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4 Eye-Opening Mindfulness Lessons I Learned From a Stage 4 Cancer Patient
‘When you are no longer afraid to die you are free to live.’ — Jeri Anderson
I’m obsessed with learning everything about newsletters.
Whenever I have a minute I tune into podcasts to learn from other newsletter operators.
While eating my lunch I listened to Jeri. She talked about her success with email marketing and all of a sudden she dropped a bomb.
She also has stage 4 cancer.
What she learned from having cancer and how she still built a successful business to help people lose weight are eye-opening.
I did not learn much about email marketing this time all that stuck in my head were these 4 things she said.
Honor yourself and your body
Building a business and having cancer don't go well together.
The needed treatment often left Jeri exhausted.
There was no room for the hustle of a founder.
She told herself just to do one thing from the seemingly endless to-do list whenever her body allowed it.
Having a serious disease taught Jeri what’s important and she only focused on…
