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Speaker 1: I'm not much of a coffee drinker myself, but I
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Speaker 1: But now that October has arrived and with it the
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Speaker 1: October has been recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. That's
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Speaker 1: the latest headlines for nearly three decades now. Most recently,
Speaker 1: she was the co anchor of ABC News GMA three
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Speaker 1: anchor for Good Morning America and the co anchor of
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Speaker 1: was the first television journalist to ever report live from
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Speaker 1: Amy wrote a New York Times bestseller titled Better, How
Speaker 1: I Let Go of Control, held onto hope and found
Speaker 1: Joy in My Darkest Hour, about her unexpected journey with
Speaker 1: breast cancer after being diagnosed following an on air mammogram
Speaker 1: on GMA. After her recovery, Amy has devoted much of
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Speaker 1: so smart and so on point, Amy Roebuck. Amy, your
Speaker 1: interviews that I have seen you are always so on point,
Speaker 1: Like how do you stay that laser focused.
Speaker 2: You're very sweet, Delilah. Thank you so much. I'm so
Speaker 2: in awe of being with you today. By the way,
Speaker 2: I just want to point that out. I have loved you.
Speaker 2: I have listened to you for as long as I
Speaker 2: can remember, So it's an honor to be here with
Speaker 2: you today. I do my homework, I do my research,
Speaker 2: and I actually love learning. I'm always curious, I'm always
Speaker 2: wanting to know more. So it's it actually hasn't felt
Speaker 2: like work almost three decades now. It's always just been
Speaker 2: doing what I love. I think you can understand that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I love learning and I love being curious,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't stay in your interviews. You are laser focused.
Speaker 1: You're like a surgeon. You're like going for that. I
Speaker 1: am going to get to that jugular thing, right. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna throw me off, because a lot of the
Speaker 1: people I've seen your interview kind of try to throw
Speaker 1: you off the tough questions.
Speaker 2: Don't They always try to do that. It's always about
Speaker 2: anticipating what they might say. But I feel like if
Speaker 2: you've done enough interviews, you've learned asking the first question
Speaker 2: is usually the obvious thing. It's about the follow up,
Speaker 2: So you really have to listen to what they're saying
Speaker 2: to call them on it when they're trying to divert
Speaker 2: you or distract you or not answer your questquestion. And
Speaker 2: that is, to me, the thing that I focused most on,
Speaker 2: And you know how I learned it from. I watched
Speaker 2: Diane Sawyer.
Speaker 1: She was the best.
Speaker 2: He is the queen of the follow up. And sometimes
Speaker 2: it was the most simple follow up, like really, she
Speaker 2: would just tilt her head and just say things like
Speaker 2: huh and allow the silence people need to fill it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: knew how to call people on something without making them
Speaker 2: feel stupid, but they felt the need to respond. And
Speaker 2: I watched her do what she did, and she was
Speaker 2: brilliant at it, and I always aspire to be more
Speaker 2: like her.
Speaker 1: Well, I have purposefully in my career and in my
Speaker 1: show tried to avoid anything political or anything divisive. People
Speaker 1: can can watch you or they can get that all
Speaker 1: day long, and at night, you know, they kind of
Speaker 1: need to relax and unwind and unburden. But there was
Speaker 1: one time where somebody who's very political wanted to be
Speaker 1: on my show, requested to be on my show, and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to name any names. But I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: but understand, there is not going to be any political conversation.
Speaker 1: If you want to be a guest, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be talking about matters of the heart. I'm going to
Speaker 1: be talking about your relationships, okay. And every time I
Speaker 1: would ask a question, she would say, I'm so glad
Speaker 1: you asked that question, Delilah, and then she would bring
Speaker 1: in this big old political diatrap of nonsense, of gobbledegoop,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I just want to know, like, did
Speaker 1: you take your daughter to work on take your daughter
Speaker 1: to work day?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, can you share a favorite memory you
Speaker 1: have with your baby girl when she was little? I'm
Speaker 1: glad you ask that question? And then boom, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about house build number, and I'm like.
