Bryan Blackmon has a tattoo on the back of his neck that he got in Maui the day he learned his aunt had been diagnosed with breast cancer, a permanent reminder that she was not walking through it alone.

It is one of the most quietly powerful things anyone has brought to Serenity Rising. But as Bron says at the top of this episode, it is not the whole story.

Bryan is the founder of Crab Crew Life, a high accountability transformational platform he built after rebuilding his own life from nothing: addiction, homelessness, and years of severe adversity.

He started drinking and using in ninth grade, moved to California chasing a dream, and ended up living in his car and in tents across Los Angeles, stuck in fight-or-flight mode for years. Nine hundred and thirty-six days ago, brushing his teeth one morning, the chaos in his head went completely silent, and four words broke through: you are worth it.

In this conversation, Bryan and Bron talk about what it means to protect your peace like currency, why gratitude has to happen before your feet hit the floor, and Elaine, the elderly landlord who took a chance on a homeless stranger and changed the course of his life. Bryan also unpacks the framework behind Crab Crew Life, built letter by letter around clean, resilient, adaptable, and belief, and why he believes dismantling survival mode starts with focusing on the next play, not the whole season.

For anyone living through cancer, whether it is their own diagnosis or a loved one's, or through any other kind of adversity, this is a reminder that healing is a process, not a cure, and that the small daily disciplines are what make the big things possible.

In This Episode

• The tattoo Bryan got in Maui the morning he learned his aunt had breast cancer
• Starting to drink and use in ninth grade, inside a loving family that couldn't stop it
• Life on the streets of Los Angeles: tents, his car, and years stuck in fight or flight
• The morning at 936 days sober when four words broke through the silence: you are worth it
• The fork in the road he saw before getting sober: an overdose or a long prison sentence
• Meeting Elaine, the landlord who saw past the smell of whiskey and let him in anyway
• The predawn phone call, and the words welcome home on her front porch
• Why Bryan now treats peace like currency, and refuses to let anyone else spend it
• The gratitude ritual that starts before his feet hit the floor, and the journal that ends his night
• How a TikTok joke about a virtual crab gift became Crab Crew Life, a global accountability movement
• The oxygen mask principle: why you put it on yourself first, every time
• What serenity means to Bryan, and why peace took him decades to understand

Your healing matters every day.

Connect With Bryan Blackmon Website: https://crabcrewlife.com

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What if cancer is not the enemy, but the teacher? What if the body is already whole, already complete, and it is the obstacles we place in our own path - the unforgiveness, the grief, the toxic patterns, the habits born of lovelessness that create the conditions for illness?

Dr. Ellyn Hilliard-McLeod holds a PhD in holistic nutrition and has spent decades working within dividuals facing life-threatening illness through her practice, Sedona Solutions. Her entry into this work was deeply personal, she watched her father navigate prostate cancer through the Western medical system alone, and saw what holistic support could have done for him. Her the work she wished had existed for her family.

In this conversation with Bron, Ellyn shares the three principles that anchor everything she does - cancer is a teacher, you are not your diagnosis, and we can remove the blocks to your wholeness and walks us through the Attitudinal Healing framework that forms the heart of her free community support groups. She also shares a story that will stay with you: a woman whose recurring cancer stopped returning after she reconciled with her estranged son.

Her new book, It Takes More Than Carrot Juice: The Missing Ingredients to Total Healing, is available now.

In This Episode:

• How Ellyn came to this work - watching her father navigate prostate cancer through the Western system alone, and seeing what holistic nutrition and emotional healing did for her mother and sister
• The accidental beginning: walking into a cancer support group of 90 people at a hospital and doing a free 12-week program when no one else showed up
• Cancer is a teacher: the loud knock at the door, preceded by small whispers we often don't hear until we have to
• You are already whole - the obstacles we place in our own path (unforgiveness, toxic relationships, physical habits) are what block our natural healing state
• The 12 Principles of Attitudinal Healing, developed by Dr. Jerry Jampolsky and the first three that matter most: the essence of our being is love, health is inner peace, and giving and receiving are the same
• The six-step process for letting go of fear and returning to peace
• What Ellyn's support groups actually look like, including the opening question everynew member is asked: 'What is one thing you love about yourself?'
• The story of the woman whose recurring intestinal cancer stopped returning after Easter and what forgiveness can do that surgery cannot always achieve
• The seven characteristics of cancer patients most likely to develop the disease and why caregivers are at the top of the list
• '89% of everything people worry about never happens' and why the only real controlis in the present moment
• The living plan: not an end-of-life plan, but a list of everything you want to do while you are alive
• The support groups - held at United Methodist Church in Sedona, two Sundays per month at 5pm Pacific, open via Zoom to anyone around the world
• Her new book: It Takes More Than Carrot Juice, 20 patient stories of waking up emotionally and spiritually through cancer, half of whom did not survive physically but all of whom were transformed

Connect With Dr. Ellyn

Website & Book: https://sedonasolution.com

Book on Amazon: It Takes More Than Carrot Juice: The Missing Ingredients to Total Healing - search on Amazon or Ingram Sparks

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ellynh/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellynhilliard/

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Bill Derrick has navigated three storms. Not setbacks. Not challenges. Storms.

