So has surviving cancer influenced your willingness to share more of your own story?

It absolutely has.

I heard Hoda Kotb say that at the Women's Food Service Forum in Dallas.

She said, don't hog your journey.

And it really hit me because when I was sick, many people didn't know.

It was not a secret.

But I also didn't run around wearing a T-shirt that said, I'm battling breast cancer.

And so what would you say to someone who's in the middle of a very difficult chapter in their life and they can't happen to see what's on the other side yet? What would you say?