Description

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An engaging and educational how-to book for breast cancer survival through first-hand stories, humorous observations, and hands-on health care tips and tools. Author Vickie Jenkins blends her talent as a writer and journalist, improv comedy performer, and cancer survivor to serve up her personal recipe for surviving a health crisis. 'Mammograms, Mastectomies, and Mom's Apple Pie' fills you with inspiration, and helpful information that's easy to digest. About the Author Farm girl. Radio news reporter. Media coach. Improv comedy performer. Screenwriter. Murder-mystery novelist. Corporate communications executive. Poet. Vickie Jenkins has worn many career hats and now celebrates a totally different achievement-overcoming breast cancer to continue creating a healthy new life. On any given day you can find her, pen over paper, staring off, wearing a crooked smile, playing with words. She lives in Los Angeles.

About the Author

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For 20 years Vickie Jenkins was an award-winning morning news anchor at highly successful radio stations in San Francisco, including NBC-owned KYUU-FM and KOIT Radio. She now resides in Southern California where she runs her company, Performance Power Media Coaching, training corporate executives for speeches, presentations, and national media interviews on outlets such as CNN and CNBC, and preparing authors for their national book tours. Over the years she has covered presidents, popes and queens as a news anchor/reporter; recorded commercials and narrations as a voiceover artist; headed up internal communications at a division of a Fortune 100 company; performed improv comedy on stage in Los Angeles; written, directed, and acted in a one-woman performance art piece at SUSHI Theater in San Diego, and appeared on national networks such as NBC and Fox Network discussing powerful media performances. She writes screenplays, novels, songs, poetry, essays, plays, and short stories.