Millie Inoa: A Story of Breast Cancer Battle, Survival, and Simplifying Life

Get ready for an incredible journey as we sit down with the brave and inspiring Millie Inoa, who takes us through her battle with breast cancer. Listen in as she recounts her struggle for early detection, tells the story of her fight against her insurance company for an MRI approval, and shares her experience with diagnosis and treatment. Her story is a testament to the power of persistence and the critical importance of early detection. 

Our conversation doesn't stop at the diagnosis. We plunge into the heart of the matter, exploring the impact of Millie's diagnosis on her family and her personal journey towards recovery. Get ready to hear about her coping mechanisms, her decision to allow herself to feel emotions, and her fight against the "thief of joy" - comparison. We also discuss how Ashley Longshore's book, "You Don't Look Fat, You Look Crazy," proved to be a beacon of strength during her health journey. Wrapping up the chat, Millie reveals her career shift from estate management to professional organizing, illuminating how this change has given her a sense of control, instant gratification, and a newfound passion for helping others declutter and simplify their lives.

Millie is helping me Change The World, One S.M.I.L.E. At A Time by helping clients declutter and simplifly their lives.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hey there and welcome to Bustin' Out of Breast Cancer, the podcast that educates, empowers and inspires those impacted by breast cancer. I'm your host, Shannon Brose, a realtor who found her purpose at the intersection of passion and pain while navigating her own breast cancer journey and loves giving back to my community. Having worked with many breast cancer survivors and their families, I understand the challenges they face and the importance of raising awareness about this disease and bridging the gap between the medical and fitness industries. Join us as we share stories of survivors, caregivers and healthcare professionals who are making a difference in the fight against breast cancer. Our goal is to raise awareness, provide resources and create a community of support for those affected by this disease. I have a mission of changing the world when smile at a time. So whether you're a breast cancer survivor, a loved one, a friend or just interested in learning more, this podcast is for you. So let's bust out of breast cancer together and make a difference in the lives of those affected by this disease. I am so excited to introduce you to our guest today.

Speaker 1: 0:52

Her name is Millie Inawa. She is pretty spectacular. She's got a great story and she's super fun, and she just got her hair done. I know you can't see, because this is on Zoom, but she's got her hair done and it looks super fun and her curls are like on point. Anyway, welcome, Millie. We're so happy to have you here. I can't wait for others to hear your story, your journey, your background, everything, and also why your favorite book title is what it is. Anyway, welcome to the show. We look forward to learning about you. So tell us, Millie, what's up. Thank you so much for having me. You're a fabulous self-manager.

Speaker 2: 1:27

We're gonna be here Everyone, so what do you wanna know?

Speaker 1: 1:32

I wanna know all about you, like I wanna know, like, where you live, how we met, what you used to do, how you got diagnosed, what your diagnosis was, your treatment. You know, it's not like you're new to this podcast. You listen to it I?

Speaker 2: 1:43

do I do so? I live in South Florida. I met you through a Facebook group. Actually it was a monster group.

Speaker 2: 1:55

Yep, your realtor. You were looking for a professional organizer, yeah. And so people popped in there saying, hey, me, me, me. And then I spoke to you and we hit it off because I said that I was a breast cancer survivor. So ever since then, I've been helping your clients declutter their homes so that you can sell their homes. That's right, welcome to my team. Yeah, I'm excited.

Speaker 2: 2:23

So my journey started when I was 19 actually At 19, I had a tumor removed a size of a golf ball and I remember this thing sticking out of my left breast and I did not wanna tell my mom. I was like, oh, it's gonna go away, it's gonna go. You're a teenager. You're like what is this? I don't know what it is, you know. And finally I told my mom and she's like we gotta get you checked. And of course, it was a benign and fast forward.

