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A routine nudge from a family doctor changed everything. After being sent for a mammogram she had delayed, Share was diagnosed with stage 0, triple-negative breast cancer—caught extraordinarily early. In this candid conversation, she walks us through that phone call, the whirlwind of next steps, and the mindset and micro-supports that helped her stay grounded: humor, weekly friend check-ins, complementary therapies, and clear self-advocacy. We also talk about what truly helpful support sounds like, why routine screening matters (even without symptoms), and how this experience is shaping her life, work, and a new legacy-preserving project for families.
Why you should listen
- A real-world case of early detection saving options—and likely outcomes
- Practical scripts for self-advocacy when guidelines and funding create friction
- Compassionate guidance for friends & family: what to say, how to show up, and when to just listen
- An uplifting reminder that attitude and humor are legitimate forms of support
Episode highlights
- 00:01:02 — The curveball: A proactive GP flags an overdue mammogram; results move quickly to ultrasound and biopsy.
- 00:05:00 — “Triple-negative” at stage 0: Why speed mattered; a second tiny tumor was found by surgery day.
- 00:06:07 — The GP everyone deserves: Thorough history, time to listen, and even a hug.
- 00:11:00 — Two diagnoses in one day: Processing the news and choosing a forward plan.
- 00:12:00 — Building a circle of support fast: Reiki, self-hypnosis audio, nutrition plan, acupuncture & herbs.
- 00:13:05 — “Don’t should me”: Responding to others’ expectations about how to feel.
- 00:17:32 — Feeling seen: The power of two close friends and brave, non-invasive check-ins.
- 00:20:08 — Daily gratitude practice: Coffee, quiet, noticing small joys.
- 00:25:30 — Screening: No symptoms, no pain—still cancer. Don’t delay routine tests.
- 00:27:14 — Mindset matters: “Cancer loves despair.” Choose light, and ask for help if you can’t find it.
- 00:28:03 — Work & legacy: Launching Film & Life to preserve family memories.
- 00:30:14 — What she’s reading: Murder mysteries and JD Robb’s In Death series.
- 00:29:13 — Raiders fan for life: Loyalty, teamwork, and showing up to the end.
Resources & mentions
- Routine screening: talk to your GP about what’s recommended for your age & history and what’s available beyond funded programs.
- Books: JD Robb — In Death series (futuristic detective fiction).
- Share’s company: Film & Life
— helping families preserve their stories through legacy videos and media digitization.
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Transcript
Episode 10
Episode 10 final
Ursula: [00:00:00] Welcome to Amplify Elevating Patient Voices, a podcast powered by patient voice partners, where real stories spark bold conversations. I’m Ursula Mann.
Brent: And I’m Brent Korte. Together we’re talking with patients, caregivers, and the healthcare change makers who are listening and taking action.
Ursula: From personal journeys to policy shifts, these are the voices shaping a healthcare system that listens.
Welcome
Anne Marie: back to Amplify, where we explore the power of lived experience, how stories like yours, mine, and ours, shape the future of care. Today’s conversation is a powerful reminder of why listening, really listening and acting can change everything our guests Share as a video storyteller by trade, but recently she found herself living a story she never expected, thanks to a doctor who listened, [00:01:00] looked a little closer and acted fast.
Share was screened and diagnosed with stage zero breast cancer, the earliest possible stage. And because of that, she’s here today with perspective, gratitude, and a new way of seeing her life and work. Ursula, I’m very excited to have Share with us today, and I think you wanted to share a few thoughts as well as we kick off this episode.
Ursula: Yeah, Ann Marie, we talk often about how prevalent cancer is and how it really pops up. Stage zero is very interesting. That doesn’t happen very often. It tends to happen. I checked about 82% of female breast cancer cases in Canada. Tend to be diagnosed at stage one or two, which is further along and lifetime risk.
