Helene Barron: From Tarawera Ultra to Tongue Cancer - The Year Everything Changed

Helene Barron is an elite trail runner, a high-performance physiotherapist, a coach, a wife, a mum, a daughter, a sister, a legend and now a survivor- after being diagnosed with tongue cancer.In early 2023 Helene was on top of the world: she’d just finished top 5 at the Tarawera 100 Miler, one of the toughest tunning races in the country. Life was good: Career, family, everything was lining up.And then, just weeks later…everything changed. Helene became one of the 77 New Zealanders every day who get told they have cancer.In this episode, we get into:+ The moment she discovered something wasn’t right: a tiny sore that turned out to be aggressive cancer+ The phone call that no one ever wants to receive+ Recording goodbye messages for her kids before surgery+ What it’s really like going through six weeks of radiation+ And how she found the strength to keep moving forward when everything felt uncertainWe also talk about resilience, perspective, and why she lives by one simple rule now: don’t drop the glass balls (I’d never heard this theory before but I love it- I hope you will too)Watch Helenes doco here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0t97mhZcIA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.