A family construction business that survived the Great Recession after five brutal years, including the day his father died twelve hours before the final loan was closed, and his brotherand he went to the signing anyway. Then an incurable blood cancer: multiple myeloma, diagnosed on Thanksgiving 2013, treated with radiation, six months of chemotherapy, and a stem cell transplant. And then, on top of all of that, prostate cancer.

In this conversation with Bron, in a first for Serenity Rising, two multiple myeloma patients in an honest and heartfelt conversation, Bill shares the three things he wants anyone in the middle of a storm to hear, a reframe for statistics and prognoses that Bron called the biggest takeawayshe had heard in a very long time, and the leadership lessons that cancer forced him to learn. He is, in his own words, a walking talking miracle. And he has the ten-year stem cellanniversary to prove it.

In This Episode:

• The three things Bill wants anyone in a storm to hear: the storm will end, don't quit, keepan attitude of gratitude
• The banker friend who said 'just quit', and the moment Bill realised quitting was nevergoing to be an option
• How five years of navigating the Great Recession became the preparation he didn'tknow he needed for the fight of his life
• The Thanksgiving phone call: diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2013, and thereaction that surprised even his doctor
• 'I was being prepared', how the recession taught him he was not in control, so that when cancer arrived, he already knew what to do with that
• The bell curve insight: given a seven year average life expectancy, Bill looked at the tail on the other side, and said, that's where I'm going
• Ten years since his stem cell transplant, when the average duration was fifty four months
• The day his father died twelve hours before the final business loan closed, and why he and his brother went to the signing anyway
• Leadership lessons from cancer: you don't have to have all the answers, trust your people, become a teacher not just a delegator
• Prostate cancer, taking it 'a little too lightly' after everything he had already beenthrough, and what changed
• The drive to radiation appointments, and what it means to have someone simply say 'I'm here'
• 'I'm a walking talking miracle', and why the science of multiple myeloma is different today than when he was diagnosed

Make every day count my friends.

Connect With Bill

Book: Restored by the Storm, Navigating Through Life's Unexpected Challenges, available wherever books are sold

Website: https://billderrick.com

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Website: https://serenityproject.com.au

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In this solo episode of Serenity Rising, Bron steps back into the early weeks following her own second cancer diagnosis and shares what she would tell herself now, three years on. This is not a highlight reel of resilience. It is an honest, practical letter to the version of Bron sitting in a doctor's office, and to anyone listening today who is sitting in their own version of that room.

In this episode, Bron explores:

• The nervous system's response to shock, and why what you are feeling is protection, not weakness
• The liminal space between an abnormal result and the start of treatment, and why the waiting is its own kind of hard
• The fishbowl metaphor, and why stirring the water only makes the fear muddier
• Sleep disruption and decision fatigue in the early weeks, and small, workable ways through both
• A equals A, a simple tool for separating what actually happened from the story the mind builds around it
• The permission slip every newly diagnosed person deserves to be handed
• The difference between healing and curing, and why healing is available to everyone, regardless of prognosis

This episode draws directly from Bron's free ebook, When Everything Changed: Finding Calm in the First Days After Diagnosis, translating its frameworks into a spoken, fireside conversation. Wherever you are in your own story today, in the waiting, the stirring, or the not knowing, this episode is for you.

Make every day count, my friends.

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Website: https://serenityproject.com.au

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When cancer enters a family, most parents brace for the medical fight. What they donot see coming is that their child wants to help, and has no idea how. In this guest interview episode of Serenity Rising, Bron sits down with Russell Van Brocklen, known as The Dyslexic Professor, a New York State Senate funded dyslexia researcher and founder of Dyslexia Classes. Russell shares the exact process he uses with children whose parent or family member is facing cancer, from finding the right trusted adult to narrowing a child's tangle of feelings down to one word and a handful of concrete things they can actually do.

