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Live Happy Now

Using Music to Battle Breast Cancer With Cathy & Marcy

Live Happy Now

Live Happy LLC

Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7522 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and that made it the perfect time to sit down with Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, best known as the Grammy-winning duo Cathy & Marcy. They have been entertaining audiences for more than 40 years, and when Marcy received a breast cancer diagnosis, they faced it the same way they have faced all of life’s challenges — side by side, with music and humor. The result is the comedic musical All Wigged Out, which has been made into a film and details Marcy’s journey with breast cancer. They sat down with host Paula Felps to talk about how they transformed this health challenge into a musical story of hope and healing to share with the world. In this episode, you'll learn: How they used music to process Marcy’s diagnosis. Why celebrating even small milestones was important to their journey. How they turned the experience into a humorous healing story.

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? This is Paula Phelps and you are listening to on a positive note,

0:08.8

where I sit down with a songwriter, recording artist, or music insider to learn more about how music can lift our spirits and heal our hearts.

0:18.3

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and that made it the perfect time to sit down

0:22.8

with Kathy Fink and Marcy Markser, best known as the Grammy-winning duo Kathy and Marcy.

0:29.0

They have been entertaining audiences for more than 40 years, and when Marcy received a breast

0:33.4

cancer diagnosis, they faced it the same way they have faced all of life's challenges,

0:38.4

side by side and with music and humor.

0:41.3

The result is a comedic musical called All Wigged Out, which has been made into a film

0:46.2

and details Marcy's journey with breast cancer.

0:49.5

They sat down with me to talk about how they transformed this health challenge into a musical

0:54.0

story of

0:54.8

hope and healing to share with the world. Let's take a listen. Kathy and Marcy, it is such an honor

1:01.7

to have you here on a positive note. Thank you. Great to talk with you again. This is a

1:07.2

wonderful podcast. Well, thank you so much. Thank you so much.

1:11.2

And it's because of artists like you who are doing incredible things that it's really,

1:15.7

there's so much to share with people.

1:17.8

And that really excites me.

1:19.3

There's a lot that we could talk about with the two of you because you've been making

1:22.9

music on so many levels for more than 40 years.

1:26.3

And there's kids music. There's Americana. How do you

1:29.7

categorize your music? Because I've, nobody else seems to be able to do that. We don't do it well.

1:36.6

So if we're really pressed to say, what do you do? We'll just say eclectic American roots.

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