Speaker 2: 3:01

My sister had breast cancer at 28. So, and I'm three years younger than her. So, because of my tumor and my sister's breast cancer, I started getting mammograms early on for years and had a few core biopsies, one in 2008 and 2010. And all benign. But in 2018, 47 years old, I was seeing my specialist. I did not find it actually. So I had a breast cancer specialist who is amazing and for years she was fighting with my insurance to get me for them to pay for MRI because I was always getting my annual mammogram and ultrasound. And finally they said yes, they approved the MRI, went and got an MRI and that's where they found it, so Isn't that?

Speaker 1: 4:07

crazy that we have to like fight with the insurance companies. It's like we pay them every month.

Speaker 2: 4:11

Take care of me, yes yes, and so because of her and her persistence they found it early stage one. And yeah, but during that time it was very interesting because my friend, my son's he had a friend and his friend's mom had breast cancer, was going through chemo. So while she was battling, I diagnosed with this and so, needless to say oh, I shouldn't say needless to say, but when they so basically I'm trying to like think, cause there was so much going on at the time so they sent me to get a biopsy of the tumor and they couldn't get it. They couldn't do a core biopsy because they couldn't find it, like it was where it was located, they just could not get a piece of it. So it was on November 27th. So they were like, well, we're gonna have to do this under an MRI. So I had to go the next day, on November 28th, which is my birthday. Not the way, not the way someone wants to spend their birthday.

Speaker 2: 5:30

Exactly so got this needle biopsy through an MRI. So that was the 28th and the next day I get a call and I knew I was like when you get quick.

Speaker 2: 5:40

Yeah, the next day her office call me. They're like we want you to come in on Monday and I was like, nope, I'm busy. I knew I was like I'm not going, I'm not going Monday, I have things to do. I was totally avoiding it. So I made the appointment from Tuesday morning. But my friend had passed away and her funeral was that Tuesday morning. So I went to my breast specialist and I went with my partner and he, we went together and she says well, you have a little cancer.

Speaker 2: 6:20

That threw him over the top because who says you have a little cancer cancer right, and Then she's like, well, it's the best cancer to have because we found it early and it's slow growing. He was not happy with that, but for me I I've seen her for so many years and she was so cut and dry in her delivery like that didn't throw me off. But that same day after that diagnosis I had to go to my friend's funeral and see her Seven year old son and her five year old little girl at this funeral and I thought, oh my gosh, like this is crazy, did she pass from cancer? She passed from breast cancer, oh god, and so it was. I think that's why I was avoiding that Monday appointment, cuz I mean you get a call the next day. It's like not good, most of us have to wait a week. Yeah, yeah, so she I mean she's an amazing doctor and yeah. So we just scheduled for me to get a lumpectomy and then the next year In January.

Speaker 2: 7:41

And then I went for radiation. I did seven weeks of radiation. How many times did you have to go? Five days a week, so it was every day. The great thing is that I was working from home and I had a you know, a really great boss that allowed me to just work from home Still and and go to my treatment. So my treatments were at like 1 pm Because I wanted to work out in the morning. So I was working out in the morning and Then I'd go to my treatments. And then I'd pick up my son from elementary school, come home and the good thing is about him being that young that he was sleeping in, you know, going to bed early. So although I was very tired, I was still able to go to bed early. Now, how old was he at that time? My son at that time was eight.

Speaker 1: 8:37

And so you were exhausted from the radiation treatment. Yeah, very exhausted. But I did side effects from that.

Speaker 2: 8:47

That just the tiredness and the redness of the brass. I was constantly putting cream on it. I was pretty diligent, vigilant about it. Um, uh, we chose not to tell my son, okay, that a breast cancer you know. And we kind of decided that because we kind of figured, if it's obviously if I have to get a mastectomy and go through chemo, that yes, we would have that conversation with him, because there's going to be a lot of changes.

Speaker 1: 9:21

Yep.

