Shows / Kicking Cancer's Ass
Kicking Cancer's Ass
Kicking Cancer’s Ass is the weekly podcast giving cancer survivors, patients, and caregivers hope and power through stories, strategies, and science.
Episodes
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 18: The Mindset Shift That Helped Her Survive Cancer (And Everything After)
When bestselling author Cara Lockwood was dropped by her publisher in the middle of chemotherapy, she could have given up. Instead, she discovered a mindset…
Kicking Cancer's AssSolo Ep 5: Telling Your Family You Have Cancer: Lessons From Both Sides of the Table
Telling your family you have cancer might be the hardest conversation of your life. Joelle Kaufman has lived it — as both the child of a survivor and a parent…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 17: How to Take Back Power When Cancer Tries to Take Over Your Life
 When you hear the words “It’s malignant,” your world stops. Everything you thought you knew about control, safety, and your future suddenly disappears…
Kicking Cancer's AssSolo Ep 4: How to Tell Your Partner You Have Cancer (It’s Okay to Fall Apart)
What if the hardest part of cancer isn’t chemo—it’s finding the words to tell your partner? Joelle Kaufman knows this moment intimately. Walking to…
Kicking Cancer's AssSolo Ep 3: Build Your Power Team
When cancer hits, everyone calls you a “fighter.” But this isn’t a battle — it’s a curveball. And no one crushes curveballs alone. In this powerful episode…
Kicking Cancer's AssSolo Ep 2: The Cancer Call: 3 Steps to Find Your Footing After Diagnosis
When your phone rings and you hear the words “it’s malignant,” your world stops. Your body reacts before your brain can — fear, anger, disbelief, numbness —…
Kicking Cancer's AssSolo Ep 1: How a Cancer Patient Can Respond to Bad Advice
When you share your diagnosis, everyone suddenly has something to say — a “miracle cure,” a diet to try, or the dreaded “stay positive.” Most mean well, but…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 16: How My Son Found Power When Cancer Hit Our Family
How do you handle watching cancer touch three generations of your family? Benjamin Kaufman found out when his mom received her stage two breast cancer…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 15: Michelle Audoin – How to Be Seen in Your Cancer
How do you make doctors see you when they keep saying “don’t worry” and you know something’s wrong? Michelle Audoin asked her surgical…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 14: How to Make Your Body Inhospitable to Cancer
How do you know if that supplement your sister swears by will help you—or interfere with the chemo that’s supposed to save your life? Dr. Lise Alschuler…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 13: Fight Like A Man Part 2
Are you hiding your cancer symptoms because you think that’s what tough guys do? Paul learned the hard way that the biggest mistake men make isn’t…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 12: Fighting Like a Man Doesn’t Mean Fighting Alone
Why do men with cancer have lower survival rates than women? Paul Apodoca thought he knew what “fighting like a man” meant until stage four…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 11: How to Cut Your Cancer Risk by 78% Naturally
What if most cancer isn’t about bad luck, but about inflammation you can control? Dr. Mary Ann Martin, endocrinologist turned “Dr. Hormone…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 10: The Truth About Cancer Nobody Tells You
What happens when cancer defines your family for 40 years—and you’re still finding reasons to laugh? Richard Willmore was seven when his father’s…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 9: Why Standard Cancer Treatments Fail (And How to Fight Back)
What if the way we’ve been treating metastatic cancer is completely backwards? Dr. Dawn Lemanne, an oncologist who’s revolutionizing treatment…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 08: The $8000 lesson: Why your worst insurance decision might save your life
When a marathoner chose the cheapest health insurance because she “never planned to use it,” she had no idea cancer would teach her that the…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode: 07 Dr. Jay Harness – “Why ‘Taking It Easy’ Could Be the Worst Cancer Advice Ever”
What if your oncologist’s advice to “just take it easy” could actually harm your recovery? This episode challenges everything you think you…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 6: Julie Bach – Travel as Treatment
What if cancer didn’t have to stop your plans—what if you could weave travel into your treatment timeline instead? Julie Bach lost both parents to cancer…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 05: “Creating a Ruckus” with Biotech Entrepreneur Sheila Mikhail
When your doctor says 3D mammograms are “perfect” for dense breasts, they’re wrong. Dangerously wrong. Sheila Mikhail learned this the hard…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 04: “I’m Still Here”: How Cindee Nicole Is Kicking Cancer’s Ass
Most people hear “stage 4 cancer” and assume it’s the end. Cindee Nicole chose to make it a beginning. In this raw, real, and unexpectedly uplifting episode…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 03: What Everyone with Breasts Needs to Know About Screening
👩⚕️ Featuring Dr. Harriet Borofsky, Medical Director of Breast Imaging, Riverview and Bayshore Medical Centers, Hackensack Meridian Health  🚨 Why You…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 02: Misery is Optional: How Ami Tully Lotka Beat Cancer with Humor, Leadership, and Radical Joy
Triple-negative breast cancer wasn’t on Ami Tully Lotka’s calendar—but neither was giving up. In this powerful episode, the seasoned entrepreneur and financial…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 01: Most cancer detection tools fail because they weren’t built for early detection.
In this emotional and mind-expanding episode, Dr. Peter Kuhn—a physicist turned cancer researcher—joins Joelle Kaufman to talk about his mission: eliminating…
Kicking Cancer's AssEpisode 00: Introduction to Kicking Cancer’s Ass
After 40 years of cancer experience across three generations, host Joelle Kaufman reveals why she created the podcast nobody asked for—but everyone needs. From…