Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

What happens when treatment ends, the scans are clear, and everyone expects you to feel grateful… but you don't feel like yourself anymore?

My guest this week is Jondrea Phelps, a breast cancer survivor, author, speaker, coach, and founder of JP Empowerment and Flatties Wear.

After her breast cancer diagnosis, mastectomy, treatment, and being told she was cancer-free, Jondrea discovered that the "after" of breast cancer can bring its own grief, fear, anger, identity changes, and uncertainty.

We talk about what it means to stop trying to get back to normal, how HypnoBreathwork® helped Jondrea process what she was carrying, and why healing can be about moving forward into a new version of yourself.

You don't have to pretend everything is okay just because you made it through.

Meet Jondrea: Jondrea Phelps is a breast cancer survivor, author, speaker, coach, and founder of JP Empowerment and Flatties Wear. After walking through her own breast cancer diagnosis, mastectomy, treatment, and the complicated emotional aftermath of being told she was cancer-free, she discovered that healing doesn't end when the scans are clear.

Through JP Empowerment, Jondrea supports women navigating the "after" of breast cancer, the part that doesn't always get talked about. The identity shifts. The grief. The anger. The fear. The disconnection from a body that may look and feel completely different. And the pressure to simply be grateful that you survived.

Using HypnoBreathwork®, Jondrea helps women move beyond only talking about their pain and begin to physically release what they've been carrying. Her approach is honest, compassionate, and refreshingly no-bullshit: you are not broken, you don't need to be fixed, and you don't have to pretend everything is okay just because you made it through.

She is also the founder of Flatties Wear, an adaptive clothing brand created to help women feel seen, comfortable, and empowered in bodies that have changed after breast cancer.

Jondrea's message is simple: Your pain is not the end of your story. It can become a doorway back to yourself and into a life that feels like yours again.

Her book: Sh*t Happens, Breathe Through it: Practical tips for the Challenges Life Throws at You. https://link.amazon/B0jaexEW0

Her Website: http://jpempowerment.biz/

Instagram: @jondrea_Phelps

Women to Watch Panel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-woman-youre-becoming-is-waiting-on-one-decision/id1461493937?i=1000784496397

Resources Mentioned:

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Work with Laura.

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What if October, the month that can feel like it belongs to everyone but us, held something just for you?

Every single day of October, a woman living with metastatic breast cancer is being handed $500, no application, no criteria, no proof of need, just to go do something that makes her feel alive.

My guest this week is Elissa Kalver, diagnosed 34 days before her daughter's first birthday, who started the world's first nonprofit gift registry for cancer patients from her fifth round of chemo.

You deserve to live, not only to stay alive. This one is an invitation to let yourself believe that.

Meet Elissa: stage four breast cancer thriver, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of We Got This: How I Learned to Thrive with Terminal Cancer. Founder of the nonprofit wegotthis.org.

Meet Elissa:

Follow Elissa Kalver on Instagram

Follow We Got This on Instagram

Nominate yourself or someone else for the Be Like Brittany Fund (nominations close on the last day of September)

Visit wegotthis.org for the gift registry, resource directory, and recommendation shop

Resources Mentioned:

Download for Iphone.

Download for Android.

Work with Laura.

Let's Connect! If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

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💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

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How many times have you said, or heard yourself think, I did all the things?

We follow the protocols, take the supplements, change the food, and quietly believe that if we just do it well enough, we will be safe. So what happens when the body does something we did not sign up for anyway?

In this episode, I sit with three truths that sound heavy at first and actually set a lot of us free.

The goal is not to convince yourself that nothing bad will happen. It is to become the woman who knows she can live fully without knowing what comes next.

Resources Mentioned:

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Work with Laura: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health

Let's Connect! If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

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💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

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When the scan comes back clear, does the thought of cancer actually leave with it?

For so many of us, the answer is no. The disease can be gone from the body while the identity of being a person with cancer quietly stays behind.

This episode started with a question a friend asked me over dinner, one that made me look closely at what really happens to who we are after a diagnosis.

Cancer can be something you are managing without being the identity you are living from.

Resources Mentioned:

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Work with Laura: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health

Let's Connect! If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎙 Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer

Why is it that you can know exactly what would help you feel better, and still not do it?

You already know to eat real food, to move your body, to rest. Knowledge was never the missing piece. So what is?

