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Acting can serve you in real life.
Today’s featured award-winning bookcaster is keynote speaker, patient advocate, certified coach, and founder of Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association, Andrea Wilson Woods. Andrea and I had a chat about her book, “Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days”, how she turned grief into a mission to fight liver cancer and more!
Key Things You’ll Learn:
Her motivation for starting Blue Faery
The importance of early detection
Some of the risks and causes of liver cancer
3 major lessons learned from running her podcast
Andrea’s Site: https://www.andreawilsonwoods.com/
Andrea’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Bald-Life-Days/dp/1544504616/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Andrea’s Podcast, “Cancer U Thrivers Podcast”: https://podcast.cancer.university/
Going Through Changes by Eminem: https://youtu.be/T6T_94qjp5g
The opening track is titled “I Feel It” by Bosnow from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/bosnow/i-feel-it
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