April 27, 2025 • 29 mins
Award-winning actress known for her roles in "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice," Kate Walsh joins Jennie to discuss a crucial reminder - that April is National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month! With incredible advancements in technology, we now have access to multi-cancer early detection tests, and Kate is telling us all the perks of this easy blood test. An important conversation on why we should all continue to advocate for our health and well-being!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garth. Hi, everyone,
welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast is all about
the choices we make and where they lead us. My
guest today is known for her role as doctor Addison
Montgomery on the hit shows Gray's Anatomy and Private Practice,
(00:24):
and her role on the wildly popular Netflix show Emily
in Paris.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
On this podcast, we.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Talk about choosing ourselves, and today we're going to discuss
a huge way we can all choose ourselves. It's an
important message and I cannot wait to talk all about
it with my guest. Please welcome Kate Walsh to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
HII, oh my gosh. I'm really excited to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
We're doing this because this subject matter that you are
here to talk about is so important and I can't
wait for you to share this information with our listeners.
I remember, though, the moment you came on.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
To my TV.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I loved your character, doctor Addison.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, no, doctor, I started with a M.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, Addison Montgomery.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Adison Montgomery, you were so bad ass, you were wonderful
and I don't know, I just something ignited in me
as a woman when I saw you on screen. Because
you were strong and beautiful and intelligent.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I don't know, I really loved your character.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Thank you, Thank you so much. I mean I could
stay in your praises. But yeah, that's all. I mean,
it's all all the things. So thank you very very much.
And I'm so excited to come on and talk to
you about you know, advocating for our health and partnering
for me with GRAIL and M said testing very exciting. Yes,
(01:55):
I mean, I don't know anyone who's lied, has has
not been touched by cancer getting that terrible call or
test results and including me. You know, both my parents
were diagnosed with cancer. My dad died of lung cancer.
They didn't have any kind of early detection in those days.
(02:16):
My mother gratefully was a breast cancer survivor and after
a double mestectomy, was able to live in other thirty years,
you know, in great health. But early detection is where
it's at. We know that with early detection and more options.
So when I was approached by GRAIL for the multi
cancer Early Detection Test, I was super excited to partner
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because this is literally technology that we've never had before.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's what's so exciting.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And I love I you know, I don't love that
you have this passion behind why you're involved, but there's
such a meaning to your why when you're spreading this information,
So that really comes through I think, and people know
that it's so authentic and like this is something we
have to talk about well, that you have this personal connection.
I'm so sorry about your dad and thank you. But
(03:07):
what a I mean, I'm I've got to be honest.
I'm terrified of getting cancer.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It is.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I mean, I'm terrified of getting any illness. Like I
don't I don't want that. I don't think anybody wants that. No,
And it's so powerful technology today because what you're talking
about this m said test.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What is the full name of.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
It, Multi cancer early Detection, Early detection. Yes, and it's
incredible technology. It's one blood draw and it can test
for many different types of cancer, even some of the deadliest.
Now this is uh suggested in conjunction with regular cancer screenings,
(03:52):
you know, so it's not meant to replace ovarian or
you know, colon retal cancer screenings or what have you,
or breast cancer or your screenings regular mammograms and ultrasounds.
This is you know, in conjunction, and you can find
out if you're if you're a candidate for it, you
can go to gen possible dot com. There's a quiz there.
(04:15):
We suggest talking to your doctor about it, seeing if
it's right for you. But we know it's a fact
that with early detection there are more options for treatment
full stop. And we also know if there's a big
psychological component to self care and well being. It's scary.
(04:37):
It's scary to go and advocate for yourself. It's scary
to look your fears in the eye and go, oh
my gosh. But I was so interested to know. I mean,
it truly is Generation possible. We did not have this,
we didn't have it ten years ago. It's just this
is just so exciting to me that you can, you know,
go and talk to your doctor and see is this
(04:59):
something that's right for me? And then I found out,
which I didn't know, that after fifty or thirteen times
more likely to be vulnerable to cancer. So I was like, WHOA, Okay, yeah, So,
I mean my dad wasn't diagnosed until he was fifty eight.
My mother was always getting mammograms and had biopsies and
(05:22):
ultrasounds and everything, and she wasn't you know she got
it when she was sixty two. So it's it's just
great to have this information, to have this access to
this technology, and to go to Genpossible dot com and see,
you know, it even shows you and if you get nervous,
because I get nervous when I go to doctors, for
(05:43):
sure I did too.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I got nervous signing on to the to the website
that you just.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Gave us last night.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I took a deep time. I mean, yeah, it's like
I don't want to look at it, but it's it
is the most important thing. We're nothing without our health.