Speaker 2: What, isn't that so patronizing? Though I always look, some
Speaker 2: people are more willing than others to be authentic, and
Speaker 2: I always knew when people weren't willing to be they
Speaker 2: were going to sink themselves. I didn't have an agenda,
Speaker 2: but they did. And I do think when people come
Speaker 2: in with agendas it ends up undoing them because people
Speaker 2: are smarter than I think some of these folks give
Speaker 2: them credit for. People can recognize authenticity, they can recognize manipulation.
Speaker 2: So sometimes you just let people, for lack of a
Speaker 2: better term, hang themselves. I don't need to do anything,
Speaker 2: I don't need to yell, I don't need to do
Speaker 2: a gotcha. It's just let people show.
Speaker 1: Their true colors.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, in that particular instance, what was a twenty minute
Speaker 1: interview was edited down to like two minutes.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to give you the platform, no.
Speaker 1: No, And it's turned out to be a conversation about
Speaker 1: carving pumpkins is what it turned in, which was very sweet.
Speaker 1: But we are going to be authentic today and we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about boobies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, about them for a while now, and we're.
Speaker 1: Gonna make you you, you know what you did by
Speaker 1: being so courageous as to have the mammogram and let
Speaker 1: people know publicly, you know, on the show, you made
Speaker 1: it okay to talk about something that My grandma was
Speaker 1: diagnosed with breast cancer when I was a teenager, a
Speaker 1: young adult, and my program director said, you have to
Speaker 1: call it women's cancer.
Speaker 2: That's awful.
Speaker 1: If you're going to mention her on the air, or
Speaker 1: if somebody calls in your show and is struggling, you
Speaker 1: have to call it women's cancer. We don't want to
Speaker 1: use the word breast.
Speaker 2: On the air. That's almost unthinkable now. But that's where
Speaker 2: we are coming from, and that's how much ground we
Speaker 2: have to make up, and that's why we are where
Speaker 2: we are, I believe.
Speaker 1: So when you decided to take this on, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you weren't thinking at the time. I know you weren't
Speaker 1: thinking at the time that it was going to bring
Speaker 1: about the diagnosis that you got. How old were you
Speaker 1: when you were diagnosed?
Speaker 2: I was forty and I actually was approached to do
Speaker 2: this for a work assignment for Good Morning America. I
Speaker 2: worked for them at the time. I was actually a
Speaker 2: brand new reporter there and they knew my age and
Speaker 2: at that point, thankfully we've come back to this. It's
Speaker 2: been ten years of women getting confusing headlines about when
Speaker 2: they should have their baseline mammogram. But at the time,
Speaker 2: it was forty and so I had just turned forty
Speaker 2: and they thought, ah, perfect, We'll have Amy go do
Speaker 2: this mammogram in a Mamma van in the middle of
Speaker 2: Times Square to show women that it's not that scary.
Speaker 2: It's not that painful, and it can be quick and easy,
Speaker 2: and it saves lives. So I thought I was doing
Speaker 2: a service for other women. At the time, I had
Speaker 2: all of my grandparents alive. My mom's one of nine,
Speaker 2: my dad's one of six Catholic Midwestern families, and no
Speaker 2: one in my family had breast cancer, not all the cousins,
Speaker 2: I had, all the aunt no one. So I completely
Speaker 2: thought that I was invincible to an extent because my
Speaker 2: grandparents were in their nineties. I was feeling good and.
Speaker 1: You hadn't noticed a lump, you hadn't done any self detection.
Speaker 1: You were just going in there, going I'm doing my job.
Speaker 1: I'm helping other women. I'm doing a public service. I'm
Speaker 1: breaking ground here, doing something a little bit bold to
Speaker 1: show women that.
Speaker 2: This is good exactly. And I was nervous. I said
Speaker 2: no at first because I actually felt like I would
Speaker 2: be As much as I love authenticity, I felt like
Speaker 2: maybe it was an authentic of me to do this
Speaker 2: because I thought, I don't have a connection to this disease.
Speaker 2: This isn't a cause I was fighting for or something
Speaker 2: I was thinking of. So I went into Robin Roberts,
Speaker 2: who was and is a breast cancer thriver. And I
Speaker 2: actually went to her and I said, hey, I don't
Speaker 2: know that I'm the right person for this because I
Speaker 2: have no connection to this disease. And she said to me,
Speaker 2: if you walk into that mammothan and you get that
Speaker 2: mammogram on live national television, you will save a life.
