For more than two decades, I helped people and organizations navigate change. Then, in December 2023, life asked me to navigate a change I never could have imagined: a diagnosis of Stage IV pancreatic cancer.

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After chemotherapy, radiation, a clinical trial, and ultimately surgery, I emerged cancer-free. But I didn't simply return to the life I had before. Cancer changed how I see faith, relationships, work, purpose, time, and what it truly means to live.

In many ways, cancer broke my life open and forced me to ask deeper questions: What really matters? Who am I when life doesn't go according to plan? And how is God calling me to live with the time I've been given?

Those questions became the foundation for my work today.

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Through Choosing Joy Daily, my writing, speaking, and the 6C Life Map: Core, Change, Care, Connection, Choices, and Courage, I help people navigate the moments when life changes and discover greater meaning, purpose, alignment, and joy.

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My story began with cancer, but my work isn't only about cancer. Life can break open through illness, loss, relationships, career changes, caregiving, aging, or simply realizing that the life you're living no longer feels like the life you're meant to live.

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I don't have all the answers. What I have is a lived understanding that even when life changes unexpectedly, there can still be faith, purpose, connection, and joy.

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Today, I'm learning to live awake and helping others do the same.