About one in eight Canadian women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. So this is certainly something that we’re hearing about a lot and we’re conscious about, but what a situation to have somebody be able to be. Picked up earlier, and I’m really interested to [00:02:00] hear how that happened for Share and what her thoughts are.
So as you and I do a lot of work within the oncology space and talking with people with cancer, I’m excited to dive in and learn more about what happened here. So Share, welcome to the show and we’re really happy to have this conversation with you today. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself just before we get started?
Share: Absolutely. I’m married. I am a stepmom to two woo amazing kids and have five grandchildren. And the wonderful thing about the grandchildren is they still love to come and hang out with grandma and grandpa, even though the youngest is 16 and the oldest is 23rd, and in fact, one of them just had her 17th birthday and she’s coming for a sleepover this week because we still do those.
Oh, fantastic. Yes. In the beginning I was raised on a ranch in the interior of DC and went to school out at the coast when we left the ranch, and I’ve done many things. Heinz 57 of a work career [00:03:00] and worked lastly at Suncor Energy before my husband and I decided to start our own video production company, and I have a life.
Rich with family and friends and other hobbies besides filming. ’cause that’s absolutely a passion. I love reading. I love hiking. I love theater. I love just hanging out with the kids. We’re rabbit and I didn’t mispronounce rabbit. NFL fans. We have our own fantasy league and we’re all known to get together for some of the football games and, uh, lay on the SmackDown as it goes.
So.
Ursula: Fantastic. Okay. We’re gonna have to have another conversation about this laying the SmackDown, but sounds like things are going really well at work and a beautiful family life and that’s really special. I’m interested in your thoughts on the power of early detection, a good doctor, ’cause I know when you and I chatted, you didn’t have a moment that something felt off, so to speak, air quotes.
Instead, there was something else that led to you to [00:04:00] get screened. Can you take us back to what happened?
Share: Absolutely. We were in for a checkup with my husband. There was a concern with the blood test that came back and while I was there, our doctor looked at me and said, young lady, you have not had a mammogram in two years.
So I’m sending you for one and. Thank goodness that he did the breast cancer was detected right away. They did a mammogram. I was called back that afternoon to go back the next day for an ultrasound, which I did. The radiologist then came out and said, there is something there. We’re going to need a biopsy.
So I went back for that and May 5th, I had the conversation with my doctor that it was in fact breast cancer. It was very small tumor, and I say the gratitude and being fortunate and being detected early. Mine was very aggressive. It’s what they call triple negative. So it wasn’t hers, it wasn’t hormones, and I can’t remember what the third one was.
And apparently it’s aggressive. It grows very quickly. So if it had remained undetected, then I could have been in. [00:05:00] A very different position than I am today. And when they did go in and, yeah, do the surgery July 24th, just to show how aggressive it was, there was actually already a second tumor. Wow. When they went in.
Wow. Yeah. I like to use humor. So through the course of diagnosis, I just, every now and then would look at my breast and go, excuse me, you’re a tenant that’s here illegally. You have your get lost notice. Please leave. Like it
Ursula: eviction is on the table. Yep. Absolutely. That’s important. So your doctor was very on the ball to suggest screening, so proactively, it sounds like you had somebody that was being very thoughtful and proactive.
What does that relationship mean to you? How do you feel about your physician right now?
Share: He’s phenomenal from day one. When we first met with him, he spent two hours with my husband and I and asked every question possible he needed a strong frame of reference for where our health was at moving forward.[00:06:00]
And in the next three months, let me tell you, we were. Examined, poked, prodded from the tips of our toes to the roots of our hair. I have never had such a thorough exam and history. We did everything from mammograms to bone density to EKGs, to, wow, you name it, blood work. Everything was done. He found a couple things with my husband.
Type two diabetes that if left unchecked could have been much worse. And when we go see him, it’s not a times ticking. I have other patients, he takes as much time as we need. He’s the doctor that everybody deserves, is the best way I can define it. And at the end of every visit we get a hug.
Ursula: That’s amazing.
It’s important to have a good relationship and build that trust.
