Sister Saturdays – Mel Smith Melanie Smith is a humble Mama from Ottawa. Like most Canadians, we know she doesnt need to shout her accomplishments, and on top of that, she is an incredible athlete, with interests in the healing arts, TCM being one of them! Mel went through breast cancer while her son also…
Sister Saturdays – Colleen Dougherty Colleen Dougherty – Snowboarder. Mother. Warrior. We know that Colleen holds all these titles dear to her. She’s as East Coast as they come, makes her opinions known, but has a heart of gold, and she’s a damn good friend. Her snowboarding is OG, and so of course she is…
Sister Saturdays – Alex Cota In April of 2019, Alex Cota reached out to B4BC’s Event Manager about hosting a “Ping Pong For Tata’s” fundraiser for her birthday. Her reasoning – finding out at 25 years of age that she was BRCA1+ with a family history of breast cancer. Alex’s goal is for more…
Sister Saturdays – Jules Mickelson “Jules, Jules, Jules. What a gift this woman is. Despite the really hard path of cancer, she seems to bring laughter to all sides (laughter through the tears at times). But her openness to perspective, her joy in motherhood and parenting, her willingness to be a part of something bigger…
Sister Saturdays – Lisa Roberts Lisa Roberts was 48 years old when she was diagnosed with Inflammatory Breast Cancer. The day was July 7th, 2016, and her son was away at college. Her treatment included five months of chemotherapy, followed by right breast mastectomy, then six weeks of daily radiation, followed again by 10 months…
Sister Saturdays – Jennie Arsenault “The second I met Jennie, I knew she was Canadian. Okay, once her name was drawn in the lottery, I may have glanced at a couple of application notes. But you see it in her smile right away: Jennie is the kind of person you want around to multi-sport with…
Sister Saturdays – Sabrina Elizondo She showed up with a smile and a one-piece ski outfit to die for. Between her dance moves, her yoga practice, and how she played on the mountain, I wasn’t sure if she was a yoga instructor, ski instructor, or just simply loved life. Turns out it was a little…
Sister Saturdays – Germaine Bartlett-Graff For many young women, chemo at a young age for a hormone-driven breast cancer has life-lasting effects. One of these effects includes the possibility of being put into menopause, and thus not allowing your body to produce eggs, ovulate, and well—to put it bluntly—not be able to have children. Germain…
Sister Saturdays – Karen Unger Karen Unger is a breast cancer thriver hailing from Squamish, British Columbia. She is a woman of many talents who leads a “very interesting” life, as she puts it—having worked as a cruise ship photographer, snowcat driver, snowmobile guide, and everything in between, and currently working part-time at Valhalla Pure…
Since being diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, Michelle lives every day to the fullest by embracing a positive mindset and using the mother nature as her favorite form of medicine. Read more in this week’s Its Personal Q & A led by Megan Pischke.