Dear FoundHer · Episode 376 · November 3, 2026 · 18 min

Breast Cancer and Accepting Help: Let the People Who Love You Love You

Seventeen days. That is how long it took Lindsay Pinchuk to go from a breast cancer diagnosis to a double mastectomy. It started with a text to a surgeon she'd known for ten years but hadn't spoken to in quite some time. That text makes the clearest case for building relationships in business and in life long before you need them. In this final episode of her breast cancer series on Dear FoundHer, Lindsay thanks the people who carried her family through recovery. She built her first business from $500 to seven figures and led it through acquisition, and now she leads a community of women founders. She talks about the friends who covered every meal and every ride for her kids, the community members who offered real peer support for entrepreneurs, and the one thing her surgeon told her at her final appointment that she wants every woman to hear. Accepting help was the hard part for someone who built a career on helping women. Lindsay gets honest about emotional resilience, why she refuses to be seen as a victim, and what community building for business looks like when the community shows up for you. She closes with three simple actions to strengthen your relationships, accept support, and show up for the people in your life. Listen now to learn why building relationships in business starts with the people you are always happy to run into but never call. Episode Breakdown: 00:00 Diagnosis recap and the final series episode 01:30 The text that started a 17-day timeline 03:45 Building relationships in business before you need them 05:00 Family and friends who carried her through recovery 08:00 How the Dear FoundHer community showed up 10:20 Why accepting help felt so hard 11:00 The women who’ve been through breast cancer 12:45 Refusing to minimize what she went through 13:55 Three actions: reach out, say yes, show up 15:05 Series lessons, speaking engagements, and what’s next Subscribe to The FoundHer Files: http://foundherfiles.substack.com Follow Dear FoundHer... on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dearfoundher Grab the What to Post This Week System that Lindsay developed while recovering from her surgery: https://www.dearfoundher.com/what-to-post-system-stand-alone Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.