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From Surviving to Thriving—Survivor Fitness’s Mission to Help Women Bounce Back After Cancer—Meg Grunke · Inside The Moms Club

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Mom's Welcome inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
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Speaker 1: Monica Samuels, and I'm here with my lovely co host
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Speaker 1: and very good friend, Julie Orchid.
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Speaker 2: Hi Monica, Julie, I am so glad you look sounds
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Speaker 2: so sarcastic. We're like, Hi, No, you.
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Speaker 1: Look really, I'm not no, I'm not sounding surprised. You
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Speaker 1: look great.
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Speaker 2: I know sometimes I shower.
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Speaker 3: Do you mind till you say, have a baseball hat on.
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Speaker 2: That's how I rolled into town yesterday, a.
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Speaker 1: Great hat that I'm jealous of. I want it.
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Speaker 3: Texas is for lovers, but as my you know, the
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Speaker 3: bonus of coming to LA's I get to see my
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Speaker 3: oldest daughter. Last night, she rolled in and she's like,
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Speaker 3: it's Virginia is for lovers. I was like, not today.
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Speaker 3: So we got that hat at Austin City Limits. It's
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Speaker 3: pretty fantastic.
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Speaker 1: Jealous you got to go to that. I didn't go
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Speaker 1: this year.
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Speaker 2: Oh well there's always next year.
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Speaker 1: But you and I are going to go to Mumford
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Speaker 1: and Sons. We are concerts.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I am super super white.
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Speaker 1: That's to be so watching me dance and you know,
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Speaker 1: having a big time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm celebrating. Yeah, you want to know.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited her share with our audience because we'll tell
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Speaker 1: them this, tell them the story, and then tell them the.
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Speaker 3: I don't need to tell a long story, but I
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Speaker 3: will be celebrating. This has to do with our guests
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Speaker 3: today as well. I'm celebrating a clean mammogram six months
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Speaker 3: after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Speaker 2: So we're very thrill. I'm so so so yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean that's a weird feeling too, though, because you
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Speaker 3: have a little bit of survivor's guilt when you go
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Speaker 3: through something and then things are working out for you.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can't help it.
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Speaker 3: When you walk in and you see a lot of
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Speaker 3: people that are very, very sick, your perspective changes. I
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Speaker 3: have a lot of friends have been through it and
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Speaker 3: supported me, and you know, I'm super excited that today
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Speaker 3: we get to talk about a little bit of that
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Speaker 3: because the last eight months have been totally different than
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Speaker 3: what I had planned, and it's you know, it's it's awkward,
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Speaker 3: it's just a little bit weird. But I'm super thrilled
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Speaker 3: to promote good health.
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Speaker 1: I am too. I think this is a great, great
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Speaker 1: subject and guests and so let me without further ado,
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Speaker 1: I want to introduce her.
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Speaker 2: Oh you are right, let's shoe.
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Speaker 1: She She began her career in public relations, but later
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Speaker 1: joined her husband, a cancer survivor, in the creation of
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Speaker 1: Survivor Fitness Foundation, which focuses on the positive effects of
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Speaker 1: health and wellness for cancer survivors. Please welcome, Meg Grunky,
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Mom's Club.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: I'm so thrilled that you're here. And this is such
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Speaker 1: a great thing that you're doing. You know, as with
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Speaker 1: my father in law worked at M D Anderson as
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Speaker 1: a radiologist for years, so I saw my mother is
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Speaker 1: a cancer survivor of a very very rare form of cancer,
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Speaker 1: and so I got to see that that side of it.
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Speaker 1: But there's there's another side to it, and that is
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Speaker 1: when you're like Julie and you've gotten a good Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I didn't get a lot of questions about the treatment,
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Speaker 3: what happens afterwards, like how are you moving on? How
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Speaker 3: are we going to do life after? You know, you
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Speaker 3: feel to the gate, you got a race and get healthy,
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Speaker 3: and then you don't really hear much about afterwards what
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Speaker 3: are you going to do to keep that up exactly?
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Speaker 1: And so your husband Aaron is a cancer survivor. From
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Speaker 1: one understand, he had testicular cancer and he was twenty
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Speaker 1: three and without a couple of years after we were hurt.
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Speaker 1: We were told surgeries, treatment, but then you got to
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Speaker 1: the other side of it and then explained us what
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Speaker 1: happened and what inspired him to start Survivor Fitness Foundation.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, And Julia, I do want to say congratulations
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Speaker 4: on a green bill of health. I know that that's
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Speaker 4: a lot the anxiety that comes around those regular checkups
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Speaker 4: and even though your doctors tell you that everything will
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Speaker 4: be fine, that doesn't make those appointments much easier. Oftentimes.
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Speaker 4: I'm so glad to hear that, and so glad you're
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Speaker 4: hopefully on the other side of things. So but yeah, So,
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Speaker 4: my husband, Aaron was diagnosed with an aggressive form of
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Speaker 4: testicular cancer at the young age of twenty one, went
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Speaker 4: through about two years of treatments and surgeries, and when
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Speaker 4: he was done with treatment about the age of twenty three,
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Speaker 4: he was told, you know you're healthy, now go live life.
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Speaker 4: You're fine. Just put cancer in the roo view mirror.
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Speaker 4: And he had gained a lot of weight, lost a
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Speaker 4: lot of strength, and really struggled mentally and emotionally with
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Speaker 4: what came text and when his doctors were saying go live, life,
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Speaker 4: move forward, he kind of stopped and said, what does
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Speaker 4: that mean? I have no idea what that means, and
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Speaker 4: really struggled with what that looked like for him, especially
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Speaker 4: as a young adult, especially as someone who said thought
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Speaker 4: and thought, you know, like, hey, I should be able
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Speaker 4: to figure this out on my own, but unfortunately he couldn't,
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Speaker 4: and he really struggled with that for a few years,
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Speaker 4: and luckily, by kind of happenstance, he was speaking with
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Speaker 4: a trainer one day about what he had been through
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Speaker 4: and what he was struggling with, and that trainer kind
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Speaker 4: of took it upon himself to help Aaron figure out
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Speaker 4: what life after cancer should look like, both physically, nutritionally,
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Speaker 4: and really that led into the mental and emotional part
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Speaker 4: as well. So he was kind of given the tools
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Speaker 4: to regain his health and that's where the idea was,
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Speaker 4: where survivor fitness was born. Aaron had struggled for a
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Speaker 4: number of years with really what to do, and when
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Speaker 4: he started kind of putting these pieces together and talking
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Speaker 4: to other you know, his doctor about it and some other
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Speaker 4: cancer survivors that he knew. Everybody shared the same sentiment
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Speaker 4: of yeah, I struggled with that too. I had no
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Speaker 4: idea what to do? You know, no one told me
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Speaker 4: what to do. How was I supposed to move forward?
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Speaker 4: You know? I well had brain fog? How do I
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Speaker 4: address all these things? And while they might have heard
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Speaker 4: go work out or you know, eat healthy, they weren't
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Speaker 4: really sure what to do or how to do that.
