Hello, this is AJ Roberts 15-year British forces veteran entrepreneur high performance coach and loving father and husband this podcast is for the motivated and inspired for those looking to level up their lives for Fitness Nutrition and their mindset. Welcome to the best version of you. Welcome back ladies and gents to another exciting episode of the best version of you. I'm your host as always AJ Roberts and today I am super super super super excited to bring to you one of my actual coaching clients, Miss Danielle McDermott, Daniel. How you doing? And guys, how are you? I'm great. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Ladies and gents. I've been get done on the show for ages just purely because of the time that we spent together during our coaching program the things that she showed me and just the sheer determination from overcoming a serious illness to what she's doing now, which I'll let her divulge more into going to the show, but just to give you a brief introduction Danielle was unfortunately diagnosed with breast cancer in early November 2018 she later, but then went on to have A mastectomy was given the all-clear and she actually started chemo for about five months the beginning of Jan 2019 during this time Danielle started to write a book which is still ongoing which is fantastic and it was actually three weeks after her chemotherapy that she began training with me. So that was just really a bar. Raising the fact that it's just so shortly after take haven't finished in a chemotherapy just started hitting it in the gym. But again, we'll talk more about that as we go into it. So Danielle, thank you for coming on the show. Thank you for having me as your first podcast interview. Yes. Yeah. Like I said, there's no need to be nervous is actually fantastic. I wanted to get you on because I know for a fact that Your story and your message and your Shear desire and determination to get yourself all the time having gone through what you did. It's so relative to so many people out there specially especially women and it's actually amazing for me to have another woman on the show because a lot of the guests or majority of the guests have been a big males of you know, military background, but everything you went through is is unfortunately so common in this day and age, isn't it? Yeah. Yes wanted to people that will get cancer in their lifetime. Yeah, and we all everybody everyone. I know like all has someone in our family. Unfortunately that will suffer from it one way or another. So let's just rewind backwards. Let's talk about bit about your childhood your upbringing. I've had a really good job Frank and be moment. I heard me talk. We're too small and my mom was a stay-at-home mom. I've got two brothers on a twin sister. We're all very close. We've got a big family on both sides at the age of 38. My mom was diagnosed with cervical cancer. And I mean we were about 10 of the air at the time knew me twin sister and she had to have a radical hysterectomy. My mom was in the middle of a I'm Spar which is a medical secretary diploma, which she still went on to complete Jordan her treatment. Well past the flying colors. Yeah, so she's inspirational my mom. So I think it's a where I get it from Yeah Fuckin Place. Yeah, and what about your schooling and stuff that was was it was an easy ride for you or is it something that fun fairly difficult? If I'm telling off to the age of 15, I wasn't confident academically. I really wasn't I've only really got into the lane and side of things within the last at say seven years. Okay? Yeah, so from when I have my daughter Holly, so I thought I wanted to better my career to the hair to look up to me and go. Look where my what my mom's doing with their life. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's awesome. And that's quite again relevant to so many people out there that a lot of people do that when they're younger. They just don't really take things too seriously and kind of go to kind of go with the flow and it's only when they have children that are actually like, I want my child to look up to me. Yeah. Well either goes one way or another some people really don't care. A lot of people want to be a genuinely good role model. Yes, you know, we all have a choice in this up to you which way you go and you know, obviously you went the the Fantastic way of the role model so That's fantastic. What's what is it? You think during that time that you know, Holly's been around you think that's, you know been really obvious for her to look up to I think the breast cancer a lot more really see a me go through that. I was very honest with Holly when I was diagnosed with are so she seen me go through and mastectomy losing my hair. I'm not a big thing for a child to see ya so. And I are talking to me first mammogram and which was on the 6th of November this year at that was a year on so I wanted to see that don't be fearful because these things can save your life. That was the message. I wanted to give to Holly so on that and she said the most she's only eight but she's taken note of it. From yeah from experience. I think that like not from the cancer side of things but put a child at a young age experiencing something traumatic to other someone in the family or in their direct environment. It can really make them grow up fast Corner. Yeah. Yeah, definitely definitely they need to understand like the fundamentals of exactly what's going on is I guess maybe what the one of the best things to do is try not to hide too much from them because they weren't fully. Stand now honesty is the best policy in my eyes and I think Holly kids have their own little minds and