by Jessica Gendron | Oct 18, 2022 | Cancer, For College Students, Mindset, Professional, Resilience
Over the last 18 months, I’ve worked really hard on building a strong, positive, and grateful mindset. I needed it to navigate my cancer journey and frankly I wish I would have found the practices I use, a bit sooner. I’ve been through a lot, we all have, which is why...
by Jessica Gendron | Aug 12, 2022 | Cancer, Leadership, Mindset, Resilience
The last 18 months has arguably been the most difficult season of my life. I wanted to mark the end of my journey with cancer with something big. I didn’t want it to quietly pass like a stranger, I wanted to honor it and to end with an exclamation point. On July...
by Jessica Gendron | Jan 11, 2022 | Balance, Cancer, For College Students, Leadership, Professional, Women
As I sat down to reflect on what I wanted in 2022 and set a new mantra for the year, I struggled to find the right words. When I embarked on 2021, the mantra I’d chosen was “Failure over Fear”. I had committed to work on my perfectionism and the...
by Jessica Gendron | Jul 27, 2021 | Cancer
Care Warning: In this blog I discuss my anxiety, panic related incidents, and death. Yesterday was the first time I pulled into the Cancer Center since June 30th. I went for a quick injection at the lab for a medicine that’s used to manage my endometriosis...
by Jessica Gendron | May 25, 2021 | Cancer
Listen to the Blog instead of READ! May 3rd was my last dose of Adriamycin (the “red devil”) chemotherapy and marked the alleged halfway point of my chemo treatments. At that point, my surgeon ordered more imagining to check in on how the chemotherapy was...
by Jessica Gendron | Apr 29, 2021 | Cancer, Leadership, Professional, Women
There’s no manual for how to have cancer and run a business – much less any significant health or life issue. I’ve had my fair share of them. Prior to my cancer diagnosis, I was running at lightening speed in 18 different directions. I was leading a...