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Speaker 4: And so that's where the idea for survivor Fitness was born.
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Speaker 4: And so we started that a number of years ago
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Speaker 4: at this point, to help cancer survivors of all a date,
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Speaker 4: adult age ranges, all fitness levels, and all types of
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Speaker 4: cancer regained their health and wellness following treatment.
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Speaker 1: How how old was he when he got the idea?
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Speaker 1: You know, I think because it's a pretty bold thing
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Speaker 1: to say, I'm going to start a foundation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, how old?
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Speaker 4: He was about twenty five when he came home one
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Speaker 4: day and said, I, like, we had talked about it,
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Speaker 4: and he he's about twenty five. And then fast forward
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Speaker 4: a couple of years, he kind of molds on the
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Speaker 4: idea a little bit, and he was getting his NBA
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Speaker 4: had the opportunity to do an independent study class and
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Speaker 4: wrote up a business plan on this and talked to
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Speaker 4: some trainers in the area we were we were in
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Speaker 4: Nashville at the time, and he talked to some trainers
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Speaker 4: and they said, this is a great idea. Talk to
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Speaker 4: the physicians. This is a great idea. No one's doing this.
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Speaker 4: And so he came home one day and said, I
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Speaker 4: filed the paperwork and I was like, for what. So
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Speaker 4: that's where it started. And I was like, oh, okay,
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Speaker 4: we're really doing this. But it is It has been
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Speaker 4: such an obviously great idea that he had, and you know,
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Speaker 4: we're just really fortunate to see so many lives impacted
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Speaker 4: through such the you know, simple actions of fitness and
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Speaker 4: nutrition and mental wellness.
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Speaker 3: So if you have a survivor and somebody comes to
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Speaker 3: your foundation and they want to sign up, what does
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Speaker 3: that look like?
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Speaker 4: How long is it?
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Speaker 3: You know, people would probably have questions, you know, how
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Speaker 3: do I get on my feet again?
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Speaker 2: Give me an idea of what that looks like.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So our program, so, as I mentioned, we had
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Speaker 4: the fitness, nutrition, and mental wellness program. Those can all
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Speaker 4: be done in conjunction or independently of each other. Given
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Speaker 4: the fact that a lot of cancer survivors when they're
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Speaker 4: done which treatment, are really starting to kind of try
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Speaker 4: and get back in the swing of things, and so
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Speaker 4: we certainly don't want to make piece programs on more
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Speaker 4: burdensome than they should be helpful, if you will. And
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Speaker 4: so for the fitness program, it's twenty four sessions one
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Speaker 4: on one with a personal trainer over the course ideally
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Speaker 4: of twelve weeks, so that's two sessions per week. Everything
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Speaker 4: is one on one with that trainer, and that trainer
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Speaker 4: really customizes your fitness program to you. So we've had
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Speaker 4: eighteen year olds come through the program, and we've had
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Speaker 4: eighty eight year olds come through the program, and so
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Speaker 4: clearly they don't need the same thing when it comes
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Speaker 4: to recovery. And so that's where that customization and individualized
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Speaker 4: support comes in and really working with people on their needs.
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Speaker 4: And then on the nutrition side, our participants received three
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Speaker 4: to five sessions with a dietician and typically that is
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Speaker 4: done with the fitness because obviously those go well hand
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Speaker 4: in hand. And then for mental wellness support, our participants
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Speaker 4: receive two three months of weekly therapy, meaning that they
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Speaker 4: can go every week for three months, they can go
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Speaker 4: every other week for three months. We really let them,
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Speaker 4: the participant and their therapists decide that together and really
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Speaker 4: make the best protocol for them at that point. So
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Speaker 4: when someone comes into the program, we have an intake
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Speaker 4: process that we go through and between our program coordinator
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Speaker 4: and that individual decide the best course of action for them.
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Speaker 4: And I should also mention that all these programs that
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Speaker 4: we do provide were fortunate to have great support of
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Speaker 4: the community and the communities. We work with numbers of businesses,
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Speaker 4: local businesses as well as businesses across the nation who
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Speaker 4: support Survivor Fitness to make these programs available at no
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Speaker 4: cost to anyone who comes through.
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Speaker 1: Wow, and do the do doctors make referrals to you all?
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Speaker 1: Or like, how does that usually happen? Because we want
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Speaker 1: the whole We want the whole country. The reason you're
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Speaker 1: on here today is we want the whole country to
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Speaker 1: find out about Survivor Fitness Foundation. Not a lot of
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Speaker 1: people know about it and it's now it's really based
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Speaker 1: in Tennessee for the most part. Now it's virtual. You
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Speaker 1: can get it anywhere from what you what I understand, So,
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Speaker 1: what's the typical way that you identified you have you
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Speaker 1: have on colleges that you work with generally at this
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Speaker 1: point and they refer or how does that happen?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, as you mentioned, to our program. So we do
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Speaker 4: have in person locations that we work with fitness wise
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Speaker 4: throughout the state of Tennessee, which is where we started
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Speaker 4: and where we reside now, but we also provide virtual
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Speaker 4: programming to anyone across the country and that is actually
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Speaker 4: our largest growing market, if you will. Survivor Fitness is
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Speaker 4: a unique program in the fact of kind of what
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Speaker 4: we do with the individualized support. So we do we
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Speaker 4: have physicians on colleges, surgical centers, nurses who refer their
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Speaker 4: patients to our program all across the country and we've
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Speaker 4: been fortunate to grow in that aspect. But it's important
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Speaker 4: to note that you do not have to have a
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Speaker 4: doctor's referral to apply to be part of Survivor Fitness,
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Speaker 4: So anyone can hop on our website at Survivorfitness dot
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Speaker 4: org apply for the program. It's a quick application, just
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Speaker 4: asking kind of what you've been through, where you are now,
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Speaker 4: where you've been, probably you know, five to seven minutes
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Speaker 4: of an application, and then we set up the intake
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Speaker 4: process from there. We always circle back and get medical
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Speaker 4: clearance forms from the physicians and the surgeons. Just really
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Speaker 4: again dependent on the individual, but no anyone can come
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Speaker 4: to our website and apply for these programs, and yes
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Speaker 4: we do want everyone to apply. We have the ability
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Speaker 4: to support numbers more than we are at this moment,
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Speaker 4: and we're very fortunate we've been growing and growing. But
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Speaker 4: you know, the thought of any cancer survivor sitting at
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Speaker 4: home alone and wondering what do I be, like, how
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Speaker 4: do I move forward? That's hard and that's kind of
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Speaker 4: devastating and why we want to work so hard to
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Speaker 4: make sure that people know about the brokens that we provide.
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Speaker 3: I mean, first of all, your website is an incredible resource.
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Speaker 3: I can tell you that, you know, I have taken
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Speaker 3: the deep dive on it and it has so much information.
