The name of my business, RISE, is a reflection of a mantra I heard during a meditation session early in my diagnosis. Somewhere in the fuzzy days between the discovery of a malignant tumor in my rectum to my first rounds of CT and MRI imaging, I sat down with a meditation app to help keep my mind from running into a wild abyss. I don't remember many details from those days, but I do remember being struck by four simple words the narrator spoke during that one meditation sessi
