004: Silver Linings: A Life of Gratitude with Kim Piggush

It’s hard to allow other people in on your journey through life, especially for the difficult moments.

No one knows this better than today’s guest, Kim Piggush.

She’s on a mission to spread cancer awareness through public speaking as well as mentoring others through their battles with the disease.

Kim is a wife, mother of two beautiful girls, and a 2-time cancer survivor. She’s currently the Chief Operating Officer at S.A. Piggush Financial Consultants and has a previous background at K.M.P. Coaching & Consulting, her own coaching company, which set her out to climb the corporate ladder.

During her first pregnancy she was told she suffered from pancreatitis, which was actually a 10-year misdiagnosis of colon cancer, forcing her to figure out the intricacies of fighting insurance companies, putting her career on hold, and how to be a good mom while being sick.

In this episode, Kim shares the positives around the isolating moments that are darkest in your life, and how to be grateful for the empathy and generosity that you learn through your hardships and through your kids.

• How do you navigate being a mom while also having cancer?
• How can your struggles turn you into a warrior?
• Learn the grace of people coming into your life, and the lessons people teach you when you let them in.
• How to see people in a different perspective to foster empathy.
• Prepare yourself to fight insurance companies and figure out how to deal with the legalities that come with a cancer diagnosis.
• Allow yourself to get help from other people who are going through similar struggles.
• Redefine the experience and realize many people are going through it with you.
• The isolation of our darkest moments.
• Dealing with the infamous ‘it could be worse’.
• How to tackle the ‘why me?’

Show Notes:

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