Meet Michele of Brooklyngems, a T.E.A.L.® Shop Partner
Michele makes beautiful, one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry which she sells on her Etsy Shop, Brooklyngems. She donates 15% of her “Support Ovarian Cancer” jewelry line sales to the [...]
Michele makes beautiful, one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry which she sells on her Etsy Shop, Brooklyngems. She donates 15% of her “Support Ovarian Cancer” jewelry line sales to the [...]
I first decided to run for Tell Every Amazing Lady® in December when I was looking for a spot in the 2020 United Airlines NYC Half Marathon. I applied for the drawing and was not selected, so I [...]
I first heard about Tell Every Amazing Lady® about a year-and-a-half ago, when I was looking for a spot in the United Airlines NYC Half Marathon. I was looking for a charity to run with that I [...]
I’m thrilled to be a part of team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2020 TCS New York City Marathon. My mother-in-law is a five-year ovarian cancer survivor, and she got me involved with running [...]
Since being diagnosed with ovarian cancer 10 years ago, I have challenged myself to go beyond what I thought I was capable of. I felt as though a door was opened – and I saw that I wasn’t [...]
The 2020 TCS New York City Marathon will be a very special event for me, not only because it will be my first marathon ever, but mostly because I will be running to support an amazing cause. I am [...]
I really wanted to run the 2020 TCS New York City Marathon this year. I didn’t get in with the drawing, so I thought about running with a charity. When I saw team Tell Every Amazing Lady®, [...]
Very good friends of mine are highly active in Tell Every Amazing Lady®and have always encouraged me to participate. Unfortunately, moving to Colorado has limited my ability to get involved [...]
I chose to run the 2020 TCS New York City Marathon with team Tell Every Amazing Lady® in honor of my incredible aunt Janice Cook, whose battle to ovarian cancer ended in November, 2019. My aunt [...]
I’m proud to say that my mother is a 14-year survivor of ovarian cancer. Over the years she has become an activist, an educator, and a mentor in the community focused on awareness, [...]
I was introduced to Tell Every Amazing Lady® by a run friend of mine, Kia, who recommended that I help raise money by running for the team in the 2018 United Airlines NYC Half. I’ve had friends [...]
Lisa Brun Cosgrove was first and foremost a servant. She grew up as a member of the International Order of The Rainbow for Girls, a Masonically affiliated service based organization for girls [...]
My wife Bridget was diagnosed with mucinous ovarian cancer in April of 2018. After surgery and chemotherapy, she is now 1 year-plus cancer-free. After going through this difficult time [...]
Running for team Tell Every Amazing Lady®, yet again, is a huge honor to me. I may not have faced the effects of ovarian cancer personally, but, in my family, I do know the feeling of losing a [...]
I live in Brooklyn, NY, and was looking for a local charity to support. My running coach suggested T.E.A.L.®, and I am happy to be part of this team and support its cause. My goal for the 2020 [...]
I got involved with T.E.A.L.® through my running coach, who put me in touch with the organization. My goal for the 2020 United Airlines NYC Half is to break 1:45. What I love most about running [...]
I’ve been involved with T.E.A.L.® since its inception, as Louisa McGregor’s son’s girlfriend (now wife!). I watched and admired as Louisa and her family worked to build T.E.A.L.® from the bottom [...]
I learned about T.E.A.L.® because I run in Prospect Park often, though I live on Staten Island, because I have friends who live on 16th Street. As we were walking to the park one day for a run I [...]
In the spring of 2017, my cousin’s wife, and my good friend, Bridget, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of 31. At that age, most couples are thinking about when should they want to [...]
I chose to run for T.E.A.L.® because ovarian cancer has touched my family. My grandmother passed away from ovarian cancer four years ago. She fought a hard battle for a few years. I wanted to [...]
I became aware of Tell Every Amazing Lady® because I live in the neighborhood, and noticed the T.E.A.L.® Community Center. I became involved with T.E.A.L.® when my spouse Kat and I ran the [...]
I came across team Tell Every Amazing Lady® when I was looking for a charity to run for in the 2020 United Airlines NYC Half. I have lost a loved one to ovarian cancer, and I know someone who has [...]
T.E.A.L.®’s Amazing Lady Membership Program is a FREE mailing kit subscription service specifically for ovarian cancer patients and survivors, tailored to each woman’s needs and interests. By [...]