Speaker 2: You will convince a woman who was dragging her feet
Speaker 2: wanting to postpone this to go ahead and make her appointment,
Speaker 2: and she will make it, and she will find her
Speaker 2: breast cancer and you will save her life.
Speaker 1: And you had no idea it was going to be
Speaker 1: me that it was going to be I don't know
Speaker 1: what your faith is. I'm guessing if your big miss
Speaker 1: midwestern Catholic family, you were raised with people with very
Speaker 1: strong faith. But you gotta know that was the divine saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: how am I going to get Amy to get in
Speaker 1: and get this exam because she needs it. I know,
Speaker 1: let's have her do it on national TV.
Speaker 2: It's amazing because I had been at NBC. I was
Speaker 2: on the Today Show. I loved that show. Things happened
Speaker 2: where I felt like I had to leave, and I
Speaker 2: was already in kind of a tailspin to be at
Speaker 2: a new network, reinventing my career, learning new things, and
Speaker 2: when that happened, when I got that diagnosis a few
Speaker 2: weeks later, that that mammogram and that Mamma Van led
Speaker 2: to a ultimately a stage two invasive breast cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 2: I mean this cancer. I had two tumors and one
Speaker 2: the cancer had already spread to my lympnoes. I'm thinking here,
Speaker 2: I am like a runner, a healthy young woman with
Speaker 2: no history of breast cancer. To have that diagnosis was shocking,
Speaker 2: to say the very least. But I also absolutely said,
Speaker 2: holy crap, I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be when
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be here, and when you start to
Speaker 2: doubt where you are a good, bad, ugly sad. I
Speaker 2: really believe, after having been in that position, that were
Speaker 2: exactly where we need to be and I needed to
Speaker 2: be in that Mamma Van in the middle of Times
Speaker 2: Square working for Good Morning America that morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was orchestrated. Yeah, okay, question here, because you
Speaker 1: know my mind is all about relationships. Who's the first
Speaker 1: person you called after you got the diagnosis?
Speaker 2: My mom, my mom, of course, And I could barely talk.
Speaker 2: I was alone when I got the diagnosis, so I
Speaker 2: immediately called her, and she will tell you. She's told
Speaker 2: me she had a bad feeling. And the moment the
Speaker 2: phone rang, it was as if she knew. And all
Speaker 2: I could blurt out was, Mom, I have breast cancer.
Speaker 2: And her response was, Dad, and I are getting on
Speaker 2: a flight right now. They lived in Atlanta. I lived
Speaker 2: in New York and my parents were at my apartment
Speaker 2: by eight pm that evening, and they didn't leave for
Speaker 2: eight months. They actually moved in and in a New
Speaker 2: York City apartment. If you haven't lived here, you'll know
Speaker 2: that they aren't exactly large. We made it work, and
Speaker 2: thank God for them, Thank God for them because me
Speaker 2: going to work and me going to treatment, I was
Speaker 2: able to do all of that only because of their
Speaker 2: generosity and their sacrifice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you know this, when your mom, it's not
Speaker 1: a sacrifice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's what you do. Yeah, I know that, it's
Speaker 2: what you do.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned earlier, and this is true with me
Speaker 1: because I got my first one at forty, my first
Speaker 1: mamma grandma at forty. I went back at forty two,
Speaker 1: I missed a year, went back at forty two and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, no, we don't do them until fifty now.
Speaker 1: And I'm like what and they said, yeah, no, your
Speaker 1: insurance won't cover it. They've changed that. And then when
Speaker 1: I went back in at fifty, my doctor Margaret said,
Speaker 1: why have you not been getting these? And I said, ah,
Speaker 1: because when I showed up to sign up for mine,
Speaker 1: they told me not until fifty. She's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they did change that. Well, let's back to forty now.
Speaker 1: So was that all about money? I mean, I know
Speaker 1: you probably can't answer that, but that had to have been.
