“I am.” Letitia Blanker on surviving when life collapsed
When I asked Letitia Blanker how she was doing, she answered with two words: “I am.”
In this conversation, Letitia opens up about a season when everything seemed to land at once: her father’s sudden illness, the end of a 20-year relationship, selling her home, losing her job—and then a breast cancer diagnosis just one month later.
What surprised both of us: cancer didn’t break her. It gave her structure and even purpose for a time.
We also talk about:
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