The Growth And Resilience Network(tm) With Steve Piscitelli

Episode #39 of The Growth and Resilience Network® podcast channel explores the interconnections of community, resilience, relationships, and breast cancer.  You will hear  from two Jacksonville, Florida community activists who have been voices for the countless women facing a breast cancer diagnosis.  One as a survivor, and one as an organizer for survivors. Both helped those diagnosed with breast cancer develop their own voice. Bobbi de Cordova-Hanks was enjoying life as a bass guitar player, magazine editor, and newlywed, when she got the news in 1986 that she had breast cancer.  In 1988 she formed the support group “Bosom Buddies.”     Jeannie Blaylock, co-anchor of the evening news for First Coast News (Channel 12) in Jacksonville, Florida, was not a cancer survivor. Nor was she living with a diagnosis. She was grappling, however, with the sudden and tragic death of her twenty-nine-year-old friend to breast cancer. In 1993, Jeannie used her visibility as a news reporter to shed light on the topic. S