Beyond like and run away with them if they if they're listening to little Snippets of what's going on. And those are very intelligent. Especially she Holly Bailey is and with telling hey, I didn't say Mommy's got breast cancer. I told her I said that mommy has got its got a sick booby and The doctors going to have to take that away. So that's how I put the forward to Holly. So it was only when I read the book to her called mummies lump and a talks about Mommy finding about lump and it's called breast cancer and she turned around and said Mommy if that's what you want, isn't it? So she know I just didn't use those words to laughs. Okay? Yes, right. Well, yeah, I mean you need to do what best you can to help her learn but protection at the same time. Yeah. Yes, so guys. Going back before obviously we diagnose not like what were you doing that what we sort of day-to-day life workwise say I was saying I work in a university of cool hospitals. Let's just change the name and I've been there from the age of 18 19. I started off with my mum and then as went into the role as a wall clock, so it was all clerical and I was quite happy doing that role. I was there for 10 years, but once I add Holly I was and I come back to where I was. Is this my life where am I going in it? So I was given an opportunity to go into another realm which was there collecting stroke data nationally, and I was getting to learn more the clinical side of things. Although I'm a non-clinical member of Staff which was great for me. I was really enjoying the landing. So then I started my nvq level 2 in business admin, but I also started counseling I had suppression in 2013 and I had to have psychology and put through that. So I went into counseling as well as me business admin. So I was doing quite a lot of work or as and working full-time being a mom but I went up to level 4 with both. Okay. I completed my life. Lil Bit for business admin in 2018, but I was the council and I quote unfortunately couldn't finish because of because I'm a diagnosis so I'm unable to complete that course as well. I don't know because the awarding body and I'll cut their Continuum with the course. Okay. Well, I mean it's not the end of the world at any day because you going on to bigger and better things. Yeah, which is which is superb but What you say even but even before you went through this hardship, you were always very determined to kind of improve what you were doing constant, you know continue to learn preview personal development. Yes. I am set up a relaxation room for our stroke patients on the stroke unit, which was complemented by essential oils relaxation music and some Layton is really common environment and to combat some of the psychological factors of a stroke and I put a lot of got a lot of passion for that and I put a lot of work into it and forms a day partly myself. And so I answered or going in for one employee of the month and November 2017 and then November 2018. I was awarded employee of the year, but I was also a for innovator of the year. So we're two massive achievement. So the Pavements so yeah, it's just since having their it's just making me more determined to strive to become even better. That's amazing. And I know we were talking whilst we're going through chemo through Linkedin because that's how we kind of got to connect and you've been following a lot of my stuff for quite some time and we always said like, you know when you're right, then we'll look at You starting to do the physical and you know sort of owner on the nutrition side of it. What just for people out there who have been through sort of chemotherapy. I know there's different types and they sometimes very aggressive and some people for everyone is different but it's just run through what it was like for you at the very start of your exercise Journey post-chemo. Like how did you feel was it was a lot of fatigue was the sickness like the all that kind of stuff that you read so much about well, I went on to a weekly Kima and that that was more manageable than the three Weekly game. I was having I had three of the EC I'll call it because it's a long ways and I can't remember it. So I had one of you three weeks of that and that made me really poorly so went on to the weekly chemo and it was manageable. So want to come off it was just made me more fatigued so want to come off that I was really fatigued and I met with my Sager and I just wanted normality and my life and I said, I'm sick to death of people telling me to relax it's more and if I'm sitting there relaxing to my mind that start working overtime and it's like you want normality don't yet? And I said, yes and we went we all miss that one. We haven't got it. I said yeah we do. So I am I said, I'm just really fatigued and he said, you know the best thing for that I said, what's that and he said exercise and I won that'll do me brilliant because that the nurses were going down the aisle you need to slow down and I was going now now I know my body I'll do what I can what I need to do. And that was just my determination and people were just like she's mental but I knew where me goalless. Yeah, I need to start to stop builds and me strength because believe it or not. I couldn't even get myself off the floor after chemo. I was there me it just ruined my whole body. Yeah, it has to the strength. Yeah, I can only imagine and that's well since you've started like the training Cycles, obviously, we had a little Gap in between because you had a little bit of surgery had to get done but since then obviously the determination you've just kept burning, you know, once for better word is is still hit there to this day and obviously your