This is the episode I never knew if we’d get to share…

Our pregnancy reveal 🤍

After 10 months of navigating surrogacy—from embryo creation and genetic testing, to finding our gestational carrier, medical clearances, and over 60 pages of legal contracts—we’re finally here.

This journey wasn’t linear. We faced setbacks, including a scrapped cycle when our surrogate’s body wasn’t ready, forcing us to pause, regroup, and trust the process. With a more aggressive estrogen protocol, we tried again… and it made all the difference.

On March 24th, after 1 year and 4 months, we had our transfer which was one of the most beautiful days of our lives.

In this episode, Danny joins me to share his perspective as an intended father, the fears we carried, and the hope that kept us going. And then… the moment everything changed.
A positive pregnancy test, shared in our home, followed by a strong first beta of 300.

If you’ve ever wondered if building a family is still possible while living with stage four metastatic breast cancer… this episode is for you.

✨ There is still hope
✨ There are still options
✨ And there is still so much life to be lived

In this beautifully hopeful episode, Wren, the creator of the Living Our Breast Lives Podcast, is joined by the incredible Metastatic Breast Cancer Thriver, Heather Jose, the MBC thriver living with triple positive metastatic breast cancer for 27 YEARS!

Heather Jose is a long-term metastatic breast cancer thriver, advocate, and the host of the podcast I’m Still Here: Lessons from Life with Metastatic Breast Cancer.

Diagnosed at 26 and living with metastatic disease for over 25 years, Heather focuses on honest, grounded conversations about what it means to live fully — not just survive — alongside breast cancer.

After her diagnosis, Heather went on to adopt a child, redefining what building a family can look like after metastatic breast cancer and showing that life doesn’t stop at a diagnosis, it evolves. She has spent decades navigating treatment, motherhood, advocacy, and survivorship, all while helping others feel less alone.

Listen to this episode as it breaks down:

• Who is Heather Jose? – Meeting the woman behind the diagnosis

  
  

• Her MBC story – Diagnosed in 1998, her subtype, and how she’s still here decades later

  
  

• Then vs. now – What MBC treatment looked like then and how far it’s come

  
  

• Strength without the pressure – The moments that carried her through and why the term "inspirational" comes with a heavy weight to it

  
  

• Living with grief and joy – Mourning the life imagined while fully living the one she has

  
  

• Motherhood after MBC – Infertility, adoption, and expanding her family against the odds

  
  

• “I’m Still Here” – Why Heather launched her podcast and who it’s for

  
  

• Long-term survivorship – What it really means and what she’s still dreaming of for the future

  
  

Living Our Breast Lives Information:

Email: livingourbreastlivespodcast1@gmail.com

Instagram: @livingourbreastlives

Founder: Wren Morrobel

Personal Instagram: @wren_morr

Podcast Guest Speaker: Heather Jose's Information:

Email: mail@heatherjose.com

Instagram: @heatherbjose

Facebook: Heather Jose

Website: www.heatherjose.com

YouTube: I'm Still Here

In this educational, refreshing, and beautifully hopeful episode, Wren, the creator of the Living Our Breast Lives Podcast, is joined by the incredible Metastatic Breast Cancer Thriver, Carolyn Leigh, the President of North Star Cancer Advocacy.

In 2018, she was the third member of her family to be diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, including her mother and uncle. After her metastatic diagnosis, she spent years studying the latest scientific understandings about the immune system and immunotherapies for cancer before launching North Star Cancer Advocacy in 2022 with the aim of providing information to the community and advocating for vast increases in NIH funding.

The North Star Board of Directors and the MBC community recently raised $100k to further the research of combining Natural Killer cells (immune system cells) and one of the most promising breast cancer drugs in preclinical development, ErSO-TFPy.

In this episode, join me as Carolyn breaks down:

- How the inspirational Judy Perkins and TILs therapy reshaped her belief in what’s possible

- The moment she decided to found North Star

- A simple breakdown of MHC I expression and why some immunotherapies succeed while others don’t

- A crash course in how immunotherapy actually works inside the body

- Her mission to raise six figures for immunotherapy-driven clinical trials — and what real success would look like

- How and where to access immunotherapy clinical trials

- A raw conversation about allyship, momentum, and why the MBC movement can’t depend solely on those living with the disease

Carolyn isn’t just an MBC advocate… she’s a brilliant mind, a fierce researcher, the president of the North Star Cancer Research Foundation, and a woman determined to change the future of metastatic breast cancer!

Living Our Breast Lives Information:

Email: livingourbreastlivespodcast1@gmail.com

Instagram: @livingourbreastlives

Founder: Wren Morrobel

Personal Instagram: @wren_morr

Podcast Guest Speaker: Carolyn Leigh's Information:

Email: NorthStarCancerAdvocacy@yahoo.com

Instagram:

@north.star.cancer.advocacy

@north.star.cancer.research

Facebook:

North Star Cancer Research Foundation

Website: NorthStarCancerResearch.org

CRI Clinical Trial Finder:

https://cri.careboxhealth.com/en-US/