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Jace Yawnick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
246 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And on the other side, there was also this community of other cancer patients going through their own cancer journey. And they would start messaging me or writing letters. And we all started interacting with as many of them as I could. And I realized I have this big platform now. I want to use this for something positive. And I, in so many scenarios through this, have realized that I'm so lucky.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And on the other side, there was also this community of other cancer patients going through their own cancer journey. And they would start messaging me or writing letters. And we all started interacting with as many of them as I could. And I realized I have this big platform now. I want to use this for something positive. And I, in so many scenarios through this, have realized that I'm so lucky.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And on the other side, there was also this community of other cancer patients going through their own cancer journey. And they would start messaging me or writing letters. And we all started interacting with as many of them as I could. And I realized I have this big platform now. I want to use this for something positive. And I, in so many scenarios through this, have realized that I'm so lucky.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And one of those areas was I have the insurance to cover a lot of my cancer bills. And that's something that I'm very fortunate to have. It's still, there was a lot of costs involved. But when you look at some of these bills, I mean, they will follow you for the rest of your life if you don't have the insurance to cover them.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And one of those areas was I have the insurance to cover a lot of my cancer bills. And that's something that I'm very fortunate to have. It's still, there was a lot of costs involved. But when you look at some of these bills, I mean, they will follow you for the rest of your life if you don't have the insurance to cover them.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And one of those areas was I have the insurance to cover a lot of my cancer bills. And that's something that I'm very fortunate to have. It's still, there was a lot of costs involved. But when you look at some of these bills, I mean, they will follow you for the rest of your life if you don't have the insurance to cover them.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And so I decided that I wanted to start a nonprofit organization for a few reasons. One was to just find ways to continue to unite this community of cancer survivors and cancer patients and people impacted by cancer, the advocates, the family members, and find a place where we can all connect and to help one another.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And so I decided that I wanted to start a nonprofit organization for a few reasons. One was to just find ways to continue to unite this community of cancer survivors and cancer patients and people impacted by cancer, the advocates, the family members, and find a place where we can all connect and to help one another.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And so I decided that I wanted to start a nonprofit organization for a few reasons. One was to just find ways to continue to unite this community of cancer survivors and cancer patients and people impacted by cancer, the advocates, the family members, and find a place where we can all connect and to help one another.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And we do that through, we have a Facebook group and there's educational resources that are posted and all of that. And I'm still working out how to do all of it. But fortunately, I have some people helping me. But the other side of it was also people wanted to donate to support me.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And we do that through, we have a Facebook group and there's educational resources that are posted and all of that. And I'm still working out how to do all of it. But fortunately, I have some people helping me. But the other side of it was also people wanted to donate to support me.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And we do that through, we have a Facebook group and there's educational resources that are posted and all of that. And I'm still working out how to do all of it. But fortunately, I have some people helping me. But the other side of it was also people wanted to donate to support me.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And as much as I appreciated that, I am lucky and I had a lot of it covered and I was going to figure out the rest of it. But I wanted to help the people that didn't have it. that insurance to cover their treatments, these extremely costly treatments. So that's what led me to initially create this organization.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And as much as I appreciated that, I am lucky and I had a lot of it covered and I was going to figure out the rest of it. But I wanted to help the people that didn't have it. that insurance to cover their treatments, these extremely costly treatments. So that's what led me to initially create this organization.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And as much as I appreciated that, I am lucky and I had a lot of it covered and I was going to figure out the rest of it. But I wanted to help the people that didn't have it. that insurance to cover their treatments, these extremely costly treatments. So that's what led me to initially create this organization.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And anybody who was looking to donate to me, I told them I would love for them to donate so that we could give it to somebody else who needs it. And we've been doing that for ever since I believe my second cycle of chemotherapy. And just been working with hospitals to identify patients that are in need of that financial assistant. And not all of them need financial assistance.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And anybody who was looking to donate to me, I told them I would love for them to donate so that we could give it to somebody else who needs it. And we've been doing that for ever since I believe my second cycle of chemotherapy. And just been working with hospitals to identify patients that are in need of that financial assistant. And not all of them need financial assistance.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

And anybody who was looking to donate to me, I told them I would love for them to donate so that we could give it to somebody else who needs it. And we've been doing that for ever since I believe my second cycle of chemotherapy. And just been working with hospitals to identify patients that are in need of that financial assistant. And not all of them need financial assistance.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

Some of them are looking for a bone marrow transplant match. So, you know, getting it out to the community about their story and helpfully finding them a match. So it's been this growing organic kind of process, but all centered around the ideals of just helping other people with cancer.

The Dr. Hyman Show
What Every Cancer Patient Should Know: Lessons from a Survivor | Jace Yawnick

Some of them are looking for a bone marrow transplant match. So, you know, getting it out to the community about their story and helpfully finding them a match. So it's been this growing organic kind of process, but all centered around the ideals of just helping other people with cancer.