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June 18, 2015#BeCauseYACC: Here’s where the fun begins
Starting YACC was largely driven by three factors; my desire to use my experience to help others, my need to process what I had just experienced by doing something with it and my reality that I likely wouldn’t get the next 60 years to make my impact. I had to make an impact now and hopefully I could build something that would outlive me.
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June 15, 2015#BeCauseYACC: Let’s get this party started
Back in 1998, when I was 22 years old, I had just graduated from university and was starting the rest of my life when I passed out in the middle of a party. Three days later, I was diagnosed with leukemia.
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April 26, 2015#YACCRemembers
“I accept challenge almost automatically; denial is just a river in Egypt for me. I knew my diagnosis could kill me, but processing Darryl’s death sparked another level of processing my own.”
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January 10, 2014Chasing Geoff Stirling
For some the chase is what drives them, but for me, catching Geoff Stirling was 100 times more incredible.
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December 18, 2013
Here for the holidays
It has been 15 years since Geoff’s first holiday season with cancer, and we wanted to share the moment with you via this blog post originally posted in December 2009.
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November 13, 2013
This is the start of something big
We want to congratulate Heather Bonynge, Gerrad Downs, and Becky MacLean for being selected as our first “YACCtivists.”
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November 01, 2013
I want to hook you up
“I have too many friends.” “Everyone around me totally gets what I’m going through; it really pisses me off.” “I love that I’m so isolated from people who relate to my challenges.”
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October 03, 2013
Flashback to the beginning
As I came out of my first cancer challenge, I had this desire to be open with a new group of people, specifically about my cancer experience. This desire was really the seed that grew into YACC. I knew that if I was open and shared my story with other young adults, they would respond with compassion and an emotional connection would be formed.
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July 17, 2013
Important news about the next Survivor Conference
After many considerations, consultations, and conversations, we have decided to move our annual Survivor Conference from the fall to the spring (i.e. June 2014). We know the Conference is THE time of year where young adult cancer survivors in Canada get to reconnect with old friends and make new ones. We did not make this decision lightly, and won’t leave you high and dry.
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June 19, 2013
6 things as you leave grade 6
Geoff’s graduating address to the grade 6 class of Mary Queen of Peace in St. John’s, NL. (June 19, 2013)
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February 19, 2013
From $1M to $4.4M?
“Even if we could raise $1M I wouldn’t want to put that in a $100M pot for cancer research.”
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December 04, 2012
2013 Shave for the Brave launch event
Geoff Eaton spoke to an assembly of students, teachers, past Shavers, sponsors, media, and invited guests at the 2013 Shave for the Brave launch event at Villanova Junior High.
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