Cancer and Courage

I have witnessed something again and again in people living with cancer who have experienced excellent - and sometimes extraordinary - results. Resolve. I hear it in their words. “I will not be the one in 100.” “Have you ever seen someone with my diagnosis go into remission? You have? Then I’ll be the next.” “I have no alternative but to be okay.” There is a conviction in the way they speak. A dec...

What if, despite your cancer diagnosis or prognosis, something inside you knows you’re going to be okay? Maybe you’ve said it out loud. Maybe you’ve only whispered it to yourself. Maybe you’re almost afraid to trust it because the evidence around you appears to say something different. This episode is for you. For more than two decades as a coach - and since 2021 specifically in the cancer space -...

Julie Gabrielson has been living with cancer for 18 years. Her journey has included multiple recurrences, numerous surgeries, a mastectomy, cancer spreading to different parts of her body, and in 2024, the discovery of a golf-ball-sized tumour in her brain. And yet, very early in her journey, Julie made a decision: “I am not cancer.” Cancer was something she was experiencing. It was not who she wa...

Cancer can be a threshold moment. A moment when the life you were living, the person you have been, or something you have carried within yourself can no longer remain unseen. Sometimes, we recognise the threshold before a diagnosis. We already know something needs to change - a relationship, a career, the pace at which we're living, the way we've been treating ourselves, or an identity we&...

After coaching people with cancer for more than six years, I've noticed three common identity patterns that often emerge. Not in everyone. But often enough that they're worth paying attention to. The need to control. The need to be perfect. The need to fulfil obligations. Then cancer arrives. Suddenly the diagnosis can't be controlled. Perfection feels impossible. Obligations begin to...

If healing from cancer is your priority, this is an important episode. In this conversation, I speak to something that is often overlooked, yet deeply influential in both business and healing: The energetics from which you hold yourself. Not just what you do… But the energy from which you: see yourself respond to your circumstances move through your journey I begin by sharing a personal story from...

If you’ve found your way here… this is not by accident. In this deeply personal episode, I open my heart to share  why  I created the Cancer & Courage Podcast—and the journey that led me here. This is more than a podcast about cancer. It’s a space where we honour both the  medical path  and the  inner journey —because mindset is medicine. I share: The unexpected path that led me into cancer co...

Being diagnosed with cancer can feel like the ground has been pulled from beneath you. Shock. Fear. Overwhelm. Uncertainty. In this episode, Gisele speaks directly to that moment - the moment everything changes - and offers a grounded, compassionate way to begin navigating what comes next. This is not about forced positivity or having all the answers. It’s about: Allowing the full human response U...

Welcome to Cancer and Courage. This is a space for those impacted by cancer - through diagnosis, treatment, remission, and end of life - and for those who walk beside them. Hosted by cancer coach Gisele Gambi, this podcast meets the experience of cancer beyond the physical. Because while medical treatment matters deeply, there is another layer that profoundly shapes how you move through it - your...