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From SHARE Cancer Support this is Our MBC Life. A podcast dedicated to exploring life with metastatic breast cancer from the perspective of us, the people living with this disease, and the experts who partner with us to help make our lives better. So glad you’re here since no one should face MBC alone. New episodes available every other Monday and join us on the last Friday of the month for our Trailblazer series. Send your voice memos, ideas, and questions to ourmbclife@sharecancersupport.org and visit us at www.ourmbclife.org.

Our MBC Life SHARE Cancer Support

    • Health & Fitness
    • 5.0 • 56 Ratings

From SHARE Cancer Support this is Our MBC Life. A podcast dedicated to exploring life with metastatic breast cancer from the perspective of us, the people living with this disease, and the experts who partner with us to help make our lives better. So glad you’re here since no one should face MBC alone. New episodes available every other Monday and join us on the last Friday of the month for our Trailblazer series. Send your voice memos, ideas, and questions to ourmbclife@sharecancersupport.org and visit us at www.ourmbclife.org.

    S08 E01 Remembering Natalia

    S08 E01 Remembering Natalia

    We wanted to start this season with an episode dedicated to our friend and team member, Natalia Green. Natalia passed away from MBC at the age of 39 on November 29, 2023. She was an integral part of the podcast team, having been a senior producer/host and right-hand woman to Lisa Laudico, our founder. She became involved in the podcast through her advocacy work, starting first after her early-stage breast cancer diagnosis, then becoming more involved in the metastatic breast cancer community after she received her MBC diagnosis. She was a devoted mother to her daughter Rosy and son Iggy, and a loving wife and friend to her husband of 19 years, Danny.  She was a daughter, a mother, and a cousin, holding a special place in the lives of everyone she met. Lastly, she was our friend. We’ll miss hearing her speak with passion about topics she wanted to cover on the podcast, we’ll miss seeing Iggy & Rosy pop their heads into our Monday meetings, but mostly we’ll miss seeing her beautiful smile. The entire OMBCL podcast team is lovingly dedicating our 8th season to Natalia. We hope it holds a modicum of the impact that Natalia has had on the world.
    The team would love to extend our heartfelt thanks to Danny Green for all his help in creating this episode.

    MUSIC CREDITS:

    -'Meditation I' by Sufjan Stevens

    -'Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song)' by Oscar Isaac and Marcus Mumford

    • 38 min
    TJT #4: Finding the Joy in Celebrations

    TJT #4: Finding the Joy in Celebrations

    The winter holidays are here, bringing all the joyful festivities with them. I thought this might be a great time to chat a bit about the joy of celebrations - the good, the bad, and the ugly. I know many of us right now are scurrying around with the Christmas and New Year holidays at the top of our mind, but today I’d like to spend more of our focus, not only on the typical winter holidays, but on all the myriad of celebrations we encounter in our lives. We will reflect on how we love them, how we dread them and how we can experience joyful celebrations no matter where our lives are at the moment. 

    • 17 min
    S07 E09 Traveling with MBC: Tales & Tips

    S07 E09 Traveling with MBC: Tales & Tips

    For many of us living with MBC, travel provides a much-needed respite from the day-to-day realities of living with our disease. But balancing trips with treatment and side effects can be challenging. In this episode, you'll hear from members of the OMBCL team, along with some remarkable MBC frequent flyers as they share places they’ve been, the places they want to go, and the advice they have for those times when a journey really is a journey. We hope you’ll find inspiration and encouragement for your own adventures!

    Travel Resources

    Travel Insurance: Compare products at InsureMyTrip Note: To insure the trip for all reasons, you need to purchase within 14 days of first payment for trip to cover pre-existing condition.

    Destinations Mentioned by our Guests:

    Disney locations - check out Disability Access Services, DAS, to “join” a line virtually, allowing you to wait in a comfortable space before getting on the ride.

    Cruises - Consider taking advantage of a cruise with medical services available Cruise to the Arctic, Svalbard: several lines from Finland, Norway

    Havasupai Indian Reservation in Arizona

    Organizations Providing Free Vacations and Retreats for People with Cancer:
    (Note: most require participants to pay for their own transportation to the location) This is not an exhaustive list! Explore online yourself to see if there is a vacation retreat offered near you or in a destination you are eager to visit.

