Tgin'S Founder Talks Surviving Breast Cancer While Owning A Hair Care Company

Let'S gaze here today: zero Chicagoan is a woman who builds her hair care company strand by strand, while working full-time as a corporate lawyer. Now she holds many titles, including Harvard Graduate entrepreneur. Ceo and now breast cancer survivor hear how Christina Donaldson is turning her early diagnosis into a lesson for women of all ages. 2015 was like the best year of my life and the worst year of my life. So, at the beginning of the year we started out launching and targeting over 250 stores and at the end of the year in December of 2015 I found out, I had breast cancer. When a doctor told me I would have chemotherapy that meant. I was definitely going to lose my hair and at the time I could honestly care less, but it did kind of hit me extra hard. Considering that I ran a hair care company, but at the time like I said, my health was most important now that I'm back on my feet, I have a different perspective, whereas before I was like okay, you have to always look good makeup, hair, whatever it's like. After what I've been through you're just happy to be alive, one of the things that my eyes were open to when I was fighting this kind of battle was the fact that the people with money and the people without money received very different treatments. When I was first diagnosed, I went to a community hospital on the south side because that's where my OBGYN referred me to, but I realized that may not necessarily have been the best treatment available to me. Given my insurance situation, but I ultimately end up switching to Northwestern and it was just my spirit felt lifted being in the presence of kind of top doctors, but I tell people people don't think about the non-medical cost things like getting to the hospital paying for parking. Every day was 11 dollars when you're going 33 times for radiation or 7 times for chemo or for endless doctor's visits, who's going to take care of your children if you're a single mom and getting there. If you don't have transportation, also just having the ability to take time off from work, I was lucky enough to be able to do that, because I was still working at Oracle while running my company. But a lot of women have to continue to go up and go, go into work and show up every day and put on their space, so I assumed them and I'm hoping that this hair care company will give me a voice for something larger than just hair. It'S doing this for breast cancer, so I'm just blessed to be able to say that. Well, you can find, thank God, it's natural products in stores or online that, thank God, it's natural dot-com. What an inspiring story yeah! Absolutely we salute her. That'S absolutely sure.