Help and Hope Happen Here
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Help and Hope Happen Here
This Podcast is going to be about Pediatric Cancer and the need to keep the awareness of this terrible disease in the public eye. My plan is to be able to interview a wide spectrum of people who all have a passion and a stake in finding a way to make the lives of these Pediatric Cancer Patients easi...
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Sara Bailey will talk about her daughter Brynlee who was diagnosed with Medulloblastoma in April of 2025 when she was 4 years old, and the much longer then necessary wait for this diagnosis.
With all types of troubling symptoms which began at the end of 2024, Sara Bailey was told that these symptoms in her then 4 year old daughter Brynlee...
Katie Taylor will talk about her very successful 15 year career to this point as a Certified Child Life Specialist, as well her accomplishments as a Public Speaker. Author, and Host of the INSIDE THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Podcast.
Among Katie Taylor's successes as a Certified Child Life Specialist over the past 15 years have been focusing on the parents of the children that are...
Tony Suttles and James Cumby will talk about the Dirt Track Car Race FIGHT LIKE A KID that Tony started to raise money for the cause of Pediatric cancer in 2024 and the great impact that it has already had.
When Tony Suttles heard about 9 year old Haley Chandler being diagnosed with a form of Pediatric Cancer in 2020, he decided that he needed to do somet...
Liz and Adie Alonzo will talk about Adie's diagnosis of Hodgkins Lymphoma when she was 14 years old late in 2024 , and is doing well health wise as this now 16 year old has been in remission since May 29th of 2025.
The only symptom that 14 year old Adie Alonzo was showing beginning in the spring of 2024 was an enlarged lymph node on her left side that had not imp...
Latanya Morrison will talk about her role as Grandmother to Ahmad Butler who passed away from Ependymoma when he was 6 1/2 years old in 2015, and her role as Executive Director of the Ahmad Butler Foundation.
Ahmad Butler described the headache that he was dealing with as "Pain On The Brain" in February of 2015, a headache that was almost immediately checke...
Dr. Cristina Pozo-Kaderman will talk about her very thorough and easy to read book COPING WITH CANCER IN EARLY ADULTHOOD , a malady that strikes 80,000 young adults in the United States each year and is considered the "forgotten" cancer problem.
Dr. Cristina Pozo- Kaderman is the Director of the Young Adult Program at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and just published her book COPING WITH CAN...
Brailynn Cumby and her parents Raquel and James will talk about Brailynn's shocking diagnosis of Ewings Sarcoma in October of 2024 when she was 11 years old and her interest in helping others, even during her treatment
When a "small pimple" that was on 11 year old Brailynn Cumby's back that seemed to be a simple cyst turned into Ewing's Sarcoma in October of 2024, he...
Caitlin White will talk about her son Grant who was diagnosed with B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at 2 years old in November of 2022 after a seemingly small bite on his thumb turned into a far more serious matter
Caitlin White's son Grant was 2 years old when he complained of pain from his thumb in November of 2022. This pain was not taken seriously enough by h...
Chad Gordon will talk about his daughter Adley who was diagnosed with B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia just before her 2nd birthday in February of 2022, underwent 800 days of treatment , and is doing very well 18 months after her treatment ended.
Chad Gordon radiated positivity when talking about his daughter Adley's successful battle with B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia which began just be...
Tim Finkel will talk about his beloved son Ryder, who was 7 years old when he was diagnosed with the terrible Pediatric Brain Cancer DIPG in October of 2023, and passed away just 54 days ago on October 22nd.
I am always amazed and humbled when any parent can come on to my podcast to talk about the passing of their child from any form of pediatric cancer. T...
Logan McCullough will talk about her now 4 1/2 year old daughter Waylynn who was diagnosed with High Risk B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in January of 2024 and is feeling much better after the difficult treatment that she underwent.
Even though it made perfect sense that 2 year old Waylynn McCullough was experiencing the same cold like symptoms that her dad Kevin and her mom Logan...
16 year old Grace Eline will talk about her recovery from the Stem Cell Cancer Germinoma which was found in her brain when she was 9 years old, and her amazing Advocacy work for Pediatric Cancer that she has been working on since she was 4 or 5 years old.
Grace Eline was taught values by her mom Aubrey and her father Dan at a very early age, that giving to others was far more important than wanting for...