Share: It is. And the other part is. He always has time for any questions and encourages that. He always asks, so it’s never hurried, and just his kindness, his empathy, just how [00:07:00] thorough he is. Phenomenal. I am so grateful to have him as our doctor.
Ursula: It’s like I’m so happy. I also have an amazing gp, which I’m very grateful for. Because if I send in my daughter husband now they’re just like, oh gosh, what did Ursula say you need? And she really listen. You gotta listen to that little gut feeling if you have a gut feeling and doesn’t always come up.
Right.
Anne Marie: The mistake I think in healthcare, and sure I am a healthcare professional by background, so I can speak to that side too. Sometimes we mix up what is funded. With what can and should be done. So just as a province funds screening at this age or whatever, it doesn’t mean you can’t get, it just means the province isn’t paying for it, right?
Share: Yeah. And you have to push for it. And do push for it, or research other avenues. There’s this notion that we used to have that doctors know everything. It’s, excuse me, I’m the patient, it’s my body. I have concerns, and the last time I checked, it’s your [00:08:00] job to assist me. To research those concerns and make sure everything’s okay,
Ursula: that’s important, and what a difference it’s made to be picked up, so to speak, so early to be able to move forward.
I wanna go back to when you had that information. So they didn’t tell you over the phone, did I get it right, that you got a phone call to say you had to get back in and they got you in the next day? Did I get that right? To have this conversation
Share: back in the next day for the. For the results? Ah, actually no, it was on the phone.
Ursula: Okay. So you pick up the phone and they say to you, we have some information for you.
Share: Yeah, and as my doctor himself that spoke to me, he was, might get emotional. Okay. Because we have such a good relationship with him, and I’m sure he’s like this with all his patients. You could hear in his voice. He did not want to say what he was saying.
It really shook him and it wasn’t just a quick, these are your results, he just said. What can I do? What do you need? [00:09:00]
Ursula: I really appreciate hearing that you didn’t have to wait. Sometimes what I hear from people is they get a phone call to say, you have to come back in. And then that appointment is days later and the angst and anxiety and knowing something is wrong, thinking about what’s wrong, but waiting to have that information.
Was it meaningful to you to get that information quite quickly and on the phone, and do you feel that was a better option than waiting?
Share: No question. No question. If there’s been any angst on my part through the process is once knowing that I had breast cancer, was then waiting to get the call for the meeting with the oncologist.
So each of those places then you meet with the oncologist, say, this is what we’re gonna do. Then you wait for the surgical date.
Ursula: So you’re on the phone with the doctor and you can tell he’s emotional and he’s giving you some information that he really doesn’t want to have to deliver, but you need to know and you hear him say the words.
You have stage zero breast [00:10:00] cancer. What’s the first thing that goes through your mind?
Share: You know me a little bit. The first thing that went through my mind was it sucks to be me.
Ursula: Fair. That’s a good thought.
Share: Yeah, and that’s true. That’s exactly went through my mind because earlier that morning I had met with my endocrinologist and found out the node they removed from my thyroid in April had been cancer as well.
So I had a two for one special on May 5th.
Ursula: Wow. That’s a lot of information all in a day.
Share: And when I came back from the appointment with my endocrinologist, and then two and a half hours later I had the conversation with my gp. So in that moment, in addition to the sucks to me knee, there was just a, and I think I just froze, but then it got, okay, all right, I know what I’m dealing with.
So let’s get on this and move forward from here. Anyone that listening for me, you need to be an advocate for yourself. Don’t just go, okay, this is a [00:11:00] diagnosis, and now what? For myself, as I said earlier to the ladies, I can be a little feisty or spicy, and so that was a Monday. By Friday I had my first reiki session.
I had a recording from my friend that’s a hypnotherapist and self hypnosis, so I had a recording about the body, the cells in the body, and healing that way. I had an appointment with my nutritionist who’s she’s phenomenal. Beyond what she does in that space. So I had a meal plan ’cause cancer doesn’t like sugar, and I also have a doctor of Chinese medicine, so I went for acupuncture and herbs.
