Thriving with a Stoma: Rebuilding Your Life and Business After Cancer
What started as a personal challenge became an opportunity to create something to help others. Helenka opens up about her treatment decisions, the emotional and physical realities of life after cancer, and how she turned something “unspoken” into a source of confidence and strength.
What you’ll Learn:
Turning life’s hardest moments into purpose
Why mindset and personal responsibility matter in healing
The gaps in healthcare beyond physical treatment
Building a business from lived experience
Spotlight Conversation
Through diagnosis to recovery, Helinka turned a personal struggle into something that now empowers others every day.
Questions Randall is Wondering After This Episode
What if the hardest thing you face is actually moving you forward?
How much of healing is physical vs. mental?
Where in my life am I avoiding something I need to face?
Memorable Quotes
"For most of my life, I felt lost. Then I stepped into a kitchen and everything clicked. It was the first place where the world made sense to me, and the first place where I felt like I actually belonged."

