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Willow Star | Healing Stage 4 Breast Cancer

Willow is a cancer thriver, dancer, writer, and traveler. She has transformed her entire life, while healing stage 4 breast cancer. She travels in her vintage van giving “healing sessions” to those with cancer, using cacao and tarot as a way to dive into the emotional side of cancer. Willow is currently creating a healing retreat space in her home in Mount Shasta, California. She shares her journey vulnerably on YouTube, IG and TikTok to inspire others. Willow says that cancer healed her life.
During our conversation, Willow shares openly about her life and marriage prior to her diagnosis, how she discovered a lump in her breast, the shock of learning her first diagnosis was stage IV breast cancer, the decision she made to leave her marriage, why she chose to no longer do mammography, the conventional treatment she did, why she fired two of her oncologists, some of the natural protocols she chose, and how six years later she’s living a healthy, aligned life.
For more information go to meetwillowstar.com

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Dina Legland | How Cancer Saved Her Life

For over 32 years, Dina Legland has been a wife and mother of two successful daughters all while acting as a licensed RN, EMT, and home health care provider.
As a first responder, she exemplifies strength and courage as she thinks on her feet, though her self-response time wasn’t always that way.
Dina says that cancer saved her life by helping her discover the underlying fears that paralyzed her, and these internal fears almost killed her.
Now Dina is certified in health and life transformation to help women face their greatest fear to gain clarity around its source to overcome worries that feel toxic like cancer.
Today, she has great strength and response time for herself, and her mission is to help others identify their fears to overcome what they dread using their custom tools, gain back control and unleash their inner warrior.
During our conversation, Dina shares how her family’s health struggles motivated her to lose weight prior to her breast cancer diagnosis, how she gained back 45 pounds during treatment, and the toll that took on her mentally and emotionally. She also shares how to uncover those things you fear the most, how to manage those fears, and the most important lesson cancer taught her.
Dina can be reached at wellnesswarriorsforlife.com

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Chris Joseph | Thriving After Pancreatic Cancer

Over the last 35 years, Chris Joseph has started and managed three environmental consulting businesses, launched two fan-funded music record companies, and founded a non-profit charitable foundation. He’s also dabbled in philanthropy, book writing, songwriting, and magazine writing. His company, CAJA Environmental Services, is a leading environmental consulting firm in southern California.
Chris is also an odds-defying, stage-three pancreatic cancer survivor and thriver since 2016, as described in his best-selling 2020 book “Life is a Ride: My Unconventional Journey of Cancer Recovery.” He is also a co-curator and contributing author to “The Epiphanies Project: Twenty Personal Revelations.” Chris is also a podcaster with four currently released, including Talking Threadheads, The Epiphanies Project, Oy Vey L.A., and Happy Endings: Overcoming Life’s Obstacles in Unconventional Ways.
During our conversation, Chris shares the symptoms he felt months prior to his cancer diagnosis, why he wasn’t responding to his prescribed chemotherapy, why he decided to fire his oncologist, the treatments he got in Germany that are unavailable in the United States,
what he continues to do to remain healthy, and the important advice he gives to others going through a health challenge.
For more on Chris’s work go to linktr.ee/chrisjoseph_author

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Bethany Webb | Finding Freedom through Cancer

As a Mindset Coach, Author, and Cancer Thriver, Bethany Webb’s mission is to find freedom with everything life brings. Always intrigued by the relationship between the Mind & Body, she loves exploring how our mental BS (belief systems) affect our emotions, physical sensation and overall health & wellbeing. Her healing toolbox provides a compassionate inner support system, especially during her journey healing stage IV breast cancer. She now loves to say her diagnosis is to “live the f*ck out of life!” Her greatest passion is helping others find the same freedom through online classes, coaching, and her book baby: My Guru Cancer.
During our candid conversation, Bethany shares how she discovered a lump in her breast, what test she chose to do that didn’t show cause for concern, the test that revealed she had breast cancer, how The Work of Byron Katie helped her cope with her diagnosis, and how she opened her mind to western medicine, while using complementary therapies as well.
She also shares a powerful example of using four simple questions that helped shift her mindset, how she felt after being declared “cancer-free”, how she accepted her new body, and how she chose to live her life after a recurrence.
Learn more at bethanywebb.com

