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ANDREA WILSON WOODS is a writer who loves to tell stories and a patient advocate who founded the nonprofit Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association. For over ten years, Andrea worked in the education field as a teacher and professor for public and private schools as well as universities. Andrea obtained her master’s degree in professional writing from the University of Southern California; her nonfiction writing has won national awards.
When Andrea was 22 years old, she gained custody of her then-eight-year-old sister Adrienne. She raised Adrienne all through her twenties until one month after her 15th birthday when she was diagnosed with stage IV liver cancer. Adrienne's cancer journey only lasted 147 days. Losing Adrienne has been Andrea's biggest loss, but she has channeled her grief into worthy ventures, including Blue Faery, a national nonprofit dedicated to primary liver cancer. Her medical memoir titled Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days about raising and losing Adrienne to cancer, was a bestseller on Amazon in multiple categories and has received many awards.
👩🦰 Patient Advocacy
👩🦰 Liver Cancer
👩🦰 Clinical Trial Design
👩🦰 Death and Dying
👩🦰 End-of-Life Decisions
👩🦰 Grief & Loss
👩🦰 Nonprofit Business Basics
👩🦰 Memoir Writing
👩🦰 Living your best life
👩🦰 Being an entrepreneur
1. Who are you and what do you do?
2. How did you get into this field? (Due to life event?)
3. What motivated you to write your book?
4. What do you hope readers take away from Better Off Bald?
5. You write about these devastating, tragic events that marked your life, but you write with
humor. Better Off Bald is not a gloomy or brooding book. How do you do that?
6. What was it like to be the parent of a child who is seriously ill?
7. What should one do when they are overwhelmed by grief? Do you have any suggestions for people in those first moments or weeks of dealing with a loss?
8. How was it for your family to be written about, especially your mom?
9. Your nonprofit Blue Faery is named in memory of your sister. What services does Blue Faery provide for liver cancer patients and caregivers?
10. What do you hope to achieve with your new endeavor Cancer University? What products or services do you provide that help the cancer community?
Previous podcast & media appearances
Websites
👉 Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association
From my LinkedIn profile
I am a keynote speaker, patient advocate, writer, storyteller, author, and podcaster.
💙 I am president and founder of the nonprofit Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association.
✍🏻 My bestselling book Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days is a medical memoir about raising my younger sister Adrienne from the age of eight until she died from liver cancer at age 15.
AWARDS (partial)
❇️ JOURNEY Chanticleer International Book Awards Grand Prize Winner 2021 -- Overcoming Adversity Non-Fiction
❇️ Page Turner Award Winner 2021 -- Best Nonfiction Book
❇️ Writer's Digest Self-Published E-book Award Winner 2020
❇️ Independent Press Award Winner 2020
❇️ Living Now Book Awards Winner 2020
The best words to describe me are RESOURCEFUL, PERSISTENT, and AUTHENTIC. I possess outstanding verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. I'm the most organized and detail-oriented person I know. The day I find someone more organized than me is the day I find my personal assistant for life!
I have 20 years of experience in various industries, including academia, healthcare, nonprofit, private sector, and online environments. I've worked with and/or spoken at universities, hospitals, corporations, charities, and government organizations. Big or small, I 💓 to solve problems.
Note: I talk so much that I sound permanently hoarse! 🤪
MY PERSONALITY
♌ Myers-Briggs: ENFJ
♌ Predictive Index: The Captain
♌ Enneagram Type 8: Leader/Challenger with Wing 7: Enthusiast
♌ Kolbe A Result 6-5-7-3
♌ Sparketype: Advisor/Advocate
♌ Clifton Strengths: Strategic, Relator, Learner, Self-Assurance, Communication
♌ DISC personality: High D w/ independence & self-confidence
♌ How to Fascinate: The Provocateur
♌ Four Tendencies: The Questioner
MY CORE VALUES
👩 Courage
👩 Creativity
👩 Freedom
👩 Joy
👩 Service
MORE ABOUT ME
😊 I love garlic, but I hate onions.
😊 I finished six marathons and one half-marathon, but I hate running.
😊 I am a 500-hour certified yoga teacher who doesn't teach yoga.
😊 I'm obsessed with this smiling face/smiling eye emoji. Ha!
Social Media, especially LinkedIn and (multiple) Facebook pages
Total Reach: 75,000 and counting (more if you count my dog's 59K Instagram followers!)