Our MBC Life

Send us Fan Mail Join us as we revisit our inaugural episode with Maimah Karmo of the Tigerlily Foundation.  The #inclusionpledge initiative was started when our Trailblazer series co-host and the founder of  Angel In Disquise, Inc,  Jersi Baker, raised her voice at a conference asking why no one looked like her on stage even when the discussion was on racial disparities in healthcare for people l...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for our third Trailblazer of the Month, Tiah Tomlin and My Style Matters.  Our Co-host, Jersi Baker interviews Tiah about how she started her foundation and how they are working with individuals living with MBC along with early-stage breast cancer patients and caregivers in the Greater Atlanta area.  We’re so happy you joined us! If this conversation resonated with you ple...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a very special episode as "We Remember".  Listeners join our hosts and podcast team in sharing remembrances of friends and loved ones who, due to MBC, are no longer with us.  Kate Keith again joins the podcast to share her husband Ryan with all of us and we have very special moments remembering people through the arts.  Together we share the grief and loss of...

Send us Fan Mail  Did you know that not ALL breast cancer can be detected by a lump?  Well, the dedicated people behind the Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance  (LBCA) do.  Join us for an engaging hour with the new Executive Director of the LBCA, Laurie Hutcheson, the LBCA Scientific Advisory Board Founder and Chair, Dr. Steffi Oesterreich, and Dr. Adrian V. Lee, who with Dr. Oesterreich runs the Lee/O...

Send us Fan Mail In honor of Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day, Lisa Laudico is joined by special guest co-host Emily Veach, Host, and Producer of the new Happy Death podcast to interview Kate Petrides.  Kate has been an MBC Advocate since her early-stage breast cancer diagnosis in 2012 at age 25.   She speaks openly about this disease and how she is approaching her diagnosis, treatment, and...

Send us Fan Mail Join co-hosts Kirby Lewis and Lisa Laudico for our interview with Male Breast Cancer advocate, Michael Singer, and Kate Keith, widow of Male MBC advocate, Ryan Keith.  Kate talks candidly about how Ryan was diagnosed, his treatment challenges, and how it felt for him to be a man with MBC.  Michael Singer, an early-stage breast cancer advocate, discusses how he has seen awareness a...

Send us Fan Mail Kicking off Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we interview Katherine O’Brien, a leading force in MBC advocacy since 2009.  Katherine was diagnosed with MBC in 2009 at the age of 43 and she quickly recognized that there were very few media accounts featuring people living with a Stage IV diagnosis.  As a full-time writer and so she decided to change this lack of media coverage of MBC...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for our talk with Ricki Fairley, founder of TOUCH Black Breast Cancer Alliance – who is one of those incredible early stage advocates working so hard to make a difference for Black breast cancer and for everyone in the MBC Community.  Ricki has an incredible story of how she upended and change her life when she was diagnosed with Stage 3A Triple Negative Breast Cancer that...

Send us Fan Mail This JGS Listener Roundup has two special messages from our listeners plus a wonderful story about signs from The Cancer Couch Foundation’s Tom Scalera’s interview at the beginning of this month.  Join us for our second Trailblazer of the Month, La' Kesha Jackson - Gordon, founder of Pink Shoes Inc.  We also have memorable moments from Jamil Rivers, President of Metavivor,  D...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Gayle Vaday, Program Manager of the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs focused on Breast Cancer, aka BCRP, joins co-host Sheila McGlown and Lisa Laudico for a conversation on this important funder of MBC Research.  Learn more about the history of the DOD BCRP and how patient advocates helped make it happen.  We discuss how the DOD BCRP is...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Dorraya El-Ashry, the Chief Scientific Officer for the Breast Cancer Research Fund (BCRF), joins host Lisa Laudico to discuss the many exciting MBC research initiatives that BCRF is undertaking.  BCRF is the largest private funder of MBC research in the U.S and this year alone, they have disbursed over $27 million to MBC research.  Join our conversation on how these funds are...

Send us Fan Mail Co-host Chawnte Randall interviews Metavivor's new President, Jamil Rivers, the first Black President of an MBC organization.  Jamil discusses the many ways Metavivor fundraises for much needed MBC Research & the way this foundation evaluates research grants.  Listen for her Inspiring insights as a groundbreaking leader that includes the necessity of self-care.  Also with...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a look into the legacy and work of Dr. Rebecca Timlin-Scalera and The Cancer Couch Foundation with her husband and new Executive Director, Tom Scalera.  The conversation covers advocacy, fundraising for MBC Research, partnering with labs, "making every dollar count" and living with grief during COVID.  We’re so happy you joined us! If this conversation resona...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for our first podcast highlighting the voices of you, our listeners, this month, and a special introduction to the Our MBC Life team, who all are living with MBC while making this podcast. We also kick off our Trailblazer of the Month series that showcases local non-profits and individuals making a difference for the MBC community.  You can submit your "Just Gotta SHA...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Nancy Lin, the Director of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, joins Lisa Laudico and co-host, Chawnte Randall, for a conversation on the issues with brain mets research for MBC patients, some of the latest research and trials for brain mets and MBC, Dr. Lin's reflections on tele-health and how Covid 19 has impacted her.  Join the convers...

Send us Fan Mail Join us to meet two leading MBC advocates who are focused on addressing issues related to Brain Mets and MBC.  Christine Hodgdon and Nunny Reece speak with Lisa Laudico on the MBCA Marina Kaplan Project, living with Brain Mets, treatment side effects, advocacy, mental health, Tik Tok, and more.  These women are leading in inspiring ways.  You can find links to their projects and m...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of OurMBCLife is not only informative but also entertaining. The doctors from the 3BlackDocs podcast know how to keep it real, laugh, and have fun. Dr. Karen, Dr. Zanetta, and Dr. Tiffany bring their professional take on our ongoing conversation about racial disparities in healthcare and addressing structural barriers that lead to disparities in treatments and outcome...

Send us Fan Mail Join our conversation with Emily Garnett's husband, Christian Garnett, and her dear friend and fellow MBC advocate, Abigail Johnston, as we discuss Emily's legacy projects, grief, caregiver supports, mental health, and so much more.  Emily Garnett died in March 2020 after living with MBC for 2.5 years.  During that time, she was a prolific writer, blogger, and podcast ho...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we continue to discuss the issues surrounding racial disparities in MBC healthcare.  We speak with leading MBC advocates, Sheila McGlown and Chawnte Randall, and with the social media breast cancer leaders, Jasmine Souers and Marissa Thomas of For The Breast Of US about their own experiences and how they advocate for their own treatment and for those in their comm...

Send us Fan Mail Exploring life with MBC is our mission. Everyone’s cancer is different but what should not be different is our access to healthcare, treatments, and trials that can maintain our quality of life and improve overall survival.  In this episode, our conversation with two women, Jersi Baker and Maimah Karmo who are using their voice to ask questions, challenge norms, and demand a chang...

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