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Speaker 3: You are providing survivor stories on there and what's happened
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Speaker 3: with you know, some of the people who have applied,
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Speaker 3: and I can just personally tell you that not really
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Speaker 3: great at asking for help.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: I was like to my daughter, just roll me in
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Speaker 3: the door. I'll be fine the next day, you know,
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Speaker 3: and get going. But you know, there's so much that
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Speaker 3: you go through, like I told you the plastic surgeon.
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Speaker 3: People called me, They're like, we'll give you a ride,
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Speaker 3: and I was like, what, Like, I mean, you're not
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Speaker 3: even thinking like that. And then the mental part of
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Speaker 3: it is depending on what you have. And I'm just
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Speaker 3: going to say this because a lot of people go
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Speaker 3: through it. Your body completely changes. And I'm only speaking
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Speaker 3: about my own breast cancer her diagnosis, and it's mentally
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Speaker 3: really something that you need to process. And the mental
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Speaker 3: part of this survivor fitness is, I think is huge.
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Speaker 1: Would I would absolutely agree because I know with my mom.
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Speaker 1: She had she had a form of cancer was called
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Speaker 1: epithelioid hamanngeolite, theoma. It's the it's the cancer of innerlining
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Speaker 1: of the blood vessels, and they only diagnose it five
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Speaker 1: hundred cases in the world every year. Most people die
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Speaker 1: within three years. She survived. Hers went away by itself.
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Speaker 1: She became a case study at MD Anderson and it
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Speaker 1: was a whole big thing. But I know mentally, and
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Speaker 1: she's now eighty seven, she was diagnosed when she was
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Speaker 1: fifty six. It's hard once you've had that something like
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Speaker 1: that that's so rare and so always fatal, I think
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Speaker 1: it's hard to get past that point mentally and emotionally.
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Speaker 2: To tell your parents.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot of PTSD that goes a lovel for her,
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Speaker 1: like every year, like okay, is this coming back? She
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Speaker 1: had to keep going back, came back to be tested
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Speaker 1: over and over again, you know, is lots of cat scans,
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Speaker 1: which took forever for the doctors to finally say, you know,
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Speaker 1: you are in remission and you don't have to come back.
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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm glad to hear that you added that
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Speaker 1: mental health piece because that was a lot on her.
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Speaker 1: We know that it was a lot on us as
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Speaker 1: a family too, which reminds me too, do you add
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Speaker 1: the family into this process too, because families go through
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Speaker 1: a lot as well. Do they have is our resources
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Speaker 1: that help them?
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Speaker 4: We do not. Most there's a couple of different organizations
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Speaker 4: who are providing family support specifically for children and as
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Speaker 4: well that they can kind of different coping mechanisms that
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Speaker 4: they can really tap into if they if their parents
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Speaker 4: is diagnosed. So we do not at this point. What
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Speaker 4: we do love to see though, is when you know
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Speaker 4: mom or dad starts working out, maybe for the first
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Speaker 4: time or ever, that these kids dependent on their age
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Speaker 4: right coming along with them and working out alongside of
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Speaker 4: them once they get to the point that they can
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Speaker 4: do so, or maybe they sign up for a five
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Speaker 4: k together, or they do something that they've never done before.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we see a lot of parents who, you know,
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Speaker 4: they can't even play basketball with their kids. They can't
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Speaker 4: you know, run down the soccer field with their kids
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Speaker 4: because of potentially what they've been through, or the concerns
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Speaker 4: around potentially you know, some of the surgeries or treatments,
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Speaker 4: or maybe they get more winded more easily. There's so
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Speaker 4: much there that really having someone walk beside you and
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Speaker 4: help you understand like it's okay, Like you're not the
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Speaker 4: only one who's had this issue, right, And I think
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Speaker 4: a lot of time cancer survivors feel that way. I'm
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Speaker 4: not a cancer survivor myself, so I can't say that
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Speaker 4: I felt that way. But all the participants who we
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Speaker 4: speak too often say like, I'm sure I'm the only
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Speaker 4: one who's gained weight, and we step back and say, actually, no,
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Speaker 4: like a lot of our participants gained weight because of
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Speaker 4: the medications that they've been on, because of the seroids
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Speaker 4: or dependent on you know, just all sorts of things,
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Speaker 4: particularly a lot of breast cancer survivors looking at really
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Speaker 4: what that proper balance is between nutrition and fitness as
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Speaker 4: they come out. And you know, I'm not a physician,
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Speaker 4: but I can speak to what I've seen and the
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Speaker 4: research that I've read, and it really is such an
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Speaker 4: important factor for people to know that like they're not
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Speaker 4: on the right, that they are not the only person
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Speaker 4: sitting there wondering, you know, how do I do this?
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Speaker 4: Like that my doctor says I should work out, but
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Speaker 4: like I've ever been to a gym before, where do
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Speaker 4: I even start? Or my doctor says I should work out,
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Speaker 4: Like I used to be able to pick up twenty
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Speaker 4: five pounds and now I can barely pick up like
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Speaker 4: the can to open it and you know, make myself
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Speaker 4: a can of soup. And so it's really hard either way.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we see people struggle with this all the
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Speaker 4: time of what to do and how to do it,
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Speaker 4: and then you think adding your family into that, or
16:55
Speaker 4: adding the workplace into it, depending on what you do
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Speaker 4: for a living, and it really just comes piles for
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Speaker 4: these individuals to try and figure it out, and instead
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Speaker 4: of being able to move forward, they just sit stagnant
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Speaker 4: because they don't even know where to start. And that's
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Speaker 4: what we really want to help people do is come
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Speaker 4: alongside them and show them it's just one foot in
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Speaker 4: front of the other and having someone walk beside you
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Speaker 4: and really show you that direction is critical and changing
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Speaker 4: really that trajectory of your health and wellness.
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Speaker 2: So correct me if I'm wrong.
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Speaker 3: You're saying survivor fitness is kind of a one on one,
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Speaker 3: which I think is important because, like, you know, you
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Speaker 3: get a good diagnosis after you I mean, you know,
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Speaker 3: a good you know, getting out there again. I don't
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Speaker 3: know what I'm trying to say, but I'm trying to
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Speaker 3: say that, you know, if you get a clean bill
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Speaker 3: of health, good lord, that's another whole show brain fog
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Speaker 3: my gosh.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I was like, well it just happened, but a stroke, Yeah, we.
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Speaker 1: Remember, we will have it. We will do a show
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Speaker 1: on that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: What I'm saying is a clean bill of health you
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Speaker 3: feel like, oh okay, even though I'm fifty four, maybe
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Speaker 3: I should act like I'm eighteen and get out there.
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Speaker 3: And I think people are intimidated and to get back
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Speaker 3: out and start working out again.
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Speaker 2: So is it one on one?