Speaker 2: 9:22

Um, but because it was radiation, and we held off. That was one part. The other part it was his friend's mom passed right. His son would come with me when I would take meals to her and hang out with her and eventually he got to see her in a wheelchair Because she got to a point where she couldn't walk. And I just could not Tell my son that I was going through the same thing because I didn't want him to have this fear, sure, these emotions. I didn't tell him until later, but as I, as I was going through the radiation, I started to see that he didn't need to know and I just needed to get through it because I Wasn't going through so many Changes that were apparent, other than being exhausted.

Speaker 1: 10:19

And the redness only you can see and and he can't see that. So that's interesting that you say you didn't tell him, because I always feel like that's such a, it's such a Catch 22. Right, you want to tell your kids so they can be there and be helpful, but at the same time, like you said, if you don't have any visible signs of anything and you can kind of put your mom face on and you know, let's power through this kind of thing. But you know, like you said, like for his best friend's mom to go through that, I absolutely Couldn't even imagine like that would be. My fear too is like my child would sit there and be like, oh my god, my mom's gonna die too, and that's not necessarily what was going to be happening, but that's what. That's how. That's how he perceives breast cancer. You have breast cancer, you're gonna be a wheelchair, you're gonna die. Yeah, yeah, that's tough. So how old was him?

Speaker 1: 10:59

when he told him Nine. Okay, and how?

Speaker 2: 11:06

did he take it Years later? And he took it okay because I was okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why didn't you tell me?

Speaker 1: 11:20

Of course, Right, catch one too, you don't know you know I mean that's.

Speaker 2: 11:27

I had to kind of explain to him that I didn't want him to be scared in that, you know, people do get through it.

Speaker 1: 11:33

Not everyone dies from it, and so I think that's one thing, that and I've talked about this before my podcast and I still talk about it to people Like I literally just went and delivered today two boxes of things to send over to my friend Judith, who she was on my podcast a couple of months ago and she's the one that ended up with bone marrow, needing a bone marrow transplant, and I just literally dropped the boxes off to her husband, who's going to be driving over to get her out to stay over there for two more months. But he was a wreck. I mean, he was just like all over the place and I texted with him just to check in and be like, hey, how are you doing? Do you need anything? And he's like I don't even know. You know he's just flustered, which I get. You know his poor wife is on the other side of the state, you know, getting this treatment, feeling sick, like puking up blood, like as if she's on her deathbed and he can't do anything to help.

Speaker 1: 12:22

But so to see him, it's like just that reminder of, like, you know, let's not forget about the caregivers, let's not forget about the kids, like because it's, you know, traumatic for other people. And, like my husband, I don't think he listens to this, but you know, I don't. It didn't appear to me that it affected him because he's not openly communicative about anything. So in my mind I'm thinking, well, whatever, like you're just going through this because I will put on the front. I was like we're good, I'm good, like I'm good, I got this. You know, and sometimes you, you have to just say I don't got this, I don't got nothing. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 12:57

Yeah, I think that that's definitely what I would have done differently. I did put on a game face you know, yeah, did a lot, and that's definitely something that I would recommend for people to just feel like they feel it feels yeah, it's okay If they, if they are hurting, let them hurt too, because it you know, we're not in it alone. So that would have been something different.

Speaker 1: 13:28

Yeah, I mean I shared my whole journey on social media because I wanted to be able to help others navigate theirs. Yes, I I always have a you know a game face on. I'm always good, I'm happy because generally I'm just a happy person. I generally am. There's shitty circumstances, but those are just situations for the time, but internally, like I'm a happy person. So I felt like that was my, my duty was to help others get through it. But, like you said, like you have to let that guard down and it's hard because for us women, moms that feel like no, no, I have to be in control of everything, like it's hard to for me. Anyway, it was hard for me to let people help me, but now I don't have a problem, Now I'm good, yeah.

Speaker 2: 14:11

Well, you know November 28th, so that's my birthday, Just so you can remember.

