by Zoe Gonzalez | Mar 10, 2026 | Podcast
“I found one anchor. It was unique to me.” Matthew Zachary was 21, a piano prodigy, when a brain tumor diagnosis stripped him of nearly every bodily function and left him completely alone in a system that had no language for what he was. He went on to...
by Joelle K | Mar 3, 2026 | Podcast
"I normalize all my traumas according to my therapist. But seriously — how can you not normalize it? Because this is reality now. It's my normal now." Bill Thach was 33 when he was diagnosed with neuroendocrine carcinoma — a subtype occurring in roughly 1 in 100,000...
by Zoe Gonzalez | Feb 24, 2026 | Podcast
I told my oncologist that treatment’s going to have to wait ’cause I’m booked up. And she just looked at me with eight eyes and said, “Valerie, if you don’t treat this, this is fatal.” Performer and playwright Valerie David has had cancer...
by Zoe Gonzalez | Feb 10, 2026 | Podcast
“I talk about my sparkle and I just felt like… hormone blockers took my sparkle. That cognitive side of it, the lack of desire, feeling just fatigued... during cancer treatment, it was like the last thing that I wanted to do." In this essential conversation, clinical...