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Speaker 4: Everything that we do initially is one on one we
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Speaker 4: do have group workout classes and group fitness classes that
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Speaker 4: once people start in the program, when we are the
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Speaker 4: trainers do an assessment and really get that baseline for
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Speaker 4: where they are, and they start working out one on one,
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Speaker 4: they can funnel in and do these group workout classes virtually.
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Speaker 4: We have them virtually twice a week that they can
18:33
Speaker 4: tap into for kind of like a third workout each
18:35
Speaker 4: week and then continue on after their twenty four sessions
18:40
Speaker 4: with that trainer is up. And then same thing on
18:42
Speaker 4: the nutrition side, because people don't you know, you could
18:46
Speaker 4: take Julie what you've been through and then take someone
18:48
Speaker 4: who's been through the exact same situation and your bodies
18:51
Speaker 4: don't respond the same. And so for us, you know,
18:54
Speaker 4: we think about it as there's no one size fits
18:57
Speaker 4: all when it comes to a cancer diagnosis, and that
19:00
Speaker 4: includes deering treatment and after treatment. And that's why it's
19:04
Speaker 4: so critical to take somebody and say, okay, you know,
19:07
Speaker 4: where were you before, what were you doing before? What
19:09
Speaker 4: gets you excited when you're working out? What challenges do
19:12
Speaker 4: you face? And really you know, what are your personal goals?
19:15
Speaker 4: Because you know nothing against group classes. I think that
19:20
Speaker 4: group classes are great and have their place. I think
19:22
Speaker 4: there's so much great community that comes along in group classes,
19:25
Speaker 4: but I think that it's important that people have the
19:28
Speaker 4: opportunity to figure out what really works for them and
19:31
Speaker 4: having a trainer come alongside of them and saying like, okay,
19:34
Speaker 4: let's fix that aspect, because, like you said, if you're
19:37
Speaker 4: fifty four and you're working out besides you know, an
19:40
Speaker 4: eighteen year old, but you might like try and prove
19:42
Speaker 4: something and then all of a sudden you're out for
19:45
Speaker 4: a week and a half because you try to prove
19:47
Speaker 4: something you weren't quite ready to prove and that you know,
19:50
Speaker 4: and that's that stinks, And that's not where we want
19:53
Speaker 4: people to end up when they're trying to move forward,
19:56
Speaker 4: is moving backwardsness.
19:58
Speaker 3: And I'm a big fan of individual so so as
20:03
Speaker 3: far as the virtual part, so it's on zoom if
20:05
Speaker 3: you're doing it virtually, and.
20:09
Speaker 1: Like I have a one of those mirror things, and
20:11
Speaker 1: there's an option of then seeing you, and I don't
20:14
Speaker 1: ever want that because I'm like, I don't want people.
20:16
Speaker 1: I don't want them to see me. But this case,
20:18
Speaker 1: you want the trainer's like you have a real trainer
20:20
Speaker 1: right in front of you, but you don't what you
20:23
Speaker 1: don't have a gym in your house. I'm like, what,
20:25
Speaker 1: what equipment do you use? How do people navigate that
20:28
Speaker 1: part of it?
20:29
Speaker 6: Yeah?
20:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, So so strength and resistance training is so important
20:34
Speaker 4: for cancer survivors and really anyone in general when it
20:38
Speaker 4: comes to health and business. And and so what we
20:40
Speaker 4: do is we provide up to three pieces of equipment
20:43
Speaker 4: for every one of our virtual participants and we send
20:45
Speaker 4: that correctly to their home. And so we have so
20:49
Speaker 4: that might be a pair of bands, a stability ball.
20:52
Speaker 4: We typically use things that can kind of adjust in
20:55
Speaker 4: weight as people progress or or resistance rather and so
21:00
Speaker 4: that we can kind of progress them along as well.
21:03
Speaker 4: And our virtual trainers are fantastic. We have a pocket
21:07
Speaker 4: full of individuals who do only our virtual training, and
21:10
Speaker 4: I think that that's worth noting too. So we have
21:11
Speaker 4: affiliate trainers and dieticians as well as mental health therapists
21:16
Speaker 4: that we kind of think of as just an extension
21:19
Speaker 4: of our survivor fitness family. And so we have some wonderful,
21:24
Speaker 4: wonderful virtual trainers who love to have this type of communication,
21:28
Speaker 4: who love to get on and they're good at feeling that,
21:32
Speaker 4: you know, awkward moments if you will. As you're sitting
21:35
Speaker 4: there doing your exercises right watching you, they'll turn the
21:39
Speaker 4: music on. And you know, personal training is personal, so
21:43
Speaker 4: our trainers get to know you during that time, and
21:46
Speaker 4: we really work also to make sure that it's a
21:49
Speaker 4: good fit, not just from what they know and what
21:52
Speaker 4: you've been through, but also personality wise, because you're going
21:55
Speaker 4: to be sitting there with them for forty five minutes
21:57
Speaker 4: to an hour or twice a week. Oh yeah, you
22:00
Speaker 4: want to get along with them, and you're going to
22:02
Speaker 4: share things with them, and so yeah, we have people
22:06
Speaker 4: who love love this virtual programming and it's just as
22:09
Speaker 4: beneficial as the in person. Of course, you don't get
22:13
Speaker 4: all the equipment that you might get in person, but
22:15
Speaker 4: there's still so much that you can do from your home,
22:18
Speaker 4: and a lot of us have more equipment and tools
22:21
Speaker 4: around the house that we might not realize that we have,
22:24
Speaker 4: like stairs and things like that that we can utilize
22:26
Speaker 4: during a workout, and so our trainers are really great
22:29
Speaker 4: at tapping into that in addition to the equipment that
22:32
Speaker 4: we said.
22:33
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, like my aunt, she's eighty six now
22:36
Speaker 1: and she's really into chair yoga. Yeah, just using a chair.
22:41
Speaker 4: Well, and you think about like eighty six, and you know,
22:44
Speaker 4: this is where we're really big on whether you're eighteen
22:47
Speaker 4: or eighty eight, right, whether you've no matter what you've
22:51
Speaker 4: been through, because at eighty six you got it. There's
22:54
Speaker 4: so many things that involve squats if you will and
22:58
Speaker 4: nobody at eighty six if you're like, can you do
23:00
Speaker 4: any squats? Like I can't do any squats, But they
23:02
Speaker 4: do squats every day. If they're still driving, they're getting
23:05
Speaker 4: out and out of the car, if they're getting in
23:07
Speaker 4: and off of their chair. You know, all sorts of
23:11
Speaker 4: things that you do all throughout the day use different muscles,
23:14
Speaker 4: and so at that point, a lot of it is
23:15
Speaker 4: functional fitness, but you know, bone health and really learning
23:21
Speaker 4: how to exercise your body at different ages can really
23:25
Speaker 4: be pivotal to living a full and healthy life. Because listen,
23:28
Speaker 4: if you've beat cancer, no matter how old you are,
23:31
Speaker 4: you want to live and you want to be able
23:33
Speaker 4: to go see your grandchildren or go on a walk
23:36
Speaker 4: around the neighborhood or whatever that might look like for
23:38
Speaker 4: you to bring you joy. And so it's really important
23:42
Speaker 4: to you know, if cheer yoga is people love cheer yoga,
23:45
Speaker 4: and people love all sorts of different things for every
23:47
Speaker 4: activity level. And I just love. I love that an
23:50
Speaker 4: eighty six year old is doing cheeri yoga because.
