Welcome back to this week's episode of Unlocked. I am so excited to have Dr. Christina Rom on. Welcome.

Thank you so much, Savannah. It's so great to be here. No, it's, we've been trying to do this for a while. It's just even living in the same city. It's hard to get connected at the right time. Yeah, well, we both travel so much. We're not usually in this city.

Exactly, right? That's just like where we store our things. Yeah, yeah. But you, like, I love

following you and everything that you stand for, but obviously I've gotten into the health and

wellness space and you are an expert on it. I think you're, you know, you're more human first and then

expert second, which is great. Thank you for saying that. You're the first person that's ever

said that to me and that's how I would describe who I am. I love that. Yeah. I just think it's,

if you don't approach it that way, then ethically, it's hard to succeed.

You're so right. And honestly, when you're in health and wellness, I don't care what your

education is or where you come from, you're trying to help the world. If you don't make that

a moral decision and you're just trying to make money, it doesn't work.

No, it doesn't.

And so what, where did this journey start for you?

So I lost a child to cancer.

I ended up having a pituitary polyctanoma and serenomyelia tumors in the spine and brain

and then melanoma, squamousamous basal and cancer spread throughout my

body and i was 26 yeah so it was it was just kind of a wake-up moment to what do and i was having

so much fun in my life i was literally i say this i used to be a lot of fun um hey i bet you still are

i can be i can be but i used to have a lot of fun. Hey, I bet you still are. I can be.

I can be. But I used to have a lot of fun. And then I realized, why am I here? What am I going to do? And then I had children. And of course, my focus has been, how do I do something good for humanity? And that's why I loved what you said in the beginning. And that's really what I want to do. Well, it's what's crazy is I have one of my good friends, their little girl was diagnosed with cancer. And luckily now she's in remission. She's seven years old now. She just got in remission.

But it was a long journey to go through it all. They had failed bone marrow transplants, all the things.

But she was here at Vanderbilt and she's getting like her chemo treatments.

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