Speaker 2: 14:17

November 28th, millie's birthday, so I'm going to be hitting five years this year. That's a big deal. I know it's crazy, but it's very interesting. My journey has been a little bit different. Well, I mean, obviously everybody's journey is different but for me, like sometimes I would have this like cancer guilt, right when I have friends who have had mastectomies or have gone through chemotherapy and because I went through radiation, I minimize and just you know I had, I would say I just had a lumpectomy. It's like I minimize having the cancer, like sometimes I forget that I even had it, because it's almost like I compare myself to other survivors and say, well, she's a survivor because she went through chemo and you know she had a mastectomy, she doesn't have breasts and it's just a very weird, interesting situation where I just maybe it's, I don't have compassion on myself in a sense. Why? Because it's almost like this person has it worse off or this person's going through more of a struggle and I didn't struggle as much, I don't know. It's almost like equivalent to survivor's guilt.

Speaker 1: 15:55

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 15:58

And I don't. I've never heard anyone talk about it, but that's how I have been feeling about it Did you ever hear the quote comparison.

Speaker 1: 16:13

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Speaker 2: 16:17

Oh no, I've never heard that quote.

Speaker 1: 16:22

I forgot where I heard it from, but I wrote that down. I was like, oh my God, that is so true. Comparison is the thief of joy. You spend so much time comparing yourself, your situations, your circumstances to other people. You don't allow yourself to literally have joy in whatever it is that you're going through, whether it's your survivorship, whether it's achieving a goal or just, for God's sake, getting up for the day. You know what I mean, and I think that if we can turn around and just be like you know what I'm not here I mean I tell this to my daughter all the time stop comparing yourself to others. I mean we have a lot of things to compare, but like it's not why. Like this is your life, this is your journey. No one else can live this for you, no one you know. So remember that right, that one down, and remember it. Comparison is the thief of joy. Okay, no more.

Speaker 3: 17:11

No more guilt.

Speaker 1: 17:16

Wow, so you made it through that. So you're gonna have your five years coming up? Yep, that is awesome and exciting. So for those of you that have not been on my podcast, I do send a question year out ahead of time because I'd like to learn about you and I wanna know, like if there's anything off limits, things like that, and I asked. One of the questions I asked is what's your favorite book? And the title of it? I thought was hysterical. That caught my eye and I was like I need to ask about this ahead of time I mean not ahead of time, but like on this, because I wanna know. So the book is called you Don't Look Fat, you Look Crazy, and let me tell you, going through menopause and going through cancer treatment, like in weight gain, like you make you crazy impact. Tell me about that book.

Speaker 2: 17:58

Oh, my gosh. So it's written by an artist. Her name is Ashley Longshore and she is hilarious and she just goes through her life like being ambitious and being pushed down and she just it's just funny, it's hilarious and it's just her struggles as to being an entrepreneur and being an artist and the things that you get in your head about like you don't look fat, you look crazy, like nobody's looking at your fatness, you're just nuts, you know Right? I don't know, it's just a funny book. It's a book that's gonna make you laugh.

Speaker 1: 18:47

Have you read the book You're a Badass by Jens and Sarah. It sounds seminal to you read that. That's a good book. It's an easy read and it's a feel good. It's positive. It's just like you know again the struggles, but it's. The concept of the book you're speaking of seems very similar to that, but that's a good book.

Speaker 1: 19:04

And those of you that have not listened to or read the book or listened to it on Audible or whatever. Get it, it's a good one. You're a badass. I think she's got like a couple of different ones too, like you're a badass with money, you're a badass whatever. It's like again, entrepreneurship and things like that. So your background is pretty spectacular because you come from a completely different, not a standard corporate job kind of thing. So tell us about your background and why.

Speaker 1: 19:31

I know why we met, because in the mom's group I was looking for professional organizer to be part of my team for real estate and you won. And just for the record those of you that are entrepreneurs and listening to this podcast, if you don't know, when you're on social media, the whole thing is they always talk about slide into the DMs to have a conversation, because that's how you build relationships, right? Well, merely slid into my DMs and we had a conversation and then actually called me and I was like all right, and then I think I had mentioned that I was a survivor and then, like you didn't ride away. I think you were kind of just like hesitant or whatever. And then you did.

