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May 20, 2025

Out of Patients EP402: Dancing Through the Wreckage: Sally Wolf

Sally Wolf is the kind of person who makes you question what it means to actually live. She’s got all the things that usually impress LinkedIn: Harvard psych degree, two Stanford grad degrees, NBCUniversal pedigree, former corporate exec turn…

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May 13, 2025

Out of Patients EP401: OCRA, Acronyms, and Audra: The Nonprofit Multiverse of Madness

🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚨 Let’s talk about what it actually takes to run a national cancer nonprofit in 2025. Four mergers. A team of 22. A lifetime of therapy in the form of board meetings, grant deadlines, and telling scared patients, “You…

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May 6, 2025

Out of Patients EP400: CancerCare Turns 81. Christine Verini Has the Keys

Christine Verini is the CEO of CancerCare, but more importantly, she’s someone who actually gives a damn. She’s a pharmacist who ditched the corporate ladder to lead an 81-year-old organization that helps real cancer patients with the th…

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April 29, 2025

Out of Patients EP399: Jen Finkelstein: Wigs, Wegmans, and War Stories

Jennifer Finkelstein should come with a warning label: Highly Infectious Authenticity. If you don't know her, you will—and you’ll wonder how you survived cancerland without her kind of energy lighting a fire under you. Jennifer is a 20-y…

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April 22, 2025

Out of Patients EP398: Kill Bill Meets Jane Fonda: laria Montagnani

What happens when a world-class fitness icon and martial artist—someone who teaches sword training and trains like a damn machine—gets cancer not once, but twice? You get Ilaria Montagnani. Founder of Powerstrike. Creator of Stronger fo…

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April 17, 2025

Out of Patients EP397: Patient No More, Bullsh*t No More: Helene M Epstein

Helene M. Epstein is the kind of guest who makes you sit up, get angry, and pay attention. She’s been misdiagnosed, gaslit, ignored, and dismissed by the healthcare system more times than you want to count—and she turned all of that into…

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April 11, 2025

Out of Patients EP396: Be Like Zach: Love, Loss, and Legacy

Jonathan Wall and Jennifer (Kleeman) Wall lost their son, Zach. What they did next is the reason this episode matters. They turned unspeakable grief into something that helps other families navigating pediatric cancer. We talk about what Zach was li…

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