My breast cancer journey - optimistic and feisty!

My breast cancer journey - optimistic and feisty!

This is a platform for sharing our breast cancer journeys and testimonies (for me and for every single one of my amazing invited resilient pink sisters) as a source of encouragement to anyone going through breast cancer. I’m praying it provides a testimony of God’s unwavering faithfulness as we navigate this trajectory. Thank you so much for listening

Episodes

39. Talk with Sabreen Sudan Jolly-Brown - Share YOUR Story! Let Me Choose To Live!

June 25, 2025 • 29 mins

Talk with Sabreen Sudan Jolly-Brown “Sabreen Speaks”

I first had the opportunity to reach out to my most recent Podcast guest, Sabreen when I came across her amazing Instagram post pretty recently. After chatting for a short while, Sabreen agreed to being a guest on the Podcast!!!!! I want to first say a HUGE THANK YOU to my dear sister, Sabreen walking us through her journey and sharing her incredible breast cancer testimony today...

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38. Talk with Anetra Bey - Unshaken Faith in Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ

December 31, 2024 • 19 mins

Thank you so much, sis, for being my most recent guest on the Podcast. For me, sharing your testimony is such an amazing way to close out 2024, sis!!!!!! Sis, I pray that you'll continue to be protected and healed, only by the grace and power of our living God!


It was absolutely amazing having my dearest sister, Anetra, share her testimony of the Lord's goodness and healing power throughout her periods of health challenges. Specif...

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37. Talk with LaShae Rolle - take it one day at a time and trust that it will all work out…

October 1, 2024 • 28 mins
  1. Talk with LaShae Rolle, MPH, CPH
  2. ​Happy Breast Cancer Awareness Month, family❤️❤️❤️❤️!!!!!! My goodness! My most recent guest on the Podcast, my dear sister, LaShae Rolle was an amazing breath of our God’s unwavering power in navigating through her breast cancer journey with such poise, resilience and empowerment! My sister’s inspiring words “take it one day at a time and trust that it WILL all work out”


  1. ​LaShae’s j...
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36. Talk with Dekesha Bridgeforth - if I’m still here, I’m here for a purpose!

July 14, 2024 • 16 mins
Thank you so very much, my dear sister Dekesha for being our most recent Podcast guest! Dekesha shares her incredible testimony of God bringing her through getting diagnosed with Stage 3B breast cancer in April 2021. She subsequently went through getting 21 of her lymph nodes removed (resulting in lymphedema), 11 rounds of chemo (starting just a week before her 45th birthday) and 32 days of radiation! ...
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35. Talk with Sherri Lee - Things We Can Never Figure Out On Our Own...

June 9, 2024 • 92 mins

I wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU to my most recent Podcast guest, Sherri Lee. I’ve had the tremendous pleasure of following Sherri’s postings on IG since the beginning of the year. My goodness, Sherri is an amazing Breast Cancer Survivor, Digital Creator and upcoming Author!!!! YES, SIS!!!! Sherri was initially diagnosed in 2022. She was very vigilant about doing her monthly self-breast exams!!! That was the basis of her journey. S...

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34. Talk with Angelica (Angie) Valadez - Standing Strong and Staying Deeply Grateful to God!!!!!

April 30, 2024 • 16 mins
My recent guest, Angelica (Angie) Valadez, was initially diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 2020 then diagnosed with MBC in 2022. Angie was first diagnosed with stage 2B HER2+ breast cancer. She underwent chemotherapy, lumpectomy, radiation, hormone therapy, axillary lymph node dissection and oophorectomy at that time. Things got better! Subsequently, Angie was told there was No Evidence of Disease (NED) for the next 11 m...
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33. Talk with Silvia Garcia - Our God Turns Pain To Purpose With Silvia’s Creations!

February 24, 2024 • 22 mins
It was such an absolute pleasure having my dear sister, Silvia Garcia on the most recent Podcast episode!!!!!!! It was such a joy speaking with you and having you share your incredible testimony, sis!!!! Silvia was diagnosed with Stage IIB Triple Negative Breast Cancer in March 2020. She was just 31 years old at that time! What? And at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic! Silvia ended up going through 16 rounds of chemo and bilat...
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32. Talk with Shalita Thrasher - Our God Turning Pain Into Purpose In Such A Beautiful Way!!!

January 4, 2024 • 12 mins

My goodness! I'll always remain deeply grateful to God for Him intentionally placing my pink sister, Shalita Thrasher in my path! It was such an honor to have Shalita share her powerful testimony on the Podcast today. Shalita’s journey began in May 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when she underwent a routine mammogram and breast exam. She was given an “all clear” at that appointment and asked to return for her...

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31. Talk with Towina M. Jones - I am with you AND I will go through this with you!

November 30, 2023 • 28 mins

I want to say a HUGE thank you to Towina!!!! I had the pleasure of having her share incredible testimony, life lessons and words of encouragement and wisdom on the Podcast this week! She was so real, very relatable and just an ambassador of the Joy of the Lord in our lives!!! Thank you, Towina!


Towina M. Jones is an Ambassador of Christ (as His daughter), a Lover of Life ...

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30. Talk with Adriana McCullouch - What Am I Learning From This Journey?

