One Line: Back in February of 2022, I was given an opportunity to exercise my creativity… and that opportunity came in the form of a cancer diagnosis.
~Gail Boenning
🎙️ Episode 71: In this episode, Gail shares a tender, funny, and quietly powerful story about losing her hair during breast cancer treatment—and how that loss uncovered a whole new layer of creativity. Jay listens in, asking thoughtful questions as they explore how the hardest moments in life often become the richest material for art, healing, and self-expression. It’s a conversation full of grit, grace, and unexpected beauty in the mess. Together, they reflect on the strange alchemy of turning pain into something meaningful, and how telling your story can be a form of resistance, reinvention, and release. A must-listen for anyone who's been cracked open by hardship—and found a little light pouring through.
Gail Boenning wanders, wonders, writes, and wields a paint brush. She finds joy in elevating the ordinary to the extraordinary.
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Jay is a writer, poet, and resilience speaker living with a rare brain disease that makes everyday life a bit of an extreme sport. Through humor, honesty, and hard-won wisdom, Jay writes about the grit and grace of living with disability—without sugarcoating the hard parts.
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