Episode 115: Dr. Sarah Friend, MD

A cancer diagnosis can alter our sense of time—how much of it we have, how we spend it, and what suddenly feels worthy of it. Dr. Sarah Friend, medical oncologist, cancer coach, and founder of My Friend MD, joins me to explore the fear and uncertainty of cancer, the hope found in treatment and unexpected outcomes, and the clarity that can emerge when life no longer feels guaranteed.

But our conversation also turns toward Sarah’s own life. In creating My Friend MD, she found the courage to trust herself, step beyond the path she had known, and reconnect with a freer part of herself that had been waiting to emerge. Her journey reminds us that transformation does not belong only to the patient: sometimes caring for others changes the person doing the caring.

It is a conversation about medicine and mortality, faith and survivorship, courage and self-belief—and how facing the possibility of less time can change the way we live the time we have.