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Hard Corners is a term we used on SWAT when clearing buildings and rooms. Soft Corners were the things you could see, this was not the biggest concern. It was the Hard Corners that had the hidden dangers and challenges. Focus on the Hard Corners and you expose those challenges.That is what we will be doing with this Podcast. Exposing the tough, challenging and dangerous conversations. The conversation that make us uncomfortable and vulnerable. Rhetoric simplifies a topic in order to win an argument. I don’t care about winning arguments. I want to get into all the complexities of an issue. The raw, real and honest layers of an issue. That’s where understanding is found. Understand the human in each issue and we will learn the stories of humanity.

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Hard Corners with Tom Synan

Beyond Remission: A Story of Love in the World of Cancer

May 12, 2025 • Jesse Waits Media • Season 2 • Episode 4

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In this episode we speak with Gil and Meagan Guthrie. A young couple, still newlyweds and how Gil’s sudden cancer diagnoses turned their lives upside-down.

It is not just the physical that can cause the most trauma but the sudden reaction that life as you know it has changed. Plans, dreams, hopes not as certain as they once were. Fear and anxiety an understandable side effect when life has pulled the rug from under you. An understanding that resilience is not just overcoming, it is a raw, brutal and vulnerable acceptance of here is where I’m at and I’m not sure which direction I go from here.

This is a story of cancer. The lasting emotional impact of cancer. The power of love. And, faith in humanity where a complete stranger would give a part of themselves to save another’s life.