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Farah Nasser

Farah Nasser

Canadian journalist

Oct 19, 2026

speaker_3HOST
2:03
Not my
2:03
doula.
2:05
No? Okay, Tamara, no.
2:07
Okay, no, I wouldn't, and this might be controversial, people might not like that I'm saying this, I do not want a doula who's never had a child.
2:14
I do not want a male doula.
2:16
The word doula, friends, is an ancient Greek word.
2:18
Go on, you have my attention.

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If you get screened, we can help you early, and we can do this together.
speaker_0HOST
5:41
Mm.
5:41
But it's being a boss in 2026 you are a therapist, right? You are, um, a, you are a boss.
5:47
You're, you're IT support when someone can't get on Teams.
5:50
You're the AI compliance officer.
5:52
You have to be the cheerleader.
5:53
You have to fix the printer.
5:54
Like, there's just too many things.

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when I was 30.
33:42
So joining me next to talk about, one, her journey through this diagnosis and also how she sparked a movement of women across the province and across the country, I think, getting this done is Farah Nasser.
33:52
Yeah.
33:52
So it's weird.
33:53
I'm 45 and I decided like, it's probably time I should get a mammogram.
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And I'd been, I'd been asking my doctor for one for a few years and she's like, you don't have family history.
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There's no lumps or anything.
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You're okay.
37:34
In the midst of all this, you're dealing with this kind of reconciling the fact that you have cancer with no sort of, you make this public call to say, hey, you should go get your mammogram and speak about like that call to action that you made and reaction that you've been getting.
3:29
It's
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actually close in age, right? Yes, very close in age.
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They're 19 months apart.
3:34
You know...
3:34
Two things on this.
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One is that I think that it's harder to stay at home than it is to go to work.
3:40
Same.

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care

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