Today's guest is Jacinta White. She is a teaching artist, poet, certified corporate trainer and facilitator, and advocate for change. Her passion is to help others to better understand the role and value of arts as a tool for healing and building community. In 2001, she founded The Word Project where she works with individuals and groups using art as a catalyst for healing. In 2015, she founded Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing to provide a platform for those to tell their story through poetry, creative nonfiction, and photography.A teacher of "poetry as healer," Jacinta White has studied Poetry Therapy with Dr. Sherry Reiter of the Creative Righting Center and has facilitated alongside John Fox of the Institute for Poetic Medicine. Her chapbook, broken ritual was published by Finishing Line Press (2012), and she's a contributor to My Soul to His Spirit: Soulful Writings of African American Daughters to Their Fathers (SoulDictates, 2005), and editor of Walking With God (Duncan & Duncan, 1996). Jacinta's latest collection of poems-–Resurrecting the Bones: Born from a Journey through African American Churches & Cemeteries of the Rural South (Press 53, 2019)The author of Setting Down the sacred past: African american race histories describes White’s lush poetry as, “Part meditation, part prayer, and part act of resurrection that evokes the complex interweaving of ancestry, praise, and everyday interaction that comprise black church life in the South.”

Since 1996, Jean Sachs has been the CEO of Living Beyond Breast Cancer. Her fierce commitment, compassionate heart, and strong desire to connect people have made LBBC a nationally recognized nonprofit in providing trusted information and a community of support for those affected by breast cancer.Jean has successfully grown LBBC’s budget from $100,000 to $6 million and for seventeen years, LBBC has earned a four-star rating by Charity Navigator and in 2018 earned the Platinum Seal of Transparency from GuideStar. These honors reflect Jean’s leadership–her ability to identify what communities need to be served, willingness to collaborate, and faithfulness to the organization’s mission. Truly, Jean Sachs and LBBC have created a world where no one impacted by breast cancer feels uninformed or alone.

Our first guest is Morgan Burrell founder and CEO of the fitness brand GetMoPhit, a lifestyle plan that inspires grieving women to holistically pursue and transform their overall health.Morgan Burrell is an ISSA Certified Personal Trainer and an ISCA Nutrition Coach. The author of Finding Your New Normal, Burrell is an advocate for self-care and development and leads by example, embodying what it means to be Physically Healthy and Internally Tenacious, PHIT.

Jenny Burkholder: Diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 2012 and then HER2+ metastatic disease in 2019, Jenny Burkholder lives a “wildly positive” life filled with family, friends, dance, yoga, books, and poetry. Currently the Montgomery County Pennsylvania Poet Laureate, her work can be found at overexpressed.net and overexpressed. blog.

Roseanne Liberti: Diagnosed with Stage IIIC ovarian cancer in 2021, Roseanne Liberti is a former award-winning science teacher. A mentor to former students and passionate learner, she celebrates time with friends, being an advocate for SHARE Cancer Support, and living her best life out on the dance floor or at a local concert venue.

OVERexpressed & OUT takes you on an outing that outs amazing women and their outward expression of healing. OVERexpressed & OUT is borne from our experiences of learning to live with metastatic cancer in these fragile yet awe-inspiring cellular bodies. And our desire to highlight other womens’ stories of joy & triumph. In each episode, our guest will share a joy, her story, and offer us a truth or principle by which she lives to inspire our lives. Each of these women has transformed her suffering into healing. You’ll hear–whether that be in the work that she does or the message she shares–how each recognizes that collective joy inspires, comforts, and supports communities.