October 29, 2023 • 13 mins
I’m deeply grateful to have my dear sister, Adriana McCullouch chatting with me today. Adriana is a mother, life coach, breast cancer survivor and an avid animal lover! And she’s such an amazing trailblazer pink sister!!!! Adriana joins me today to recall the stories and lessons learned in her breast cancer journey from her routine screening (for the first time ever!) to her diagnosis, treatment plan including mastectomy, chemo, r...
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29. Talk with Dr. Morgan Mitchell How could I be overjoyed and overwhelmed?

October 25, 2023 • 65 mins
Talk with Dr. Morgan Mitchell For this episode, I had the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Morgan Mitchell. Morgan recalled how she was so incredibly elated to graduate with her doctoral degree, after tireless hours, days, weeks, months and years of working on her dissertation and eventually defending her thesis and earning her doctorate degree in Biochemistry in August 2020 from the University of Texas at the age of 36! But wait! ...
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28. Talk with Dr. Chalice Rhodes Creating healthy boundaries and balance

October 23, 2023 • 51 mins
My goodness!!!!! Chalice and I are kindred sisters!!!!! I’m so amazed, in awe and deeply grateful to God for orchestrating my meeting with Chalice, just me reaching out to her to find out more about her Podcast titled “Breast Cancer, Mental Health, & Black Women Breast Cancer Disparities: Clinical Research Trials” LIVE on Monday, 10/16/23! Dr. Chalice C. Rhodes (formerly Jenkins) is a licensed and nationally certified Professiona...
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27. Talk with Sonja Sulcer Moving forward in HER God-given purpose!

October 23, 2023 • 31 mins
In this episode, I had the tremendous privilege of chatting with Sonja Sulcer, who is a wife, mom, breast cancer survivor, Amazon best-selling author and remains a trailblazer deeply committed to her relationship with Jesus Christ!!!! Sonja was diagnosed with HER2-positive breast cancer in November 2021, just after her routine mammogram, then biopsy. It was initially worked up to be Stage 0 (DCIS), but after surgery, findings from...
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26. Talk with Paris Smith - Continuing to help to be that light!

October 22, 2023 • 39 mins
I’m deeply grateful to my dearest pink sister, Paris Smith for coming on yet another Podcast episode (it’s her third time here!!!!)! I had chatted previously with Paris on Episodes 8 and 15! Thank you so much for continuing to share your invaluable words of wisdom and reflections on your new normal and beauty, Paris! I continue to be in awe of how our God remains in control and remains faithful as Paris shares her Stage 2 breast ...
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25. Talk with Dawn Marone Living toxin-free! It’s one step at a time

October 21, 2023 • 27 mins
In this episode, I had the awesome pleasure of chatting with Dawn Marone, my dear sister with so much knowledge and practice about healthy living in every way. I met Dawn on IG while looking into breast cancer survivors living their best toxin-free lives. My goodness, thank you much for being such a great advocate for toxin-free living!!!!!!! She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011, had a double mastectomy later that year and...
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24. Talk with Dr. Sally Knox - Focus on the things that bring you life, recognizing the power of God

October 14, 2023 • 21 mins
For this episode, I had the awesome pleasure of chatting with Dr. Sally Knox, who shared so many of her remarkable thoughts and words of wisdom so incredibly well. Dr. Sally Knox, MD FACS is a surgical oncologist specializing in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of breast cancer. She practiced for 30 years at Baylor Scott & White Hospital in downtown Dallas with a team of breast cancer specialists who are passionate about stam...
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23. Talk with Camille Lewis What is this cancer trying to teach me? Start with your “ME-SEARCH”!

October 12, 2023 • 18 mins
Camille Lewis’ words “What is this Cancer trying to teach me? Start with doing your “ME-SEARCH”, recognize that are rewards in obedience…” still resonate with me. I had the amazing privilege and honor of having Camille Lewis here for this brief episode. Camille was and still is an anti-bias early childhood educator and preschool teacher in the Denver, Co...
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22. Talk with Angela HE is STILL making a way!

October 8, 2023 • 23 mins
Thank you so very much, Angela for chatting with me about your breast cancer testimony. Had the privilege of chatting with Angela a few days ago. She walked me through the miracle of her eventual diagnosis, after an initial MISdiagnosis of mastitis! I also had mastitis during each of my 2 pregnancies. Angela eventually sought a second opinion, then lo and behold, needed a diagnostic ultrasound, then a biopsy. She was diagnosed wi...
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21. Talk with Dionne Phillips Finding out the truth in a “Dionne-ish” way!

October 7, 2023 • 56 mins
I was really honored to have my dear pink sister, Dionne (Dee) Phillips, talking through her breast cancer testimony. My goodness! Many of her reflections so resonate with me. She’s an amazing Clinical Mental Health Counselor and a Registered Nurse, so she just had that gut feeling that something was just not right, despite her Provider’s initial dismissal. ...
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20. Talk with Jeanelle It ain’t over! Live every day…

September 24, 2023 • 44 mins
In this episode, I had the awesome pleasure of chatting with Jeanelle as I learned so much from her sharing her story and it continues to resonate with me! Jeanelle talks through her story of just noticing something wasn’t right as she noticed multiple abnormal symptoms with her breast, but her doctor maintained that everything was normal and insisted that was too young to worry. As Jeanelle recalled, her daughter was 6 years old a...
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