INDY Foundation: Connecting through Cancer
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<p>Welcome to the INDY Foundation: Connecting Through Cancer hosted by Kayla Keenan, founder of INDY Foundation, a non-profit located in central Minnesota. Here at INDY, we believe in supporting and connecting cancer warriors throughout their cancer journey. Our mission is to provide financial and community support to cancer warriors across Minnesota.</p><p></p><p>Join us as we share inspiring stories, valuable resources and important updates to help you and your load ones navigate the challenges of cancer with strength and hope. Each episode will feature heartfelt conversations with cancer warriors, their families, and experts in the field, offering insights and encouragement for every step of the way.</p><p></p><p>INDY is short for "I'm Not Done Yet," a phrase often said by the late Kyle Strand during his courageous battle with colon cancer. Kyle's four-year journey was both extremely challenging and profoundly beautiful. Though he lost his battle in July 2017, his legacy lives on through his two dying wishes: to establish the INDY Foundation and to inspire others to live every day to its fullest. In August 2017, the INDY Foundation was born, continuing Kyle's mission to support and uplift cancer warriors everywhere. Find more information here: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.indy-foundation.org">www.indy-foundation.org</a></p><p></p><p>Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ImNotDoneYetMN</p><p>Instagram - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/indyfoundation/">https://www.instagram.com/indyfoundation/</a></p><p>Join our INDY Tribe - Inner Circle FB Group. A group for those affected by cancer.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/202854020588761">https://www.facebook.com/groups/202854020588761</a></p>
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July 14, 2026
What Would Your Loved One Say About You in Heaven?
<p>Takeaways</p><ul><li>A single quote scrolled past on Instagram can completely reframe how you think about grief, legacy, and the story you're currently living.</li><li>Grief's questions change over time. What starts as "why did this happen" can eventually become "what story am I living right now."</li><li>You still get to choose the story your loved ones would tell about you today. That story isn't finished.</li></ul><p>Summary of the episode</p><p>As Kyle's nine-year heaven anniversary approaches, Kayla shares what happened when a quote stopped her mid-scroll on Instagram: "What if every time you thought of them, it was because they were telling a story about you in heaven?" That single line became the seed for this episode, a reflection on nine years of telling Kyle's story and what it might mean to ask, for once, what story he would tell about her.</p><p>Kayla walks through how her relationship with grief has changed since Kyle's cancer journey and death. In the early years, the questions were "why me," "why Kyle," "why did he have to get cancer." Over time, those questions shifted into something different: not a search for a reason, but a search for the story she's currently living, and whether it's one worth telling.</p><p>She talks honestly about the fork in the road after devastating loss, the pull toward addiction or numbing out, and the deliberate choice she made instead to build the INDY Foundation and turn her family's cancer journey into something that helps others. She's clear that grief and resilience aren't opposites. Both can be true at the same time.</p><p>The episode closes with a direct challenge to the listener: think about the people in your life who have passed. What story would they tell about you today? Not someday. Today. Because the story isn't over yet, and there's still time to write it the way you want it told.</p><p>Key Topics Covered:</p><ul><li>Grief on a heaven anniversary and how anticipatory grief shows up in the weeks before</li><li>How the questions grief asks change over years, from "why me" to "what story am I living"</li><li>Choosing resilience over addiction or numbing out after devastating loss</li><li>The origin of the INDY Foundation, born out of Kyle's cancer journey</li><li>A direct challenge to reflect on what your own loved ones in heaven might say about you today</li></ul><p>INDY is short for "I'm Not Done Yet," a phrase often said by the late Kyle Strand during his courageous battle with colon cancer. Kyle's four-year journey was both extremely challenging and profoundly beautiful. Though he lost his battle in July 2017, his legacy lives on through his two dying wishes: to establish the INDY Foundation and to inspire others to live every day to its fullest. In August 2017, the INDY Foundation was born, continuing Kyle's mission to support and uplift cancer warriors everywhere. Find more information here: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.indy-foundation.org">www.indy-foundation.org</a></p><p>Facebook - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/ImNotDoneYetMN">https://www.facebook.com/ImNotDoneYetMN</a></p><p>Instagram - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/indyfoundation/">https://www.instagram.com/indyfoundation/</a></p><p>Join our INDY Tribe - Inner Circle FB Group. A group for those affected by cancer.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/202854020588761">https://www.facebook.com/groups/202854020588761</a></p>
July 7, 2026
What Cancer Taught Me About Titles (And Why They Don't Matter)
<p>Takeaways</p><ul><li>Cancer is the great equalizer. It strips away titles, careers, and status, and leaves only presence.</li><li>The people patients and caregivers remember aren't the most credentialed ones in the room. They're the ones who simply showed up.</li><li>Influence doesn't require authority. Every person, regardless of title, has the power to make someone feel seen.</li></ul><p>In this solo episode of Connecting Through Cancer, host Kayla Keenan steps back from the hospital room and into something she's been sitting with in her own life: how quickly titles stop mattering once cancer enters the picture. Kayla hasn't gone through cancer herself, but she has watched a spouse fight it, and that experience reshaped how she sees status, career, and what actually makes someone feel loved.</p><p>Kayla walks through what she calls cancer's "leveling" effect. In an infusion chair, a hospital room, or beside someone you love, nobody cares about your job title, your LinkedIn profile, or what's printed on your business card. What people remember instead is who showed up. The nurse who remembered a patient's favorite blanket. The receptionist who greeted her by name every time. The neighbor who quietly mowed the lawn. The friend who dropped off dinner without asking a single question.</p><p>She reflects on influence, too, and pushes back on the idea that it requires a platform or a leadership title. Influence, in Kayla's words, requires humanity, not authority. Every listener, no matter their job or position, has the ability to leave someone better than they found them.