23:53
Speaker 2: We should do it in our hotel room.
23:55
Speaker 1: Actually, do that.
23:58
Speaker 6: Make you?
23:59
Speaker 1: So?
23:59
Speaker 2: I want to know what.
24:00
Speaker 3: Do your kids know about survivor fitness? What do they
24:03
Speaker 3: say about it? What did they know about you know,
24:07
Speaker 3: your husband? I mean, you know, do they speak about it?
24:10
Speaker 3: I mean they obviously weren't around when he was diagnosed,
24:13
Speaker 3: but how does this fit into your family? Yeah?
24:16
Speaker 1: And you all are inspiring on so many levels in
24:18
Speaker 1: terms of making this happen. So yeah, what what do
24:20
Speaker 1: they know about it and think about it?
24:23
Speaker 4: Well? Thank you so much. I appreciate that. So, yeah,
24:26
Speaker 4: we have almost nine year old twins, a girl and
24:28
Speaker 4: a boy. They'll be nine. They're Christmas baby, so they'll
24:31
Speaker 4: be nine on December twenty third. But you know, it's
24:34
Speaker 4: been interesting to kind of bring them into our sphere
24:38
Speaker 4: of survivor fitness, if you will. They asked why they
24:42
Speaker 4: couldn't be on the interview tonight, so there. But you know,
24:48
Speaker 4: if the Aaron fans are, diagnosis first came up when
24:52
Speaker 4: we were actually had sports center on one morning and
24:55
Speaker 4: they were sharing a story about a football player's parent
24:58
Speaker 4: who was diagnosed, and so our kids started asking him
25:01
Speaker 4: what is cancer? Who has cancer? All these questions and
25:04
Speaker 4: they were only four years old, and so at that point,
25:07
Speaker 4: and our son is very curious, and he said, we'll
25:10
Speaker 4: have people all have cancer, and so we kind of
25:13
Speaker 4: just jumped into the conversation. You know, he's four. He
25:16
Speaker 4: only understood so much at that point, and so it
25:19
Speaker 4: was very high level. Yes, your dad had cancer. He
25:22
Speaker 4: is fine, he has been fine for a long time now.
25:26
Speaker 4: And then so that kind of edged into them learning
25:29
Speaker 4: a bit more about what we do. So I work
25:32
Speaker 4: full time for the organization. Aaron serves on our board
25:35
Speaker 4: of directors, so he has a separate job. So it's it's,
25:38
Speaker 4: you know, kind of tying the two together. But I
25:40
Speaker 4: do work from home, and so they get to see
25:42
Speaker 4: a lot of survivor fitness and what we do, and
25:45
Speaker 4: so they know we help cancer survivors and they've come
25:49
Speaker 4: to we have some events that we do throughout the
25:51
Speaker 4: year all over all over the place, especially in regards
25:56
Speaker 4: to fitness, and we do some dinners and they don't
25:58
Speaker 4: get to come to those, but the events that are
26:00
Speaker 4: a little more family friendly. They get to come to
26:03
Speaker 4: those and it's fun for them to see to see
26:07
Speaker 4: things on a bigger level. So when they ask what
26:10
Speaker 4: what mommy does for for work, they say that we
26:13
Speaker 4: help cancer survivors. Yes, come to learn a little bit
26:17
Speaker 4: more about that.
26:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is that is great. Do you have a fan? Now?
26:22
Speaker 1: I know you don't have a favorite survivor per se,
26:25
Speaker 1: but you have a story that you want to share.
26:27
Speaker 1: I mean, like, what's what's an example of this? This
26:32
Speaker 1: is a huge this is a big success story that
26:34
Speaker 1: I want to share with you to inspire you. If
26:36
Speaker 1: you're a cancer survivor and you're interested in this, this
26:39
Speaker 1: will give you some great hope that this is exactly
26:41
Speaker 1: where you need to be.
26:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I, as you said, I don't have
26:47
Speaker 4: one favorite story. I do have one that I'll tell
26:49
Speaker 4: you in a second, but before I tell you, like
26:51
Speaker 4: an extreme story. I think it's so important for people
26:53
Speaker 4: to as Julie you're saying, like, it doesn't matter if
26:57
Speaker 4: you've had a surgery or you know, and I say
27:01
Speaker 4: this in full quotation, marks is some people deal with
27:03
Speaker 4: that survivor guilt, but you still oftentimes deal with a
27:06
Speaker 4: lot of the mental and emotional and physical aspects as well.
27:10
Speaker 4: And so you know, honestly, seeing people being able to
27:14
Speaker 4: do activities that they loved that they thought they never
27:16
Speaker 4: be able to do again bring so much story to
27:19
Speaker 4: my day when I get an email that says, like,
27:22
Speaker 4: I never thought I would be able to, you know,
27:24
Speaker 4: coach my kids soccer again, and I'm able to not
27:29
Speaker 4: only to do that, but I'm able to do so
27:31
Speaker 4: much more. We had one lady who was doing like
27:36
Speaker 4: kind of a couch to five K program and her
27:38
Speaker 4: teenage son said, you know what, I'm going to do
27:40
Speaker 4: this with you law and came alongside her and they
27:43
Speaker 4: did it together. And so I love those. But one
27:46
Speaker 4: particular story that is if I had a quick favorite,
27:51
Speaker 4: this would be my favorite. A woman named Carol. She
27:55
Speaker 4: was diagnosed with formasaracoma and what is had her right
28:03
Speaker 4: side muscle removed the majority of her right side muscle
28:07
Speaker 4: and so she really struggled with her balance. She really
28:11
Speaker 4: struggled with all sorts of things, and her fall risk
28:17
Speaker 4: was very high. And so that meant that when she
28:19
Speaker 4: fell getting up was not just like you and I
28:23
Speaker 4: get up off the floor. It was very She had
28:25
Speaker 4: to have this very strategic manner of like crawling over
28:28
Speaker 4: to an object and getting to a solid object and
28:33
Speaker 4: pulling herself up. Now, if she fell, and like she
28:37
Speaker 4: wouldn't let anybody pick her up because it was painful.
