Bloodworks 101
Started in 2020, Bloodworks 101 is an Anthem Award-winning, weekly podcast produced by Bloodworks Northwest, a Seattle-based blood bank and research center. Episodes are designed to inspire and educate listeners to donate time, money or blood.
On Bloodworks 101 you'll meet experts who can discuss everything from the importance of blood donation to trypanophobia (fear of needles).
Emmy Award-winning producer John Yeager, is joined by a team of gifted storytellers Bill Harper, Helen Pitlick and Juan Cotto.
In 2024, Bloodworks 101 won its fourth coveted Anthem Award, beating out more than 2,000 entries from 43 nations.
Bloodworks 101
"In The Names of Their Children: Christine O'Connell's Cancer Moms" (S4 E2)
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Ask anyone who's ever dealt with a "cancer mom" and they'll tell you that they're tough as nails and never want to hear the odds. They'll also tell you that donating blood is huge. That's the message that Christine O'Connell and her "cancer moms" are spreading right now because September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
Bloodworks 101 producer John Yeager takes us to the Bloodworks' Bellevue Donor Center where he shares the powerful story of Christine and her friends, some of whom have lost their kids to cancer. But regardless the outcome of their life and death stories, they're all here, donating blood in the Names of Their Children.
