Why Resharing My Breast Cancer Story After 11 Years Feels Impossible (And What I’m Doing About It)

After 11 years of living with metastatic breast cancer, I thought repurposing my old blog posts would be easy. Turns out, resharing those raw, in-the-moment stories is harder than I expected. Here’s why I’m changing my approach—and what every solopreneur can learn from pivoting when plans don’t work out.

Kandas Rodarte

May 14, 2026

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I had these huge aspirations for the October Ultimate Blog Challenge.

Huge, and easy. I just need to repurpose what I’ve already created.

Yeah. Ha ha.

Turns out, resharing my breast cancer story after 11 years is harder than I expected. Way harder.

Let Me Back Up

If you are new here, my name is Kandas Rodarte. I’m a growth coach for women solopreneurs over 40, and I’ve been living with breast cancer since 2014.

In October of 2015, after 18 months of treatment (chemo, surgery, radiation) I was told the breast cancer had metastasized to both lungs.

I blogged about it regularly, very openly and candidly, until I lost my website to hackers in early 2024.

Preparing for Port Insertion Surgery – June 2014

Many, but not all, of those blog posts are archived on the Internet Archive Way Back Machine. For that, I am so very grateful.

Yeah, I wasn’t prepared to (re)discover that most of these stories are too raw, too in-the-moment to simply republish. They’re snapshots of a woman in crisis, not evergreen content.

There are a few gems, like the breast cancer surgery recovery video I reshared recently, but not nearly as many as I’d hoped.

This is exactly the kind of moment I coach my clients through—when the plan you made with such confidence suddenly feels impossible, and you have to give yourself permission to pivot.

Time to Regroup (Because That’s What We Do)

Here’s my new plan.

I’m going to meticulously comb through the Way Back Machine and copy the posts chronologically into a Google Doc.

The posts that are truly evergreen? I’ll update them and share them here on my new blog.

The raw, in-the-moment ones? I’ll preserve them in the Google Doc and decide later what, if anything, to do with them.

Maybe they become a book. Maybe they stay private. Or, maybe I’ll find a completely different use for them that I can’t even imagine right now.

What I know for sure is this: forcing myself to reshare content that doesn’t serve my audience or my current mission isn’t authentic.

And authenticity is non-negotiable for women building businesses rooted in genuine connection.

Your Turn

Have you ever bitten off more than you could chew with a project? What did you do when your big plan hit reality? Drop a comment and share your do-over moment—I’d love to hear how you pivoted.

If the emotional side of this journey is weighing on you, I also wrote a guide on building emotional resilience during breast cancer — practical tools for keeping yourself and your business intact while you heal.

Stay Groovy!

Beyond Cancer, Content Strategy

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5 responses to “Why Resharing My Breast Cancer Story After 11 Years Feels Impossible (And What I’m Doing About It)”

Agnes
October 12, 2025
Hi Kandas,
I started blogging back in 2020 and started making some dollars via online marketing. I did not make as much as I was expecting so I stopped the project. I have now decided to give it a head start and see how it goes. I am encouraged by your post. Thank you!
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John Hadley
October 12, 2025
Kandas: I have to admit that when that project feels too big to tackle, too often I simply move on to something else and let that project die. Sometimes I come back to parts of it later on, or repurpose it in another way.
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Kim
October 12, 2025
I am in the process of a big project that I had to step back and say I can’t do it all now, but I can do it in small steps. I recently decided to refine my business coaching niche (now focused on other female coaches) and incorporate Health and Well-being coaching. This means I have to go through and review, assess, and decide what to do with what I have. I made the conscious decision not to wait for perfection to get things moving and instead have put together a plan to handle the changes.
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Cheryl
October 12, 2025
I commend you first for keeping your former blogs posts to have for future uses – perhaps a book or something else where you can widen your audience. I’m sure the “raw” feelings from when you were going through perhaps one of the hardest times of your life could help someone who’s going through the same thing. But also commend you for staying true to writing for the audience intended. That made this month’s challenge even tougher. I can’t think the phrase about when times get tough but when we get tougher…
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Deb Davis
October 12, 2025
Kandas, I feel this. Not only is it hard to go back and reopen those moments, but I hear you on something deeper. Everything we carry is not meant to be poured out the same way in every season. You realized that resharing those posts would not serve the people you are called to reach right now. That is wisdom. There is a difference between sharing your story and bleeding on people who did not cut you. You are honoring your voice, your healing, and your assignment by being intentional with what you release. That is maturity. I respect it and I respect you.
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