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Oct 2021
45m 45s

S01 E24 Feel For Your Life

Salt The Podcast
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Jessica Baladad is the founder and chief advocate of Feel For Your Life , an online resource for breast health advocacy.

When Jessica was 33 years old, she was diagnosed with stage 2B invasive ductal carcinoma after discovering a lump while doing a self breast exam in the shower. She underwent 16 rounds of chemotherapy, a double mastectomy, 24 rounds of radiation, a hysterectomy and a 10-hour flap reconstruction. She has since celebrated life in remission by helping women advocate for their breast health through her new app, appropriately called Feel For Your Life . Jessica is the first breast cancer patient to create an app that allows women to learn about self breast exams, helps them track and monitor their progress and allows them to set monthly reminders. 

In this episode we speak about Jessica's journey as a breast cancer survivor, medical gaslighting, being your own medical advocate, the sexualization of breasts, and of course Jessica's app Feel for your Life. 

Host: Stella Saliari 

At Salt The Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.

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