    Little Pink Houses of Hope:  Week-long beach retreats for people with breast cancer (Mentioned in our podcast)

    Casting for Recovery:  Connects people living with breast cancer with nature through the therapeutic sport of fly fishing

    Send me on Vacation:  Covers hotel/lodgings and some other costs at different destinations including Italian winery, beaches (Mentioned in our podcast)

    Harmony Hill Healing Retreat:  Free 3-day retreats in the Pacific Northwest for people living with cancer and their companions

    Mary’s Place by the Sea:  Free 2-day night and day spa retreats near the beach in Ocean Grove, NJ

    Live by Living:  Free retreats in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado for people with cancer and their care givers

    Camp Mak-a-Dream: Free retreats in Montana for people with cancer and their caregivers"

    • 52 min
    S07 E08 Understanding Progression: How to Identify & Treat ESR1 Mutations in HR+ MBC

    S07 E08 Understanding Progression: How to Identify & Treat ESR1 Mutations in HR+ MBC

    New therapeutic options are now available for HR+ MBC.  Dr. Virginia Kaklamani will discuss endocrine therapy resistance, liquid biopsy/blood test, mutations, and treatment sequencing of targeted therapy. You will learn about oral selective estrogen receptor degraders (SERDS), clinical trials, and more. 

    • 54 min
    S07 E07 mTNBC Unicorns: Living In Contradiction

    S07 E07 mTNBC Unicorns: Living In Contradiction

    Research for triple negative breast cancer is growing, but current treatments still continue to fail the vast majority of people living with triple negative MBC.  Data from the National Cancer Institute gives a five-year relative survival of only 12.8% of women diagnosed with triple negative MBC. Those women have what's called an exceptional response to treatment; more simply, we call them “unicorns” – beings that can bring wonder & hope.  The stories of well-known triple negative MBC unicorns such as Karen Peterson and Barbara Bigelow bring inspiration.  Today, we share the stories of two additional women: Dr. Toni Willis and Colleen Broughton have both lived for 8 years with TN metastatic breast cancer.  Being an exceptional responder is what everyone with MBC hopes for – we wanted to give a chance for Colleen and Toni to share the miraculous, the miserable, and the mundane of surviving far longer than they expected to.

    MUSIC CREDIT:

    The Things That Keep Us Here · Scott Buckley

    • 53 min
    S07 E06 Tony Laudico: One Year Without Lisa

    S07 E06 Tony Laudico: One Year Without Lisa

    Lisa Manning and Tony Laudico met in Tokyo,  Japan where they were both working at the time. It was a serendipitous encounter of a Canadian and an American, and the beginning of their version of a modern fairy tale romance.  They lived happily for 27 years in many countries around the globe and made thousands of memories with their extended families, friends and two wonderful sons.  But unlike many fairy tales that end when a couple dies on the same day after a long life together, Tony and Lisa’s fairy tale had a different ending.  Lisa Manning Laudico died on August 6th 2022 after five years of living with metastatic breast cancer. She died quickly and unexpectedly within one week.  Tony was suddenly faced - as it turns out totally unprepared - with the stunning reality of becoming a widower and the future without the love of his life,  his partner and best friend. A year later, soon after the one year anniversary of Lisa’s passing, Tony got in touch with our Executive Producer Victoria Goldberg and suggested that they meet and talk about Lisa’s last days and how he was able to survive these past 12 months without her.  It is remarkable and at times a heart wrenching account of Tony’s struggle to comprehend a life without the partnership that had sustained and defined him for 30 years, his whole adult life.
    He will talk about  the anguish of loss, a nightmare of "death-duties", the true meaning of grief, and the solace of friendship.
    Although not always easy listening, it is an uplifting testament to the power of love.


    *Special thanks to John Martyn for the use of his song 'Small Hours' - One World (1977)

    • 59 min

Customer Reviews

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56 Ratings

56 Ratings

DFreep ,

Very Helpful

I was diagnosed March of 2020 and have been so glad to have this podcast to help me to navigate the physical and emotional challenges of MBC.

anursern ,

Awesome podcast

Great podcast! My favorite one about cancer. I learn so much from this one and love all the guest speakers.

AlexisG2378 ,

Phenomenal!

Awesome podcast for the MBC community—thoughtful, straightforward and refreshingly candid with informative content from fellow MBC thrivers and the world’s leading MBC experts from the top, nationally accredited cancer institutions.

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