strength and your Fitness levels or you know sign of what you've achieved so far and you only use your only partially there. R in in the grand scheme of things. Yeah. Yeah now I'm really happy with how much I've done so far. It's only been a couple of weeks I think as if I'd have been back train and again, yeah, probably yeah, so they've been quite light isn't it? And I've never I haven't run for a couple of years and I run three point two mile and last week and I'm a mile in a coin for three minutes which I was really impressed with for someone who does wrong Journey back to get where they need to go. I'm pretty impressed and it is your mind set on that is a powerful thing. Yeah, and that's another reason why I also, you know desperate to get you on the show because there's so many people out there that they struggle with that just that mindset issue and just going back to what you said then about getting a just getting a time for a certain distance. For example, your you've set yourself a Target you want you've achieved a measurable goal and something that you can then go on to improve on and it's the same for anything like you need to get off that couch get off that bed and do something to give you that line in the Sands that something to to aim to beat and compete with and it or improve on and that's us all with that's all we're doing at this stage for you. And then I've got all these sort of targets. You've got like you've got so many sort of different areas and boundaries that you can you know, you can hit and and compete against yeah, but just explain to The listeners what your big goal is because one of the main reasons why you want it to get your Fitness right up and something that is it is a huge goal in anybody's eyes. Yeah SAS who dares wins now I watch that program or through my treatment. My sister used to say to me watch it. You'll really enjoy it will be really good for you and there I was going on. Well, well, I just really feeling sorry for myself and a face. Papa chemotherapy, so I put it on and I went I'm going on natcher and at that just got me right through the treatments. I looked at, you know one looks at other people's stories. I've seen what they done to get them throughout selves through the tasks and I thought I could I think I could do that and it just ago right? Okay, if I have any chance to get on that show, I need to stop keep my strength up. So that's when I started taking myself off for walks. Unfortunately. I was unable to go in the gym because of infection. High risk of infection immune system is suppressed. And yes, so that's well. And what would you say like looking at especially the ladies are on there now because I guess in essence you're just naturally want us look at them and see what they're doing and almost you know, there's no he's copy them but like cuts it and look at their models of how they train stuff because it clearly works for them. So, you know, it's going to work but like what was it in particular when he first seen the ladies on the show that really cut sort of caught you I that really made. Sit back and go yard. I want to do that. I don't know I think. That's a question. You asked me a question and I can't even answer you think it was do you think it was the fact that obviously when you seen them really like in pain or crawl in push up all the rest of it and but gritting their teeth and getting through it. You saw you saw signs of the determination in them that you see in yourself. Yeah. Yeah. It is. Actually I thought well because the boat comes the face time they let women on the show and I thought well if they can do I can do it and I thought well, I've got through breast cancer. I'll get through this that and that would that my mind set up the moment of thought. Well, I've had the hardest fate and Walt wasn't really a fight in my eyes. I've gone through that which is life-changing experience and a lock and thankful. I could do that. I've challenged myself there. Which up everyone thought I'd just Fall to Pieces because it did suffer with anxiety believe it or not, and I didn't fall to pieces. Okay. I have my moments or crying or I really I got on With a pretty well to be honest on the thought will come off my antidepressants when I was diagnosed with cancer. And then my mom said you don't need them. I went you know what I don't because I know my mindset and I do think the council and trained and has got me there. It's helped me understand me as a person what goes I can do how I can achieve them and I was trained as a cognitive behavioral counselor. Yeah, so I've got that. Yeah, but what you bought you do? You always very much like classic like coaching yourself to believe in something like so positive. Take away the negative thoughts and and to make them stay there and it's it's almost in a way similar to people who want to quit smoking they depend so much on Vapes and patches and all that kind of stuff because their minds telling them that they need to have someone to help them quit when in essence if they twist that slightly and Coach themselves into believing that one they don't need to smoke but to look at all the other things. Negative about smoking. So when somebody one of their friends comes in from outside that smell and telling yourself Jesus, that's what I smell like, you know, just those those little things rather than like, I need something to help me quit rather than thing. That's the strongest thing in the world is you bring it's, you know, it's similar to those sort of lines you you've used that cognitive behavior and on his head and use it. Your advantage? Yeah, three or four Smith or process. So it's easy to have a negative