Through It Podcast

Lauren is the cofounder of AudreyLiz.com a clothing retailer for surgical patients with tubing still attached. There are pockets and comfortable fabrics to help be medically relevant and fashionable. 

After a brutal car accident years ago, both kids having health issues and her mothers illness, things were quieting down until a routine visit found cancer. Holly tells the story of what she knows at this point in the diagnosis.

It has been a few years now since Bruce noticed something different about his wife's forgetfulness... It started out like anyone getting older and turned into forgetting bigger things. Bruce shares with us how he is managing, staying patient, and continuing to love her no matter what dementia throws at them.

Amy started off just like everyone else back in the Covid days, you got sick and a few days later you feel a little better, not with Amy. It turns out she had Long Covid, which means the symptoms never stop and that leads to chronic illness, fatigue, etc. Her journey went from doctors, to Cleveland then eventually alternative healing.

From our guest, Alicia Wagner: When my daughter experienced multiple reactions following routine vaccinations and later developed PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome), I found myself searching for answers no one seemed able to provide. Years of specialists, therapies, emergency room visits, and uncertainty eventually led us to genetic insights that finally connected the dots.

Weeks before the wedding Holly and a car full of siblings slide off a road down an embankment on a cold January morning. Multiple injuries so bad that wedding plans were postponed and years of recovery were inevitable. This is how Holly had to fight back with physical and emotional scars.

She was three years old. She wasn’t sick. It was supposed to be a routine well check.
But during Haley’s three-year appointment, her pediatrician discovered something that would change our family’s life.
Haley had Wilms tumor—a form of childhood kidney cancer.
September is Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month, and Through It is honoring the children, survivors, families, and loved ones whose lives have been forever changed by childhood cancer by sharing a story that is deeply personal to our own podcast family.
Today, Holly shares her daughter Haley’s cancer journey—from the routine appointment that uncovered it, to hearing the words no parent is ever prepared to hear, to treatment, fear, hope, and everything their family walked through together.
Haley’s story is also a reminder of why routine pediatric care matters—and why childhood cancer awareness matters.
Today, Haley is a childhood cancer survivor. 💛
For the families currently in the fight, those living with the lasting impact of childhood cancer, and those remembering a child they love—we see you.
This is Haley’s story. 🎙️💛

If you watched the previous episodes you found out Tristin went in for one more heart surgery that would finally get him all straightened out and back to "normal". Then something went wrong. One of Hollys friends looked into the notes and found out what really happened in that surgery room all those years ago.

Holly and Paul talk with Nancy Boyd, a child loss specialist on grief. 

Kristie was behind the wheel when a head-on collision changed her family forever.
She was seriously injured. Her son, Casen, lost his life.
There were no drugs. No alcohol. No distractions. It was a tragic accident — but in the aftermath, while Kristie was trying to survive the unimaginable loss of her son, she also faced the possibility of criminal consequences.
In this deeply personal episode of Through It, Kristie shares the story of that day, the pain she has carried since, and an important message for anyone who loves someone who is grieving:
Please don’t be afraid to say their name.