28:41
Speaker 4: Her husband and one of her sons were the only
28:43
Speaker 4: people that really knew the proper way to help her
28:46
Speaker 4: get up, and she really struggled, struggled with this. Her
28:50
Speaker 4: husband had to take a leave of absence and disability
28:53
Speaker 4: from work because she wasn't able to be left at
28:55
Speaker 4: home because if she felt she could potentially hit her head,
29:00
Speaker 4: and unfortunately that happened. She at one point she hit
29:02
Speaker 4: her head, had a concussion, broke some ribs and just
29:06
Speaker 4: kind of things. We were not looking great, and we
29:10
Speaker 4: had already been in contact with her at that point
29:12
Speaker 4: and her doctor, her physician, her on colleges sorry, and
29:18
Speaker 4: she had met with him and said, you know, when
29:19
Speaker 4: we get to a certain point, I'm going to tell
29:20
Speaker 4: you to sign up for Survivor Fitness because I really
29:22
Speaker 4: think it would be helpful. And so we had spoken
29:26
Speaker 4: and then she had this fall, so we had to
29:29
Speaker 4: wait a bit longer, and in the interim she went
29:31
Speaker 4: to physical therapy and I have great friends who are
29:36
Speaker 4: physical therapists. I love physical therapists. But unfortunately, her physical
29:40
Speaker 4: therapist did not really surf her in the best manner
29:44
Speaker 4: as far as helping her overcome what she had gone through.
29:48
Speaker 4: And that's not always, you know, oftentimes, right, this is
29:51
Speaker 4: the issue, this is what they need to work on,
29:53
Speaker 4: and so that's what they did. And unfortunately, at the
29:56
Speaker 4: end of their sessions and their time together, she still
29:59
Speaker 4: couldn't get up the ground. It was you know, this
30:01
Speaker 4: is just the way your life is going to be.
30:03
Speaker 4: And I'm so sorry, but this is just how it is.
30:08
Speaker 4: Went back to her on collegist and our on collegist said,
30:10
Speaker 4: remember how I told you about Survivor Fitness. I need
30:13
Speaker 4: you to go back and sign up for this program.
30:15
Speaker 4: So Carol came back to us and we talked through
30:22
Speaker 4: a lot of things. And one of the things that
30:25
Speaker 4: when I was talking with her trainer that we were
30:27
Speaker 4: going to set her up with, Traynor said to me,
30:30
Speaker 4: you know, we're going to work on all the things
30:32
Speaker 4: that she does have, not the things she doesn't have.
30:35
Speaker 4: And boy did they do that. It was six weeks
30:40
Speaker 4: into it, but they worked and they worked, and Carol
30:43
Speaker 4: really just dug in and gave her all. Was so
30:47
Speaker 4: committed to herself, right to herself and to her family
30:53
Speaker 4: and to she had a new grandchild, and she was
30:56
Speaker 4: just very committed to saying like I am not going
30:58
Speaker 4: to live my life like this. I'm going to make
31:01
Speaker 4: this happen. And six weeks in, about six weeks in,
31:08
Speaker 4: I get this phone call and it's her trainer and
31:11
Speaker 4: Carol screaming and she's like, I did I did what
31:15
Speaker 4: She's like, I got up off the ground by myself,
31:18
Speaker 4: and I was like, I mean tears of joy and
31:20
Speaker 4: something that we take for granted. It's like going one
31:24
Speaker 4: day from being able to get up and off the
31:26
Speaker 4: floor to the next day just being maybe not the
31:30
Speaker 4: next day, but you know, almost not being able to
31:33
Speaker 4: do so. And Carol has before that, it had about
31:38
Speaker 4: a year before a diagnosis, tragically lost her son by
31:41
Speaker 4: an impaired driver in a terrible car accident, and so
31:46
Speaker 4: she had not only dealt with that, but then kind
31:48
Speaker 4: of almost straight into she was still recovering and mentally
31:52
Speaker 4: and emotionally dealing with that incident when she had her
31:54
Speaker 4: cancer diagnosis, and one of her goals was to hide
32:00
Speaker 4: Mount Kilimanjaro, not just for herself but for her son.
32:04
Speaker 4: And she did that two years ago, and I know.
32:08
Speaker 4: And so she went from not being able to get
32:11
Speaker 4: up and off the floor to hiking Mount Kilimandar. She's
32:14
Speaker 4: I think at this point now she's fifty seven to
32:16
Speaker 4: fifty eight, maybe the older. I can't remember exact age
32:20
Speaker 4: at this point. But she is such just a just
32:25
Speaker 4: a testament to the joy and the empowerment that can
32:29
Speaker 4: come from something so simple as someone saying to you,
32:32
Speaker 4: we're not gonna focus on the cans. We're gonna focus
32:34
Speaker 4: on the cans, and we're gonna make this happen together.
32:37
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna hold your hand every step of the
32:39
Speaker 4: way until it's time to let you go. And that's
32:42
Speaker 4: what they did.
32:43
Speaker 2: So that is my I love it.
32:46
Speaker 1: I can see why. I mean, I can honestly say
32:49
Speaker 1: I don't think I could hike Mount kill Him and Jarrow.
32:51
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I could make it, like
32:53
Speaker 1: hike over to melt Colin. I don't even know. That's
32:56
Speaker 1: not even gonna happen. So I am so that's an impressed,
33:00
Speaker 1: have awesome story. Well, Meg, if you every everybody I
33:05
Speaker 1: think needs a spat experience.
33:07
Speaker 2: To well, I mean fitness. They could add spot services
33:10
Speaker 2: to you there.
33:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be awesome. So yes, and so she may
33:14
Speaker 1: have a favorite she may. Yes, Well she's about to
33:16
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33:20
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33:24
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33:24
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33:34
Speaker 1: we would now like to welcome into the show our
33:36
Speaker 1: Zoomer Moms. Welcome, Zoomer Moms. Welcome to the Mom's Club.
33:40
Speaker 1: Hello ladies. Well I'm going to introduce each one of
33:44
Speaker 1: you and I want you to tell your name, where
33:47
Speaker 1: you're from, a little bit about yourself, and do you
33:49
Speaker 1: have a question for Meg Kathy, Welcome to the Mom's Club.
33:53
Speaker 7: Welcome. Thank you so much, Monica, I really appreciate it.
33:58
Speaker 7: Wipe them back happy tears because what an inspirational show
34:02
Speaker 7: this is. I'm a Kathy Ward. I'm from Plano, Texas.
