141: What Cancer Taught This Solopreneur About Succession Planning, Self-Advocacy, and Knowing When to Ask for Help (Deb Krier)

141: What Cancer Taught This Solopreneur About Succession Planning, Self-Advocacy, and Knowing When to Ask for Help (Deb Krier)

June 21, 2026 · 38 min

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Deb Krier shares her journey through cancer and the lessons learned about succession planning and self-advocacy.

What do you do when life hands you a diagnosis — and you're the person everyone else depends on? Deb Krier was a “good patient” kind of person. Annual physical. Mammogram. Did everything right. And still didn't make it home from the hospital before the phone rang. What followed over the next decade was 34 surgeries under general anaesthesia, a stage zero diagnosis that leapt to stage four almost overnight, septic shock with a 75% fatality rate — and a surgeon who told her husband she would be...

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