Who We Become — Life Beyond Change
The honest conversation about what happens after.
Life doesn't prepare you for the space that comes after the
crisis ends — after treatment stops, after the world moves on,
after the version of yourself you knew no longer quite fits.
That's the conversation this show was built to hold.
Real people. Real stories. The actual work of figuring out
who you are on the other side of change.
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Start with Episode 1.
It's a good place to begin — Amanda introduces the question that started everything and the space this show was built to hold.
Amanda explores the quiet space that exists after life-altering events — the territory between surviving and becoming. She shares the question that inspired this show, the gap she couldn't find anyone else filling, and why this conversation needed to exist. 100% Amanda. Sets the tone for everything that follows.
Listen to Episode 1About the show
For anyone whose life divided into before and after.
This isn't just a survivorship podcast. It's for anyone navigating the space after change rewrites everything — a diagnosis, a loss, a career that no longer fits, a version of yourself you barely recognize.
Every conversation is real and unscripted. No clean arcs, no tidy takeaways. Just honest, human stories from people who are still doing the work — grounded in the psychology of how people actually change and become.
Hosted by Amanda Lentz — keynote speaker, podcast host, and organizational psychology practitioner — who built this show because she needed it and it didn't exist.
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Megan-Claire Chase — Fighting to Be Believed After Diagnosis
In this episode of Who We Become — Life Beyond Change, Amanda sits down with Megan-Claire Chase, also known as Warrior Megsie, to explore survivorship, identity shifts, advocacy, infertility, mental health, and what it really means to live beyond cancer.
Pink Ink Tattoos - Tara Williamson
Tara Williamson — Reclaiming Your Body After Cancer — After diagnosis, loss, and fighting to be heard, Tara rebuilt her life and opened a tattoo studio for fellow survivors.
Meredith Nye — When Survivors Support Survivors
In this episode of Who We Become — Life Beyond Change, Amanda sits down with Meredith Nye to explore grief, healing, caregiving, and how identity evolves after cancer.
Together, they talk about the shock of an unexpected cancer diagnosis during a busy season of life, how Meredith navigated treatment while raising young children, and what it looks like to rebuild a sense of normalcy after treatment ends. Meredith also shares the powerful moment when roles reversed and she found herself supporting her best friend through cancer — learning firsthand what it means to pay forward the support she once received.
Pretty in Pink
In this episode of Who We Become — Life Beyond Change, Amanda sits down with Becky Horne, Executive Director of Pretty in Pink Foundation, to explore financial toxicity, survivorship, dignity, and what real support looks like during breast cancer treatment.
Kimberly Stevenson
In this episode of Who We Become — Life Beyond Change, Amanda sits down with Kimberly Stevenson — a wife, devoted mom, successful realtor, and cancer survivor — to explore what it’s really like to walk through illness while raising a family, and how survivorship reshapes identity, confidence, and purpose.
Episode 2 — When Survival Changes Who You Are
In the first episode of Who We Become, Amanda explores the quiet identity shift that happens after life-altering events — the space between surviving and becoming someone new.
Episode 1 — After Change: The Space We Don’t Talk About
The first episode of Who We Become — Life Beyond Change explores the quiet space that exists after life-altering events. Amanda introduces the heart behind the podcast and the question that inspired it: when life changes you, who do you become?
What This Space Is & Why It Exists
Why does this podcast exist? In this short introduction, Amanda shares the vision behind Who We Become — Life Beyond Change and the kind of honest, human stories this space was created to hold.
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Your story belongs in this conversation.
The podcast explores who we become in the aftermath
of the events that reroute us. We're not looking for clean recovery arcs
— we're looking for real ones. If something happened that changed you,
and you're still figuring out who you are now, we want to hear from you.
All pitches are reviewed on a rolling basis. You don't need a platform
or a polished story. You need a true one.
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