The Deep C
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<p>The Deep C Podcast is for families, caregivers, friends and community who are supporting a child through a cancer diagnosis.</p><br><p>While every ounce of your being is used to carry your child, this podcast is here to carry you.When you're bedside at the hospital, sitting in a waiting room for the millionth appointment, or just need to feel like you're not alone in this dark place - come find us.</p><br><p>Our conversations will match the ones you're already having in your head. No topic is off limits, no fear is kept hidden. We speak to parents and caregivers at every stage of a diagnosis - families who are NED and families who are bereaved - diving deep into their reflections and personal accounts of how they walked (sometimes crawled) through their child's cancer diagnosis.</p><br><p>This is not a medical podcast, we don't discuss chemo cocktails or treatment plans. You already talk about that enough. This podcast is where you come for conversations between people JUST like you: scared, tired, determined, and fierce as hell.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Recent Episodes
June 23, 2026
When the Doctor Becomes the Parent: Pediatrician & Cancer Mom Raksha on Parent Intuition, Trust, & Teamwork
<p>What happens when the person who usually delivers the diagnosis suddenly becomes the parent receiving it?</p><br><p>In this powerful episode, Sam sits down with Dr. Raksha Hemanth Raheja, a pediatrician and cancer mom whose son Rian was diagnosed with leukemia and later relapsed. Raksha shares her unique perspective of experiencing childhood cancer from both sides of the hospital bed, as a physician caring for children and as a mother desperately trying to save her own.</p><br><p>Together, they explore the tension between medical knowledge and parental fear, the illusion of control, and the difficult reality that expertise doesn't protect you from the heartbreak of watching your child suffer.</p><br><p>Raksha speaks candidly about what surprised her most when she became a cancer parent, how her son's diagnosis changed the way she practices medicine, and why she now places even greater value on parental intuition.</p><br><p>This conversation is a powerful reminder that parents and clinicians aren't on opposing sides—they are teammates. Doctors bring medical expertise. Parents bring an intimate understanding of their child. The best care happens when both are heard.</p><br><p><strong>In this episode, we discuss:</strong></p><ul><li>What it was like to experience childhood cancer as both a pediatrician and a parent</li><li>Whether medical knowledge makes a child's cancer diagnosis easier—or harder—to navigate</li><li>The loss of control that comes with childhood cancer</li><li>How to approach difficult conversations with your child's oncology team</li><li>Why parents should feel empowered to ask questions, voice concerns, and trust their instincts</li><li>The role of parent intuition in medical decision-making</li><li>How Raksha's experience as a cancer mom transformed the way she practices medicine</li><li>Why doctors and parents are ultimately working toward the same goal</li><li>The importance of partnership, trust, and communication in pediatric cancer care</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Whether you're newly diagnosed, deep in treatment, or years into survivorship, this episode offers valuable insight into the relationship between families and medical teams and reminds us that behind every white coat is a human being doing their very best to help a child heal. Because when it comes to caring for our kids, we're all on the same team.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
May 10, 2026
I Don’t Know How You Do It — The Infinite Reach of a Mother’s Love with Sarah Bartosz
<p>In this Mother’s Day episode, Sarah Bartosz joins Sam for a deeply honest conversation about motherhood, grief, survival, and the question every cancer parent has heard: “I don’t know how you do it.”</p><br><p>Sarah is Jack, Annie, and Tommy’s mom, the Executive Director of the Beat Childhood Cancer Foundation, and someone whose life has been shaped by cancer for decades. After her three-year-old son Jack was diagnosed with Stage IV neuroblastoma, Sarah spent nearly seven years beside him through treatment before losing him in 2012. Years later, she lost her husband John, whose own cancer treatment ultimately led to his death, before facing her own breast cancer diagnosis.</p><br><p>But this conversation is not about inspiring people with resilience. It’s about telling the truth about what carries parents through impossible situations in the first place: love. Sam and Sarah talk about the force of a mother’s love, the way it stretches to meet fear and grief and exhaustion, and why cancer parents bristle when people say, “I could never.”</p><br><p>They also explore Sarah’s perspective on grief and scars — why she wants people to “ask me about my scar,” and how grief is not something to fix or move beyond, but an extension of love itself. A conversation about motherhood, loss, fear, survival, and what it means to keep loving after your life has been completely altered.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
May 4, 2026
How to Tell Your Story as a Cancer Parent with Bestselling Author Tara MacLean
<p>In this episode, Sam sits down with her close friend, award-winning songwriter and bestselling author Tara MacLean to explore the importance of parents telling their own story in the context of childhood cancer.</p><br><p>This conversation moves beyond the clinical version of events—the timelines, the treatments, the updates—and into something deeper: the lived experience of being a parent inside it. What it felt like. What it changed. What it took to endure it.</p><br><p>Together, Sam and Tara talk about storytelling as a fundamental human instinct—something we’ve always used to make sense of the unimaginable and to find connection with others who have lived through something similar. They explore how, when parents begin to put words to their experience, it not only helps them process what has happened, but also creates a bridge for the families coming behind them.</p><br><p>Using the framework of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey as a loose guide, they walk through the arc many parents recognize: the moment of diagnosis as the call, the depth and disorientation of treatment, and the quiet return—when parents begin to find language for what they’ve lived and share it with others.</p><br><p>Tara brings a rare ability to help articulate the most complex emotional experiences, offering insight into how to approach telling your story in a way that feels honest, grounded, and true. This episode is an invitation for parents to begin exploring their own narrative—not as a retelling of events, but as a way to understand, connect, and support others.</p><br><p>At its core, this conversation is about the power of story to create meaning, reduce isolation, and offer something steady to those just beginning their own experience.</p><br><p>You can learn more about Tara here <a href="https://www.taramacleanmusic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.taramacleanmusic.com/</a></p><br><p>And purchase her best selling memoir Song of the Sparrow here <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Song-Sparrow-Memoir-Tara-MacLean/dp/1443465127" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/Song-Sparrow-Memoir-Tara-MacLean/dp/1443465127</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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- What is The Deep C?
<p>The Deep C Podcast is for families, caregivers, friends and community who are supporting a child through a cancer diagnosis.</p><br><p>While every ounce of your being is used to carry your child, this podcast is here to carry you.When you're bedside at the hospital, sitting in a waiting room for the millionth appointment, or just need to feel like you're not alone in this dark place - come find us.</p><br><p>Our conversations will match the ones you're already having in your head. No topic is off limits, no fear is kept hidden. We speak to parents and caregivers at every stage of a diagnosis - families who are NED and families who are bereaved - diving deep into their reflections and personal accounts of how they walked (sometimes crawled) through their child's cancer diagnosis.</p><br><p>This is not a medical podcast, we don't discuss chemo cocktails or treatment plans. You already talk about that enough. This podcast is where you come for conversations between people JUST like you: scared, tired, determined, and fierce as hell.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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