Just anything in addition that I could do to support my body moving forward until the actual surgery.
Ursula: You set up a lot very quickly around you. That’s, thank you for describing everything that was in the system, and it sounds like you very quickly put together a plan in place. I know you’ve mentioned to me that many people have given you advice in air quotes, and you were taken aback a little bit from how you should feel and.
You should be [00:12:00] doing, should is in air quotes as well. And then I’d like to discuss that a little bit more. So what were some of these reactions or advice that you got from others and how did that make you feel?
Share: Really cranky. Really cranky. I’m being polite and not swearing. So I had probably three or four people and when I shared with them what was going on, it was almost like I was invisible ’cause they were so invested in how they thought I should be reacting.
Like, I should be devastated. I should be horrified. And then putting their hand on mine and say, now look, if you need to yell or you need to scream, or whatever, like you, you do that because, so my impression was they almost thought because of my attitude and how I was choosing to deal with it, that I was doing it wrong.
There was something wrong with my reaction. And let me tell you, there was nothing wrong with my reaction. Thank you very much. And I just spoke to them and I said, I appreciate your thoughts, but that’s not who I am. That’s not where I come from. That’s not [00:13:00] how I deal with situations in my life. So I would appreciate if you could respect how I’m dealing with it.
’cause at the end of the day, I’m on a roll already. At the end of the day, I’m in charge of me. I said to the point that as far as I’m concerned, the cancer is not in charge of me. I’m in charge of it and what we do moving forward each day when I get up. I have a choice as to how I go into the day, how I deal with the day.
I use humor a lot because humor is great therapy. In fact, Facebook has a little section that’s just reels and I go through, my husband would come to bed ’cause he could hear me laughing, what’s going on in here? I said I’d have my party with one of my favorite reels, which is these chickens that they have voices and do all kinds of goofy skits with them.
So that was part of my therapy. Yeah.
Anne Marie: What I love about what you just shared with us is that while there may have been some things that happening to you that were out of your control, you just almost immediately focused on what is in [00:14:00] your control and what are the ways that you can take care of yourself, that you don’t have to wait for, you don’t have to wait on an appointment for, you just took charge of that, and I think that’s a very powerful message for others who might be listening in.
Share: Absolutely, just look around you, find out what your resources are and just do some research because what’s available out there is phenomenal. And would each of those things get rid of the cancer? No, but they certainly help in how you move forward or how I moved forward. I’ll only talk about my own experience, how I move forward with it.
So there was never a moment from diagnosis other than that. First, this is what you have to the actual surgery and recovery, and in the next couple of weeks I’ll be doing radiation as I put it. I didn’t blink. I never had a moment where I was in a dark place. I was in despair. And what’s interesting.
Because as I was with it, it made it so much easier for my husband. ’cause [00:15:00] initially,
yeah, never apologized for emotion by any means. Let it out. Yeah. In the moment. I told him I could see on his face because he’d had cancer 20 years before and we almost lost him. And he had a point where he didn’t know if he wanted to continue or not. And I said to him, oh yeah, she will. I said, or I’ll kill you myself.
If you’re not going anywhere, pal, you’re on warning. So I could see him in that moment, just dip back into those moments he had. ’cause his was unbelievable, but he went through. So part of for me is he’s my rock and I’m a his rock. So I also made a choice that I can impact how we do this. I can make a difference for both of us as to how I choose.
To do this and deal with it.
Ursula: And you mentioned earlier that there were some actions from other people. You felt invisible, although I can hear in your voice and in your journey, you quickly learned how to [00:16:00] self-advocate. So if there were times that you felt invisible, what were, what things do you think really helped you feel seen and supported and heard?
How did you flip the switch from feeling invisible to feeling heard and seen?