SHOW NOTES

In this guest interview episode of Serenity Rising, Bron is joined by Russell Van Brocklen, known to many as The Dyslexic Professor. Russell is a New York State Senate funded dyslexia researcher and the founder of Dyslexia Classes. Severely dyslexic himself, he was told as a child he would never read at grade level. He went on to teach himself to read within a month through the Socratic method of law school, and later built a method that has moved struggling students from middle school writing level to average graduate student level within a single school year, with every one of those students going on to graduate college. This conversation began because of a student Russell calls Jennifer, a name changed at her family's request to protect her identity. Jennifer was a dyslexic child already working hard to keep up at school when a family member was diagnosed with cancer, not once, but twice. What Russell gave her was not sympathy. It was a method, a daily anchor, and a way to rebuild a sense of agency in a life that had lost its predictability. Russell walks Bron through exactly what he does when a child's parent or family member is diagnosed with cancer. For a child who wants to help but is confused about how, Russell finds a trusted adult, often a godparent or someone who knows both parent and child well, and has the child write out everything they might want to do, without worrying about spelling or grammar. That outpouring is then worked through, sometimes with the help of AI, down to a single universal word that captures what the child is trying to do, and from there, to three concrete actions the child can actually take. For a child who has been crushed rather than motivated by their dyslexia, or who cannot yet find the words, Russell moves more slowly and looks for whoever that specific child trusts most, whether that is a minister's wife, a scoutmaster, or last year's teacher, even if that person does not know the family well. Russell also draws a clear line between a cancer diagnosis in remission and one that is terminal, and how the plan for the child changes accordingly. In remission, the focus turns to the future, and to which of two broad pathways a child is heading toward. When a diagnosis is terminal, the work becomes giving the child, and a trusted adult who will carry it forward, a plan and a promise they can hold onto. Bron reflects candidly on her own experience raising five boys through two cancer diagnoses, including only recently learning that her son, now twenty, spent his school days as a boy afraid she would not be there when he came home. It is a reminder of how much children carry silently, and why Russell's approach exists. Russell is preparing a written explainer of the exact process discussed in this episode, to be shared with listeners once available. Asked what word he would use for serenity, Russell answers without hesitation: clarity, on why you are here and what you are going to do with the time you have. This episode is for any parent trying to hold their child's world together while managing their own cancer, or supporting a partner through it, and for anyone who works with children navigating a family health crisis.

Your healing matters every day.

Connect with Russell

Website: https://dyslexiaclasses.com

Download When Your Child Wants To Help: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fXv8jfhE_-oZNWIesLT69fcpyNqojA-m/view?usp=sharing

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What do you do with grief that has nowhere else to go?

In this episode of Serenity Rising, Bron sits down with Justin Anderson, known to his community as J. Vaelorin, a network engineer turned dark fantasy world builder. After losing his grandmother to cancer, Justin channelled years of unspoken grief into VaelorinVerse, a fantasy universe where mental health is the magic system. This is a conversation about carrying loss forward instead of leaving it behind, and about what becomes possible when grief is finally witnessed.

SHOW NOTES

In this episode of Serenity Rising, Bron speaks with Justin Anderson, a network engineer from Muncie, Indiana who writes under the name J. Vaelorin. Justin is the founder of Vaelorin Verse, a dark fantasy universe he built from grief that, in his own words, had nowhere else to live.

When Justin's grandmother died of cancer, he insisted on carrying her casket himself and designed her tombstone, writing the inscription Those who are loved will never be forgotten. That line is now tattooed on his arm and sits at the centre of everything he has built since, including an anonymous online memorial wall and a mental health campaign voiced by thirteen different actors giving sound to self doubt.

This conversation moves through the promise Justin made to his grandmother before she died, the choice he made at his lowest point in high school to keep that promise rather than give up on it, and the two doors he now believes lead into grief.

One door is internal, the one where we can say I am grieving, I am sad, I am afraid. The other is external, where grief is processed through what we build, create or do. Justin explains why not everyone, particularly men raised to suppress vulnerability, can walk through the first door straight away, and why that does not mean they are avoiding their grief.

Bron and Justin also talk about anticipatory grief, the grief carried by carers, family members and anyone sitting in a waiting room fearing a loss that has not happened yet.

Justin shares what he wishes someone had told him in that season, and why he built an anonymous memorial wall so people could honour someone they had lost without needing to explain themselves.

Throughout the episode, Bron and Justin return to a theme that runs through Serenity Rising: that gratitude and grief are not opposites. It is possible to be shattered by a loss and, at the same time, grateful for what it built in you.

Your healing matters every day.

