❤️ The Podcast That’s Helping Cancer Patients Every Day
- Apr 18
- 3 min read
Presented by LEADR
Doug Fraser / April 15, 2025
🔍 What’s Your Podcast’s Primary Verb?
Every podcast has a verb.
Some podcasts teach. Others entertain, provoke, reveal, heal, wander, fight, whisper, hug. The best ones know exactly what they do—and they do it every time the mic turns on.
Your verb is your compass. It tells you which stories to tell, which edits to make, which sponsors to say no to.
What does your podcast do? Figure that out, and everything else gets easier.
🎙️ Signal Flow: Saranne Rothberg
Beating Cancer Daily started as a promise to the participants of two research studies I ran. They didn’t have time to wait for peer-reviewed journals and grant cycles—they needed tools and support right away. So I gave myself a challenge: 365 episodes in 365 days.
We hit 365, and I thought we were done. But people started writing: “You can’t stop.” So I kept going. Now we’re over 380 episodes in, and the podcast is heard in 118 countries, on all seven continents. All through word of mouth.
This show is a love letter to the cancer community. But it’s also a master class in resilience. Each episode is built around a strategy I’ve personally used to heal physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
I’m a stage four cancer survivor. I was misdiagnosed for six years, went through 44 radiation treatments, multiple surgeries, and two-plus years of chemotherapy. Nothing stopped my cancer—until I started reinventing my immune system using research and intuition. That work became part of the book Radical Remission, which became the number one cancer book, the number one healing book, the number one self-help and motivation book on Amazon. But the podcast goes deeper.
We’ve never paid for marketing or advertising. A cancer survivor helped me launch the show with a donation, and my editor and I have kept it going ever since. The global reach shows how deeply podcasting can connect people, especially when they’re scared, isolated, or in pain.
We’ve introduced recurring guests like functional medicine expert Jacqui Bryan, who co-authored one of my studies. Together, we translate research into weekly wellness strategies. It’s practical, science-backed, and empowering.
Another highlight was a 50-episode arc with comedian Missy Hall, who let me guide her through cancer treatment in real time. We recorded every step—from diagnosis to survivorship. It’s real, raw, funny, and full of heart.
I also created a tumor humor series: 31 days of comedy about cancer’s most painful moments. Because finding the funny isn’t about minimizing the pain, it’s about surviving it.
The episode length started growing as guests joined, and some listeners asked for time to catch up. So we began rotating in fan favorites. To my surprise, the audience just kept growing.
Stillness matters, too. After returning from a Podcast Movement Evolutions, I did an episode on the power of turning off the noise—literally sitting in the dark, unplugging from the world, and resetting. That’s part of healing, too.
Humor in healthcare isn’t new to me. I’ve run the ComedyCures Foundation for 26 years, producing live therapeutic comedy events for over a million people on four continents. I’ve worked with trauma survivors, veterans, frontline responders, kids in hospitals—you name it.
Now, through Beating Cancer Daily, that mission continues. We’ve had outreach from Ukraine and Russia, from Israel and eight Arab countries. People use the podcast as a comfort through war, trauma, and chronic stress. It’s gone beyond cancer.
Podcasting has become a platform for public health, storytelling, and emotional triage. And as demand grows, I’m focused on expanding through training, courses, and a forthcoming book launching in August.
We’re not just building an audience—we’re building a movement. And it started with a mic, a mission, and a daily promise to show up.
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