Piece of Work with Danielle Tantone
Hi there. Welcome to Piece of Work, the Podcast. I’m Danielle Tantone. I’m a nurse, author, coach, and survivor.
I love inspiring people to live their best life, reach for those big dreams, and find joy even in the pain.
As I wrote my memoir over so many years, trying to make sense of a story where I was way too often the bad guy instead of the hero, I came to understand that we are all a piece of work. But we’re also a work in progress. And even in our messiness, we are a work of art, too. All at the very same time. In fact we are all beautifully unique pieces of one masterpiece, waves in the same ocean.
This podcast explores the stories and struggles that make us human, the miracles that surround us, and all the ways we work to make sense of it all. Welcome to Piece of Work, The Podcast, with Danielle Tantone.
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Piece of Work with Danielle Tantone
Beer, Breast Cancer and Dr. Google - with Kara San Julian
Listen in to this deeply honest chat with interior designer Kara San Julian about breast cancer, kicking addictions, and taking control of her own life and health.
Kara was in the middle of Living Spaces with a design client when she got the news that she had cancer. ..
She continued to drink heavily even while on chemo...
But eventually she found healing and sobriety on her own terms.
We chatted about:
- Benefits and hazards of Dr. Google
- Oncotype test, chemotherapy, radiation, tamoxifen,
- Doxorubicin, The Red Devil
- Drinking and breast cancer
- Alcoholism and other addictions
- Going through Chemo during the holidays
- Taxol
- Neuropathy
- Ports and caustic medicines
- Education via TikTok
- Night nurse brain and chemo brain
- Oncotypes
- Treatment options - lumpectomy versus single mastectomy versus double mastectomy
- Oncologists
- IUDs and cancer risk
- Opting out of treatments
- Finding Sobriety during chemo
- COVID alcoholics
- Drinking beer for breakfast
- Writing cold turkey
- Caretakers and support systems
- Love addiction
- And more...