I was invited to participate in a four-week storytelling course for cancer ambassadors. As a professional storyteller, I was excited to learn new techniques and challenge my own thinking.

Instead, the course focused on generic communication skills rather than the craft of storytelling. The instructor wasn’t a cancer survivor or a storyteller. She specialized in leadership coaching. When I asked how the organization chose the company, they told me it had been recommended by two other cancer organizations.

That’s when everything clicked. The fire was lit. I knew this was what I was meant to do.

Cancer survivors deserve to learn storytelling from someone who has lived the experience and spent decades crafting stories that educate, inspire, and create change.

I started outlining The Cancer Survivor Story Lab that very day.

This isn’t a writing course. It isn’t therapy. It’s a guided journey to help survivors uncover the story within their cancer experience—for healing, meaning, connection, advocacy, or legacy.

Because storytelling has always done three things: heals, connects, inspires.

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