Author, brand consultant, TV Producer and meditation teacher Neradine Tisaj shares how she found her way out of the meditation closet to do life and cancer on her terms. A high flying TV executive at the peak of Australia’s reality TV heyday, Neradine’s world was a heady mix of celebrity glamour and infamous PR moments. But a triple negative BRACA1 cancer diagnosis, with only a 5% chance of survival beyond the next 5 years turned her world upside down. In her unguarded account of life ten years on, Neradine tells The Bottom Up how she held on to find her way to better health and life - away from TV - as a meditation teacher helping others navigate their cancer diagnosis. She gives us a look behind the curtain of both worlds and shares what it has really taken to go beyond survival to be truly alive again and enjoying the privilege each day of living to tell the tale.

In this episode, we’re talking with Susan Berg, author, speaker, entrepreneur and the sole survivor. After struggling with survivor guilt in the wake of the accident that took her family when she was 15, Susan rebelled against the world and turned to a life of self-destruction – until she barely recognises herself in the mirror. After becoming a young mother and cheating death on more than one occasion, she finally found a way to love herself and life again. From the many chapters of her life that demanded true survivor instinct, she is now tackling her fears head on as she prepares to face the water and swim the open waters of English Channel.