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The Bridges Between Us shares stories of real families navigating traumatic health challenges - including cancer, traumatic brain injuries, stroke, Alzheimer's, and more. Through intimate, thoughtful conversations with caregivers, patients, healthcare experts, and advocates, the podcast explores what it truly means to navigate illness, recovery, loss, and everything in between. Each episode is a window into lived experience - how people found strength when they least expected it, how communities rallied around families in crisis, and how connection became a form of care all its own. These stories are raw, honest, and deeply human. At its heart, The Bridges Between Us is about exactly what its name suggests: the bridges we build between people, between isolation and community, between hardship and hope. Wherever you are on a health journey - as a caregiver, a patient, a supporter, or someone who simply wants to understand - this podcast invites you to listen slowly, reflect openly, and feel a little less alone.
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- 1 weeks ago43 min
You Don't Have to Do It Alone: Stan & Sue Stanek on AML, the Gratitude Calendar That Never Stopped, and What It Means to Be Blessed to Be a Blessing
In December 2016, Stan Stanek went to the eye doctor about some spots he'd noticed while reading the newspaper. By four o'clock that afternoon, he was in the emergency room. By the end of the week, he had a port, a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia, and a very large calendar taped to his hospital room wall — where Sue wrote down something good about every single day, for two years. In this episode of The Bridges Between Us, Stan and Sue share the full story: eighteen months of grueling trea...
- 3 weeks ago35 min
Twenty-Five Percent: Dr. Wayne Jonas on Social Support, Cancer Survival, and the Medicine We're Not Prescribing
Twenty-five percent. That's how much longer cancer patients with high social support live compared to those with low social support. Not quality of life. Not comfort. Survival. "If you had a drug that increased your living by twenty-five percent, it would be on the docket immediately." ~ Dr. Wayne Jonas. It is not on the docket. It is not prescribed. It is not reimbursable. And Dr. Jonas has spent his career asking why. A physician, researcher, former director of the NIH Office of Alternative...
- Oct 2, 202633 min
Live a Great Life for the Rest of Your Life: Les Whitney on Eight Years with Stage Four Lung Cancer, Perfect Moments, and the Choice to Not Let Anything Get in the Way
Eight years ago, Les Whitney finished a surf session, picked up his ukulele, and his left hand stopped working. A brain tumor. Then, worse: stage four lung cancer, metastasized. His doctors gave him six months. He's still here. In this episode of The Bridges Between Us, Les, a CEO mentor, author of Cancer's Gifts, and one of the most genuinely joyful guests we've ever had, shares what eight years of living with a terminal diagnosis has taught him about gratitude, presence, community, and the ...
- Sep 18, 202633 min
Everyone Was There With Us: Travis Scott & Jessica Hammond on Zoe's Leukemia, the Village That Showed Up, and Life on the Other Side
Travis Scott and Jessica Hammond drove an RV to Seattle in the middle of a pandemic with their eighteen-month-old daughter Zoe. Three years later, Zoe was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia at age three and a half. What followed was months of inpatient chemotherapy, a clinical drug trial, COVID-19 isolation protocols, and two parents who quietly moved into the hospital. In this episode, they share the diagnosis, the village that showed up, and how CaringBridge became the place Travis, a wr...
- Jul 31, 202629 min
One Obstacle at a Time: John Carter on His Son Cannon, a Congenital Heart Defect, and What Thirty Days in a Cardiac ICU Taught a Healthcare Insider About Being a Patient
John Carter has spent sixteen years in healthcare working with health systems, physicians, and executives all over the country. He knows how the system works. He knows which levers to pull. He knows the language. None of it prepared him for the moment a cardiologist walked into a NICU room and a grenade went off. In this episode of *The Bridges Between Us*, John shares the full story of his son Cannon. Born July 5th, named for the cannon his father fired as an Army field artillery officer, ...
- Jul 17, 202624 min
Ferocious, Loyal, and Absolutely in Control: Sarah Krevens on Caregiving for the Sister Who Refused to Be Defined by Cancer
Rachel was fourteen months older than Sarah. She was a litigator; ferocious, loyal, deeply private, and absolutely determined not to let stage four metastatic colon cancer define her. When she got the call after her colonoscopy, she knew exactly who to call first: her sister. And Sarah knew exactly what to do. In this episode of The Bridges Between Us, CaringBridge board chair Sarah Krevens shares the story of the two-and-a-half-year journey she walked alongside her sister Rachel - as her voi...
- Jul 3, 202623 min
Three Minutes and Forty-Nine Seconds: Paolo Narciso on Cardiac Arrest Mid-Run, the Tech That Saved Him, and Why Data Isn't Destiny
Paolo Narciso has spent four decades building companies - call centers, healthcare startups, AI ventures - and currently serves on the CaringBridge board, bringing a technologist's eye to social connection and care coordination. He knows data. He tracks everything: blood panels, visceral fat, lactate thresholds, sleep, recovery scores. So when his Apple Watch gave him a readiness score of fifty percent before a training run in Egypt - practically begging him to rest - he ran anyway. Three min...
- Jun 19, 202629 min
You Can Influence the Journey: Tina Jackson on Rare Disease, Radical Advocacy, and Raising Miss T
Tina Jackson was told her daughter Tionna - Miss T - most likely wouldn't survive. Born in 1995 with trisomy 8 mosaicism, a rare genetic condition, Miss T was labeled failure to thrive. She's now thirty years old, living independently, completing a hospital internship, and co-presenting keynote speeches with her mom. In this episode, Tina shares three decades of rare disease caregiving - including the 2022 hospitalization that landed Miss T on life support, and how CaringBridge helped Tina ho...
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About The Bridges Between Us
The Bridges Between Us shares stories of real families navigating traumatic health challenges - including cancer, traumatic brain injuries, stroke, Alzheimer's, and more. Through intimate, thoughtful conversations with caregivers, patients, healthcare experts, and advocates, the podcast explores what it truly means to navigate illness, recovery, loss, and everything in between. Each episode is a window into lived experience - how people found strength when they least expected it, how communities rallied around families in crisis, and how connection became a form of care all its own. These stories are raw, honest, and deeply human. At its heart, The Bridges Between Us is about exactly what its name suggests: the bridges we build between people, between isolation and community, between hardship and hope. Wherever you are on a health journey - as a caregiver, a patient, a supporter, or someone who simply wants to understand - this podcast invites you to listen slowly, reflect openly, and feel a little less alone.
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