Kristen Carbone had always wanted to work in an art museum, but after landing her dream museum job she soon faced a harrowing reality: her mother’s breast cancer had returned with a serious metastasis. Packing up her life, Carbone moved to Baltimore to be closer to her ailing mother. Heartbreakingly, her mother passed before turning 50. After her mother’s death, Carbone uprooted herself again and continued her museum work. But just three months after her 30th birthday, Carbone made the brave and terrifying decision to have a preventative mastectomy and reconstruction. “I felt really committed to the choice,” she says. As she learned to live in her new body, however, she experienced first-hand the challenges that many women face after treatment. Carbone reached out to hundreds of women experiencing the same issue before founding Brilliantly, a lifestyle brand whose programs and products are designed to support women living in post-mastectomy bodies. In this episode of Reinvent Yourself, Carbone talks with CoveyClub founder Lesley Jane Seymour about how cancer radically changed her life and inspired her to make an impact on the lives of other survivors.
#43: The simple phrase that reinvented my life (Susan Hyatt)
#42: Finding time, money, freedom, happiness ("Downsizing Ninja" Rita Wilkins)
#41: Reinventing after taking down your boss (Gretchen Carlson)
#40: When the birth of a daughter forces you to reinvent (Mary Beth Ferrante)
#39: Reinventing with a weekend “side hustle" (Gillian Garrett)
#38: Reinventing after tragedy (Laura Dinsmore)
#37: Her dry cleaning bill made her do it (Sarah LaFleur)
#36: Reinventing against the odds (Louise Phillips Forbes)
#35: Reinventing to fill up her empty nest (Jeannie Ralston)
#34: “Fake it till you make it!” Reinventing with moxie! (Barbara Warren)
#33: Reinventing after cancer (Tamika Felder)
#32: Reinventing by teaching fearlessness (Randi Levin)
#31: When life forces you to reinvent - after an abusive relationship (Vani Murthy)
#30: Helping women achieve economic equality (Fran Pastore)
#29: When you decide to reinvent everything at once (Pamela Redmond Satran)
#28: Reinventing after divorce: “Let yourself be afraid” (Susan McPherson)
#27: Reinvention after a big giant hairy public failure (Sallie Krawcheck)
#26: How to open yourself up to reinvention ideas that throw themselves at you (Jana Brown)
#25: Reinventing to find your bliss (Margaret Roach)
#24: How to reinvent to change the world (Shelley Zalis)
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