thought and that will spiral out of control when you have fur, but in my I know now that if I have a look I was so stressed before I was diagnosed highly stressed because of the tooth of the courses. I was doing at such a high level. I was working full-time. I was looking after Holly and I believe that stress but this on me because stress is a factor of come. It's a risk factor for cancer. So I am I haven't gone through that and lost me breast worrying about something's not going to change anything. So now I have had to turn my life around and go now if you want to do something you do it because life can just turn like that and come. Yeah. What is this grab it by the grab a by both hands and just live it and enjoy it and I see life differently now than what I did before. I got the cancer. So would your message there be like to really assess. Yeah your current. And work-life balance all the time, you know? Yeah. Yeah, I don't put as much on myself. Well, I'm saying that I'm training for the SAS French. Oh, yeah just not stress yourself out. I mean my career is important to make I love doing what I do, but my health more important as well, and I'm holy having up on me. Hmm. Hootie and about things I can't control excuse me can control is not going to change any outcome. So I've just sent me girls. I've gone. Okay, what you want to do? Well, I want to do this show. Okay. Well you can do this show you put your mind to it and even when I've been on that treadmill and I'm a Mormon I feel so tired and you know, I'm going to be self-aware you go of this program keep running them because you're not going to get on it if you can't get to that goal if you can't reach this age, Miles if you like so that that's just how he talking to myself and I know you can do it you can there's no pant is always yeah not exactly. Yeah. That's an amazing message and this is exactly why I thought it was so important to get you on the show because there's so many people out there that will relate to everything. You just said then now I know not everybody out there, especially females who have been through The therapy stuff that would ever dream dream of going. Yeah, you know, I'm going to I'm going to stick an application in for that scsu. There's wind show, you know, it react the reality is you are probably one in half a million or probably actually one in a million because there's not been probably many of the other girls have been through chemo. So for the ladies and the guys listening as well watching what you need to do there or you're setting yourself. If a goal as big as what you've done is do what we've done where we've we know what the end goal is going to be the end goal is to get on that program what we need to do. We need to see where we are now and we need to reverse engineer that but do it in stages so that gold and doesn't seem that big because if we know so this is why we do this training but doing with you now with in the four-week blocks. So we're taking it for weeks at a time and asset reassessment of the end of those four week blocks to see We need to do to achieve that desired end goal. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm enjoying the program. It's good land for me as well. You know, I'm training as a personal trainer myself, which we are about and yeah, I thought what I've enjoyed about the program with yeah, it's new linen and I love Nate learning new skills, and I know that's kind of and everywhere. It's answer to apologize. Yes. So with the with the personal trainer side of things with you, she's just alluded to there what made you wanted to suddenly be like become a personal trainer. I know like obviously you've got a big interest and helped my fitness and stuff like that. But what what is it that really makes you want to do that course completely and use your qualification. Well, Exercise reduces your risk by 40% for best can offer can say and 60% for bowel cancer. So for me, that's just a no-brainer. If this is going to dunk 40% some massive massive chunk, isn't it? And I thought well if that doesn't give me an incentive to go and get the gym and the juicy sturgeon in my body then what well and that's where that that passions come into it because eventually I'd like to go into cancer recovery. Yeah, is it helping? Yeah, if I can do it anyone can yeah, I totally agree and with with the personal training qualification, this is something that you want to use not just for your own personal knowledge because there during the course, you know, obviously I can tell you a lot of personal trainers will tell you that you don't do learn a lot of stuff that might You might have even not use again the same as any other course, but yeah in terms in terms of the coaching side of stuff in the actual training groups or treating other people. Is that something you're really Keen to learn more about. Yeah. I am. You know, I'm when I used to go to say I could train and I used today watch my friends. So Jose was also a personal trainer at used to pay a small train me last year and she still watches and the classes and I'd be like I want to do that. I'd love to get that ago. So It's always been there. I think just having the cancer just made me it's just gave me that little Porsche. I think also it's clear to be that you have a clear desire to help develop other people. Yeah, and it's some people just really take to it some people some people like a lot more sort of introverted and it's not. Yeah do their thing but like I see it all the time and people I see it in kids and adults all the time. They've got clear skin. Was and clear coaching and developing abilities. And you know, I can definitely tell you a lot