 pleasure now to introduce my go get a cup of tea or coffee together, Fred. When I first met this woman, I knew she was absolutely brilliant. I knew she was unstoppable. She is a renowned leader in functional medicine, soon to be an author, and one of my dearest, dearest friends, Dr. Jill Carnahan. Hello, everyone. Joy, can you hear me OK? Yes, I can, Jill. Wonderful, wonderful. So it is such a delight to join you here. And gosh, I could say the same thing about you. And just love that you're putting this on, that all of you watching are getting encouraged. And we were born for such a time as this. And the time is right for hope and for resilience and for us to really bring this message to the world. And I love what you're doing here, Joy. I would love to start with my story. Joy, is there any specific direction I know we talked about potential questions? Otherwise, I will dive right in. Please do, please do. You got it. So I was born to overcome. And I didn't really know it until I was 25 in my 30th year of medical school, when suddenly I found a lump in my breast. And I didn't think much of it because 25-year-olds don't get cancer. But at the incisions of my friends and family, I went and had a biopsy, an ultrasound mammogram, all the imaging. And I remember sitting with the radiology tech at the center and asking as a student if I could look at the images with him. And I still had no inkling that anything was going on more serious. But as I sat there and I looked at him and I saw him look at the images, and we saw the calcifications together. And I saw the look in his eyes. This was in 2001. And I remember just seeing his face and the fear that flashed across it and having the instantaneous knowing at that moment at 25 years old that my life was going to change forever. And he, of course, didn't give me a firm diagnosis. He said, you know, if you were in your 50s or 60s, this is highly suspicious for cancer. But I went on and got the biopsy. And two days after the surgery, my oncologist called me back, the surgeon who had done the surgery, the biopsy. And you know, in medical school, your teachers and your colleagues are also your friends. And so all of these people who were making the diagnosis were colleagues. They had been teachers and they had been friends. And I'll never forget sitting in that green papas and chair in my apartment when she called. And my heart was beating so fast. And her voice cracked on the phone when she looked at me and said, you know, Jill, this is invasive aggressive breast cancer. And you need to fight it with all of your life. And as I said, I was born to overcome. And there's this will inside each one of us, inside each one of you. And whether you're facing loss of a job or the chaos of our environment, we just had a massive epidemic fires as many of you are experiencing. The smoke literally was obliterated within a 50 feet away on Sunday. And at the same time, I walked out to my car and there was ash covering my car. And then the next day on Tuesday, just 24 hours ago, we had snow. So it went from 98 degrees here in Colorado to snow storm in 24 hours and 30 degrees. And we had eight inches, which melted and now it's a beautiful day. All this to say, life is incredibly chaotic. And we don't know what that next phone call will bring, what news it will bring and what's happening and what even the next day will bring. But we do have today. And back to when I was 25, I had a choice at that moment and I could choose to either give up or feel despair or grief or anger, which I felt all of those things, as you can imagine. But I chose at that moment to believe that something else was possible, that maybe, just maybe, this cancer wouldn't take my life, but it would give me the best gift that I'd ever been given. And I chose to believe that something else was possible, even in the midst of facing absolute life-threatening illness. So I dealt with the grief and then I moved on to a sense of being able to overcome and I gathered resources from my friends and family and what I did was I created a whole new protocol. I created the Jill protocol for cancer and I did all of the chemotherapy. They recommended six rounds of aggressive three-drug chemotherapy. I lost all my hair, became bald, but instead of calling myself bald, I chose to choose a much more lovely word called glaborious, which means hairless, but at least I was able to laugh and have fun with it. And I bought many different wigs, so depending on my husband, if he wanted a blonde or a redhead or a brunette that night, I could do it. So I had fun with it. Then it wasn't without its trials and pain and difficulty because this was one of the most difficult times in my life, but I look back and I realize what a gift that that cancer was and having chosen an attitude that I was gonna overcome regardless of the circumstances and do whatever it took. It now has given me wings. Now in my memoir, which Desjardre mentioned, I'm in the midst of writing should come out in about 18 months, I get to talk about how the tragedy and the difficulty and the suffering actually gave me the greatest platform and foundation to speak around the world on functional medicine and teach people about these principles. And the beautiful thing about it is it comes from this deep authentic place because I've lived it. I've lived facing death and looking it straight in the eyes and not knowing if I had six weeks or six months or six years to live. But what I was able to do was grab those inner resources. Six months after I overcame cancer, I was diagnosed with another life-threatening condition, Crohn's disease, which any of you who don't know, it's an autoimmune disease that attacks the gut lining. And so once again, I was in for the battle of my life. I remember sitting in front of my gastroenterologist and he said, Jill, diet has nothing to do with this. And I thought, gosh, I don't know much. I'm only a third year medical student and we haven't even had any nutritional training yet. But I knew it in my intuitive deepest heart and soul that that couldn't be true. And I was bound and determined. I was stubborn to prove him wrong. I went and started a new diet, made some changes and within two weeks, my Crohn's symptoms were gone. Now it took me several years to completely heal, but now I'm sitting before you, completely cured and in remission from breast cancer and Crohn's disease. And my life has gone on and I've had ups and downs. The most recent five years ago, I had a massive mold exposure, didn't even know how badly mold could hurt a person. And once again, I mounted that overcoming resilience attitude and learned everything I could about healing from mold-related illness. And now I'm considered one of the world's experts in mold-related illness. And I always joke, I never would have chosen mold, it chose me. But the same way that cancer and Crohn's and illness all led to this resilient attitude, it's really a tool we make in believing that through suffering, we can gain some of our greatest insights. Oh my gosh, Jill. Of course, if I'm sitting here tearing up, remembering going through some of these things with you and are there any parting messages that you want to share with the 5,000 people that are listening today? Yeah, thank you for joining and for making this such a special time together, even though we're not in person. I see you and I feel you. You know, I recently had a friend who is a professional rock climber and I have never in my life even been in a rock climbing gym. And he said, Jill, I think you should go rock climbing with me. What do you think? And that sounds like an adventure I'm in. And I was at the bottom of this third flat iron. And if you know the flat irons in Boulder, Colorado, these are not your, you know, beginners climbs. These are very higher grade climbs. And I remember looking up, I had no clue what I was doing. He gave me a brief, you know, 10 minute introduction. He said, once we commit and we're a third of the way up, you're in because we can't turn back. And the parting words of wisdom I want to tell you is something I learned on that climb. I was scared, you know, whatless. I was scared out of my mind. I don't know if I've ever in my years of life been so afraid. And I had ropes, but those ropes aren't holding you in. You're actually grabbing hand and foot above one another. And I was there for three and a half hours, thousands of feet in the air. And I did it, but how I did it is the thing I want to leave with you. I focused on what was right in front of me. I didn't look back. I told myself, if I look over my shoulders that thousands and thousands of feet down, I'm gonna panic and I'm not gonna be able to do this. So I stayed present right in front of me. And I knew in front of me was solid rock. And all I had to do was put one foot in front of the other moment by moment, and I would make it to the top. So whatever you're facing today, you don't have to eat the whole elephant one. You can eat it one bite at a time. And the same with whatever difficulties you're facing. You know that you're on solid footing and you can take one step at a time and stay present. Don't go too far ahead and definitely don't look back. And you will get to the end point that you wanna get to. And now you can see why I love her. Thank you so much, Jill. Thank you for having me, Joy. Thank you.