Characteristic. Watch the program anytime online and get booktv. Org is a bullet for the title of his book, no free lunch. Thank you for joining us. My first question, what made you decide to tell your story . Ive been asked for about ten years tell my cancer story and every time i give a speech or something to say you need to write a book and he said i only want to talk about my cancer stuff because people have been asking for my cancer journal ever since i had chemotherapy when i was diagnosed with colon cancer one of my assistant finally said we need to turn it intoto a book and one thing ledo another andop i wrote it so i cn hopefully inspire people and give them hope and the publishers wanted to go beyond my cancer story to inspire a broader audience so i finally decided this was the time because cancer is so prevalent and so many things are going on so i decided to be part of the solution to give people hope and faith they can make it through the hard times and a lot of people ar
You decide to tell your story . Well, i have been asked for about ten years to tell my cancer story and every time i give a speech or something, people said, oh, you need to write a book. And i said, i only want to talk about my cancer stuff because people have been asking for my cancer journal ever since i had chemotherapy. When i got diagnosed with colon cancer. So one of my assistants finally said, we need to really turn this into a book. And one thing led to another. And i wrote it so that i can hopefully inspire people and give them hope. And then the publishers wanted to go beyond just my cancer story so we could inspire an even broader audience. So i finally decided this was the time to do it because cancer is so prevalent and so many things are going on in the world and i just decided i want to be a part of the solution to give people hope and faith that they can make it through the hard times. And a lot of people are going through hard times. You know, one thing that stands ou
Story so we could inspire an even broader audience. So i finally decided this was the time to do it because cancer is so prevalent and so many things are going on in the world and i just decided i want to be a part of the solution to give people hope and faith that they can make it through the hard times. And a lot of people are going through hard times. You know, one thing that stands out to me, though, from reading the book is that cancer is the only thing that youve had to overcome. I mean, you dont hold back on the many challenges you faced in your life. Why did you decide to share so many intimate details about your upbringing and even your personal struggles away from work . Okay, so i did not want to do that. As i said, i started out just i started out just wanting to take my cancer journal and publish it so that if somebody is going through cancer, they know i have a loved one thats going through cancer. They can say, okay, this is what happened to her in round six. This is wha
About my cancer stuff because people have been asking for my cancer journal ever since i had chemotherapy. When i got diagnosed with colon cancer. So one of my assistants finally said, we need to really turn this into a book. And one thing led to another. And i wrote it so that i can hopefully inspire people and give them hope. And then the publishers wanted to go beyond just my cancer story so we could inspire an even broader audience. So i finally decided this was the time to do it because cancer is so prevalent and so many things are going on in the world and i just decided i want to be a part of the solution to give people hope and faith that they can make it through the hard times. And a lot of people are going through hard times. You know, one thing that stands out to me, though, from reading the book is that cancer is the only thing that youve had to overcome. I mean, you dont hold back on the many challenges you faced in your life. Why did you decide to share so many intimate d
Even broader audience. So i finally decided this was the time to do it because cancer is so prevalent and so many things are going on in the world and i just decided i want to be a part of the solution to give people hope and faith that they can make it through the hard times. And a lot of people are going through hard times. You know, one thing that stands out to me, though, from reading the book is that cancer is the only thing that youve had to overcome. I mean, you dont hold back on the many challenges you faced in your life. Why did you decide to share so many intimate details about your upbringing and even your personal struggles away from work . Okay, so i did not want to do that. As i said, i started out just i started out just wanting to take my cancer journal and publish it so that if somebody is going through cancer, they know i have a loved one thats going through cancer. They can say, okay, this is what happened to her in round six. This is what happened, blah, blah. Well,