About the Podcast
Talk Cancer to Me is the raw, real, and radically honest podcast that breaks the silence around what it really means to live with cancer, especially the parts your doctors didn’t prepare you for. Hosted by three friends who were diagnosed with the same one-in-a-million rare cancer as young adult women, we dive into the topics that often go unspoken: dating, relationships, sex, raising a family, identity, mental health, complementary therapies, and more.
This is a safe, inclusive space where all genders, sexualities, and identities are welcomed and respected. Whether you're newly diagnosed, post-treatment, a caregiver, or just curious, you're not alone here.
Expect unfiltered conversations, powerful personal stories, and interviews with fellow survivors, physicians, and holistic practitioners. We know first hand that healing isn’t just physical, and surviving is just the beginning.
Because after all, we’re still hot, and we’re still here.
Meet the Hosts
Melinda Nelson (She/Her)
Melinda Nelson is a queer, neurodivergent, and disabled stage 4 cancer warrior who refuses to let her diagnoses define her. Diagnosed with adrenocortical carcinoma at 32 in 2021, she’s been through surgery, chemo, radiation, and ablations. She's currently on immunotherapy, and has been stable since 2022. A founding member and current senior vice president of Adrenal Cure Collective, Melinda is passionate about inclusion, mental health, and showing stage 4 patients that life is always worth living. From sound healing to ketamine therapy, she embraces every path to wellness and brings fierce hope, honesty, and hilarious overshares to Talk Cancer to Me.
Hope Law (She/Her)
Hope Law is the loud, proud, and unfiltered voice you didn’t know you needed in your earbuds. A single mom of three AMAZING boys who was diagnosed with stage 2 adrenocortical carcinoma in 2022, she turned her battle into a mission, founding Adrenal Cure Collective to fight for research, awareness, and hope for the rarest of warriors. Naturally outspoken and born with a knack for calling it exactly like it is, Hope brings equal parts grit, humor, and heart to Talk Cancer to Me. Whether she’s tackling the messy truths no one talks about or cheering on her fellow fighters, she’s here to make sure no conversation is off limits and no warrior feels alone.
Olivia Ciafrei (She/Her)
Olivia Ciafrei is an avid lover of most people and all dogs, a reader, and a dreamer. Diagnosed with stage 3 ACC at age 27—she is now 30 and it has progressed to stage 4—she is currently undergoing her fourth kind of chemotherapy and has also undergone radiation. Olivia is a founding member and serves on the board of Adrenal Cure Collective. Through Talk Cancer to Me, Olivia aims to explore how we can make the unbearable feel livable...and even joyful. Her hope is to create space for connection, community, and commonality in the often isolating experience of illness.
Meet the Crew
Matt Rossetti (He/Him)
Matt Rossetti is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and professor of media and communication at East Tennessee State University. With over a decade in media production, he uses his craft to spotlight social causes and spark positive change in the communities he serves. As Talk Cancer to Me’s co-producer and editor, Matt brings creativity, enthusiasm, and a knack for storytelling that makes even the heaviest topics feel human. A proud New England native, Matt now lives in Johnson City, TN with his dog Flash who is a very good boy.
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