Early Detection Saved Me: Maria Menounos on Becoming the CEO of Your Health

What we're going to talk about today is how so many of us struggle with various kinds of health issues and challenges and how we deal with them. You had some issues around thyroid and this and that, but you kind of started to get a whole bunch of stuff. So it was a Hashimoto's and then a few months later, my mom was diagnosed with a brain tumor, glioblastoma. I then diagnosed myself with a brain tumor. I end up with a meningioma.

Oh, and bonus ball pancreas cancer. That's not something usually people come out the other side of, so your story is pretty much a miracle. Maria Menunos is an Emmy Award-winning television host, an actress, a producer, and a wellness advocate. She's a former correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, acts as Hollywood, Extra, e News, and she co-founded Afterbuzz TV and now hosts Heel Squad, which draws on her own journey after overcoming her own serious health challenges to help others become the CEO. of their own health.

And I was just like curled up in the fetal position in bed and I just was in such a state of shock. Can you believe this happened to me? Well yes, that's life. How are we gonna roll through it? How are we gonna get up?

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