Multi Award winning 16 year old Film Director Nya Chambless and her father Jerry will talk about the Short Film MY GUADIAN ANGEL that Nya directed, which is the true story of Nya's relationship with Teeja Johnson, who passed away from Neuroblastoma
Nya Chambless is now 16 years old, has been an actor since she was 4 years old, and is the now the Award Winning 16 year old Director of the Short Fil...
Amelia Fish will talk about her daughter Abby's Diagnosis of Choroid Plexus Carcinoma in the summer of 2025, which was complicated by her genetic condition of Li Fraumeni
When Abby Fish, who was still under the age of 2 in the summer of 2025 was diagnosed with the Pediatric Brain Cancer Choroid Plexus Carcinoma, her mom...
Karla Gess will talk about her daughter Kadence who has been fighting Stage 4 Neuroblastoma for 17 months, and still has at least one year of treatment in front of her.
Karla Gess's daughter Kadence had been limping on her right leg for several weeks, and each time Karla or Kadence's father Jarret would take her to th...
Jocelyn Espinoza and Samuel Steward will talk about their son Jacob who was diagnosed with the Pediatric Brain cancer ATRT when he was 20 months old in 2024 and is now doing as well as possible health wise.
After noticing that their 20 month old son Jacob was wobbling while walking and had fallen to the ground in February of 2024 , Jocelyn Espinoza and Sa...
Rylee Clark's parents Michelle and Mike and her twin sister Reese will talk about Rylee's devastating diagnosis of Pineoblastoma, a Brain Cancer that led to her passing in June of 2023, when she was 16 years old.
When Rylee Clark began to complain about troublesome headaches in 2020 when she was 12 years old, the original thought was that these were Migraines....
Aliyah Vida will talk about her beloved son Joshua (Goose) who was developmentally delayed at birth, diagnosed with Stage 4 Neuroblastoma in April of 2022, and passed away in April of 2024, before his 4th birthday.
Because he was Developmentally Delayed at birth, Aliyah Vida was not that surprised when her son Joshua, who was affectionately known as Goose, slipp...
Brittany and Brandon Smith will talk about their son Gunner who was totally healthy until he was diagnosed with a High Grade Multi Form Glioma in August of 2017, and passed away when he was 14 years old, on May 28th of 2021.
Just a few days after complaining of a headache and vomiting on his way to school the next day in August of 2017, Gunner Smith, who was a 4th grade st...
Mariah Forster Olson will talk about her book HOPE OVER DESPAIR which talks about the many struggles she has endured since she was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, 45 years ago on June 6th of 1980.
Being put in a garbage can by a fellow classmate while in Junior High School, and having a teacher laugh at her as she was being forced to clean up th...
Kerri Steele will talk about the rare terminal cancer that her husband Will was diagnosed with in February of 2010 and led to his passing on Christmas Eve in 2012, and how it affected their children who were 2,4, and 6 years of age at his diagnosis
Kerri Steele's husband Will ran 13 miles each day, went home to help get his young children ready for the day afterwards, and then put in a full day o...
Jannell and Keith Royer will talk about their daughter McKenna who was diagnosed with the Pediatric Brain Cancer Diffuse Midline Glioma before her 11th birthday in August of 2023 and passed away on February 26th of 2024, just 6 months after her diagnosis.
Jannell and Keith Royer's daughter McKenna was experiencing headaches before her Diffuse Midline Glioma diagnosis in August of 2023. This Pediatric Br...
BobbiJo Pansier will talk about her position as the Global Programs Manager for the Standish Foundation For Children, an organization that has helped over 1 million children World Wide over the past 15 years.
BobbiJo Pansier met Andy Standish , the founder of the Standish Foundation For Children, at an event and just a few weeks later Bobbi Jo joined this...
Sam Taylor's daughter Ellie was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma before her 11th birthday in 2022 and is doing well today. Sam will talk about her daughter and her wonderful DEEP C PODCAST that she hosts and her Pediatric Cancer Advocacy work.
Sam Taylor's daughter Ellie has been free from her treatment for Rhadomyosarcoma since April of 2023. 6 months after that, Sam started her DEEP C PODC...
Donna Cochran will talk about her daughter Ansley who was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma at the age of 2 and lived for 19 more years before her passing in May of 2018 at the age of 21
Ansley Cochran's parents found a lump on their 2 year old daughter's neck in 1999, and this lump was the forerunner of her diagnosis of Neuroblastoma....
Dr. Danielle Cameron is the Director of Pediatric Surgical Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and will talk about her work on today's podcast.
Dr. Danielle Cameron knew that she was interested in medicine when she was a girl growing into her teenage and adolescent years while watching her fat...
