51. Sam Jackman - co-founder of Boost Innovations

Hey, it’s great to be back! 🍋🍋🍋

So, for all those who enjoy the ‘Wild Card - Whose Shoes?’ podcast, welcome to Season 2!  

It has been lovely to hear from so many of you, saying that you are missing the podcast and asking when it is coming back. Well, here it is! 

At the beginning of last year, 2023, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. And not for the first time.  

Being quite a private person, but also quite out there, in terms of Whose Shoes events, social media, hosting a podcast and so on, I found it hard to know how to handle that. As you may imagine.  

I was trying to manage my illness and treatment alongside deadlines from my ‘real’ work, so when I reached episode 50 I decided that made a very neat if rather long, Season 1!  

But I have been raring to go with Season 2 and wondered how best to re-launch.

I found the perfect podcast guest – and today is the perfect day to post our conversation – 4 February 2024, World Cancer Day!

Sam Jackman is an inspirational woman - a multi-award winning entrepreneur and a disruptor. Sam offers a breath of fresh air (literally!) to women who have had a mastectomy due to breast cancer. She is rocking the world of conventional prostheses through her innovative Boost products. 

Boost products are 100% inspired and designed by women for women.
We need to make sure that women hear about them! 

It is an extraordinary story 

• the lived experience of Sam’s Mum
•  finding a huge gap in the market - and doing something about it!
• courageous entrepreneurship
• rocking the world of conventional solutions
• putting women first

And all from the deepest reaches of rural Cornwall.

Sam is highly entertaining. We are joined briefly by Blue, Sam’s emotional therapy dog!

It is a story with a difference, making a difference and I am very proud to support ‘We Wear Boost’ innovations, who have made a BIG difference to me personally. Thank you, Sam!

Key link
Breast Forms | Lightweight Breast Forms UK | We Wear Boost
Daughter creates design after mum's mastectomy - BBC News

Lemon lightbulbs 🍋💡🍋

• If you want something amazing to happen, you may have to do it yourself!
• Don't listen to the naysayers
• We need to bridge the 'us and them' divide  between clinicians and patients
• Co-design with the people using the product will NOT fail
• Be inspired. Achieving this from Cornwall was NOT easy!
• Men in suits are not the experts on breast forms and nipples! ;-)

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