St. Jude Inspire Audio Stories
St. Jude Inspire is where you can find standalone audio stories of patients, families, staff and supporters of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Subscribe to this feed to hear these stories and episodes of other St. Jude Inspire podcast series. You can find more information and written versions at stjude.org/inspire
Improved outcomes for children with leukemia and lymphoma
Dr. Hiroto Inaba was raised in a rural province in Japan to honor his samurai heritage. His parents taught him the “Bushido” that an honorable life is one that upholds “the good fight,” Inaba says. After he lost his mother to cancer, he decided his fight would be as an oncologist tackling cancer.
Dick Hiley St. Jude Bass Classic is casting a legacy of hope in Minnesota
Each May, boats arrive for the Dick Hiley St. Jude Bass Classic benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®. It looks like a fishing tournament. But just beneath, something deeper stirs: hope.
Courtney shares what it’s like living with sickle cell disease
Courtney is living her best life, enjoying time with friends in New York City and working hard as she establishes her career. She also has sickle cell disease. And she deals with the physical and emotional effects of it day in and day out.
Sickle cell disease is an inherited disorder that affects about 100,000 people in the United States, predominantly African Americans. The disease affects red blood cells. Normally, they're round and plump. Sickle cell disease warps them into crescent shapes. That makes them less flexible and less able to carry oxygen to internal organs. A person with...
The long road home
Each cancer journey is different. For Jennings, it’s meant years of treatment, hundreds of highway miles between his home state and St. Jude in Tennessee, and two bone marrow transplants. St. Jude Inspire writer Karina Bland tells the story of Jennings through the eyes of his dad Joel.
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https://www.stjude.org/inspire/podcasts/audio-stories/the-long-road-home.html
Read the story about Jennings and his family:
https://www.stjude.org/inspire/series/home-from-st-jude/long-journey-ends-with-long-ride-home-from-st-jude.html
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The chain remains unbroken
Special Report: Ukraine
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Natalia Vilcu could hear the airstrikes. She lives in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova. Through the air, the city is less than a hundred miles from Odessa in Ukraine, one of the first places Russian forces hit.
Natalia is the president of a foundation called Life Without Leukemia. It’s part of an effort called SAFER Ukraine. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and ALSAC, its fundraising and awareness organization, have played a coordinating role in that effort, helping to establish an umbrella of support throughout Europe and even i...
The capital of brave people
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the people who run the Tabletochki Charitable Foundation got to safety and then got back to work. They knew many of the people they serve — Ukrainian kids with cancer — could no longer be treated in their home country. In partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and ALSAC, its fundraising and awareness organization, and their global partners, Tabletochki has helped ensure the continued care of more than 1,000 children. Hundreds have gone to hospitals throughout Europe and North America. Some are being treated at St. Jude in Memphis.
In this episode, Olga Kudinenko and Svitlana Pugach...
You don’t pause to say, “Should I help?” You help.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and ALSAC, its fundraising and awareness organization, are leading an effort to get pediatric cancer patients from Ukraine to safety. In this episode, two ALSAC employees, Natalia Wobst and Yuri Yanishevski, talk about meeting patient families who are being treated at St. Jude in Memphis.
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Credits: Hosted by Geoffrey Redick. Edited by Louis Graham, Executive Producer of St. Jude Inspire. Production help from Joel Frey, Caleb Suggs an...
A boy named Omari in a town called Minden
A boy, his mom and his teacher represent the Louisiana community that's worked for 45 years to make a difference at St. Jude two states over, and ultimately, everywhere.
A place for us to gather
The video game Fallout is set in the aftermath of global nuclear annihilation, where a few people struggle to survive in Appalachia. From this virtual wasteland came a stunning real-world creation. Kenneth Vigue thought up a group of characters, found actors to portray them and produced the podcast “Chad: A Fallout 76 Story.” For its hundreds of thousands of listeners, the podcast brings solace and laughter, community, and a call to action on behalf of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Credits: Hosted and produced by Geoffrey Redick. Edited by Grace Korzekwa Evans. Special thanks to Amanda Hill. Louis Graham...
How far one mother would go
St. Jude Global launched in May 2018 to train clinical staff in hospitals and clinics around the world, share cutting-edge research, and strengthen partner health systems so even more children receive quality care across the globe. At ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, we teach foundation members of The Global Alliance best practices in fundraising, marketing and communications.
This is the story of Natalia Vilcu, the president of one of those member foundations, Life Without Leukemia ( https://viatafaraleucemie.md ), in Moldova.
There are more than 100 hospitals and clinics, and 50 foundations in...
