Outline:

• It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month & today's topic: what happens between the time of finding a lump and getting a diagnosis
• Meet Mona & Elsa who are joining Jenn for today's conversation
• Addressing Halloween - for Jenn's Halloween tricks & treats, head to social media & podcast FB page/group
• Jenn's story of finding a lump in her breast
• Elsa's story of find a lump in her breast
• Shifting from being a caregiver to needing to an advocate
• Mona's experience working for a world-renowned pathologist & her role as an advocate for friends (including Jenn & Elsa)
• The Friend Advocate: pragmatic, helps with phone calls, can sit with you, keeps you going
• The people who need to know right after a diagnosis & to-do's from Elsa's doctor
• Key Takeaway: you need someone logical. this is your first phone call. It's hard to do, but ask for help
• How Mona helped Jenn
• Elsa leaving her initial doctor appointment, how she handled it with her daughter who was at the doctor with her, the next radiology appointment, second opinion and treatment plan
• Key Takeaway: importance of a mindfulness practice
• Step 1: mammogram & ultrasound; step 2: biopsy
• Key Takeaway: feel on the first
• What we need to be taught & what we need to be talking about: stats, causes, self-care, self-checks, removing toxins
• Combining Eastern Medicine & Western Medicine (Elsa's treatment)
• Importance of belief, not letting fear lead & Elsa's "F-it bucket"
• Genetic testing
• Non Profits to know: Bright Pink, You Can Thrive
• Final thoughts from Mona, Elsa & Jenn
• if you didn't have that pragmatic person, now you do. It's Jenn.

Quotes:

"Find a time each day to quiet your mind, which helps quiet your body; it's part of the healing process." - Mona Weisberg

"Feel on the first." - Elsa Pine

"Stats used to say 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer...quickly approaching 1 in 7. Genetics cause only 5% of cases." - Elsa Pine

"Western Medicine is not preventative healthcare; it is early detection, at best." - Jenn Trepeck

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