Carly Fauth, a fitness instructor and mom from Milford, has relied on her closest friends and family for comfort through her breast cancer journey.
And she’s created something unique while undergoing treatment: a podcast.
“I was a guest on a friend’s podcast. This was a week before I was starting chemo,” Fauth recalled, “and all of a sudden it was just like this light that went on. And I thought to myself, I could do this from my chemo chair.”
That’s how her new Spotify podcast, “Chemo Coffee Talk,” began shortly after her breast cancer diagnosis in January.
Fauth records interviews on her cellphone with her “chemo buddies,” family and friends who stay with her during her bimonthly infusion chemotherapy treatments at Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center at Milford Regional Medical Center.
“It kind of happened organically that my closest friends and the people that just wanted to be there for me asked if they could come to chemo with me,” Fauth said.
Dana-Farber staff have also joined the show, including Associate Medical Director Dr. Natalie Sinclair and infusion nurse Lauren McCarthy, who is a former Jimmy Fund patient.
Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long — or roughly the time it takes to savor a good cup of coffee, she says. The episode always starts with a health update. Then she asks her guests about something personal and uplifting.
Fauth said the podcast has gotten a great response.
“I’ve gotten cards and emails and messages from people I don’t even know telling me that it’s helped them,” she said. “It’s helped them know what to say to their family members and friends who are going through cancer. And they just they really enjoy the fact that I’m taking the fear out of the whole process.”
She has just one chemo treatment left. Afterward, she plans to continue the podcast under a new name.
