In this episode <a href="//instagram.com/brookeljames">@BrookeLJames</a> and guest, Liya Shuster-Bier discuss what it's like to go through a rare cancer diagnosis in your 30s (including missing the time that we think will be the take-off of our career and how to plan for a family pre-treatment), how Liya's medical isolation prepared her for pandemic quarantine life, and how this experience encouraged Liya to found <a href="//instagram.com/ouralula">Alula</a>.&nbsp;
<a href="https://myalula.com/" target="_blank">myalula.com</a>
<a href="//www.thegriefcoach.co">thegriefcoach.co</a>

58. Cancer wife at 28, Widow at 31 with Author Rachel Engstrom

In 2019 at the age of 30, Brooke lost her father to cancer and immediately searched for resources that respected the gravity of emotions in her grieving process that also offered concrete support. The Grief Coach provides a leading new voice on grief covering everything from the practical to the emotional. Interviewing guests such as innovators in funeral arrangements, spiritual leaders, therapists, authors, and grievers themselves, Brooke has created a space she needed but could not find—one that respects profound loss and the practicality of needing to make decisions in heartbreak.