Season 1 - Once around the World

Listen to the origin story of My Survival Story, how a young couple went once around the world to interview cancer survivors.

This series won the “Bravest Piece” at the National Swiss Podcast and Audio festival in February 2019.

 

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ENGLISH VERSION

EPISODE 1: PURPOSE

When Martin gets a pancreatic cancer diagnose, everything changes. His idea of how life would be as well.


EPISODE 2: DARING

Falling in love with someone with cancer can be trickier than you think. Especially when the cancer comes back.


EPISODE 3: DECISION

To figure out if they should leave everything behind, Martin & Katarina visit Greig in the UK. He survived cancer twice, but his hardest moment was when his doctor told him “he was fine”. One decision changes all.


EPISODE 4: RISK

Jeanine a female firefighter in San Francisco chose to go back to work after cancer. Even though it was the work that gave her the disease.


EPISODE 5: SILENCE

Francisco was used to a wide range of therapies working as a doctor in Mexico City. But what he didn't know was that nature and stillness can be also powerful when coping with cancer. Link to the documentary 5000 metros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDcycw-NJTY&t=2580s


EPISODE 6: CHALLENGING

In Tokyo Martin and Katarina had trouble finding a cancer survivor willing to share their story. Until they found Naomi, whose story and activism has changed legislation in a country that stays quiet around cancer.


EPISODE 7: DOING SOMETHING

Sarah is a young artist based in Brooklyn. When she gets cancer her expression changes, and it changes her art career. Sarah also tells us something new about cancer survival that we haven't thought of before.


EPISODE 8: ALIVE

Coming home takes longer than first expected. Season Finale.