Speaker 1: 20:02

I was like oh my God, I'm like that's that you're part of my team, because I want to have my team full of breasties, because I think it's important and empowering. So give us a little background on you, your little satchelist.

Speaker 2: 20:15

So I was an estate manager for 15 years and so basically I ran a family's home, managed their housekeepers and did their travel and anything that comes with a house, right? Things break things. You have to get things fixed. You work with contractors, you move them when they want to move, you get them packed, you get them unpacked, you get them organized. So I did that for 15 years between New York, connecticut, and here in Florida. And there's something about when you get breast cancer or any type of cancer or any type of illness, right, it kind of makes you think and have a different perspective on life, right? Yep, you're to figure out, like, what do you want to do? Or where you're at? What have you been? You know, have you been happy, have you not been happy?

Speaker 1: 21:15

All these things and so I don't want to get into what you're doing now, because I want to do that after we listen to our sponsored ad. But I just wanted people to know, like, what your background is, because it's pretty elaborate and pretty cool, cause I don't think anybody's I've never met anybody that was an estate manager that doing the things that you were doing. So, but don't go into what you're doing now and your whole mindset of that, because we do that after, cause that's a good way of just like kind of wrapping up everything that you do, how you're giving back now and how people can find you and all that good stuff.

Speaker 2: 21:48

Okay.

Speaker 1: 21:48

So you're yeah so yeah, estate manager.

Speaker 2: 21:51

So basically you're running a home from soup to nuts, doing the groceries, making appointments for the dogs, the vets, doctor's appointments, travel.

Speaker 1: 22:08

And that's on top of your own life, of having to do that for your own life. Yes, Planning events, dinner parties, caterings or ordering flowers just to order flowers and how'd you turn yourself off Cause, I mean like realistically, you're doing that for a family all over the place, but then you still need to come home and do the same thing for your own house and your own family. How'd you differentiate between those two?

Speaker 2: 22:32

You know, when you're well, you kind of slack off on yourself a little bit. But no, but I just love to be busy, I just love my mind going. So for me, doing that for them was like a natural high, like I loved it.

Speaker 1: 22:53

And then when I'd come home I'd kind of more like unwind and be a little bit introverted when I was home Do you feel like you wanting to be busy all the time was your way of coping, of not wanting to deal with other things that were going on in your life. I asked that because I went through something very similar in my life in my younger years.

Speaker 2: 23:18

No, I don't think with this job. It was just a different type of drive. You know what it was with this particular, with being in a state manager. It changed every day. Every day was something different and new. I worked for government and I worked for corporate before that and it could just become very mundane Same paperwork, same people, and so I think I just I thrive in that. Anything, everything's changing and it's making your mind think and expand and you have opportunities and new people you're meeting. It's just so. No, it wasn't an escape, it was just more. I was just driven by it.

Speaker 1: 24:09

Well, that's good. Now that I know that you want to jump in and share with everyone what it is that you do, I want to make sure we go ahead and take a quick break for our sponsor. Be right back.

Speaker 3: 24:26

This podcast is sponsored by the Shannon Burroughs Real Estate Group, where we are committed to changing the world one smile at a time, in giving back to breast cancer and our communities. Did you know that Shannon Burroughs, our founder and lead realtor, is a breast cancer survivor? Shannon found her purpose at the intersection of passion and pain while navigating her own journey and wants to give back and help others. At the Shannon Burroughs Real Estate Group, we're dedicated to providing exceptional service to our clients while also making a positive impact in our community. For every home sold, a portion of our commission goes towards supporting breast cancer organizations to help women on a local level and be a resource through their journey.