Speaker 2: I will absolutely answer it. I am on a soapbox
Speaker 2: here about this because I've never been more frustrated seeing
Speaker 2: them confuse everyone. And by the way, who wants to
Speaker 2: go get a mamm or grammar? No one. So if
Speaker 2: you tell me I can wait until I'm fifty, I'm
Speaker 2: waiting until I'm fifty. I mean, my brother's a physician
Speaker 2: and he might have another opinion, but I'm a busy woman.
Speaker 2: How many women are busy taking care of other people
Speaker 2: in their lives and putting food on the table. So yeah,
Speaker 2: if you tell me I can wait, I'm going to wait.
Speaker 2: But my cancer was actually they it was a slow
Speaker 2: growing it was an estrogen positive cancer. But they say
Speaker 2: that I had gotten it absolutely in my thirties, and
Speaker 2: thank god I caught it when I did.
Speaker 1: So if you had waited, if you if you had
Speaker 1: gone in and they had said, oh, no, we're not
Speaker 1: doing them, we're not doing baseline up four. Do we
Speaker 1: do baseline at fifty? I wouldn't be having this conversation
Speaker 1: with you because you would be dead.
Speaker 2: I would one hundred percent. And I have two girlfriends
Speaker 2: who were initially diagnosed in one at twenty eight with
Speaker 2: stage four metastatic. You know, she is seven years in
Speaker 2: her journey now and she's fighting for her life every day.
Speaker 2: And I lost one of my other best friends last Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: She was diagnosed around the same time as me. And
Speaker 2: you know, early detection saves lives. The earlier you find
Speaker 2: your cancer, the better chance you have at surviving it
Speaker 2: period period. So why we're telling women to wait until
Speaker 2: they're fifty. There's no other reason, Delilah, other than money.
Speaker 2: And then they like to claim, oh, we don't want
Speaker 2: to cause unnecessary stress and unnecessary tests and causing anxiety.
Speaker 2: You know what's anxious for women? You know what's really
Speaker 2: tough to handle a cancer diagnosis when you're told you're
Speaker 2: stage four your metastatics. So I just say I'll take
Speaker 2: a little bit of worry saying I have to come
Speaker 2: in for a follow up or have a even a
Speaker 2: biopsy if that means that I can find my cancer
Speaker 2: early enough to treat it to survive. So I just
Speaker 2: called BS on anything other than money being the reason
Speaker 2: why we're telling women to wait, or to confuse them,
Speaker 2: or to tell them every other year, why wouldn't we
Speaker 2: have the only test right now? And it's not perfect
Speaker 2: because the mammogram I had only detected one tumor, the
Speaker 2: mri I had only detected one tumor, the sonogram I
Speaker 2: had only detected one tumor. It was only through a
Speaker 2: double mistectomy that they found the second tumor on my
Speaker 2: chest wall and found that my other breast tissue had
Speaker 2: was filled with pre cancerous tissues. So it's not a
Speaker 2: perfect science, And so why wouldn't we give the women
Speaker 2: we love it our lives the most and the best
Speaker 2: opportunity to live as long as possible.
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Speaker 1: and that is this isn't your grandmother's breast cancer. That
Speaker 1: there's been so many advancements and yet it's not a
Speaker 1: perfect science. But can you can you talk about that
Speaker 1: a little bit because in my circle it's epidemic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is one in eight women in their lifetime,
Speaker 2: we'll have breast cancer in this country. Every two minutes
Speaker 2: a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer. And here's the
Speaker 2: really scary statistic. It isn't your grandmother's cancer in that
Speaker 2: more women under the age of fifty at an exponential
Speaker 2: rate are being diagnosed with breast cancer. And the earlier
Speaker 2: you get that diagnosis, the more likely it is an
Speaker 2: aggressive form. So we have a lot of things we're
Speaker 2: dealing with and we don't fully understand. Scientists don't, but
Speaker 2: we do, and we have made incredible progress in how
Speaker 2: we treat and target these cancers. So even the chemo
Speaker 2: I got eleven years ago was targeted in a way
Speaker 2: that if I had gotten my cancer five years earlier,
Speaker 2: I would have been They call it carpet bomb and
Speaker 2: really just dragged through the mud. It wasn't easy going
Speaker 2: through the chemo I went through, but at least it
Speaker 2: was more targeted, and now even now I've got my
Speaker 2: girlfriend who is getting immunotherapy along with chemo therapy, and
Speaker 2: so we can really the advancements in drugs and options
Speaker 2: and treatments is huge. However, we are still not there.