one of the reasons why I do it and love it so much is because when you see such positive results as the direct action of like your coaching and stuff like that like it's nothing but positive so this is huge win. That's why I'm sure you agree when like you do something to my have a direct positive result on Holly. I know I know sometimes any parenting but that's is a direct result of your input from a developer developing point of view. So now yeah, yeah that hit day for me, don't you and it's just like yeah, I feel great for what you've done and it's exactly the same with coaching and that's why you know hundreds thousands millions of coaches that they will tell you, you know, it's almost selfish in a way because you're constantly winning. Yeah, but I do believe if you want that negative thought it's wearing off on your child. You know, when I was in depression Holly was quite cheerful and my behaviors will wear off on Holly and I don't want that. So I want Holly to have a positive life. I wanted to be a go-getter and she's only gonna get better from learning from me. Yeah. It's contagious to same as negativity is contagious. Yeah, definitely and you attract that I do. I do believe that, you know, if someone comes into work and they're having a bad day. Day everyone else about day because they're just bringing that into them, but I'm pretty much a not be character in we're always smiling. But if I work in a hospital, so you have to be you know, happy there. You can't be calling in all miserable be you know, they're feeling pretty low themselves. Yeah, of course. Yeah in terms of in terms of your illness the when you had the cancer, what would you say was probably one of your oddest internal challenges internal challenges. Yeah, if you and you know internally, but emotionally what do you think was like the hardest? Hey loss was for me. Yeah. That was the hair loss. Yeah. I was fine with me brass when then the surgeon said you're going to need a mastectomy. I said that's fine. Take it off. I don't need to because no one see, you know, it was more. Because that's your that's my signature. You know, I always have me here to make up Dawn and I remember when the nurse was telling me about how the hair will fall out. You may see a little bit on your pillow when you're in the shower come out tonight. I couldn't get it. I'll behead I was so frightened and I thought what the hell am I going to look like and I really I just really believed. I was going to look like this monster and my brother said to me. Don't look at yourself in the mirror and go. Oh, I'm losing Behavior. He went looking at all of them. Fuck of my hands it over the Bold yet. That's how I looked at myself and my last so I've become a coach probably make up on Avalon and I've been looking at myself and going with me a God and not start laughing and it go. Oh God. I was it got to this but I just saw the funny side to it. I joked with myself. Yeah, and that was the hardest part. Hmm, really? I was because I had such long hair. What you say from that respect probably one of the hardest external challenges would have been going through that and yeah, Holly ants asking all the questions and and her seeing that do you think that was probably one of the hardest external? Yeah. Yeah massively Holly was fine when I went through the operation with the breast and it was the hair loss for her. So once and I come home to tell about Mommy was going to need chemotherapy, which was the 28th of December last. Last year she went you're going to lose your hair. I said yeah home and she sobbed and grab told me no more me now and I went holy it's gonna be fine. I said Mommy's frightens. I'm not gonna lie any hair will grow back couldn't stand people say and lot to me. I will grow back big big fear for me. I have to be strong for Holly and I knew quite well it was growing back at just what I just didn't want to lose it. But if you know it was going on there was nothing I can do about it. And it's all taken control and shaving my head and it was the best thing goes on because it took that worry away and lettings I think so. It's about taking control as well because it's a beautiful women. Yeah, but if you you take that control, you're going to you're all right? Yeah. Yeah. No. No, I totally agree. I really do. It's such an important and quite tough skill really for for so many people people sometimes tend to let things like take control. Of them and that's when it can spiral out of control. It's it can be quite difficult. But like you said if you think what you've done there is, you know classic take a series of negatives and just turn them into positives the whole way. Yeah, I know to do that because I'm suffering my peripheral neuropathy on my hands and feet. So I end up with really say it's Norman us that the fingers and toes but I haven't got the numbness now that small pain and then Location among which has an estrogen suppressant is causing a huge bones as well. So in my head I'm telling yourself that this is normal pain because it may never go. So I've got now we've got to go. Well, this is normal for me now. So I've got to learn to live with that instead to sit and feel I'm sorry for myself and go I can't change it. I want to be where I want to be next year. So get on with it. Yeah and suppose my only hands for my Daniel Hardman up and I just got back there. That barbell again, I'll do whatever I need to do. Yeah, I love it. Well on that it and the stuff that you've covered now, is that a lot of the things you want to talk about and your new book? Yeah. Well me for cam caught I've got my name for my book and I'm calling it falls Brave and bloody beautiful, which I