T.E.A.L.®’s Amazing Lady Membership Program is a FREE mailing kit subscription service specifically for ovarian cancer patients and survivors, tailored to each woman’s needs and interests. By [...]
Artist and ovarian cancer survivor Joy is now a featured shop partner with Tell Every Amazing Lady®. Joy spent her career as a mixed media artist — until she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and [...]
In January 2007, my mom was diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer, and my life was forever changed when she passed away just five short weeks later. I recall afterwards thinking how many times I [...]
I did not know much about ovarian cancer until I met my boyfriend, Eric. He had just lost his mom four months before we met, and it was on our first date that I learned about the devastating [...]
In the search for a charity team with which to participate in the 2019 TCS NYC Marathon, the T.E.A.L.® foundation’s mission stood glaringly out amongst others. Promoting public awareness and [...]
My mother was the kind of person who wanted to help everyone, and loved her family and, most importantly, her three boys, above all else. When she was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer, we all [...]
Learn more about Krysten, one of our runners on team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2019 TCS NYC Marathon! My mom was diagnosed with Stage 3C ovarian cancer at 49 years old in February of 2017. [...]
Learn more about Grace, one of our runners on team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2019 TCS NYC Marathon! I first became involved with T.E.A.L.® after my aunt and godmother, Mikki Cantley, [...]
Coach Kai is doing exactly what he loves: helping people to run. Whether someone’s looking to complete a 5K for the first time, break a personal record in the half-marathon, or ramp up to a full [...]
Learn more about Andrea, one of our runners on team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2019 NYC Half Marathon! I am very excited to join T.E.A.L.® (Tell Every Amazing Lady About Ovarian Cancer) for [...]
Learn more about Marcie, one of our runners on team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2019 NYC Half Marathon! I have never enjoyed working out and certainly was never a runner. One year ago, I [...]
Learn more about Kate, one of our runners on team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2019 Los Angeles Marathon! On Valentine’s Day 2016, my husband and I ran the L.A. Marathon. After a number of [...]
Dr. Shieva Ghofrany knows firsthand what it’s like to be a patient with ovarian cancer. Now – about two and a half years out from her own diagnosis – she is committed to helping her patients be [...]
Learn more about Richard, one of our runners on team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2019 NYC Half Marathon! I can not take the credit for finding Tell Every Amazing Lady because my wife is the [...]
Learn more about Colleen, one of our runners on team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2019 NYC Half Marathon! I had no idea that Tell Every Amazing Lady even existed. I became involved with this [...]
Learn more about Amanda, one of our runners on team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2019 Los Angeles Marathon! I became involved with T.E.A.L.® the day that I found out my mom was diagnosed with [...]
Learn more about Tim, one of our runners on team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2019 NYC Half Marathon! My mother passed away in April of 2017 of ovarian cancer. I found T.E.A.L.® as a result [...]
Learn more about Gerard, one of our runners on team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2019 NYC Half Marathon! How did you become involved with T.E.A.L.®? My wife and I annually participate in the [...]
Learn more about Harrison, one of our runners on team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2019 NYC Half Marathon! How did you become involved with T.E.A.L.®? My running coach got me in touch with [...]
Learn more about Krysten, one of our runners on team Tell Every Amazing Lady® for the 2019 NYC Half Marathon! My mom was diagnosed with Stage 3C ovarian cancer at 49 years old in February of [...]
On September 22, 2018, Wonder Woman will make a special appearance at the 5th Annual Savannah T.E.A.L.® Walk in honor of Camille Rogers. Camille’s daughter Faith, who likes to cosplay in [...]
On September 8th, 2018, T.E.A.L.® hosted the 10th Annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run for ovarian cancer. Thanks to the many participants and volunteers at the 10th Annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® [...]
Theodora Blanchfield became involved with T.E.A.L.® in the summer of 2016, when her mom was in remission from ovarian cancer. She’s a blogger, and it’s always been important for her to use her [...]
Madison Kircher found out about Team T.E.A.L.® when she was looking online for a charity to run the 2018 United Airlines NYC Half with. She immediately knew that the organization would be a [...]
Katy Scholdberg joined Team T.E.A.L.® after hearing about the organization through NYRR’s website. She is running the race in honor of her step-mother, Rhonda, who passed away recently from [...]
Conner Elliott joined Team T.E.A.L.® after hearing about the organization through his running community. Originally interested just because he thought it was a good cause, Conner discovered after [...]
