Get it Off Your Chest: The Funny Side of Breast Cancer is a podcast that highlights the hilarious things that happen to you when you go through diagnosis, treatment and recovery. It aims to normalise the word ‘cancer’.
It started in January 2023 when Estelle Maher, an author and hard Scoucer and myself, over a glass of wine, started telling each other outrageous stories of all the funny things that happened during treatment.
These were the sort of stories you tell each other down the pub. We hardly knew each other, but from sharing stories, we formed an amazing bond. Laughing was cathartic, and for once, we could talk about things that had happened without 'the fear’ or worrying about other people’s feelings.
We realised there was a whole community of people out there with similar stories who could benefit from laughing at their experiences. From that, the podcast was born.