Melanie A. Nix

Key takeaways: In this keynote presentation, Melanie provides personal accounts of navigating life after a breast cancer diagnosis and finding ways to reconstruct life after the devastation of breast cancer. This keynote is focused on survivorship and quality of life. 1. There can be good times in your life after a breast cancer diagnosis. It’s important to identify those activities, relationships and settings that provide good moments; use your muscle memory and be committed to ensuring that they are an integral part of your life moving forward. It’s especially valuable to gain instant gratification and get some wins. 2. In the midst of a breast cancer battle when knocked out of your comfort zone and so much is stripped away, this stripping away can reveal your core: unmatched strength, incomparable beauty and fortitude. 3. Breast cancer often forces you to rebuild many aspects of your life. You can bloom where you are planted in your new normal.

In this keynote presentation, Melanie provides a roadmap for moving from the lows of a breast cancer diagnosis to the fulfillment of reaching your destiny. Melanie highlights the tools and training survivors gain through their survivorship experience that allows them to overcome obstacles to achieve their destiny. This keynote is focused on survivorship, quality of life and achieving dreams after a breast cancer diagnosis. 1. Any survivor can go from diagnosis to destiny. 2. Survival provides destiny fuel and the tools to move from diagnosis to destiny. 3. There are breast cancer survivor role models INCLUDING the role model in the mirror.

In this keynote address, Melanie describes how cancer left her, literally and figuratively, bald, naked and powerless. She shares how, through her survival experience, she accepted and welcomed change as she redefined her life and her new normal. This keynote is focused on survivorship and quality of life. Key Takeaways: 1. You must get naked – strip away the ugly residue of cancer’s invasion and fully assess your life as a survivor. 2. You must reacquaint yourself with your power. 3. You must get dressed again with your faith and confidence.