Terri, our youngest member of Team T.E.A.L.® at age 16 is committed to making a difference in her community. She learned about T.E.A.L.® at the finish line of the Queens Half Marathon in November [...]
The 2018 United Airlines NYC Half was John Bertucelli’s third half-marathon. He signed up to run for a charity and decided to join Team T.E.A.L.® in honor of his mother-in-law, who has ovarian [...]
Nine years ago, at the age of 25, Rosanna Logozzo was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Coming two months after her wedding, the diagnosis was doubly difficult. In addition to dealing with a [...]
Hey guys, I’m Schern, an ovarian cancer survivor. For the past year I’ve been traveling from Tokyo Japan to Mt. Fuji Summit to Rome and more, documenting my experiences and today I want to share [...]
As a Youth Ambassador for T.E.A.L.®, Sarah Dahdouh (above) is committed to increasing awareness of ovarian cancer on the West Coast. When her Auntie Mimi passed away over the summer, Sarah went [...]
Sixteen-year-old Kiara Carrion is T.E.A.L.®’s first Youth Ambassador. Her job is to make her generation aware of ovarian cancer and its symptoms, and she has challenged herself to tell every [...]
On New Year’s Eve 2016, Maureen Dodgson and Jerry Donahue were married in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Instead of distributing wedding favors, the couple made donations to charities that were [...]
Schern Yung is a world traveler, plain and simple. She’s doing what many of us only dream of: jetting across continents, leaving her comfort zone, seeing the sights, and turning her life into an [...]
When Rose Kardashian found out that she had a recurrence of Ovarian Cancer in February 2015, her faith led her to choose and endure an aggressive treatment option. Now, more than a year later, [...]
Ronni and Richard Gorman were childhood sweethearts. The loves of each other’s lives, they started dating at the age of 16 and were married for 43 years. When Ronni died from primary peritoneal [...]
This year the 2nd Annual Whitesboro T.E.A.L.® Walk for Ovarian Cancer Awareness will be held on September 10, 2016. It’s organized by an amazing mother-daughter pair, Donna and Sarah Firsching, [...]
After Nancy Irizarry was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she began volunteering to help other women facing the disease. She participated in T.E.A.L.®’s annual walks in Brooklyn, bringing [...]
On September 12, 2015, the day of T.E.A.L.®’s 7th Annual Walk/Run, Diane returned to visit her childhood neighborhood of Park Slope for the first time in 27 years. The occasion was especially [...]
Ten years ago Robin Akdeniz confronted some of the biggest challenges she’s ever faced—and then completely transformed her life after getting through them. First, her mother Bonnie passed away [...]
Liz Tsaoussis is beating the odds. Initially diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer almost four years ago, she has not let her intensive rounds of chemotherapy stop her from living life out loud. A [...]
While talking to Simone, one cannot help but be struck by her courage. Receiving a diagnosis of cancer is often a traumatic time in a person’s life. When Simone Courtlandt learned that she had [...]
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.” -Jack London Beast Masters LLC is a pet care company located in the West [...]
Sometimes ovarian cancer can affect two generations in a family. And sometimes ovarian cancer can also bring family closer. Katie Goldberg and her sister Judy Leavey became very close after they [...]
Lenny Greco feels very blessed to have had his mother in his life for the past 87 years. He’s even more grateful since he thought he was going to lose her to ovarian cancer nearly 35 years ago. [...]
Music played a huge role in Andrea “Annie” Roberts’ life. According to her sister-in-law, Dr. Andrea Silverstein, Annie had a voice like an angel. She liked all kinds of music, ranging from [...]
A lot of people think that ovarian cancer only affects older women, but Julie Antonecchia knows all too well that isn’t the case. She was diagnosed at the age of 26, just a few months after [...]
Team Babster has participated in every Tell Every Amazing Lady (T.E.A.L.®) Walk since the first one it held in 2009. That year, Becky Hisler learned about T.E.A.L.®’s efforts to raise awareness [...]
Now a third-year graduate student in pharmacy school, Mandy Irvin is committed to helping people improve their health. She and her classmates regularly participate in fundraising activities to [...]
On September 7, 2013, Patricia Marshall celebrated her 60th birthday with her family while participating in the Tell Every Amazing Lady (T.E.A.L.) Walk/Run in Prospect Park. Six weeks earlier, [...]
Tornadoes are not common in New York City. But on September 8, 2012, the first time that Team Margie’s Meatballs participated in the T.E.A.L.® Walk, a tornado tore threw Rockaway Beach in Queens [...]