Natalia graduated with a Master of Public Administration from ASU and had a passion for public service and activism. She advocated for breast cancer awareness and education, primarily in the latinx community and for people of color. Natalia became involved in the podcast through her advocacy work, starting first after her early-stage breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, then becoming more involved in the metastatic breast cancer community after she received her MBC diagnosis in 2019. She was an integral part of the podcast team, having been a senior producer/host and right-hand woman to Lisa Laudico, our founder. Outside of her activism, Natalia enjoyed the outdoors, traveling (when possible), cooking, and spending time with her husband of 19 years, Danny, their daughter Rosy, son Iggy, and large extended family.
Natalia passed away from MBC at the age of 39 on November 29, 2023. She was a daughter, a mother, and a cousin, holding a special place in the lives of everyone she met. Lastly, she was our friend. We’ll miss hearing her speak with passion about topics she wanted to cover on the podcast, we’ll miss seeing Iggy & Rosy pop their heads into our Monday meetings, but mostly we’ll miss seeing her beautiful smile.
The entire OMBCL podcast team is lovingly dedicating our 8th season to Natalia. We hope it holds a modicum of the impact that Natalia has had on the world.
Natalia Green
Young Adults & MBC is an episode that explores the lives of those diagnosed under the age of 40. We focus on finding a community, over coming obstacles and living with breast cancer everyday.
Jumping hurdles to get the treatments you want is the reality for people living with MBC. Add systemic racism into the healthcare mix and it’s clear that more needs to happen, and soon, to create equity and greater diversity in one of the most important tools in the MBC toolbox: clinical trials. In this episode, we check in with Stephanie Walker, who led the BECOME project and spearheads the Black Wo(Men) Speak Symposium, patient advocate and clinical trial participant Rev. Dr. Tawana Davis, and Patient Navigator Valarie Worthy. How does systemic racism affect what Black patients learn about MBC clinical trials? And how can those who need it most break down barriers to the best care?
Celebrate OMBCL’s 100th episode and National Family Caregiver Month by listening to our candid conversations with three committed and courageous caregivers.
We Remember honors all who died from metastatic breast cancer over the past year—parents, children, spouses and partners. In this episode, the MBC community gives voice to both the grief and the love that endures after each death.
The DESTINY-Breast04 trial at ASCO 2022 introduced many people to the term “HER2-low.” But how do you know if you’re HER2-low? In this episode, with the help a breast pathologist and a clinical oncologist we dive into this subtype and what it means to us.
The Our MBC Life senior producers and co-hosts, Victoria Goldberg and Natalia Green join Anne Woodward in a conversation about the upcoming season 5 of the podcast and some new things the team is doing and exciting details for very special giveaways for the Our MBC Life merchandise.
All of us approach life and death in general from the perspective of our faith traditions, our family cultures, and the traditions and culture we choose as adults.
How does one do things right at the end of life? There are many ways to answer this question, as varied as all of us.
Our episode this week will focus on body image and diet culture, both within society and the breast cancer community, and how treatment can affect our feelings about our bodies. Co-host Natalia Green moderates a panel of women currently living with MBC who discuss and share their experiences.
The podcast team has embarked upon something quite ambitious. The members of the team have traveled virtually to speak with the leading clinicians and researchers in the field of breast cancer, specifically on the topic of where we are in terms of a cure for metastatic breast cancer. It is impossible to cover it in a neat single episode, so, instead, we created a very special series of episodes that we call “Road to A Cure.” In this premiere episode the members of the creative team share with the audience what it means to live with an incurable disease. We talk about a possibility of a cure, address the real fear of hoping, and tackle these and many other important issues.
join us for our discussion about the LGBTQ2S+ community and MBC. Co-host Natalia Green moderates a panel with Bob DeVito and Rainy Orteca, two guests living with MBC, and who are part of the LGBTQ2S+ community along with the co-founder of Queering Cancer, Dr. Evan Taylor. We also sit down with Kimiko Tobimatsu , a Canadian human rights lawyer and an award-winning graphic novelist whose book, Kimiko Does Cancer, tells the story of her breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 25 and the challenges she faced as a queer person, living with breast cancer.
Want to know why we call it “magic?” Hear from people living with MBC about their experiences. While they all agree and encourage others to seek Palliative Care they also are aware of the barriers to access. Our guests cover it all. And it gets real.
This month we have focused on quality-of-life issues and this episode is part one of a two part series on the “Magic of Palliative Care”. At times the term “palliative care” is misunderstood and so we also use the newer term ‘supportive care’ to better explain how this care supports your quality of life as you go through MBC treatment. We first turn our focus to the medical providers who help us manage symptoms and treatment side effects and, by doing so, improve multiple aspects of our lives.
Hear from listeners and guests with their Just Gotta Share moments and meet the Our MBC Life team.
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We are honored to start this season with an episode dedicated to the wonderful Natalia Green. We’ll be hearing from those who loved her, as well as clips from episodes that she helmed throughout her time with the podcast. We hope once our listeners hear the episode, they’ll get an idea of how special she was, and is, to so many people.