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Tara Coyote | Hospice to Full Recovery

Tara Coyote is the owner of a horse retreat center, Wind Horse Sanctuary in Kaua’i, Hawaii, which was formally located in Northern CA. She is a certified Equine Facilitated Learning teacher and a life coach. Over the years, she has guided hundreds of people with private sessions, group workshops and ‘Grief Rituals with Horses’.
Tara’s memoir, Grace, Grit & Gratitude: A Cancer Thriver’s Journey from Hospice to Full Recovery with the Healing Power of Horses is a #1 bestseller on Amazon in eight different categories! Her book is about overcoming adversity, a deep dive into the challenges that come from loss, her own harrowing health journey and how her horses have played a significant role in her miraculous healing with cancer.
She happily lives in Kaua’i with her two horses, Aussie Shepard & cats. She believes it is always possible to find beauty within the greatest tragedy and that every challenge is present to serve us for our highest growth!
During our conversation, Tara shares the signs that she ignored leading up to her breast cancer diagnosis, why she was petrified to do standard treatment, why she decided to do it after two and a half years of natural therapies. What complementary therapies she did along with chemotherapy, how she dealt with the trauma of watching her best friend pass away, how her horses helped in her healing journey, why she made the decision to move back home to Hawaii, and the important advice she has for anyone touched by cancer.
For more information, go to cancerwarrioress.com.

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T.J. Hills | Breast Cancer and Estrogen Gene Testing

T.J. Hills, is the Author of the Best-Seller, Sex, Drug, Babies and Breast Cancer: Health Benefits of Estrogen Gene Testing. She is a powerful motivational speaker advocating that all women should take an Estrogen Gene Test to learn how careful one should be with excess estrogens, especially drugs. She guides women on simple steps to improve estrogen function.
A breast cancer patient in remission since 2009, TJ is a Board Member of the Better Estrogen Foundation, Former Board Member of the Estrogen Gene Test Company, and Hormonal Cancer Foundation. She has appeared on National TV, radio and print outlets across the country, and has spoken at major medical and corporate conferences as well as large and small women’s groups, inspiring women and their physicians to take control of their health starting with a simple estrogen gene test.
During or conversation, TJ shares the symptoms she had prior to her breast cancer diagnosis, the importance of knowing your life-long estrogen health, where to find an estrogen gene test, why she recommends everyone get this test whether you’re diagnosed with cancer or not, and what can lead to estrogen dominance.
For more information, go to betterestrogen.com

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Pragito Dove | Transform Your Life with Expressive Meditation

Pragito Dove, M.A., is a global authority on Expressive Meditation and founder of the #1 Expressive Meditation Training School in North America.
An internationally recognized Author, Hypnotherapist, Coach and Speaker with over 20 years’ experience, Pragito helps entrepreneurs, leaders, teachers, healers and CEO’s align their mindset to allow more peace, time and financial freedom. She shows you how to change your money blueprint, recondition your mind for automatic abundance, and use Spiritual Laws to create real world success.
Her new book, the #1 Amazon bestseller, “LUNCHTIME ENLIGHTENMENT: Expressive Meditations for Manifesting Peace, Prosperity and Passion” was published in August 2020.
During our time together, Pragito talks about the trauma she experienced as a child, the choice she made that changed her life, the expressive meditationsthat helped her heal, what she recommends for people struggling with fear, and how to protect yourself from negative energy. Lastly, our conversation ends with a laughter meditation.
Pragito can be found at discovermeditation.com

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Anne Crook | Shift from Surviving to Fully Thriving

