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Alyssa Sagong

Co-founder of Temple of Kinship, a nonprofit offering free retreats for women with metastatic breast cancer; formerly Chief Curiosity Officer at PBS Wisconsin.

Jul 16, 2026

3:02
But tell us initially where the idea came from.
3:05
Sure.
3:06
Well, it started from a couple of sources, I think, but one of them was I attended a retreat for people living with breast cancer, which was wonderful.
3:15
And two things really stood out to me.
3:18
It was a retreat where people who had early stage breast cancer and were now considering themselves survivors and people with stage four metastatic breast cancer.
3:30
We were all there together and And I noticed that for the early stage survivors, those of us with stage four cancer were sort of their worst nightmare come true before them.
3:41
And so it was a little bit isolating for the people with stage four cancer.

11 MINS LATER

14:54
Tell us again why these retreats are so important.

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