Katie is an author, mindset coach for women and mothers, and a stillbirth and stage IV breast cancer survivor. Her memoir, Still Breathing: My Journey with Love, Loss, and Reinvention was a #1 Amazon best seller in Family Health and Pregnancy and Childbirth, and is available in paperback, ebook, and Audible. After 5 months of chemotherapy, a left mastectomy, lymph node removal, and 28 rounds of radiation, she was declared NEAD (no evidence of active disease) in June of 2023, and plans on keeping it that way. She has begun writing her second memoir exploring her journey with breast cancer.

During our conversation, Katie shares her heartbreak of giving birth to a stillborn baby girl, how the love letters she wrote to her daughter, Poppy, led her to writing her memoir, how 2 months before the book came out she was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, how the grief of losing Poppy and her dad helped her cope with her cancer diagnosis, what her life’s like now since being declared NEAD, and what pulled her out of an extremely dark time.

Learn more on her website at www.katiejoyduke.com

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