Speaker 3: 25:07

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Speaker 1: 25:46

All right, well, welcome back.

Speaker 1: 25:48

We are still here with Millie and she was just talking about her position as an estate manager and how like fun and rewarding and exciting it was, because it was always changing and us, as women, we'd like to be on the go, multi-tasking, because we are masters of that right, or at least we think we are Okay.

Speaker 1: 26:02

So, just to remind everyone, we did meet in a Facebook group moms of Wellington or something like that. Anyway, I was looking for a professional organizer for my business, for my team, because in real estate, when we get a listing of someone that's a hoarder or likes to collect on things or maybe just has been in their house for a really long time, it's nice to be able to have someone from your team to be able to go in and help declutter. And with her background with Millie's background that I learned about her estate management and estate managing position and what she did I was like she is so right for the job. So, anyway, I ended up bringing Millie on my team. She's my go-to girl, my go-to girl, my go-to breasty. And so now tell everyone what it is that you do, specifically because you realize while you're navigating your journey that sometimes your dad do you right.

Speaker 2: 26:52

Yes, sometimes you've got to do you and you want to. You know you get well. I got cancer. I started to kind of prioritize and I wanted to have a little bit more autonomy over my time, but I still wanted to do what I love, and what I love is organizing and decluttering and helping my clients see the possibility of a cabinet that's not stock filled with 40 mugs. Why do we need 40 coffee mugs when there's only two people in the house?

Speaker 1: 27:27

I don't know.

Speaker 2: 27:28

Do you ever have 40 people over drinking coffee?

Speaker 1: 27:30

I don't know, I don't even drink coffee. There you go.

Speaker 2: 27:35

So I mean, that's what I love to do. I just, I love showing people that they can simplify their life. Yes, and you know what? You're a lot calmer.

Speaker 1: 27:48

Yes.

Speaker 2: 27:49

There's less anxiety. If you have a desk full of stuff it's hard to concentrate, but like girl, I know it's like oh, you have that freedom of being creative. Yep, and I love doing that for my clients Like what's your favorite area to organize?

Speaker 1: 28:12

Is it like a kitchen? Is it an office? Is it digitally? What's your favorite thing to organize? A closet?

Speaker 2: 28:20

Oh, I love a beautiful closet. It's like dreamy. I love doing closets that and it's so hard to pick. Do you feel like you have?

Speaker 1: 28:35

to be in the mood for one or the other, like some days you're in the kitchen.

Speaker 2: 28:40

No, I just love going into a space where it's like so crazy and chaotic and in my mind I'm doing this Tetris thing in my mind. Yes, that's my favorite. That's totally me, that's my brain, my organized brain is Tetris how to shift, and oh, it's amazing. I love it.

Speaker 1: 29:08

You know what? I have an obsession with organizing as well, and of course, I like to think that I can do everything. And I've realized that I can't, but I just control the things that I can. So, like on Sundays, that's usually my Tetris thing to do my refrigerator, because my husband will go to Costco and I have to like move and everything around. It has to be just so.

Speaker 1: 29:24

But when I was younger and I was in family counseling, because I was the pain in the ass, because we moved a lot, and so I was kind of rebellious. Anyway, we were in family counseling and my mom realized that the week that I was PMSing, we had a pantry that you would open up and then you pull out the drawers and I would go in and I would organize every single thing. So the cans had to face like directly out. My mom was, like what are you doing? I'm like I don't know. Just like it felt good. It was like one of those things that instant gratification was something I could control. Yes, yeah, yeah, fun facts, I'm sure we got on here. So, anyways, so there's that. So now can you help people? We're going to need to wrap up soon. So can you help people online or do they have to be here locally in Florida?

Speaker 2: 30:17

Well, can you do virtual helping? I can travel, you can travel, that's right, I can do it virtually. But it's a lot harder to do it virtually Right it is. It has to be the right person that's ready and willing to do the work.