In this episode, I share the moment I realized I needed a lifeline, and the thing I come back to again and again: lasting change is not built on willpower. It is built on quietly becoming the person who can hold the thing you say you want.

You do not need another rule. You need to become the person the rule was never able to create.

Resources Mentioned:

Take the free Sugar Challenge here:

https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/sugar

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Work with Laura: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health

Let's Connect! If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

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How do you know whether it is time to push forward, hold steady, or give yourself permission to stop?

Most of us never ask. We just keep pressing, adding the next hard thing, without checking whether we have the reserves to carry it.

In this episode, I borrow a simple idea from metabolic wellness and show you how it maps onto the way we live, and I get honest about what it looked like to let myself pause without guilt.

Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is make space.

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community:

https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/offers/iEbrAWpd/checkout

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Let's Connect! If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

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🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer

Some seasons feel less like a smooth path and more like a dark little roller coaster you did not buy a ticket for.

I am recording this one from the middle of a wild stretch, and I decided to bring you along honestly, right where I am.

I share the health scare that landed me somewhere I did not plan to be, and I do not tidy any of it into a neat lesson.

What I really want to talk about is the difference between believing you need fixing because you are broken, and choosing to grow because you simply want more of your life.

Your life can be a wild ride and still be one you are grateful to be on.

Resources Mentioned:

Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community:

https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/offers/iEbrAWpd/checkout

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Let's Connect! If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎙 Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer

Have you ever looked at another woman's life and felt that quiet ache of why her and not me?

Most of us have, and most of us judge ourselves for it before we ask what that feeling is really pointing to.

In this episode, I open up about a recent day when I was just plain tired of being the person with cancer. I let myself feel it honestly, without rushing to a gratitude list, and then I found the question underneath it that actually moved me forward.

We look at what jealousy and envy are often hiding, why they are not the character flaws we assume, and how believing someone else simply had it easier can quietly protect us from taking a single step toward what we want.

I also walk through the difference between an explanation and an excuse, because one keeps the door open and the other closes it. You will leave with a simple process you can use the next time comparison shows up.

Her success does not take anything from you. Your life is still yours to build, right where you are standing.

Resources Mentioned:

Work with Laura: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Let's Connect! If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎙 Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer

Have you ever said you wanted one thing, while quietly holding on to the very habits that keep it out of reach?

Most of us have. We say we want peace and then overcommit. We say we want joy but promise ourselves we'll feel it later.

This episode releases during a rare stretch of the year, and I want to walk into it with you. Then we turn it inward. Where in your life are you saying one thing and living another?

This is a space free of judgment, only honesty and kindness, and the chance to choose again.

Because just because you cannot see the change yet does not mean nothing is moving.

Referenced in this episode:

NASA's August 2026 skywatching guide:

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/whats-up-august-2026-skywatching-tips-from-nasa/

NASA's eclipse information:

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/total-solar-eclipse-on-august-12-2026/

Six-planet observing guide:

https://starwalk.space/en/news/planetary-alignment-august-12-2026

Resources Mentioned:

Get your FREE Lion's Gate Intentional Energy Reset Guide:

https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/lion

Work with Laura:

https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Let's Connect! If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎙 Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer

What if being disease-free isn't the same as being healthy?

Many of us think we're healthy as long as our scans look good or our lab work falls within normal ranges. But health is much bigger than a diagnosis.

In this episode, I share a different way to think about disease, health, and healing, and why the choices you make every day have a powerful influence on how well your body functions and how you experience your life after breast cancer.

Resources Mentioned:

The Feel Good Reset: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/feelgood

Work with Laura: https://www.thebreastcancerrecoverycoach.com/health

Download for iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kajabi/id1485646310

Download for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kajabi.kajabiapp&hl=en_US

Let's Connect! If this episode helped you breathe a little easier, please share it with a friend or leave a review. Every share helps spread this message of hope, healing, and whole-person wellness.

💌 Join my email list for weekly wellness tips & podcast updates → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

💌 Join the Better Than Before Breast Cancer Life Coaching Membership → Life Coaching

💌 Join the Living Well After Breast Cancer Community → The Living Well After Breast Cancer Community

👩‍💻 Follow me on Instagram for daily inspiration → @thebreastcancerrecoverycoach

👩‍💻 Follow me on Facebook → The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎙 Subscribe & leave a review on Apple Podcasts → Better Than Before Breast Cancer with The Breast Cancer Recovery Coach

🎥 Watch on YouTube → @BetterThanBeforeBreastCancer