, Identity Crisis and Advocating For Yourself
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Many folks have faced a diagnosis or will in their lifetime. It changes the course of your life, identity and what you know. Leanne Hainsby may be known for her work as a Peleton Instructor but in January of 2023 she revealed a private journey she had been on with breast cancer. Her story has helped others activate themselves to push for answers and get the right diagnosis. But diagnosis wasn’t the end of the road, as Leanne found herself working through her identity crisis, moving through intrusive thoughts and moving away from perfection to finding joy in the now all while teaching others about self-advocacy, self-care and of course - checking your boobs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole, |
| 0:10.5 | and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:17.9 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital |
| 0:23.4 | space together. I'm really excited to welcome Leanne Hainsby to the show today. Now, if you don't know |
| 0:31.6 | her, she is a Peloton instructor. She's a former professional dancer turned fitness enthusiast, |
| 0:37.0 | but she has such an incredible |
| 0:38.8 | story. She recently has opened up with her journey of finding a lump in her breast and going |
| 0:45.4 | through breast cancer. And she opened up about what was a very private journey to sort of raise |
| 0:52.1 | awareness on knowing your body and really trusting your gut in some of these situations. I'm really excited to sort of raise awareness on knowing your body and really trusting your gut in |
| 0:55.7 | some of these situations. I'm really excited to sort of guide through these conversations with her |
| 1:00.1 | today and also just want to give everybody a little bit of like a morning warm hug because |
| 1:06.6 | I know this can be some scary stuff to talk about, but we're also going to do it in a way that |
| 1:11.1 | really empowers us. And I hope that you feel that. And I hope that you really get in touch with |
| 1:17.2 | some of the things that Leanne is going to share with us today. So buckle up and enjoy the show. |
| 1:23.6 | I'm really excited to do this with you. I am a longtime Peloton user. I've dropped off ever since I broke a shoe, but that's besides the point. |
| 1:32.3 | What really inspired me about you was a lot of what you opened up with in the last, I guess, year, which is a lot of your health journey and sort of a lot of awareness that you've made around |
| 1:45.2 | women really knowing their bodies, which I think is such an important conversation. |
| 1:49.0 | But I'm going to throw it to you for a minute. |
| 1:50.2 | I'd love for you to introduce yourself the way that you would like to be introduced |
| 1:52.9 | and sort of give us a little introduction to who you are. |
| 1:56.3 | Okay. |
| 1:56.9 | Hi, everyone. |
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