Speaker 1: 30:37

Right, they have to be right, it's just. It's no different than an addict or somebody else, or you know you want to change a habit, you have to be able to be in the mindset.

Speaker 2: 30:44

They can always fly me.

Speaker 1: 30:46

I had a client fly me to St Bart's and pack them there, so yeah, I travel for sure, and that is and that's something else that you do for clients on a realtor side is you do you help your clients get ready to not only prepare their home to list, but also you help them get in a not that you're the packer, the mover, but like you will help them get in the space, their mindset of like, all right, this is what's going to be packed, this is how we're going to do it, we're going to label everything, but then you'll fly to or drive to wherever it is that they are and unpack them as well, because there's a lot of people who I happen to love the unpacking part of it, because it just feels good, like again, it's a gratification. But yeah, there's a whole. That's a whole another side of the business, right?

Speaker 2: 31:28

Right, and I also can design their closets. I can design their kitchen cabinets. Yeah, I can do that. You can do it. All I can, all the abilities.

Speaker 1: 31:41

Where is the best place for people to find you and just talk to you about your journey or about your organizing business?

Speaker 2: 31:48

So they can find me on Instagram at unpackedentidy that's the letter N, or they can email me at info at unpackedentidycom. Or my website is unpackedentidy, it's all the same. Yeah, that's so important. And it has my cell phone on my website. I ditched the office phone because I'm hardly in my office, I'm out organizing, so Right.

Speaker 1: 32:18

Yay, so I will put all of your contact information into the show notes for the best way for people to reach you. What would be one piece of advice that you have for somebody newly diagnosed? I know you said if you were to do it again, you would have told your son earlier. But what's one thing that you feel like you would have done differently for yourself?

Speaker 2: 32:36

I would have been more vocal about the fear and the anxiety and the yeah about the feelings. It's okay to feel, feel the feels and it's okay to be open about the feelings.

Speaker 3: 32:59

Right.

Speaker 2: 33:01

You don't have to Be ashamed or you don't have to like, suffer in silence and don't compare yourself to others. That's right. That's what I learned on this podcast.

Speaker 1: 33:16

What was the quote that you learned?

Speaker 2: 33:22

I'm going to have to re-listen to this.

Speaker 1: 33:24

Did you write it?

Speaker 2: 33:25

down. No, but I wrote down.

Speaker 1: 33:27

You're a badass because I'm going to get that book. You are badass. The quote is comparison is the thief of joy. That's my comparison. Look.

Speaker 2: 33:37

I'm going to write it down.

Speaker 1: 33:38

I know I was waiting, all right.

Speaker 3: 33:44

All right?

Speaker 1: 33:46

Well, I look forward to people being able to get in touch with you and reaching out to you for any organizing tips. Please go follow Millie on her Instagram and she's got some really awesome organizing tips, and then something might inspire you that you need to reach out to her for a little help, or maybe you need to just reach out to her just to talk to her about your own journey. Yes, so I appreciate you being here and being able to share your story and everything with everyone, so thank you so much.

Speaker 2: 34:11

Thank you so much for having me on.

Speaker 1: 34:13

I'm so glad to have you in front of the team. So fun, all right. Thank you for joining us. I'm Bustin' Out of Breast Cancer. We hope you found our podcast informative, uplifting and inspiring. We want to remind you that you are not alone in this fight against breast cancer. If you are someone you know needs support, please reach out to a healthcare professional, breast cancer support organization or me. I'm always happy to listen, chat and help in any way I can Remember. Early detection is key, so please schedule your regular cancer screenings. Also, if you're in the market for a new home, looking to sell or start investing, don't hesitate to contact me, your favorite fun realtor and podcast host. Together we can make your real estate dreams a reality and make a difference in the fight against breast cancer. If you or somebody you know would like to be a guest, please reach out to us at Smile at ShannonBrowsecom. Thank you again for listening and we'll see you next week on Bustin' Out of Breast Cancer.