'Meg Berte Owen' tagged blog posts in The latest news from Janet Hanson

This is a very long blog but it’s definitely worth reading — Alison’s feat, weeks after her safe return, still takes my breath away! BEST LINE: “It is important to remember the summit is only the half-way point.” THINK ABOUT IT!

After our drop-back down valley we return to BC. We are told that there will be a good weather window with no jetstream from May 22-26th, and we want to beat the crowds up high, so we leave BC at 4am on the 17th so that we are in position at the Col to go for it when the window opens. It takes us 12 hours to get to Camp 2. We are not speedy, but we are solid. W…

A recent interview with Diane Blackman (President and co-Founder of BR Public Relations) which truly captures my passion for the women in 85 Broads!

Q: Why should women join 85 Broads?

JH: The primary reason the network exists is simple: smart women want to collaborate and partner with each other in a number of exciting professional and personal ways. But first they need to be encouraged to do that. When women see other women pursuing their goals with passion and vision, they redouble their own efforts. The magic of 85 Broads is that we are a talent cultivator and a business accelerato…

If you’re in the tri-state area today you are enjoying one of the most beautiful days of 2010. Being a BC survivor, I am grateful to (still) have two extraordinary kids, two crazy dogs, a beautiful home in Bedford, and a network of fab women and many cool guy friends in my life.

This evening I will be attending a memorial service at Sloan Kettering for Meg Berte Owen, who lost her battle for life last October at the age of 37. As I love to say, Meg was pure sunshine. Meg was the bluest of blue skies. Alison Levine, who just got back from climbing Mt. Everest in Meg’s memory, will be …

Alison is just hours away from reaching the summit on Everest. She is climbing in memory of Meg Berte Owen — when she reaches the summit she’s going to plant her ice ax, with Meg’s name carved on it, in Meg’s spectacular memory.

This is an extraordinary, breathtaking victory. Alison was 36 when she made her first summit bid in 2002 — she’s been on the speaking tour for the past few years and I think it would be fair to say that her training for this expedition was the equivalent of cramming for an exam.

What propelled Alison to the top of the highest peak in the world was not h…

Today I am going to thank Courtney Smith Rae for introducing me to Meg Berte in 2003. We had coffee in Grand Central. Meg and I compared cancer war stories. Her story made mine sound like a bad hair day.

Six years ago, almost to the day, Meg wrote me this email:

After I “survived” I had three years of hell (and this was AFTER the treatment). My intestine was mangled, I lost 30 pounds and the doctors didn’t know how I might be able to keep food down — I couldn’t get surgery to repair my intestine b/c of all the chemo. Then, one after the other, both of my lungs collapsed when I was a…