34:06
Speaker 7: My daughter just turned twenty six, my son's about to
34:09
Speaker 7: turn twenty two. Oh, where does the time go. I'm
34:13
Speaker 7: a former special education teacher and have also been elected
34:16
Speaker 7: to a couple of offices, currently serve on a commission for
34:19
Speaker 7: the governor here in the state of Texas. My goodness,
34:25
Speaker 7: my mom's a cancer survivor. Unfortunately, my mom passed away
34:28
Speaker 7: a few years ago and I miss her dearly, but
34:31
Speaker 7: it was not from cancer. And one of the reasons
34:35
Speaker 7: and this she had her cancer diagnosis my gounness thirty
34:38
Speaker 7: five plus years ago, almost almost forty years ago now,
34:42
Speaker 7: and she found a nutritionist in a little shopping strip
34:48
Speaker 7: in Richardson, Texas, and learned so much about supplements. She
34:55
Speaker 7: was a physical therapist, so she knew physically what to
34:58
Speaker 7: do with herself and what not to do with herself
35:00
Speaker 7: with her breast cancer diagnosis. And we feel like we
35:04
Speaker 7: had my mom for all of those decades because she
35:09
Speaker 7: chose to take care of herself with all of the
35:12
Speaker 7: things out there. My mom was very open and willing
35:16
Speaker 7: to learn about that. We feel like that helped keep
35:19
Speaker 7: the cancer away. She never had cancer again after she
35:22
Speaker 7: had that original diagnosis, but her body did go through
35:25
Speaker 7: a lot of changes with chemo and radiation. She ended
35:28
Speaker 7: up having allergies she had never had, and just a
35:31
Speaker 7: lot of things she had to work through, and I
35:34
Speaker 7: think of what a gift and an organization like yours
35:37
Speaker 7: and your husband's would have been for her. But that
35:39
Speaker 7: was back before the internet days. My question to you,
35:43
Speaker 7: Meg is, Okay, we've all just learned about your fantastic
35:48
Speaker 7: organization and what.
35:49
Speaker 4: You can do.
35:51
Speaker 7: If I'm trying to explain this to a friend who
35:54
Speaker 7: maybe is saying, no, nothing's going to work, I don't
35:58
Speaker 7: want to hear about anything going to do exactly what
36:00
Speaker 7: my doctor says, and that's it. How what would be
36:04
Speaker 7: the appropriate way for somebody like me to introduce your organization?
36:10
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
36:11
Speaker 7: A friend or a family member, good question.
36:16
Speaker 4: That is a great question. That's a great question. You know,
36:20
Speaker 4: people kind of come at their own speace, if you will.
36:22
Speaker 4: I think a lot of times when it comes to
36:26
Speaker 4: a cancer diagnosis, there are people who get the diagnosis
36:29
Speaker 4: and they apply to survivor Fitness at there. Right, They're
36:33
Speaker 4: like that, I'm going to get through with this, and
36:35
Speaker 4: whenever I'm done with all the things, I'm starting survivor Fitness.
36:40
Speaker 4: And then there are people that come to us two
36:41
Speaker 4: to three years later, right because after they've gotten it,
36:44
Speaker 4: because they you know, want to do it.
36:46
Speaker 7: On their own.
36:48
Speaker 4: Kind of make start and then kind might fall off
36:50
Speaker 4: right So, you know, if they're on social media, I
36:54
Speaker 4: tell people to tell them to follow us on Facebook
36:57
Speaker 4: or follow us on Instagram because they'll get to see
37:00
Speaker 4: diferent participants. Really the myriad of individuals that we work with,
37:05
Speaker 4: and they might identify with one of those people. We've
37:09
Speaker 4: got stories like Carols on our YouTube channel who kind
37:14
Speaker 4: of talk about different people talking about what they've been
37:16
Speaker 4: through and people who struggled with what to do after
37:22
Speaker 4: people who again thought that they could could handle it,
37:26
Speaker 4: or I just think for everybody, it's so individualized, and
37:29
Speaker 4: like you said, some people aren't ready to hop right
37:31
Speaker 4: in or think that they can do it on their own.
37:33
Speaker 4: And you know what some people do and they have
37:35
Speaker 4: great success on their own because they know what to do.
37:38
Speaker 4: But we don't put a time cap a long time
37:41
Speaker 4: cap if you will, on or sorry, rather a short
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Speaker 4: time cap on when people can apply after their received
37:48
Speaker 4: kind of the all clear, they're done with their surgeries
37:51
Speaker 4: and their treatments. If someone's on a maintenance medication, they
37:54
Speaker 4: can apply or we can talk to them, you know,
37:57
Speaker 4: have them reach out survivor fitness dot or email me,
38:00
Speaker 4: and I'm happy to talk to those people because I
38:03
Speaker 4: you know, I think that some people just need kind
38:05
Speaker 4: of like to dip their toes in the water, maybe
38:07
Speaker 4: sign up for a newsletter, you know, just kind of
38:09
Speaker 4: learn a little bit more about what we do, and
38:13
Speaker 4: hopefully they'll apply to the program or the programs when
38:17
Speaker 4: they're ready. And typically I feel like that that's the
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Speaker 4: best way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds good. Susan, welcome to the Mom's Club.
38:25
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about yourself, where you're from,
38:27
Speaker 1: and do you have a question for Meg.
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Speaker 5: Thank you very much for having me Meg, You're You're awesome.
38:33
Speaker 5: I'm so encouraged, so enlightened by your presentation. My name
38:38
Speaker 5: is Susan Dacak. I'm originally from back that Iraq. I
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Speaker 5: moved to the country to this country in nineteen seventy
38:44
Speaker 5: eight and became a naturalized citizen in nineteen eighty five
38:48
Speaker 5: on Flag Day. I earned my engineering degree in nineteen
38:53
Speaker 5: eighty three and I've been working in the source system
38:56
Speaker 5: and the rehabilitation of pipeline trensials technology ever since. My question,
39:02
Speaker 5: my mom and I are cancer survivors, and my question
39:05
Speaker 5: to you is do you see any kind of statistics
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Speaker 5: that shows people from that part of the world have
39:13
Speaker 5: more of certain type of cancer than others. If you
39:17
Speaker 5: don't know the answer, it's okay, that's not you know,
39:20
Speaker 5: that's not what you're you've been talking about. But I
39:23
Speaker 5: just want to know because I hear a lot of
39:25
Speaker 5: people from that part of the world having a certain
39:28
Speaker 5: type of cancer that other people here in the United States.
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Speaker 7: Do not have.
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Speaker 4: I do not know the answer to that question. I'm
39:35
Speaker 4: not familiar with those statistics and haven't dug into that
39:38
Speaker 4: area yet, so I'm sorry I can't answer that.
39:44
Speaker 5: I think that something in the digestive system. I see
39:47
Speaker 5: more of people in the Middle East, from the Middle
39:50
Speaker 5: East than than here in the United States. And because here,
39:55
Speaker 5: I think the top life and here you're you know,
39:58
Speaker 5: people pay attention to drinking water and doing all kinds
40:01
Speaker 5: of things. Over there, it's very very limited. When I remember,
40:06
Speaker 5: when we go out, when we go to the stores
40:09
Speaker 5: or whatever, we make sure we don't drink water that
40:11
Speaker 5: day because there aren't any good bathrooms anywhere, So we
40:15
Speaker 5: really overstress our digestive system. And that's why I was
40:18
Speaker 5: asking if you knew anything about that.