Speaker 2: We don't have a cure for this insidious disease. We
Speaker 2: can't stop stage four metastatic breast cancer. It will end
Speaker 2: up killing these women. And what we want to get
Speaker 2: to is where this is a chronic disease where we
Speaker 2: can treat it, and we're getting close, but we need funding,
Speaker 2: we need support, we need awareness, and we really need
Speaker 2: women in this month to take their health seriously, to
Speaker 2: be advocates for themselves, and to not let fear stop
Speaker 2: them from making those appointments, because a lot of women
Speaker 2: Delilah don't make those mammogram appointments, and I fear I
Speaker 2: would have been one of them had I not been
Speaker 2: assigned this and just put it off and thought, Eh,
Speaker 2: what are the chances at the age of forty, I
Speaker 2: had a one percent chance of having breast cancer. I'm
Speaker 2: a logical person, so I was like, why would I
Speaker 2: go do this? We need to make women aware that
Speaker 2: it can happen to you, if you are a woman
Speaker 2: and you're getting older, you have a chance of getting
Speaker 2: breast cancer.
Speaker 1: And if you are un certain demographics, you have a
Speaker 1: much higher chance of getting breast cancer. The rates are
Speaker 1: so much higher for women of color. So, like you said,
Speaker 1: you were one percent and yet you had it. We
Speaker 1: need to be proactive to our daughters and our sisters
Speaker 1: and our friends who are in other communities and other demographics,
Speaker 1: because they're at an even higher risk than we are.
Speaker 2: Tlila, you just hit on such an important point. Access
Speaker 2: is everything. Access to getting the diagnosis and access to
Speaker 2: treatment to huge things. And yes, scientists are studying right
Speaker 2: now from a genetic standpoint, if women of color, if
Speaker 2: black women specifically, who are dying at a much higher rate,
Speaker 2: who tend to get that triple negative, more aggressive form
Speaker 2: of breast cancer, why this is happening in those communities.
Speaker 2: And then yes, more importantly, what can we handle? What
Speaker 2: can we treat? We can treat the accessibility to quality
Speaker 2: healthcare for women around the world, and that comes with funding,
Speaker 2: That comes with people will to put their money where
Speaker 2: their mouth is. And I've always said this, there was
Speaker 2: a cure for cancer, it's called cash. We need in
Speaker 2: this month to remember not only as women to take
Speaker 2: care of ourselves, but everybody who's listening to this. You
Speaker 2: can give. You can volunteer if you don't have the money,
Speaker 2: but if you have any extra money, if you can
Speaker 2: give to causes who you support and believe in. It's
Speaker 2: about research, it's about funding, and it's about access. For
Speaker 2: so many of these women don't have quality health care
Speaker 2: available to them, and that is a tragedy that compounds
Speaker 2: a tragedy.
Speaker 1: And what you just want to touch on something you
Speaker 1: just said where you said you can volunteer. You had
Speaker 1: your mom that you said came and moved in and
Speaker 1: made the choice to make your health a priority. There
Speaker 1: are so many women who don't have a mom to
Speaker 1: do that, and yet they've got kids or grandkids or
Speaker 1: jobs or careers or whatever, and they don't have a
Speaker 1: ride somebody to take them to their to their chemotherapy,
Speaker 1: to their surgery, somebody to let them, you know, come
Speaker 1: home with them after their surgery and care for them.
Speaker 1: There are so many ways we can proactively show up.
Speaker 2: Just show up one hundred percent, and wherever you live,
Speaker 2: I guarantee you there is a charity, There is an
Speaker 2: organization that is there and willing to help in all
Speaker 2: the ways you just mentioned, and so all you have
Speaker 2: to do is a Google search and you can find
Speaker 2: a way to help.