Share: I have a very. Close and tight network of female friends, and there are two in particular. One being the nutritionist that every Friday we have coffee and everything’s on the table. There isn’t anything we don’t talk about. So they were two of my greatest supporters.
And people listening, if they’ve just been newly diagnosed, they’re trying to find their way through it. Don’t be afraid to talk to your friends. And oftentimes, and for those that don’t have cancer and that are just listening to us ’cause they know me or they know somebody else that’s dealing with it.
One of the biggest ways to support someone going through it is not to be afraid to ask, how are you doing? Do you wanna talk about it? So not being invasive, just being very [00:17:00] supportive because it wasn’t cancer. But when my father passed, I watched all their friends quit going to see my mom. She felt very isolated ’cause there was only one or two that continued to see her in the beginning.
Everybody’s there and then they fade away. So in the end, she was very much on her own other than her family and one or two people. And it’s because people are uncomfortable with death. They’re uncomfortable with cancer and other very serious illness.
Ursula: They don’t know what to say.
Share: They don’t know what to say.
And just to say, you know what, I’m here if you wanna talk. I’m here if you wanna sit in silence. I’m here. What can I do to support you? I think that’s a gift that people can give those going through cancers. Just to be brave enough and vulnerable enough to just look at the person and say, what can I do to support you?
What do you need? And then please just listen. Wait for the answer, the response. Don’t decide you know best, and start telling them how it should be.
Ursula: I think that’s really thoughtful. Thank you for giving that advice on how to [00:18:00] support somebody who’s going through it. And I think being brave and vulnerable to ask the questions and then sit and listen is so important and I hope that to everybody listening, that’s something we can all take away to help support people better that that are around us.
I’m gonna shift a little bit to another section, and I can tell you feel such gratitude despite what’s happening. You feel gratitude for being picked up early and you have excitement for the road ahead, and you’re thankful for your doctor and the timing of your diagnosis. How do you celebrate that gratitude and what does day-to-day look like for you?
Share: I’m still very much in this space, and I don’t think it’ll change that Every day when I get up, first of all, I go, okay, I woke up today. There are people that are not going to wake up today. So I am very fortunate to have that and I just, sometimes I just sit quietly with a coffee and I look at what’s on for the day and I go, okay, [00:19:00] so where in there am I taking time?
For me? Because I think, and particularly as women. No offense, gentlemen, but particularly as women, we don’t always take that time for ourselves, and it can be as simple as I said, a coffee in the mornings, in the summer, although I’m still waiting for summer this year. I like to sit outside. I have a bird bath, and if I sit quietly, I can watch the birds come and drink and have a bath, and I enjoy that.
Just that quiet time for me, other people. Might look very differently, but I just do that and I reflect and I think, what would I like to happen today? And is there someone today in my travels that if I smile at, I don’t know what impact that might have for them? That might be what they needed in that moment.
So just trying to be more aware and just an appreciation. Just for the sunlight when we have the sunlight, the rain, when we have the rain because it’s needed. So just moments of reflection. And as I say, I love [00:20:00] humor. So I still go to my videos on Facebook that are just reels and the humor that is there, the kindness that’s in some of them is just inspiring.
I have fantastic people in my life that I’m so grateful for their friendship and that they’re in my circle and they’re my chosen humans as the expression goes these days.
Ursula: I love that. Chosen humans are so important. Humor is so important. You’ve mentioned living in the moment and really relishing it. Do you feel that was always a part of you, that you lived in the moment and you valued the time, or do you feel like this experience has heightened that and taken it to a new level where it’s even greater?
Share: I would say I’ve always been pretty much that person. I’ve always been positive prior to what we do now as vocation. I had always worked in customer service and just how I dealt with people that were upset with things I could see. [00:21:00] What a difference it made as to how I treated them, how well I listened.
Then spoke back to them what their concern was so that they knew that they were heard. I learned that very early on, and so moving forward, I think that has always been part of me. I was always that kid that I cared about everything and if I found an injured rabbit, ’cause being on a ranch, you’d see everything.
