Episode 33: Leadership Practices & Lessons from a Two-Time Cancer Survivor

Embracing Only

Jessica Michalak, a two time cancer survivor #chosetochallenge two diagnosis as she fought Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Jess was first diagnosed at the age of 19 and then seven years later she found herself as a patient in the stem cell transplant unit where she served as an ICU nurse.

She finds strength in her meditation, prayer, mindfulness and gratitude practice.

She encourages all to embrace the challenges they are given because oftentimes those challenges can lead to blessings you didn’t expect. For Jess, it was her cancer diagnosis that brought her to her nursing career and doctorate degree, using which she now cares for and comforts patients and family members as they navigate their journey’s through what might seem like insurmountable challenges.

Episode 33: Leadership Practices & Lessons from a Two-Time Cancer Survivor

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