Speaker 1: And even if you do have the cash, especially if
Speaker 1: you do have the cash, you know, your arms, your legs,
Speaker 1: you can you can drive somebody to their appointments. You
Speaker 1: can say you know what I will you know, make
Speaker 1: sure that while you're in your appointment, your child is
Speaker 1: here in the doctor's office being entertained. I'll play Uno
Speaker 1: with them. I'll sit here and play skip Bo with
Speaker 1: them for hours, if that's what it takes. If you
Speaker 1: don't know where to start, you can google if you
Speaker 1: if you don't know how to do that, like you
Speaker 1: don't even know where to start art, talk to somebody
Speaker 1: who's gone through it and say, how could I have
Speaker 1: helped you? Or what did you need? Did you need meals?
Speaker 1: Do meal prep make two weeks worth of meals for
Speaker 1: your sister who's just gone through surgery.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: There's so many ways we can say I love you,
Speaker 1: so many ways we can say I love you to
Speaker 1: your best friend or a complete stranger who's going through
Speaker 1: that darkness and needs a beacon of light.
Speaker 2: You just said it perfectly. We all can do our part, Delilah,
Speaker 2: so thank you so much. On behalf of all the
Speaker 2: women out there, and men get breast cancer too. We
Speaker 2: should definitely point out that if you have breast tissue,
Speaker 2: you could get breast cancer. So I appreciate your focus
Speaker 2: on this. It's an important topic and something that we
Speaker 2: can all remember. We can do our part in helping others.
Speaker 2: So thank you, Delilah.
Speaker 1: I got to honor my friend Lacy.
Speaker 2: We just lost her.
Speaker 1: Our service was just a few weeks ago. Never met
Speaker 1: anyone in my life who fought so hard, fought so
Speaker 1: hard and ultimately won the victory because of her faith,
Speaker 1: but left two beautiful kids. And we all know a Lacey.
Speaker 2: We do. You know, if I'm having a bad day,
Speaker 2: any of us have a tough day. The little things
Speaker 2: can get us wound up. But when you remember how
Speaker 2: how the people who we look up to lived, you know,
Speaker 2: that's how you beat cancer, right, That's what they say,
Speaker 2: it's how you live, and that's how you beat it
Speaker 2: because you show other people how to live, how to live.
Speaker 1: How to live fully? And man, do you live fully? Girl?
Speaker 1: Have you really been in five marathons? And now you're
Speaker 1: a mountain climber.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm about to run my sixth in Chicago October thirteenth,
Speaker 2: I will be running my sixth marathon. And yeah, I've
Speaker 2: climbed a couple of big mountains and I have more
Speaker 2: in my future.
Speaker 1: Well, you are beautiful and you are stronger than you think.
Speaker 1: And I love Robin Robertson when she said, you know,
Speaker 1: if you go into that van and get the mammogram,
Speaker 1: you're going to save at least one life. I would
Speaker 1: suspect that you have helped to save many just through
Speaker 1: your passionate advocacy, of knowing, of caring, of caring enough
Speaker 1: to do the hard things.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, God, bless you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us.
Speaker 2: Oh it's been a pleasure and an honor. Thank you, Delilah.
Speaker 1: Understanding your breast health is the first step in being
Speaker 1: breast aware and knowing your body so you can proactively
Speaker 1: advocate for yourself when you sense that something is not
Speaker 1: quite right. There are steps every person can take to
Speaker 1: help the body stay as healthy as possible, like eating
Speaker 1: a balanced diet, not smoking, limiting alcohol, and exercising regularly.
Speaker 1: And while these ma I have some impact, on your
Speaker 1: risk of getting breast cancer. They cannot eliminate the risk
Speaker 1: developing breast cancer is not anyone's fault. Ladies, let's talk
Speaker 1: about it. Remind your friends to get checked and be
Speaker 1: there for one another when the diagnosis comes. I can't
Speaker 1: thank Amy enough for joining us today and sharing her
Speaker 1: inspiring story. Impactful, inspiring. You can hear even more of
Speaker 1: her story by listening to our podcast, Amy and TJ
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 1: So go, get a pumpkin spice latte or a chi te.
Speaker 1: Pull out the sweaters, pull out the boots, the shearling jackets,
Speaker 1: those adorable white brim hats. It's fall y'all, and get
Speaker 1: the girls checked out, because loving someone begins with you