In this episode, Bron and Justin explore:

• Why Justin designed and wrote his grandmother's tombstone inscription himself

• The promise he made to graduate and how it carried him through his darkest year

• The two doors of grief, one internal and one external, and why both are valid entry points

• Anticipatory grief and what to say to someone already grieving a loss that has not happened yet

• The anonymous memorial wall built to hold grief without judgement

• How gratitude and grief can coexist without cancelling each other out

• Connection as Justin's word for serenity, and what it means for carers and loved ones

Make every day count friends.

Connect with Justin

Website: https://vaelorinverse.com/

Instagram: @jvaelorin https://www.instagram.com/Jvaelorin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vaelorinverse/

Substack: https://substack.com/@jvaelorin

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Website: https://serenityproject.com.au

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What happens when the woman who held her dying father through his final months becomes the same woman who holds you through two cancer diagnoses?

In this deeply personal episode of Serenity Rising, Bron sits down with her dearest friend and soul sister Kerri Chinner, a soul mastery coach, shamanic and energy medicine practitioner, and quantum biofeedback specialist based in Phuket, Thailand.

Kerri shares what caring for her father through a terminal cancer diagnosis taught her about consciousness, energy and what it truly means to heal, and how that same wisdom became the foundation for the work she has done with Bron across her multiple myeloma journey.

This is a conversation about energy, grief and the phrase that changed everything for Bron: I know I will, I just don't know how.

SHOW NOTES

We Are Never Alone is a fireside-style conversation between Bron and her longtime friend Kerri Chinner, recorded with the kind of honesty that only exists between two women who have walked through fire together.

Kerri's own path into energy work began at her father's bedside, caring for him through a terminal diagnosis and holding a stance that even while he was dying, he would still be living. That experience, along with decades of shamanic training, became the foundation of the quantum frequency and energy work Kerri now practices, and the same work that carried Bron through her stem cell transplant and multiple myeloma diagnosis.

In this episode, Bron and Kerri explore:

• Kerri's journey from caring for her dying father to becoming a shamanic and quantum energy practitioner
• The energetics of possibility and holding a stand for someone's healed self rather than their diagnosis
• A equals A, and how much suffering comes from the stories we attach to what actually happens
• Letting it be versus fixing it, and why presence does more than problem solving
• The cathedral space that opens up in moments of transition and grief
• How quantum frequency technology works with the body's own energetic signature
• Practical, low-cost or no-cost tools for carers and patients, including using nature, a stone in your pocket, or simply naming what you feel
• Why the words cured and cure have no place in this work, and why healing is available to everyone regardless of prognosis

This is where the science and the soul come together, and where two decades of friendship turn into one of the most honest conversations Serenity Rising has shared.

Make every day count, friends.

Connect with Kerri

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kerrichinner/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KerriChinner1/

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/kerrichinner?utm_source=linktree_profile_share

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Zulma Williams was six weeks out from graduating with her Bachelor of Social Work - finally stepping into the career she had always dreamed of when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was 46.

What happened next was not the story most people would expect. Instead of folding, Zulma changed the question. From 'why me?' to 'why not me?' From victim to CEO of her own ecosystem. She went on to complete her Master of Social Work, become a fully licensed psychotherapist specialising in trauma, anxiety, and depression, and move to Panama at 60 to wake up to the ocean every morning.

In this conversation with Bron, Zulma shares the reframes that changed everything, her fierce approach to self-advocacy in treatment, what it actually means to live by the motto 'I had cancer, cancer did not have me,' and what she wants every person in a hard season to hear.

Witty, unapologetic, and deeply wise - this one is exactly what Serenity Rising is made for.

In This Episode

• Zulma's story: born in Buenos Aires, immigrated to the US at 31, started her Bachelor of Social Work at 42, diagnosed with breast cancer just weeks after graduating at 46The reframe that changed everything: shifting from 'why me?' to 'why not me?' and why that single question moves you out of victim mentality immediately

• The choice at the centre of every crisis: sit in the corner and wait, or stand up and fight

• Her fierce self-advocacy in treatment refusing a 50/50 chemo offer, demanding better odds, and ultimately receiving a different treatment entirely because she pushed back

• Being the CEO of your ecosystem: what active participation in your own medical decisions actually looks like

• 'When you're in the picture, you cannot see the picture' - her philosophy on therapy and why a neutral perspective changes everything

• What therapy is and isn't: 'I barely know what the f*** to do with my own life, let alone tell you what to do with yours. We're going to find the answers together.'

• 'The apple tree doesn't eat the apple' - on sharing your story not for yourself but for the people who need to hear it

• Her word for serenity: being at peace with the decisions you made with the information you had at the time

• 14 years cancer free and how her motto plays out in daily life

• Panama, the ocean, and living your dream now, not at 85

• Celebrating birthdays: 'there are people who didn't make it to 60'

• Her closing message: if you woke up today, your mission is not complete

Connect With Zulma

Website: https://dragonflytherapyservices.net

Instagram: @theswearingtherapist

Podcast: Keeping It Real with Zulma - The Swearing Therapist

Zulma works with clients in the United States from Panama. Sessions available Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday.

