Diaries of a Breast Cancer Baddie

Send us Fan Mail ' The People Who Stayed, The Hair That Didn't' In the final episode of our Two Heartbeats, One Diagnosis, Zero Surrender series, we're talking about the stuff that doesn't always make it into the brochures. The friends who showed up. The people who disappeared. The completely unhinged things people say to cancer patients. The products that got us through t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Diaries of a Breast Cancer Baddie, we get brutally honest about what happens after the big moments — after chemo, after surgery, after radiation… when the adrenaline wears off and reality hits. Because no one really talks about this part. We dive into the physical and emotional aftermath of breast cancer treatment — from mastectomies and reconstruction choices,...

Send us Fan Mail In part 2 of this powerful pregnancy and breast cancer series, we hear the raw, chaotic and deeply moving reality of what happens when motherhood, cancer treatment and survival all collide at once. Jess and Eloise share what it was like to navigate rare and aggressive breast cancer diagnoses while pregnant, including inflammatory breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer, hormo...

Send us Fan Mail Two Heartbeats. One Diagnosis. Zero Surrender. What happens when the moment that’s meant to be one of the happiest of your life suddenly collides with one of the most terrifying sentences you can hear: “You have breast cancer.” In this powerful episode of Diaries of a Breast Cancer Baddie, we sit down with two extraordinary women whose pregnancies took an unexpected and life-alter...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Diaries of a Breast Cancer Baddie — a breast cancer podcast sharing real, unfiltered breast cancer stories — we’re diving into the parts of the chemo journey and life after diagnosis that no one really prepares you for. From pre-surgery “champagne” (aka that blissful liquid Valium before you go under) to the emotional shift from “my body has betrayed me” to “my...

Send us Fan Mail This episode goes where the thoughts get loud — the middle of the night, when no one’s around and your brain refuses to switch off. We talk about the things that made us angry (misinformation, mixed messages, and being told what we can’t do), the frustration of navigating cancer in a world drowning in advice, and the quiet grief of wondering “what if?” — especially around missed d...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of 'A Series with My Baddies', we hand the mic to Anne and dive into what her treatment plan was supposed to look like… and what it actually became. Anne talks us through her lumpectomy and lymph node surgery, the curveball of not having a complete pathological response, and how that changed her treatment timeline — extending things further than expected (becau...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, part 1 of our next series 'The OG Baddies: Zero F*&K's, Full Strength', I sit down with my three baddie besties — Anne, Emilie, and Irene — the women who walked this breast cancer road right alongside me. We met during treatment, bonded through chaos, dark humour, port scars, and a whole lot of “WTF is happening right now?”. We introduce each wo...

Send us Fan Mail What’s it really like when your mum gets breast cancer… from a 6-year-old’s point of view ? In this very special mini episode, I sit down with my daughter for a raw, funny, unexpectedly hopeful chat about what it was like for her when I was diagnosed and going through treatment. We talk about: What she thought cancer meant  Seeing mum sick, bald, tired — and still being mum The sc...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 4: Chemo, Confidence & Finding Your Irene In this episode of Diaries of a Breast Cancer Baddie , Louisa sits down with one of her closest chemo cottage besties, Irene — a fellow breast cancer warrior who went through treatment alongside her. From the moment they met at a Look Good Feel Better workshop (bonding over Chanel makeup), this episode dives deep into the reali...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Diaries of a Breast Cancer Baddie , Lu sits down with Irene to talk about the one thing everyone dreads but no one really explains properly: chemo . They take you inside the Patricia Ritchie Centre – lovingly renamed the Chemo Cottage – where treatment looked less like a cold hospital ward and more like an old heritage home full of nurses, support people and pat...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 2, the first in 'A Series with Irene', I sit down with one of my closest breast cancer baddies — the glamorous, hilarious, unfiltered queen herself: Irene. We met in the most iconic way possible… fighting over Chanel at a Look Good, Feel Better workshop. One shared glance, two matching foundation shades, and boom — a friendship forged in chemo, chaos, and ques...

Send us Fan Mail In the very first episode of Diaries of a Breast Cancer Baddie , Louisa (AKA Lu) takes you right back to the moment that changed everything: the phone call no one is ever ready for. At 34, with two young kids, a busy career and a full life, Lu thought she was doing all the “right” things. Then, out of nowhere, came those three words: You have breast cancer. This episode is her unf...