Katie Couric on Truth, Trust, and Women's Health

About this episode

Katie Couric discusses her personal health journey and advocacy for women's health issues with Dr. Mary Claire Haver.

From her groundbreaking televised colonoscopy to her breast cancer journey, Katie Couric has turned personal experience into powerful advocacy for the health issues medicine has overlooked. This week on unPaused, Dr. Mary Claire Haver sits down with Katie Couric, award-winning journalist, founder of Katie Couric Media, co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer, and author of the New York Times bestseller Going There. Katie spent 15 years co-hosting the Today Show, served as the first solo female anchor of CBS Evening News, and has interviewed nearly every president, world leader and cultural voice of the last four decades. Together, they explore Katie's journey from growing up in Arlington, Virginia, where her parents instilled the importance of education and financial independence, to breaking barriers in network news while navigating profound personal loss. Katie opens up about losing her husband Jay to stage four colon cancer when her daughters were six and two, how that tragedy launched her into cancer advocacy, and why she made the decision to have a colonoscopy on live television — a moment that changed screening rates across America and took the stigma out of a life-saving…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Mary Claire Haver

Guest: Katie Couric

Topics covered

• women's health
• cancer advocacy
• journalism
• personal experience
• health issues
• screening rates

Keywords

• Katie Couric
• cancer advocacy
• colon cancer
• women's health
• screening
• journalism
• personal loss

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Katie Couric Media, Stand Up To Cancer

Books & works: Going There

Places: Arlington, Virginia

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