I always wanted to save it and protect it. So I think instinctively that’s a good part of who I am. With this, that has definitely enhanced it, and just more conscious when I am visiting with people, when I’m chatting with them and maybe listening in a little different way just to see if I hear something or pick something up that maybe I can offer support the way it’s been offered to me.
Ursula: That’s very thoughtful, injured rabbit on the ranch. Where did you take it to get help back then? I’m curious, [00:22:00] is this self-help or are you taking it somewhere to, to my dad. Okay.
Share: Yeah, because we were 70 miles from the nearest town and it wasn’t paved roads and McDonald’s along the way. It was. Dirt roads and snowed in the winter.
So
Anne Marie: dad, fix it. I understand. One of the things that I find so beautiful as I listen to you speak, share is that. No matter what you’ve gone through, you still maintain that capacity to think about how you show up in service to others. And I think that’s also a very powerful message and maybe there’s some healing in showing up in that way, but it takes a lot of grace, I think.
Grace and courage.
Share: Thank you. I think one of the biggest things I took away from my parents is I often heard them say, ’cause they had tough times too, was that where there’s a will, there’s a way, and I absolutely live by that.
Ursula: That’s good advice and there is something to be said about the mind body connection and moving [00:23:00] forward and how that really makes a difference.
Anne Marie: It’s funny, I’ve got a very good gp, newer gp, and I went in, I was having really bad allergic reactions this summer, so I went in really to get a a, a prescription for. Like my eyelids. Yeah. He looked at my screen and he said, okay, you haven’t had this test for a while. You haven’t had this one. And one of them was mammogram, and he said I was due in December, but I haven’t booked it yet.
I forgot to book it. So I’ve just written a big note beside myself to book my mammogram for December.
Share: Absolutely. And I want you to send me the date that you’re having it, so I know you did it. I’m gonna hold your feet to the fire. Okay.
Ursula: That’s important. Yes. See Anne Marie. That’s good. Get that booked. I know I’m writing down the same thing.
I’m like, I don’t know when the last time was. Share it for the people listening who might be putting off routine screenings. This really made a difference for you. What advice do you have for them when they’re putting it off right now?
Share: Don’t put it off ever because you [00:24:00] don’t know what’s going on. I had zero symptoms.
There was nothing to indicate that there was anything going on in my breast. No clue whatsoever. I didn’t have any discomfort. I wasn’t in pain. I couldn’t feel the lump. It was so small. But in my case, as we discovered, the one I had was very aggressive and it grows quickly. So from being told in May to July, two months, yeah, two months later, another one had started to grow.
So don’t fool around. If your doctor says, go for a mammogram. Go for a mammogram. Get your butt in your car. And go have that mammogram. Don’t mess with your health.
Ursula: I think that’s really important. Don’t mess with your health and don’t delay. There’s other, everything else can wait, but make sure that you’re following it in a timely fashion and you’ve certainly had a lot of good advice for others out there that are facing a similar diagnosis.
You’ve mentioned humor and [00:25:00] the importance of having a good support network around you. And those weekly ly dates with the friends are really. Important as well. Is there anything else you’d want to tell listeners from your heart that anybody that’s received a similar diagnosis as to some advice or something else to build around you?
Absolutely.
Share: Attitude. Attitude. The attitude that you take around it because if you choose to go into the dark to go into despair, cancer likes that. Cancer likes that. So in that moment, it’s winning, not you. So in that, and again, that’s just my view on it, but I think attitude is everything. ’cause every moment and every day we have a choice as to how we show up, what we think about it.
And if you are in a dark place, reach out or let others in to help you out of it. You don’t have to be along.
Ursula: I think that’s [00:26:00] really thoughtful. Your outlook for the future, what are you really excited about personally in, in the work that you’re creating through the digital company?
Share: The company we have takes a lot of work and so we thought, wouldn’t it be fun to start another branch of it because nothing better to do.
