88 - Only 10% of Breast Cancer Is Genetic: Janet Nudelman on Prevention, Toxic Chemicals & Safer Beauty

Trust Your Innersense™ with Joanne Starkman · Oct 29, 2026 · 42m

She Learned to Knock on Doors Before She Learned to Change Laws

Janet Nudelman has spent nearly 25 years at Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, and before that, she spent years learning how power actually works. She grew up in the Chicago suburbs, shaped by a mother who had very little and made everything of it anyway. That sense of purpose followed Janet into her earliest career choices. She worked in community organizing, then lobbied in Washington, then spent a decade in the domestic violence movement before arriving, somewhat accidentally, at the place where she would do the most defining…