#40 - Emily Garnett & Laura Carfang; When Two Breast Cancer Podcasters Finally Connect

Love the podcast? Send us a text! Emily Garnett & Laura Carfang; When Two Breast Cancer Podcasters Finally Connect by SurvivingBreastCancer.org Summary: In this episode, Laura and Emily interview each other about their respective podcasts and organizations. They each explain what inspired them to create these organizations, their diagnosis, and many of the struggles they have been through. Emily provides insight into how to tell your children about your breast cancer diagnosis and how to provide support for individuals with a stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Topics: 8:28 Why Emily decided to start her podcast 11:41 Emily’s diagnosis 12:56 Metastatic de novo breast cancer 25:00 Emily’s biopsy and PET scan 29:40 Telling children about your breast cancer diagnosis 39:21 Creating dialogue 41:55 Origins of survivingbreastcancer.org 54:32 How to provide support to someone with stage 4 cancer 1:08:05 Emily’s blog and podcast Resources: Store my tumor https://storemytumor.com/ Emily’s website: https://emilygarnett.wordpress.com/ Podcast: The intersection of cancer in life Podcast website: https://theintersectionofcancerandlife.libsyn.com/ Quotes: 35:36 Emily: “It's so sweet and I feel like kids are such great conduits for so many important conversations. And for us, it really became a point where we could go, we could really start talking about a lot of the more nuanced aspects of people can identify as women. And that that those things, those characteristics aren't necessarily like the only defining characteristics. And then that has actually been a great teaching point in that not only like raising a little boy to recognize, you know, that there is a much bigger element of gender fluidity that that we don't recognize and sometimes really in the breast cancer community too. We can, we can kind of fall short of recognizing it because It's so stereotypically a female disease and like my, my, my grandfather had had breast cancer. And so, it, it's always been very important for me to recognize that breast cancer isn't necessarily something that women get, and that people who have breast cancer don't necessarily identify as women and you don't get however, however, their presentation might be.” Socials: Say Hi on Social: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/SURVIVINGBREASTCANCER Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Survivingbreastcancerorg Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/BreastCancerConversations/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SBC_org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/survivingbreastcancerorg/ _________________________ Subscribe to our newsletter https://www.survivingbreastcancer.org/subscribe-1 Donate to our cause https://tinyurl.com/yc9cgt4e Attend an event https://www.survivingbreastcancer.org/events Support the show Listener Feedback Please share a review with us! If this episode resonated with you, we invite you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share some stars! You can also click the link in the show notes that says "Love this episode? Send us a text" to share feedback. Messages are completely anonymous. If you would like us to follow up directly, please include your email address in your message so we can respond. Latest News: Join our Mailing List - New content drops every Monday! Discover FREE programs, support groups, and resources from SurvivingBReastCancer.org! Enjoying our content? Please consider supporting our work.