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- Women's Health
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Programs
The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Comingand Other Lessons We Learn From Breast Cancer
A keynote presentation designed to inspire breast cancer patients, survivors and caregivers, this upbeat, hilarious and insightful talk is perfectly suited for fundraising luncheons, women's wellness or leadership retreats and survivor events.
Everyone always says that cancer changes you, and it can be tempting to expect those changes to be loud, sudden and accompanied by the call of a trumpet. In this presentation, Jennie Nash demonstrates how, more often than not, the lessons you learn from cancer creep up on you in the midst of ordinary life. They come in the guise of a postman bringing the Victoria's Secret catalog on the day you find out you need a mastectomy or in the surreal parade of survivors who offer to unbutton their shirts to show you the result of their surgery. Nash skillfully captivates her audiences with hilarious tales from the trenches of her own illness, and then charges people to embrace the lessons they've learned from cancer. It's a talk that takes audiences from laughter to tears to a sense of limitless possibility.
An inspiring presentation designed to help nurses, technicians, drug company reps, doctors, friends and family manage the emotions of serving on the front lines of cancer care. Suitable for a keynote address or conference breakout session.
It's not just the soldiers who receive purple hearts who have something to say about war. You may never have had cancer yourself, but you have a story to tell about your experience with the disease - a story that can help and heal. Nash discusses the power of storytelling around the topic of illness, the times and places when it's appropriate to share what you know, and the fears you may have about raising your voice. In a Q&A format that's designed to be safe, ethical and productive, Nash will ask the audience to share a few stories.
A keynote presentation designed to inspire breast cancer patients, survivors and caregivers, this upbeat and insightful talk is perfectly suited for fundraising luncheons, women's wellness or leadership retreats and survivor events.
We're used to thinking that courage means dressing in camouflage, but during cancer treatment, courage comes in many other colors, as well. Courage can mean wearing a hospital gown or bathrobe. It can mean wearing a pair of running shoes or a pair of high heels. Sometimes courage might mean wearing nothing at all. For Jennie Nash, courage was wearing a movie-star red dress to a fancy party on the eve of her first breast surgery. It was a bold statement that defined how she would face the rest of her illness. In this presentation, Nash challenges audiences to feel the heroics of their daily life and the bravery of their response to a disease that plagues us. Audiences will want to stand and cheer!
A keynote presentation designed to inspire men and women cancer patients of all kinds, at all stages, as well as their friends, families and caregivers.
Four hundred years ago the philosopher Montesquieu said, "I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve." In this presentation, Jennie Nash will convince your audience that he had it exactly right. Whether or not you are newly diagnosed, slogging through chemotherapy, or sailing toward the end of treatment, the bookstore shelves are jammed with books guaranteed to make you feel better - perhaps not in body, but definitely in spirit. Illness sometimes calls for laugh-out-loud comic books, long epic romances, stories of people in a similar plight, or the book your mother read to you that time you were ten and had the chicken pox. Nash sparks audience's memory of favorite books from their past and sends them home with renewed faith in how a good story is sometimes the best medicine.
A keynote presentation designed to inspire men and women cancer patients of all kinds, at all stages, as well as their friends, families and caregiver. This presentation can also be tailored to suit nurses, doctors and other medical personnel.
If you're going to be a patient, you probably want to be the best patient you can be. Jennie Nash was no different. She wanted to know everything there was to know about her disease, to be respectful yet firm with her doctors, to be kind to the hard-working nurses, to be grateful to her neighbors who brought chicken casseroles to the door with alarming frequency, to be an upbeat example for her children, to keep organized records that could be traced in a moment's notice, and, of course, to get better. In the end, however, she was just another demanding woman whining in the hospital with a stuffed bunny pulled over her head. In this presentation, Nash will show how sometimes you have to let down your guard in order to heal. A laugh-out-loud presentation sure to make audiences feel good about feeling bad.
A keynote presentation designed to inspire cancer patients of all kinds, at all stages, and of both genders, as well as their friends, families and caregivers.
The impulse to tell our own story is one of the most basic human needs. Whether or not you're the patient, the husband, the mother, the sister or the friend, you're going to be telling a story about cancer and it's a story that will have the impact of a bestseller on the people around you. In this presentation, Jennie Nash shows audiences how to find their voice and craft their message in a way that will foster healing and spread hope. Some people will be called to tell their story in words or in song, others by fundraising or volunteering. Nash will send them all home feeling confident, energized and inspired.
Speaker Information
Jennie Nash is a rare breed: a writer who knows how to tell a story as powerfully on stage as she does on the page.
Ms. Nash is the author of three books of narrative non-fiction and hundreds of national magazine articles for publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Real Simple, Self, Shape, Child, Glamour, Mademoiselle, GQ, US, Home, Working Woman, New York Woman, and Readers' Digest. Her specialty, for more than 20 years, has been writing about the small moments that give life meaning. Her breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 35, which came as a direct result of a friend's fatal struggle, gave her the opportunity to look as closely at illness and death as she had been looking at life. "Everyone always says that cancer changes you," Nash says, "and almost from the moment of my diagnosis, I wanted to know exactly how. How does it change you?"
Her answer was her third book, The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming and Other Lessons I Learned From Breast Cancer (Scribner, October 2001; Plume Paperback, October 2002). Far more than a memoir of illness, Nash tells the story of how she became a wise old woman at a tender young age, and shows us how adversity can make us all wise if we only let it. On stage, Ms. Nash brings her story to life, skillfully guiding audiences through laughter, tears and the inspiration to find out what cancer can mean in their own lives. Whether speaking to the newly diagnosed, long-time survivors, or friends and family, her message resonates long after the desert plates have been cleared away.
The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming continues to find a widespread audience. In 2002, Ford Motor Company purchased 110,000 copies of to use as giveaways in their national education outreach campaign, for which Ms. Nash waived her royalties. Ford also toured her to major cities to speak and to sign books during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in 2002, and hired her to write a short work of fiction, entitled My Grandma's Bandana, which was given away to survivors at Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure events in 2003 and 2004.
Ms. Nash's other work includes Raising a Reader: A Mother's Tale of Desperation and Delight (St. Martin's Press, August, 2003) and Altared States: Surviving the Engagement (Crown 1992). She has taught classes on illness and storytelling at both UCLA and WebMD.com. A graduate of Wellesley College, Ms. Nash lives with her husband and their two girls in Los Angeles, California. She is completing a novel called The Last Beach Bungalow about a survivor's search for home.
Testimonials
"She was even better than I imagined she would be. She took a most serious subject and gave it human-ness and humor. She was incredibly inspiring."
- Northwestern Hospital
"I've gotten nothing but rave reviews about how much people LOVED you and the great job Krista, Carla and I did at picking the speaker!"
- Breast Cancer Focus
"Jennie was like a breath of fresh air. We could have sat and listened to her for hours."
- National Charity League
"Jennie spoke with courage, grace and honor about her experience. She is a real inspiration to all-survivor or not."
- Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Orange County
"I have heard a lot of breast cancer/general cancer speakers, but you are now at the top of my list!"
- Magic Valley Regional Imaging Center
"She was fantastic - a huge hit.!"
- Power of Pink, Los Angeles
"We were thrilled to have Jennie as our keynote speaker. She is so heartwarming, as both a writer and a speaker. She made us laugh, cry, and inspired us all to tell our stories." -
- Susan G. Komen Foundation, Austin Affiliate