Creativity Is What Makes Us Human: Cancer Survival, Resilience & the Healing Power of Storytelling | Brigitte Cutshall

About this episode

Brigitte Cutshall shares her journey of starting a business while undergoing cancer treatment, emphasizing the healing power of creativity and authenticity.

What does it take to start a business while going through chemotherapy? For Brigitte Cutshall — storyteller, creative strategist, multiple-time cancer survivor, and host of the Real Things Living podcast — the answer was: curiosity, humor, and the conviction that she still had something valuable to offer the world. In this episode of Your Radiant Spirit, Heather Eck and Brigitte have the kind of honest, warm conversation that reminds you what it means to truly live. They explore the healing power of creativity, why humor is physiologically good for you, what it looks like to build a business from scratch while fighting for your health, and why authenticity — not positioning yourself as a guru, but just showing up real — is the most powerful thing a creator can do. In This Episode, You’ll Hear: How Brigitte started her company Gemini Media while going through cancer treatment — and why she says it actually helped her The TEDx talk on curiosity and humor — and why she believes these two things are the most essentially human qualities we have Why laughter isn’t just good medicine metaphorically — it literally releases hormones that help the body heal How a military upbringing gave…

People in this episode

Host: Heather Eck

Guest: Brigitte Cutshall

Topics covered

• creativity
• cancer survival
• resilience
• storytelling
• humor
• business

Keywords

• cancer
• creativity
• storytelling
• resilience
• humor
• business
• health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gemini Media, Real Things Living

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