
Risa August
Award-winning author, TEDx speaker, and Gestalt practitioner in Colorado known for her memoir "The Road Unpaved" and advocacy for the rare disease acromegaly.
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Oct 22, 2026
Pioneers of The Great Awakening Series – Session 38: Risa August
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4:50EpifanioHOST
It can be all over the place.

Risa AugustGUEST
So back in, I'd say it was 2019, when this entire shift in brain surgery and radiation treatment and a dissolving marriage was all happening, I actually remember thinking, oh, I'll get through this tumor thing and I'll figure it out.
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21:18EpifanioHOST
You want to share a couple of really, really heavy stuff that happened there?
There’s Ben a Tumor Named Bubba (ft. Risa August)
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Ben McDonaldHOST
were you like? Just curious, what kind of like like what was what were you feeling or what was what were the signs or that what was changing?

Risa AugustGUEST
And in that seven month time, I put on like 40 pounds and I couldn't stop eating though.
A Brain Tumor, A Bike Ride, And Some Serious Inspiration
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Risa AugustGUEST
Uh, and, um, and again, I, I, I think I fired a couple coaches [laughs] into this.

Risa AugustGUEST
Um, I, I'm very proactive in what's going on in my body, so I started researching things like adrenal fatigue and looking at the HPA axis, and I would talk to other, um, people in the fitness industry.
