Who remembers i[2]y? Leah Shearer does!

Prepare the Wayback Machine for today's chat with Leah Shearer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-noonan-2b08631b/) , who, for all intents and purposes, was one of the first ten volunteers from 2007 who contributed to the birth of Stupid Cancer (https://stupidcancer.org) and the greater young adult cancer movement.

The "girl so nice she got cancer twice" Leah—a native of Rochester, NY— found out about my efforts when I guest starred as myself on a TV show called "Side Order of Life" for a scene I wrote based on a real-life young adult cancer meetup. (Back then, we called them "Stupid Cancer Happy Hours.") So, she emailed me, and the rest was history.

I hadn't seen her in years, but we've reunited right here in-studio for a nostalgic trip down memory lane about how the sausage was made and what it took to build a global movement from scratch before the Internet, life with dumb phones. At an irreplicable moment in time, everyone dropped their egos and their missions to unite around one cause: Adolescents and Young Adults with cancer deserved better. And we won.

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