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Make your moments matter because moments make memories, and that is how we make every day count.

What if the fear and grief you've been carrying is stored in your body right now and learning to feel it, rather than push it away, is one of the most powerful things you can do for your healing?

In this episode, Bron sits down with Ben Oofana, a meditation teacher and practitioner withover 35 years of experience working with people navigating serious illness, including cancer. Trained as a teenager by Horace Daukei, one of the last of the Kiowa Tribe's traditional Native American doctors, and later in the internal arts of Tai Chi, Chi Gong, and Xin Yi Quan under a Chinese master, Ben has spent decades helping people do the emotional work that most people don't know is available to them.

We talk about what it means to 'digest' lived experience, why suppressing emotion increases inflammation in the body, the simple practice anyone can start today, and what healing looks like when a cure isn't the destination.

Not everyone gets a cure. But everyone can heal.

In This Episode

• Ben's path - training with a Kiowa Native American doctor at 17, vision quests, and 35 years of learning
• What 'digesting' lived experience actually means and why it's different from thinking your way through something
• How unprocessed emotion is held in the body and what that means for serious illness
• The connection between suppressed emotion, inflammation, and cancer
• A simple practice: name it, feel it, locate it, breathe through it
• Healing versus curing and why presence matters more than outcome
• Working with people at the very end of life and what peaceful transition can look like
• Diet, lifestyle, and emotional processing as one integrated approach

The Practice - Step by Step

Ben shared a practice anyone can begin today:

• Name the reality - acknowledge what you're actually facing
• Feel your response - notice the emotion without analysing it
• Locate it in your body - throat, chest, abdomen?
• Breathe with it - slow, full breaths all the way to the abdomen, hold briefly, slow exhale
• Follow it as it moves - emotions progress; let them without forcing a destination
• If it feels overwhelming, go outside - walk with it; the earth helps ground what's tooheavy to hold still

Connect With Ben

Website: https://benoofana.com

Blog: https://benoofana.com/blog

Meditation & training: https://teachmetomeditate.com

Relationship support: https://breakupfirstaid.com | https://healmyheartache.com

YouTube: https://youtube.com / @benoofana

Instagram: https://instagram.com/benoofana

Contact: https://benoofana.com/contact - Ben responds personally. If you don't hear back, assume the message didn't arrive and try again via Instagram.

Ben works remotely with people in any country and is also willing to travel for in-person sessions.

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Your healing matters every day. And so does your peace.

Charmain Woods was told at the age of eight that she would be drowned in a bath. She washomeless by fifteen. By twenty she was a police officer. Over the next 24 years she would specialise in child abuse, sexual assault, and criminal analysis, rise to sergeant, become aqualified criminal profiler and then retrain as a lawyer, recently admitted to the New South Wales courts.

And four years ago, in the middle of building her legal career, she was told she had bone and blood cancer. Thirty minutes before a job interview.

She went to the interview. She got the job.

In this conversation with Bron, Charmain shares the philosophy she has lived by since she wasa child bargaining with the universe from her bed - the upside down pyramid, one brick at a time, and Locard's principle: every contact leaves its trace. Her word for serenity is not a feeling. It is a forensic law about human connection.

In This Episode

• Charmain's childhood: domestic violence, a stepfather's chronic alcoholism, a mother who threatened her life, and the eight-year-old who made a bargain with the universe: 'I'll help others if you help me
• Homelessness at 15, police officer at 20 and thenewspaper page that told her exactly what to do next
• The upside down pyramid: starting at the pointy end and building bricks upward, one at atime
• How her childhood set up her career - 'I was already unconsciously profiling before I became a profiler'
• Locard's Principle, every contact leaves its trace, as her word for serenity and her philosophy for human connection
• The cancer diagnosis: told 30 minutes before a job interview, she drove to the interview, turned up, and got the job
• Four years of observation at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse, a rib broken by the tumour, titanium plate, collapsed lung, 12 weeks recovery
• What cancer took her inward to: questioning mortality, purpose, gratitude, and whether she was actually noticing her life
• Relinquishing control - the hardest lesson for a woman who always knew the next point on the map
• One brick at a time: what the same framework looks like across homelessness, policing, cancer, and law
• Her closing trace evidence: 'We have one life. Fight with rigour and tenacity, and don't miss the small moments'

Connect With Charmain

Email: [email protected]

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Your healing matters every day. And so does your peace.