Anne is a Certified Integrative Health Coach, AADP, Holding Space Consultant, Certified Birth Doula, CD (DONA), and Certified Medical Interpreter, CMI – Spanish. She has worked in many facets of healthcare for the past 21 years and loves supporting others to heal and transform their lives so they can shift from “surviving” to fully thriving. She is a consultant with Institute for The Study of Birth, Breath, and Death where she supports others navigating grief/loss and significant life changes through private consultations and support groups. Anne is especially passionate about supporting others to heal from depression/anxiety, thyroid conditions, or women facing breast cancer through an integrative approach. She supports clients to re-ignite their inner healer for greater joy and vitality. She has been featured in online publications, podcasts, a global docuseries, and a best-seller book called “Thresholds: 75 Stories of How Changing Your Perspective Can Change Your Life.”
During our conversation, Anne shares her heath journey prior to her breast cancer diagnosis, her treatment protocol, why she chose not to take hormone blockers and what she did instead, how one can be estrogen dominant even in perimenopause and menopause years, what to look at if you have a thyroid condition, and the number one toxin that most people don’t consider.
Anne can be reached at integrativeradiance.com

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Dr. Nasha Winters | The Metabolic Approach to Cancer

Dr. Nasha is a global healthcare authority and best-selling author in integrative cancer care and research, consulting with physicians around the world. She has educated hundreds of professionals in the clinical use of mistletoe and has created robust educational programs for both healthcare institutions and the public on incorporating vetted integrative therapies in cancer care to enhance outcomes. 
Dr. Winters is currently focused on opening The Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health, a comprehensive non-profit metabolic oncology hospital and research institute in the US where the best that standard of care has to offer and the most advanced integrative therapies will be offered. This facility will be in a residential setting on a gorgeous campus against a backdrop of regenerative farming, green building and restorative amenities, EMF mitigation and retreat, as well as state of the art medical technology and individualized data assessment to employ the right therapies at the right time to improve patient outcomes.
During our conversation, Dr. Nasha shares her own journey with cancer at age 19, her thoughts on curing cancer, the common denominator of an anti-cancer diet, her approach to food today, how to get in a state of metabolic flexibility, some misconceptions about the ketogenic diet, the signs that show you’re metabolically challenged, the amount of protein your body requires, important lab tests to get, and more.
For further information, go to drnasha.com.

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Donnie Yance | Herbal Medicine and Cancer

Donnie is an internationally known master herbalist and nutritionist. He received his herbal training through Sequoia College and is a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild. He was trained as a clinical nutritionist through the National Institute of Nutritional Education and holds certification through the National Association of Nutrition Professionals. He is also professed as a Secular Franciscan, which equips him with the breadth and wisdom to touch on the spiritual aspects of healing.
Donnie has authored two books, Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer and Adaptogens in Medical Herbalism: Elite Herbs and Natural Compounds for Mastering Stress, Aging and Chronic Illness.
Donnie developed a comprehensive approach to healing called the Eclectic Triphasic™ Medical System (ETMS). Now also practiced as Mederi Medicine / Mederi Care, ETMS consists of a wholistic diagnostic and therapeutic methodology rooted in American Eclectic herbal tradition, constitutional energetics and contemporary clinical nutrition – continuously updated and honed with the latest scientific research at the molecular, cellular and genomic levels. This incredible collection will be available to health care professionals soon through the Mederi Academy.
He is also the founder and formulator of Natura Health Products, for which he created a unique line of therapeutic-grade botanical and nutritional supplements.
During our conversation, Donnie discusses how music makes him better at working with complex cases, why botanicals are so effective in the field of oncology, whether or not to use botanicals during chemotherapy, which prescription drugs diminishes the benefit of certain treatments, why oncologists are limited on what they can do to heal the patient, how botanicals help target cancer stem cells left behind after chemotherapy, and what to look at first if you’re diagnosed with cancer.
For more information go to donnieyance.com and medericenter.org