think sums me up. Perfect Andy, I agree. So it's a lot of our mindset the book some funny stories. Reason that as well from when I was younger. It's all about me, which it always is that's the friend and well, when are we looking at the actual release on the shelves release? Hopefully June next year, so I'll have it hopefully finished by the end of February and I want that released by June so publisher March time then come back to me. Be released. Okay, so publisher if you're listening and watching. Be fully aware what you need to do. However, however as as your coach and favorite person, I would like the first sign copy you will get back to you. Well, you've got a part in the book your chapter 24 24. Okay. I'm down in the world. But I've said this a number of times now and pretty much every episode of the last there are several of had people that have you know of other writing books or have books and I seem to be missing a trend here to be confirmed anyway, so obviously we're moving forward with the book. Obviously we're doing obviously this training for you to get you to the best possible level we can to get it to be able to play. And hopefully be successful getting on the SAS who dares wins show. What I would like to do is see. Mr. Jason Fox and at Middleton at the watching this and listening to this to give a little Helping Hands and give gift on that. It's a little bit of advice that they need to make an appearance. However, Apart from the training and the book like what's the gold in fewer? You just taking things one day at a time or you just you just constantly setting new goals all the time. I'm just upset those two goals for next year. But I am and I also want to do the Three Peaks Challenge and 24 hours and that is not something I need to speak with you on. Okay? Yes. I maybe get you on boards. Yeah, so that's another challenge. I'd like to It was well, I do enjoy really love nature. Okay. I meet apartment place. That's when you can clear the mind and I think we all need that was that you put me on the spot in front of all these audiences as it was, you know, I've told you a little bit about the story in my book. Yeah, when they I organized a walk-up Snowden and there's one place you have also involved and there was two women that only I know so we did it was torrential rain. We climbs or got back down as a few paints as a few games of pool and then then hour and a half into the journey home. My phone was ringing my dad's it was me dad. So I answered the phone how Dad off drunk Danielle have you left lens on a Monday at smooth? Oh my God, and I was just like, oh my God, so I don't trust myself. So you left your friends at the mounting. I left them at the mountain. So then the song Started she'll be coming around the mountain never stop mumbling. Oh my God. So yeah you're coming. And so it's a I just wanted to obviously get that. We you know, we touched a lot on the cancer side of stuff and you've you know, you've really expressed like this sheer determination you've had like from The offset really? Yeah, you know, there's hundreds of thousands of people out there that go through this horrendous illness. We our families our children. What would be your message to them like from you know for them to try and help them during the early stages knowing that they're you know, very kind good chances like the end of the tunnel. Yeah, but you know what the first thing I've done was mad to taste and try to calm your mind and it was hard when you are waiting for those results. It's hard and you need to cry because it should release but once I knew what I was dealing with I was able to move forward and once you know that you get to tell you going to be okay, I'm not take that because what you put in your mind your pain in your body. There's women who have never moved on from breast cancer and the Avengers up with a reoccurrence. So let it go once it's gone. That's what my mom and dad said my mom's day two years on the minute. She had a hysterectomy Sheba. It's gone. I'm moving forward. My dad's on the same with his prostate cancer. So I'm doing the same at my breast cancer. I can't change I can change our I will move forward. Yeah, so just be positive mindset. That's all I can say and do enjoy it and enjoy life go out and say I've walks, you know, just laughs laughter is the best medicine. That's all I can play Tia it is, you know, I left all that every time I walk through the door with my brother he going she has got me a job. Missing out to me and I laughed because I could sit and cry about it, but I just wanted my moments but I just wanted to laugh more because I felt better than myself. Yeah, and that's healthy for your body. Yeah, it certainly is and what you just talking about that now on on the podcast like makes me feel good. You know, I'm sure it makes absolute makes all the listeners and the viewers feel fantastic as well and I think that's an amazing message. I mean you could ask her ask for more really and it's for me. It's an absolute pleasure to coach somebody like yourself. It really is. I often get off the phone after our phone calls and I'm just like I feel great. I like a fella huh be coaxed. I know everyone says that this look a lot of support in this moment a council come back. She's a year older than me and she had breast cancer. We met through chemotherapy and she's a results have been remarkable, but she is on chemotherapy indefinitely and she keeps telling herself. I've got five years and I went no you haven't I said you tell yourself you've got longer I said because you're putting that in your body, but you've got five years left know that cancer is not coming back in your body. That's no that's all you got to keep. Telling yourself because the more negative you thought about it the more negative the negativity breathes. It ruins your cells in your body. It does kind of leave that to me. Yeah. No, I wholeheartedly agree and you look at a folks and his home is on their LinkedIn is fantastic. He has a massive brain tumor and he's just completely change the way you eat training has a positive mindset and he was given three months to live well, and it's four years on so Positivity all the way. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. I love it. One last question before we before we wrap. I asked us to a lot of my guests. We've got this little time machine where you can stick a little Post-It note in with a couple of points on back to 15 year old Danielle just a couple of pointers that you'd like her to adhere to I say 15 X or fixes that funny age. Where you Yeah, they you get to be what you want to do, you know you go through adolescence and all the rest of it. What would those kind of what those points look like? What would they say to 15 year old Daniel? Don't follow the crowd. That's one of them that is a big important message because you found a lot of children. I will follow that they want to be like everyone else social media to the main thing that we want to be on now just be you and find yourself and be happy with yourself. And that's all I'd say my Dad said to me and my twin sister your followers or your leaders are me and Haley looked at each other and went followers want to be leaders and we were 15 at the time. I went know that we already polymers and I'm just completely I'm such a different person now, so I would have told myself that in years ago and that's what I put on that poster be unique. Very unique very unique the molds was broken I was made and well it certainly was I love it done. It was it's been an absolute pleasure and honor to be on the show. I'm really glad I finally got to go t to come on and I really hope you enjoyed spreading your amazing message to all the listeners out there and all the viewers. Have you enjoyed spending time on the show? So I've lost it. Really? I was really nervous energy of apologize and I am in the in a medically induced menopause what you got a bit forgetful. So many mind will go blank and over quiet. So I would do apologize about that. But no one more thing. I have to say. Thank you for all you've done with me as well because I've got to do this with your help. No, do you think must have help and I can't thank you enough because even I know that and he's going to call I need to be in that God mindsets. So you're a big part of it. Thank you. It's honestly, it's absolutely my pleasure. Pleasure and I absolutely I keep saying what I'm actually love working with it. It's an absolute blessing and you know, I'm just really glad I'm part of this journey coming forward to help you try and Achieve these goals and when you come to me and said I want you to help me achieve this I was like well challenge accepted and you know, it's pretty great challenge for me as well. So like just you know, it test my abilities as well, which is great in my own personal development. So, you know, Thank you for being you basically and I will be sure to share all your your social media tags at the exit you're on Instagram and on LinkedIn to guys and girls who want to follow Danielle and see you know, see all about her journey and like where it takes to make sure you check out the show notes. But yeah guys if you enjoyed the show and you're an iTunes, please leave a five star review. It means the world to the show means we can get the message out. They're two more and more people with the more reviews it has and but for me and Danielle go out there and be the best version of you. Yeah. Thank you.
Currently, one in two people will unfortunately suffer from some form of cancer in their lives. Today on The Best Version Of You show, I am joined by one of my coaching mentees, the amazing Danielle McDermott. Danielle shares her story to show that there really is light at the end of the tunnel and that you really can enjoy a fulfilled future. Danielle, originally from Liverpool in England and mother to a beautiful daughter was unfortunately diagnosed with breast cancer in November 2018. She then went on to have a mastectomy, losing one of her breasts before enduring five months of intense chemotherapy. To everyone's joy, and excitement, Danielle was given the 'All Clear' by her specialists later that year. On today's show Danielle shares her story of how she felt in the early stages of her cancer and her treatment. What steps she took to create a robust mindset and to take the positives out of everything. What methods she used to explain what she was going through to her beautiful girl and in typical fashion, what she did to lift up everyone around her. As her coach it's been immense to work with her and see her go through this fantastic journey of personal growth. While she was in hospital having chemotherapy, she became hooked on the hit TV series 'SAS Who Dares Wins'. She admired the athleticism and tenacity of the women on there and wanted some of the same, so her goal was set. To train as hard as possible and to apply and compete on the TV show as a contestant for the 2020 series, and that's exactly what we will do. Danielle's message shows you that your mindset really is the key to the best life and even in the darkest of times, if you can take positives out of every situation you can move forward in a much better place and she shares all of this in her new book being release in spring 2020 - Bald, Brave and Bloody Beautiful. A book not to be missed! 