Dr. Kate Lund will talk about her career as a Clinical Psychologist and her work for Pediatric Cancer, including training her dog Wally to be a Therapy Dog where he visits Pediatric Cancer Patients at Seattle Children's Hospitalal.
From her early years , HELPING was a word that described what Dr. Kate Lund enjoyed doing for others, and this led to her career as a Clinical Psychol...
Claire Galvin survived her battle with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia when she was a child beginning in 2003 and is now going for her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Concordia University in Montreal
After surviving her childhood fight with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Claire Galvin has gone on to have an outstanding academic career, which has inc...
Bailey Moody survived her battle with Osteosarcoma which happened as a 10 year old in 2012, to become one of the great Adaptive Athletes during her Wheelchair Basketball career. Her career is far from over.
After being diagnosed with Osteosarcoma when she was 10 years old in 2012 Bailey Moody decided that despite what some were saying, her budding athleti...
At 9 years old, Alex Lynch is the youngest person I have had the pleasure of interviewing on my podcast. Alex and his mom Yuliya will talk about Alex's current battle with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Alex Lynch was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia , which came with 2 very rare genetic markers which only 2 percent of ALL kids have had to...
Adrienne Bender will talk about the loss of her 2 children, MacKenzie who passed away from Acute Myeloid Leukemia in 2018 and her son Kyler from substance abuse issues in 2023.
Losing one child is terrible under any circumstances but losing 2 children, to different tragedies is more than anyone should ever be burdened with. A...
Jordan Vanstee will talk about her son Kian who was diagnosed with Leukemia in June of 2023, and was declared to be in remission on August 25th of this year. Kian is now 4 years old and doing as well as possible
After experiencing stomach pains and fevers in the spring of 2023, Jordan Vanstee's then 2 year old son Kian was diagnosed with B Cell Acute Lymphobla...
Kailyn Thelen will talk about Ali Herbert, who was diagnosed with Very High Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia when she was 4 years old in 2015 and passed away on November 29th of 2020, the same day as her mom Heather's birthday.
Kailyn Thelen has health issues of her own, which do not include any type of cancer, and still is able to run her own non-profit which concentrates on...
Nici and John Robinson will talk about their son Charlie who was diagnosed with a Grade 3 Ependymoma Brain Tumor when he was 2 years old in June of 2018 and passed away from this disease on April 7th of 2021.
Nici and John Robinson live in England and lost their son Charlie to a Grade 3 Ependymoma in 2021, after he was diagnosed with this Brain Tumor when h...
Meryl Summers will talk about her daughter Adelia who was diagnosed with the Pediatric Brain Cancer Diffuse Midline Glioma in February of 2023 and passed away on May 30th of 2024
What was thought to be a stomach ailment for Meryl Summers 1st grade daughter Adelia became much more than that in February of 2023 when she was diagn...
Shannon Hartey will talk about the many late effects that she has been suffering from for far too long after she recovered from her Acute Lymphoblastic Cancer battle that she was diagnosed with as a 6 year old in 1994
After recovering from her battle with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in the late 1990's Shannon Hartey had a number of late effects that bothered her un...
Kent Bugg will talk about his then 13 year old daughter Megan who was an 8th grade student when she was diagnosed with Stage 4 Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma and lived for more than 7 years before passing away on March 9th of 2022
After Megan Bugg was diagnosed with Stage 4 Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma in late 2014, she underwent a very difficult treatment protocol which included 1...
Faryn and James Wolff will talk about their son Juno who was born on October 11th of 2022, diagnosed with a Malignant Rhabdoid Tumor on December 17th, and passed away on February 2nd of 2023, living for a total of 114 days.
Juno Wollf was born on October 11th of 2022 and was doing well until James noticed a lump under his right armpit. As happens too often, the doctors wh...
Bonnie and Robert Corcoran took custody of Brenna when she was about to be turned over to Foster Care because she was born with a Cocaine addiction. They legally adopted her, and then she was diagnosed with DIPG
Bonnie Corcoran will talk about her beloved daughter Brenna who was diagnosed with DIPG, just 8 months after Bonnie and her husband Robert had taken c...
Keith Detterich is the Co Founder and President of the Cure Starts Now Foundation. Keith will talk about the budget cuts from the National Institute of Health and other monetary losses which will negatively affect the cause of Pediatric Cancer
Keith Desserich-will talk about the budget cuts from the National Insititute of Health, a huge cut from the National Cancer Institute which I just fou...