Triple Negative and She Never Stopped Working | Stacy Woods

At the Brink with Erica Brinker · Oct 14, 2026 · 36m

Stacy Woods spent 28 years at Mondelez building brands most of us have in our pantry — Oreo, Chips Ahoy, Ritz, Sour Patch Kids. She led strategy and operations, raised two kids and never stopped moving. When she left, she kept going: VP at McCain Foods, then VP at Leslie’s Pools. She was 60 days into the Leslie’s job when she found a golf ball-sized lump during a workout.

The mammogram confirmed breast cancer on the right side. An MRI caught a second primary tumor on the left. One was triple negative — a rare and aggressive form that accounts for 10 to 15 percent of breast cancer diagnoses…