</p><p>The episode closes with a challenge: instead of asking what title you want next, ask how you make the people around you feel. Encouraged. Loved. Hopeful. Like they matter. That, Kayla says, is a legacy worth building, and it doesn't require a promotion.</p><p></p><p>INDY is short for "I'm Not Done Yet," a phrase often said by the late Kyle Strand during his courageous battle with colon cancer. Kyle's four-year journey was both extremely challenging and profoundly beautiful. Though he lost his battle in July 2017, his legacy lives on through his two dying wishes: to establish the INDY Foundation and to inspire others to live every day to its fullest. In August 2017, the INDY Foundation was born, continuing Kyle's mission to support and uplift cancer warriors everywhere. Find more information here: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.indy-foundation.org">www.indy-foundation.org</a></p><p>Facebook - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/ImNotDoneYetMN">https://www.facebook.com/ImNotDoneYetMN</a></p><p>Instagram - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/indyfoundation/">https://www.instagram.com/indyfoundation/</a></p><p>Join our INDY Tribe - Inner Circle FB Group. A group for those affected by cancer.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/202854020588761">https://www.facebook.com/groups/202854020588761</a></p>
June 30, 2026
What a Hospital Window on the 4th of July Taught Me About Love
<p>Takeaways</p><ul><li>Cancer doesn't care about the calendar. Holidays don't pause treatment schedules, lab work, or the impossible decisions families are making every single day.</li><li>Two realities can exist at the same time. Someone is watching fireworks. Someone is watching a heart monitor. Neither reality is wrong — but they are worlds apart, and the people inside the hospital deserve to be seen.</li><li>Hope doesn't depend on your location. It isn't confined to a celebration. Hope can sit quietly beside a hospital bed. Hope can be found in the squeeze of a hand.</li></ul><p>Summary of the Episode</p><p>In this episode of Connecting Through Cancer, Kayla Keenan reflects on what it means to celebrate the 4th of July when someone you love is fighting for their life — and what it felt like to stand beside that person, watching fireworks through a hospital window, while the rest of the world celebrated outside.</p><p>Roughly ten years ago, Kayla sat on a couch next to a window overlooking the Mississippi River. Outside, families were on the riverbank, kids were running, boats were going by. Her phone was lighting up with photos and Snapchat stories and burgers on the grill. And she was exactly where she wanted to be — beside someone she loved, watching life happen through a pane of glass, while that person fought for theirs.</p><p>That day changed her. Not because she wanted to be somewhere else, but because she realized something she has carried ever since: cancer doesn't pause for holidays. It doesn't care if it's Christmas morning, your anniversary, your child's birthday, or the Fourth of July. Treatment continues. Lab work continues. Pain continues. And families continue making impossible decisions while the rest of the world lights up the sky.</p><p>In this reflective, deeply personal episode, Kayla explores how cancer redefines the meaning of freedom — not the fireworks-and-barbecue kind, but the kind that looks like clear scans, going home, sitting at your own kitchen table, and one more ordinary day with the people you love. She offers a message for every caregiver, patient, and family member spending this Fourth of July inside a hospital: you are not forgotten, and hope does not depend on your location.</p><p>This episode is a gentle invitation to the rest of us, too. To send the text. Make the phone call. Drop off the meal. And remember that sometimes the greatest act of patriotism is simply caring for your neighbor.</p><p></p><p>INDY is short for "I'm Not Done Yet," a phrase often said by the late Kyle Strand during his courageous battle with colon cancer. Kyle's four-year journey was both extremely challenging and profoundly beautiful. Though he lost his battle in July 2017, his legacy lives on through his two dying wishes: to establish the INDY Foundation and to inspire others to live every day to its fullest. In August 2017, the INDY Foundation was born, continuing Kyle's mission to support and uplift cancer warriors everywhere. Find more information here: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.indy-foundation.org">www.indy-foundation.org</a></p><p>Facebook - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/ImNotDoneYetMN">https://www.facebook.com/ImNotDoneYetMN</a></p><p>Instagram - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/indyfoundation/">https://www.instagram.com/indyfoundation/</a></p><p>Join our INDY Tribe - Inner Circle FB Group. A group for those affected by cancer.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/202854020588761">https://www.facebook.com/groups/202854020588761</a></p>
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- What is INDY Foundation: Connecting through Cancer?
<p>Welcome to the INDY Foundation: Connecting Through Cancer hosted by Kayla Keenan, founder of INDY Foundation, a non-profit located in central Minnesota. Here at INDY, we believe in supporting and connecting cancer warriors throughout their cancer journey. Our mission is to provide financial and community support to cancer warriors across Minnesota.</p><p></p><p>Join us as we share inspiring stories, valuable resources and important updates to help you and your load ones navigate the challenges of cancer with strength and hope. Each episode will feature heartfelt conversations with cancer warriors, their families, and experts in the field, offering insights and encouragement for every step of the way.</p><p></p><p>INDY is short for "I'm Not Done Yet," a phrase often said by the late Kyle Strand during his courageous battle with colon cancer. Kyle's four-year journey was both extremely challenging and profoundly beautiful. Though he lost his battle in July 2017, his legacy lives on through his two dying wishes: to establish the INDY Foundation and to inspire others to live every day to its fullest. In August 2017, the INDY Foundation was born, continuing Kyle's mission to support and uplift cancer warriors everywhere. Find more information here: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.indy-foundation.org">www.indy-foundation.org</a></p><p></p><p>Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ImNotDoneYetMN</p><p>Instagram - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/indyfoundation/">https://www.instagram.com/indyfoundation/</a></p><p>Join our INDY Tribe - Inner Circle FB Group. A group for those affected by cancer.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/202854020588761">https://www.facebook.com/groups/202854020588761</a></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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