So we have one, interestingly enough that we’ve called Film and Life and it’s about legacy. It’s a legacy piece, so.
Ursula:  That’s amazing.
Share: yeah. And some of that was born out of what I saw friends go through in COVID, not being able to say goodbye, not being able to have funerals. And so this is a way for people to bring those photos or videos they may have together if they have old eight millimeter film, VHS tapes, CDs, negatives.
We can digitize them so that you don’t lose those memories. So that’s, I’ll say about that, but it’s, yeah, that’s something that we’re very. Passionate about going back to France next year. ’cause my husband’s from France and I can’t wait to see the [00:27:00] family and just hanging out with our grandkids and our kids and family.
We do family dinners and go for coffees, go for walks, and like you say, our SmackDown parties around the NFL.
Anne Marie: Who’s your team?
Share: You know what? In 1975, I lived in California for a year. ’cause that’s another lifetime. When I used to show and train horses professionally, I was working with a trainer and a family adopted me and their little boy, Kevin was eight at the time, and he was an avid Raiders fan.
So I am a Raiders fan and to me, if you walk out of a game early. You turn away and disgust because they aren’t winning. You’re not a fan. You’re not a fan. You watch till the end and you support them and they’ve been struggling for years. But you know what? The only way you win is if you’ve got the support of others, is my view.
Ursula: I love that it takes the team to pull [00:28:00] off those football games. Absolutely. That’s special. And you mentioned earlier at the beginning, you also love reading.
Share: I do.
Ursula: So we’re curious, what do you recommend for our listeners? What are you currently really enjoying?
Share: Okay. I love murder mysteries. Okay. Yes. And there’s also a series by an author, JD Rob, and it’s in the Future, and her books are fascinating.
And I think what I love about reading, what I love about movies is, of course, in the business that we’re in, I’m fascinated by what the human mind can not only conceive, but actually bring to fruition, right? I just go, how’d you do that? It’s just like when my husband edits. So we both do the filming and then he takes the footage that I’ve shot and days later or week later, I see what he’s put together and I go, I don’t know how you do that, but it’s remarkable.[00:29:00]
We’ve been together long enough that I can see his process and when we’re filming I can see he’s in his head and he’s already figuring out how to edit it. He’s a little bit like a conductor. He knows when to bring in the string instruments. He knows when to bring in percussion. He knows when to bring in the brass.
He’s just phenomenal. It’s just a real gift that he has. ’cause trust me, you would not want me touching any of that. That is not my
Ursula: strength. It’s fantastic teamwork. But you’re behind the camera.
Share: Oh, yes.
Ursula: So shooting the right angles and knowing the lighting and making all of that magic happen. Such teamwork.
You guys have,
Share: he does the filming as well. Like we’re very fortunate. We have different strengths and weaknesses, and fortunately they compliment one another. So we’re able to do everything from start to finish. And when I’m filming in my own way, I know the shots that I want. Outta the two of us. I’m the one that will go up an 80 foot grain leg in minus 20 weather to get the shot that I want for the rancher of his cattle come down as a human Popsicle.
Ursula: I love that. [00:30:00] But
Share: Fran has the truck running and warmed up, so it’s great. I have filmed from a helicopter for another production company ’cause I’m the one that, yeah, let’s go.
Ursula: I love that you not only know the shots you want, but shoot your shot and congratulations on the even expansion and new venture to be able to capture special moments for people on video as well.
So I wanna say a huge thank you for coming on to amplify with us and sharing. Your journey and the advice that you’ve had for other people on go get tested Early testing is so important and if something does happen, attitude is so important and humor is so important. So we’re wishing you really well as you continue on your.
Therapy journey and treatment journey to continue to explore life and enjoy those special moments sitting with your coffee on the chair and reflecting. So thank you for joining us today, and thank you for sharing everything that you have been thinking of and [00:31:00] exploring.
Share: Thank you. I appreciate that, and thank you for your time and inviting me on.
I’m happy to be here.
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