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Speaker 4: No, But I mean I think that. It's interesting really
40:23
Speaker 4: all the statistics you know that are coming out even
40:27
Speaker 4: in the United States about things that are going on
40:30
Speaker 4: in the diagnosis ages of certain types of cancer is changing,
40:33
Speaker 4: and I think it's important for everyone to really kind
40:36
Speaker 4: of dig into, whether it be where you're from in
40:39
Speaker 4: the area and kind of what your health history is
40:42
Speaker 4: with your family, so that you can understand really how
40:47
Speaker 4: that might impact you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great to learn how to get an the
40:52
Speaker 1: other side cure cancer, but preventing cancer and understanding a
40:56
Speaker 1: lot more about it. Interesting that you brought that up, Susan,
40:58
Speaker 1: because when my mother grew up in Appalatia and Kentucky
41:02
Speaker 1: and when she got her cancer, which was so rare,
41:05
Speaker 1: the doctor said, I like, is this hereditary? And he said, no,
41:08
Speaker 1: we think it's environmental. Oh so yeah, but yeah, I'm
41:12
Speaker 1: it's a good point. You know, it's good to know.
41:15
Speaker 1: Let's hope that we get to a place where we
41:16
Speaker 1: don't have cancer.
41:17
Speaker 2: That would be that would be.
41:21
Speaker 4: Out of business, I would be would be.
41:25
Speaker 1: Right, So exactly, deb welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell
41:32
Speaker 1: us a little bit about yourself, where you're from, and
41:34
Speaker 1: do you have a question for Meg.
41:36
Speaker 6: Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited
41:38
Speaker 6: about this topic. Unfortunately, I am a survivor as well.
41:43
Speaker 6: My name is Dev Miles. I'm from Austin, Texas, originally
41:47
Speaker 6: a Midwest transplant.
41:50
Speaker 4: I have two kids.
41:52
Speaker 6: I'm a recent empty nester and this program is fabulous.
41:59
Speaker 6: I'm wondering how you're scaling it because I could literally right.
42:04
Speaker 4: Now tell five friends.
42:05
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, but this program is fantastic. I think I've been
42:11
Speaker 6: through a lot of this and I think you guys
42:14
Speaker 6: have so many the right components, and I'm just wondering
42:19
Speaker 6: how you're going to scale because the virtual and or
42:23
Speaker 6: multiple locations and all of this stuff, like how you're
42:26
Speaker 6: going to do that? And if you want to talk
42:28
Speaker 6: a little bit about your fundraising so that if people
42:30
Speaker 6: watch this week and you know, help help the organization, well.
42:35
Speaker 4: Thank you, I appreciate that. So virtual right now, yes,
42:40
Speaker 4: is the way we scale for right now. If any
42:44
Speaker 4: trainers are out there people interested, you know, our trainers
42:47
Speaker 4: get their Cancer Exercise Special certification so that they have
42:50
Speaker 4: a more in depth understanding and we often have people
42:54
Speaker 4: who reach out and so that's how we've been able
42:56
Speaker 4: to scale virtually, and we are we're looking at kind
42:59
Speaker 4: of what what city is next and really tying in
43:03
Speaker 4: a bit more into the health systems as we do
43:05
Speaker 4: that a bit more strategically. To be quite frank we
43:08
Speaker 4: work very well with the health systems in the cities
43:11
Speaker 4: where we physically are located now and then we have
43:14
Speaker 4: great partnerships with different health systems outside of the state
43:18
Speaker 4: of Tennessee as well. People referring individuals to the program
43:21
Speaker 4: we do. We are a nonprofit. We are five oh
43:24
Speaker 4: one C three. We put through everyone who applies to
43:27
Speaker 4: our program at no cost to them, but through different corporations,
43:33
Speaker 4: grant funding, individual donors were fortunate to be able to
43:38
Speaker 4: continue providing these programs and so we're so grateful to
43:42
Speaker 4: do that. We've had some different like companies come along.
43:47
Speaker 4: There's Noble, who is a fitness brand. During the month
43:51
Speaker 4: of October they ran a campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness
43:54
Speaker 4: Month and use part of the sales that they've had
43:59
Speaker 4: to contribut to Survivor Fitness. So I am always open
44:03
Speaker 4: to fundraising. I will never do that a way, that's
44:06
Speaker 4: for sure.
44:07
Speaker 1: Really.
44:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's really how we're looking at scaling, because again,
44:11
Speaker 4: our goal is to make sure that every cancer survivor
44:14
Speaker 4: has the support that they need right and that no
44:16
Speaker 4: one's sitting at home alone wondering what's next. So we're
44:20
Speaker 4: kind of looking at strategically how to do that and
44:23
Speaker 4: to do it in the best way possible to serve well.
44:25
Speaker 1: We absolutely love this, Meg, and thank you so much
44:28
Speaker 1: for joining us. Now tell us if you're interested, If
44:31
Speaker 1: you're a cancer survivor and you're interested in the program, yeah,
44:34
Speaker 1: if you want to get involved and help, as you said,
44:36
Speaker 1: fund or support this, where can we find you?
44:40
Speaker 4: So Survivor Fitness dot org is our website, and then
44:43
Speaker 4: we are Survivor Fitness Foundation on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn
44:49
Speaker 4: and YouTube as well. So Survivor Fitness Foundation, And as
44:54
Speaker 4: Julie said, whether you're a cancer survivor or not, we
44:57
Speaker 4: do have a lot of resources on our website, recipes,
45:00
Speaker 4: we've got participants stories, we have different health and wellness
45:06
Speaker 4: topics in our blog if you follow us on social media.
45:10
Speaker 4: We host wellness workshops once a month and they're free
45:13
Speaker 4: to people anywhere and everywhere. So, whether you're a cancer
45:16
Speaker 4: forever or not, if the topic's applicable to you, register
45:20
Speaker 4: for it. Sign up and I'm Kathy that's a good
45:22
Speaker 4: way for people to dip their toes in as well,
45:24
Speaker 4: is just sign up for these free resources that are
45:26
Speaker 4: out there. Because you know, people are moving their body
45:29
Speaker 4: and starting to take that control of their health and
45:32
Speaker 4: their life. It's such a powerful tool and anything that
45:36
Speaker 4: we can do to help with that, we we would
45:38
Speaker 4: love to.
45:39
Speaker 1: I love it.
45:39
Speaker 4: I love it.
45:40
Speaker 3: Your empathy is off the charts. We cannot thank you
45:43
Speaker 3: enough for coming today much.
45:45
Speaker 1: Yes, now, Julie, if you decide to do it virtually,
45:48
Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't mind taking an exercise class.
45:50
Speaker 4: With you, just so.
45:51
Speaker 2: We've been partners in exercise before.
45:53
Speaker 3: Yes, apparently, so I guess you have to do it
45:56
Speaker 3: ninety days before it becomes.
45:58
Speaker 5: I have it.
45:59
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll make a commitment with you. I absolutely Heaven
46:03
Speaker 1: knows I need.
46:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, if we can have a trainer, you know, come
46:09
Speaker 4: in and do some exercise work with you both, right,
46:12
Speaker 4: that would may can figure out. But if your bodies
46:15
Speaker 4: and your personalities is you're working together for that.
46:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would help both. Well. Thank you again so much,
46:21
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48:02
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48:04
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48:07
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