Running a Business While Battling Cancer: Real Strategies for Resilient Leaders

Deb Krier is an entrepreneur, cancer advocate, and trusted advisor to business owners and executives navigating one of life’s most difficult realities while still leading: a cancer diagnosis. With more than two decades of experience in communications, marketing, and public relations, she built her career helping others find and amplify their voice. When she was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer, followed by two additional cancer diagnoses, she turned that same strength inward and created tryingnottodie.LIVE. Now a certified Integrative Cancer Coach, Deb brings together real-world business experience and lived perspective to support high-performing professionals as they manage treatment, recovery, and the ongoing demands of leadership. Her work focuses on helping people stay grounded, make clear decisions, and maintain a sense of identity and even humor in the middle of uncertainty. Cancer may disrupt your plans, but as Deb shows, it does not have to define or end your life.

Show Notes

Leading Through Cancer: How Entrepreneurs Stay Resilient During Diagnosis and Treatment with Deb Krier

Today’s episode on Your Partner In Success Radio is a powerful and deeply human conversation about what happens when life doesn’t just interrupt your plans, it completely rewrites them.

My guest, Deb Krier, is an entrepreneur, cancer advocate, and strategic advisor who has spent her career helping others find their voice and lead with clarity. But when she was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer, followed by two more cancer diagnoses, she found herself facing something far more personal: how to keep showing up, not just in life, but in business, while navigating treatment and uncertainty.

In this conversation, we talk about what it really looks like to lead while you’re vulnerable, the pressure to say “I’m fine” when you’re anything but, and how to build a support system that actually supports you. Deb also shares how humor, identity, and honest communication play a role in getting through some of the hardest moments.

If you’ve ever wondered how someone keeps going when everything changes, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss.

Connect with Deb Krier: Website | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram

SPONSORED BY: This episode is sponsored by Diana Fritz.

Diana is a leadership and resilience coach, a cancer survivor, and the author of Uniquely Imperfect, Uniquely Qualified. I highly recommend this book and it can be found on Amazon as well as Audible. Dianna brings lived experience into her work, helping people stay grounded, clear, and steady when life and leadership feel uncertain. Her focus is on building real-world strength that holds up when things don’t go as planned. Connect with Diana on LinkedIn as well as on her website at https://grituiuq.com/about

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