120 Lori Ball: How to Use Your Experiences with Adversity to Help Others

Published: June 3, 2021, 9 a.m.

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Lori Ball joined the Learning from Smart People Podcast with Rob Oliver to talk about how to use your experiences with adversity to help others. She has a cancer survivor who formed Faith and Gratitude, a 501c(3) nonprofit dedicated to serving cancer patients and their caregivers. The organization provides resources gathered from Lori\\u2019s experiences, most of which were not easily accessible during her treatment.

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Here are a few of the things that Lori Ball and Rob Oliver talk about on this episode of the Learning from Smart People Podcast:

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\\xb7 A self-diagnosis of ovarian cancer
\\n\\xb7 Empowering yourself in the face of adversity
\\n\\xb7 Exploring complementary modalities
\\n\\xb7 Following the path \\u2013 helping other people
\\n\\xb7 Why Lori was worried that she wouldn\\u2019t get to have chemotherapy
\\n\\xb7 Only 5% of cancers are genetic
\\n\\xb7 Using your experiences to benefit others
\\n\\xb7 Receiving the generic information notebook
\\n\\xb7 Creating a new binder to serve cancer patients
\\n\\xb7 Understanding that you are not the only one going through it
\\n\\xb7 How Lori Ball formed her own 501c(3)
\\n\\xb7 Providing support, free of charge for cancer patients
\\n\\xb7 Readjusting the service because of COVID
\\n\\xb7 Empowering cancer patients to take an active role in their treatment
\\n\\xb7 Why treatment plans cannot be a \\u201cone-size-fits-all\\u201d approach
\\n\\xb7 Your diagnosis will never take away your you-ness

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You can learn more about Lori Ball and her nonprofit, Faith and Gratitude, on her website or on social media.

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Website: https://faithandgratitude.org/
\\nFacebook:  https://www.facebook.com/faithandgratitudeinc
\\nLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lori-ball-a3489510/

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