Be the CEO of your Your Health with Dana Sherwin

💬 message Denise A gentle reminder — Dana shares her personal journey through a blood cancer diagnosis and stem cell transplant. Her story is powerful and it is hers. If anything she shares stirs something in you about your own health, please reach out to your healthcare provider.What happens when someone who has spent decades inside the healthcare system suddenly becomes the patient? Dana Sherwin — healthcare executive, consultant, and almost seven-year survivor of a stem cell transplant for a blood cancer disorder — joins Denise Drinkwalter on this episode of Thrive After 45™ to talk about the one thing most women never learned: how to show up for themselves inside the healthcare system.Through her initiative The Thinking Patient, Dana helps people become informed, confident, engaged partners in their own care. In this conversation, she shares the hard lessons from her own health journey and the practical tools every woman needs — starting today.What we cover:Why your OB-GYN should not be your primary care physicianThe importance of forming a relationship with a primary care doctor earlyWhat it means to truly be the CEO of your own healthHow to prepare for a doctor's appointment so you walk in focused and walk out clearThe question you are most afraid to ask — and why you must ask itWhat 85% of diagnoses actually depend onGenetic testing and what it can and cannot tell youHow to advocate for yourself inside a 15-minute appointmentThe power of writing things down before you ever step into that officeFind Dana Sherwin: 🌐 The Thinking Patient 📲 Connect with Dana through her healthcare consulting and speaking workConnect with Denise | Thrive After 45™: 🌐 Denise Drinkwalter 📲 @thethriveafter45podcast 💫 IGNITE: The Inner Uprising™ — Canada's inaugural midlife women's gathering, November 2026 👉 Join the waitlist: ignite2026.lovable.app Thank you for spending time with me today on the Thrive After 45™ podcast! If this episode spoke to you, be sure to hit that follow button so you never miss one.November 2026, I will be hosting a live, in-person experience called IGNITE: The Inner Uprising™.It is a two-day immersive gathering for women in midlife — women who feel the quiet pull toward something more truthful, more embodied, more fully their own.IGNITE is an extension of these conversations.It’s where reflection becomes embodiment.Where insight becomes integration.Where women who have held so much for others gather to stand fully in their own sovereignty.If something in today’s conversation stirred you — if your body leaned in — that is NOT accidental.The waitlist is now open.If IGNITE feels like something your future self would thank you for, I invite you to add your name here. https://ignite2026.lovable.appThere is a place for us to gather.If you loved this episode, I’d be so grateful if you left a review - it helps more amazing women like you find this show!Your journey doesn’t stop here - let’s keep the conversation going! Connect with me at denisedrinkwalter.com, and follow ...