The Seam Podcast
SEASON 3 | EPISODE 18
In this powerful episode of the SEAM Podcast, author, humorist, and hereditary cancer advocate Gila Pfeffer joins Amy Cohen Epstein for an honest conversation about loss, legacy, and taking control of your own health.
Gila shares the personal journey behind her new memoir, Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences — from losing her parents to cancer, to discovering she carried the BRCA1 gene, to undergoing a double mastectomy that ultimately revealed cancer already growing. She talks about the resentment she once held toward her late mother for not being more proactive, and the compassion she found through writing her story.