Podcast by Tina Carter
02 April 2025
In Today's episode we learn about www.imermanangels.org, an organization geared toward matching cancer patients with appropriate mentors. Jackie (bio below) shares more about this amazing organization.
Jackie Herigodt (she/her) started with IA in 2012 and has been a caregiver to several loved ones with cancer, including her mother, who lost her battle with lung cancer in 2004, which helps fuel her passion.
In her current role as Director of Partnerships and Engagement, Jackie oversees the Mentor Angel training process, the matches made between Mentor Angels and support seekers and the organization’s outreach efforts. Jackie was responsible for the creation of the outreach initiative and has helped strengthen partnerships with other cancer organizations and cancer centers to better serve more people who have been impacted by cancer.
Jackie graduated from Northeastern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She has worked in the fields of animal training, customer service and education, which has proven beneficial in her current role.
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26 March 2025
In previous episodes we have talked about Hope Lodge, a program of the American Cancer Society (https://www.cancer.org/support-programs-and-services/patient-lodging/hope-lodge.html). The ACS offers free housing in facilities staffed and run by the ACS at various locations throughout the United States. In order to access this program during treatment you need help from a social worker (most cancer centers can help you access a social worker).
Gloria, a social worker, cancerworld caregiver and friend shares her experience staying at the Hope Lodge facility in Houston, TX.
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19 March 2025
This episode highlighting www.kesem.org, is a part of the third annual podcasthon which encourages podcasters from around the world to highlight non-profits that are doing good in the world. You can find out more at:
https://podcasthon.org
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12 March 2025
Anna joins us to talk about the newly published devotional, Soft Words for Hard Days, available at https://enfleshed.com/products/pre-order-soft-words-for-hard-days-enfleshed-disability-wisdom/
Rev. Dr. Anna Blaedel is co-founder and co-director at enfleshed. For the first five years of enfleshed, Anna served as theologian-in-residence. They bring an attentiveness to the intersections of spiritual, academic, and activist engagement. Through enfleshed’s “moments for common nourishment,” a bi-monthly column, they bridge the forefront of religious scholarship and a passion for reimagining our ordinary, common, messy life as the site of Divine unfolding. Building on their study of theopoetics, relational philosophies of enfleshment, and anti-racist, feminist, queer and eco-theologies of liberation, once a month they will offer words for a sustaining, grounding, and enlivening spirituality in our current context.
Anna chaplains college students in Iowa City through sacred collective: a place of belonging for spiritual misfits, and recently completed a PhD in Theological and Philosophical Studies at Drew University’s Graduate Division on Religion. Anna’s dissertation is titled, “Sacred Enfleshments: A Queer Theopoetics of Collective Liberation.” Waking before dawn, lingering in poetry…, being an aunt, retreating to the woods or their basement woodshop, tending the garden, sharing silence, and feeding people delicious food are some of Anna’s favorite things.
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05 March 2025
Kyle Pukylo joins us from the Colorectal Cancer Alliance. Kyle's story is woven into this episode as we talk about the support, advocacy, and encouragement provided by the Colorectal Cancer Alliance.
You can find out more about the Colorectal Cancer Alliance and their goal to end colon cancer coast to coast at: https://colorectalcancer.org
The Colorectal Cancer Alliance has been helping us advocate, educate, and has facilitated testing to save lives since 1999.
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26 February 2025
Kevin joins us in today's episode to talk about volunteering and why that matters to cancerworld residents. In his insightful time with us he also encourages us to support organizations like:
www.driveaseniornorthwest.org with our time, talent, encouragement and donations.
If you want to contact us you can reach us at notesfromcancerworld@gmail.com.
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