Hi everyone, this week I am chatting to Emma Thomson, Product Strategist at British Friendly.

Last year Emma was diagnosed with breast cancer and she is joining me on the podcast to talk about her experience of having cancer, her treatment and her tips on reviewing your protection insurances.

Emma is chatting about the extra costs of cancer too, the things that people often don’t talk about e.g. post-surgery bras. She also tells us how she now has 3 tattoos thanks to her treatment, something that she never expected and I think that she sounds quite relieved that they are only tiny dots.

With no family history of cancer and a negative result on the BRCA gene, Emma is an example of how cancer can happen to anybody. Working in protection insurance all of her life, she had the foresight to get private medical insurance, critical illness cover and income protection in place, all of which were able to support her during her diagnosis and recovery.

The 3 key takeaways:

  1. How you can use lemons to help spot the symptoms of cancer.
  2. The importance of reviewing your protection insurance, especially if you are changing jobs and your employee benefits change.
  3. A case study detailing being able to life insurance for a client that had breast cancer, whilst stricter underwriting decisions are in place due to coronavirus.

I might be back sooner than usual with another Inbetweenysode. Watch this space!

In two weeks, I will be chatting with Simoney Kyriakou about rouge firms and her experiences with insurance.

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Episode 8 of Season 2, can be accessed here:
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