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Showing Up For Your Connections and Joy Mining with Sarrah Strimel Bentley

Showing Up For Your Connections and Joy Mining with Sarrah Strimel Bentley

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In this deeply moving episode, Rachel and Jeana sit down with Sarrah Bentley, former Broadway showgirl, yoga entrepreneur, breast cancer survivor, mom, and founder of A Chance for Life, a nonprofit funding surrogacy journeys for breast cancer survivors.

Together, they explore what it truly means to show up for people during life’s hardest seasons and how to accept help when you’re the one in need. Sarrah opens up about her own experience navigating an aggressive cancer diagnosis during COVID, her unexpected village of support, her radical approach to staying embodied through movement, and the miraculous journey to her son, Chance.

Along the way, the conversation touches on vulnerability, spirituality, finding joy in the messiest moments (a practice Sarrah calls joy mining) and how connections, both online and IRL, have shaped her survival and purpose.

If you need a dose of perspective, hope, or permission to slow down and savor the sweetness that exists alongside struggle, this episode will stay with you long after you listen.


Listen in for stories about:

  • How to show up (and how to ask!) when someone is going through something hard
  • The power of being specific when offering or requesting help
  • The life-changing impact of a single supportive conversation
  • Sarrah’s candid, joyful take on motherhood after surrogacy
  • Why perfection is boring and joy is always worth mining

  • Follow everyone you hear in this episode:

    • Jeana Anderson Cohen
    • Rachel Gillman Rischall
    • Sarrah Strimel Bentley

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