# 230. Life After Diagnosis: Amanda Lentz on Grief, Identity, and Rebuilding After Cancer

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Podcast: [Life With Grief Podcast | Grief Support Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-grief-podcast-grief-support-podcast-7119643)
Published: 2026-07-16T10:00:00+00:00
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Drop me a message or voice note! In this episode I sit down with Amanda Lentz, host of Who We Become: Life Beyond Change, to talk about something we don't say out loud enough: that surviving a life-threatening illness comes with its own kind of grief. Amanda found out she was BRCA-positive at 28. She felt a lump in 2020, and at 34 (in the middle of COVID), she was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. In this conversation, she takes us through six months of chemo, a double mastectomy...

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