It's Raw Real Unfiltered Podcasts One Year Anniversary!! We launched our podcast one year ago today on International Women's Day!! We have had an incredible year with 26 episodes in Season 1 and 8 episodes in Season 2 so far! We have be blessed with incredible guests and amazing topics that we covered! We filmed on location all summer into the fall and met some great people along the way! Thank you for watching and listening and we can't wait to see what the next year will bring us!! 

Links to Episodes:
Episode 14 https://youtu.be/nz74YWiklFU?si=wT3EJkvIW5-F4yTj

Episode 15 https://youtu.be/QmZRRWgshLo?si=ma0J9O_glk6gl8A2

Episode 16 https://youtu.be/aWOHNrQbqgg?si=bZvFX0vKIMVMdFgq

Episode 17 https://youtu.be/SmdIOdcDEK4?si=tu0Lpg37m7BuT5Je

Episode 18 https://youtu.be/pkEnIF4Agtk?si=qEdZzquELvddmyTC

Episode 19 https://youtu.be/VYp9ef504Qg?si=cFSBwZJ12En3A0qC

Episode 20 https://youtu.be/RBV6RJ3Z5Q0?si=90Bhd9ntBevQoMm4

Episode 21 https://youtu.be/bEWoXExqwag?si=BUSJ-P0WzegVgYrY

Episode 22 https://youtu.be/sf7SeZq1_bc?si=7Ppt6dpLyJjL2Jo5

Episode 23 https://youtu.be/wnCOX_Jwkhg?si=Wl_kasK9bxwplE2X

Episode 24 https://youtu.be/mEE6tCy0ASs?si=bCtO47aAZHQL8Ici

Episode 25 https://youtu.be/mjo34p_xsqg?si=cPJ1IewrtEu6wPcD

It's Raw Real Unfiltered Podcasts One Year Anniversary!! We launched our podcast one year ago today on International Women's Day!! We have had an incredible year with 24 episodes in Season 1 and 8 episodes in Season 2 so far! We have be blessed with incredible guests and amazing topics that we covered! We filmed on location all summer into the fall and met some great people along the way! Thank you for watching and listening and we can't wait to see what the next year will bring us!! 

Links to the Different Episodes:
Episode 1 https://youtu.be/cdjgCWIPrlU?si=PtBNGHAs9duryECF

Episode 2 https://youtu.be/__BQXeQaU-A?si=ln6Phzt0E3L6SG78

Episode 3 https://youtu.be/fRyqLDbAFRk?si=D8N5bomo_D-vCz5L

Episode 4 https://youtu.be/0z-x1q9fWWM?si=58ax5HSvpP7Tqx2r

Episode 5 https://youtu.be/Q0II1e0T8ns?si=w-jU0HhcGxN87-fc

Episode 6 https://youtu.be/Jviz0TLxQfU?si=Y1eerg6hfJ7rrhbi

Episode 7 https://youtu.be/_P4wg1YfB5A?si=xEI460W85CbLE7It

Episode 8 https://youtu.be/Otp2TBnUKB0?si=bw0BqAHf9kHyeDwc

Episode 9 https://youtu.be/UI3Bw7Fmn0M?si=-Itf8SBQahgEX6PX

Episode 10 https://youtu.be/G6RY8ZQAZvc?si=_Cpc_qnYObg1mhmR

Episode 11 https://youtu.be/69XX4-sWTKQ?si=Kud_re36tVp_4lz3

Episode 12 https://youtu.be/O9s9ZdZTfXM?si=SmGtiZH9MRtRHDTK

Episode 12 Part 2 https://youtu.be/qekZFRSpEYk?si=FSn9xV0jYeWNtOt0

Episode 13 https://youtu.be/7l2wGC1ltZU?si=VmmWz4lHFDIeS9p7

In this episode of Raw Real Unfiltered Podcast, Sarah and Heidi talk about learning to let go of control in their lives. Many different areas of their lives are discussed and letting go of control in each of those areas. Parenting adult children and learning to let go of control over their lives is a key part of this episode. Heidi also has a son who is deployed overseas in the war zone currently and she shares how she deals with letting go of control over that parenting situation. 

In this episode of Raw Real Unfiltered Podcast, the second part to Sharing Life and Catching Up, Sarah and Heidi talk in more detail about the importance of self awareness and breast cancer awareness. Other topics are the importance of being authentic with at least one other person in your life.

Heidi and Sarah come back after a break to share life and catch up with each other on this episode of Raw Real Unfiltered Podcast. Season 2 started off strong and we were super excited to jump in, and then life took an unexpected turn when Sarah was diagnosed with Breast Cancer (see previous episodes to hear the whole story) Heidi and Sarah talk about what's been going on in their lives for the past few weeks. This episode has been broken up into two parts to keep the time a little shorter for each episode!

Ever have those days that you wake up with a heaviness on you? Like a knowing almost that things are going to be just awful that day. You try to shake it and try to change your attitude, but you just can't? Well, the day I got the best news ever started out as one of those days. I was crabby, moody, angry I just didn't want to be going through what I was going through. That was the day of my oncology appointment at Lemmon-Holton Cancer Center when I would learn when and how much chemo I would have to have to treat my breast cancer. Only then when it came time to hear the news a miracle happened. 
Please share this story with anyone who is struggling to believe that miracles do exist and can happen to them too.

The moment I heard the words "you have breast cancer" my world changed all at once. I started thinking of all the things I wanted to do before my mastectomy. I didn't know how much time I would have between that news and going under the knife, so I acted quickly and I'm really glad I did, because it was three weeks from the moment I found out until I had my surgery! 
What would be on your list??

So many people are becoming allergic to Iodine due to their shellfish allergies that surgical prep started leaning towards using Choloraprep instead. However, I am one of the people who is apparently VERY highly allergic to that. I developed a rash the day after my mastectomy and they tried treating it with a round of steroids, only to have it come back and become systemic requiring me to be hospitalized for 4 days to get the rash and itchiness under control. 
Here's and overview video of my journey which has over course delayed my actual healing from the mastectomy...
I am home from the hospital now on 7 different medications to keep it at bay. Each day I am getting better!

I know many of my videos have been uplifting and positive and that's how I've been feeling for much of this journey so far, but yesterday I was able to capture raw, honest feelings after a moment of hard emotions. This is not all rainbows and sunshine and I don't feel like I'm a happy fierce warrior all the time. I allow myself to feel my feelings when they come and release them so I don't hold on to them. This video captures just that, moments after I was done balling my eyes out, with my thoughts all over the place due to still being on so many medications coming out of the hospital stay. I hope this encourages people to be ok with feeling and sharing their own emotions.

Asking for help has never been my strong suit, I prefer to try to push myself to do things on my own. I muster up the inner strength and just go go go. All of that changed after I had my mastectomy surgery on Nov. 16, 2023. Suddenly I had to ask for help doing everything! Even going to the bathroom that first day! I had to learn to allow myself to open my hands and receive the help that everyone was wanting to give me. It was easier when I realized that sitting down, resting and not doing anything except rest would speed up my recovery!