And so but there was a questionnaire on there if
you saw that, so it can help you even understand
how to have a conversation with the doctor and I
did you? How did? How did did? What was your experience?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Well, I wasn't shocked that it suggested that I talked
to my doctor about getting the test, and I've already
sent an email. So I'm very grateful that this conversation
is happening because I wouldn't have known about this technology,
and I wouldn't have been had the impulse or the
urge to take action. And I think that's what someone
(06:32):
like you talking about this that's why it's so important,
or just bringing this to people's awareness. Yes, I mean
it's good that April is National Cancer Prevention and Early
Detection Month. And yeah, I know that, like you said before,
we've all been personally affected by cancer in one way
or another, and it's not it's not fun. Nobody wants
(06:54):
to hear that test result come back negative or positive.
However it works, I'm not sure, but I'll know soon
because I'm going to get it good.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I know I plan to get it as well. It's
also it's just that for me, I think that there's
so much information out there too that can be overwhelming
for people as well that you're like, oh my gosh,
what do I do? And then people are just like
freezing and they're not going to do anything. You're like,
I'm just going to go pull my put the covers
over my head and pretend this is not happening. So
(07:26):
this is something that I think it's so easy and accessible,
and again you're not doing it alone. You go to
gempossible dot com, take the quiz, talk to your doctor
see if it's right for you. This is not something
you just go on your own and go okay, and
roll the dice and see and just that again. Not
to you know, hit the nail on the head too
(07:49):
many times. But early detection is critical. It gives more
options for treatment. We know that.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I talk a lot about that with heart health and
early section and prevention, and I think it's so key.
And I'm really diligent about taking care of myself. You know,
I have some bad family genetics in a few areas,
So getting my stands in my exams is so important
to me. And yeah, I want to know so that
(08:15):
I can do something about I just completed my blood
my fresh blood work, my papsmear, my black test for
my heart, I have my mammogram schedule.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And that's a lot to.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Like coordinate and wrangle around if you're doing it on
your own like I am. And so the thought of
going to one blood test which can detect a lot
of the things that I'm looking for individually, that's really cool.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's it's so great that it's one blood draw and
it can test for even some of the most deadly cancers.
It's incredible. Actually, we've never had this time. My parents
generation did not have this technology. And we know too
just what you're saying. You were just saying that how
much work it takes to get all this stuff done.
And even my partner is like, I gotta get my
eyes tests. I mean these are basic things like yeah,
(09:05):
I think I should get my hearing test, and I'm like,
have you done it? Have you made the appointment? Oh? No,
I haven't. It's like people and I think we're so
you know, socialized, and we're in this. The great thing
about this age of information is that it's changing. Our
consciousness around self care is changing, but it's still I
think for most people the hardest thing to do. They
(09:27):
put themselves last on the list, and it's like no,
and they wait until something is wrong. Right, But this
is just the you know, green light goat to not
wait until something's wrong, have yourself checked out, and statistics
of like, oh my gosh, over fifty thirteen times weren't
susceptible to cancers?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Right, Okay, yeah, it's it's very second.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
No, brand, I've been there.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I've had that calendar scheduled nine am, call the doctors,
scheduled this appointment whatever, And I will take that when
I get busy, I will take that event in my calendar,
and I'll slide it to the next day, and the
next day we'll come and go and I'll be like,
oop's got to get that done tomorrow, and it will
slide for weeks sometimes, and I feel terrible about that
because I probably, actually I know, I wouldn't do that
(10:15):
for anybody that I love. I would get that done
at nine am on Monday morning when I said I.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Would, right, And that's if we.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Do that to ourselves. I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I'm too busy. I've got other things i have to handle.
And I think that that's such an important message that
people hear that you're not alone if you're doing that too.
We all tend to do that, but we have to stop.
And this is like the ultimate I choose me moment,
to choose to take care of yourself, to choose to advocate.
And I was reading about you that when you had
(10:48):
your mom struggling with her breast cancer, like you said,
I think you were in your late twenties when that happened,
and you said that you started advocating for yourself at
that time and asking requesting for mammogram. Was that something
that your doctor was like, honey, you don't.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Yeah, they were pushing back about that. They're like, why
do you need it. I'm like, because my mother had
breast cancer, it's still a little early for you. I'm like, no,
it's not. So I've had to push and advocate so often.
But one of the things I wanted to circle back
(11:24):
to what you were saying, like me first, or that
if it was your friend, you wouldn't push it off.
If it was your friend that had a really important
appointment you were with her or whatever with them, you
wouldn't put them on hold or push it and push it.
But one of the things I did is I even
though I did play a doctor on tape, I would
get super nervous, and so I brought people. I would
bring someone with me to my appointments, you know, like
(11:45):
when I was going through back in the day fertility stuff.
I'm like, I'm going to go on this office and
to leave my body because I'm dissociate because I'm so
scared and nervous and I can't. So I'd bring a
friend with me. I remember my girlfriend game this was
in La years ago, and she brought a little Yorky
I'm like, okay, Karenn, You're coming with me. Because you
take notes and ask the questions that I'm going to
(12:07):
probably forget to ask. So I think that, you know,
maybe that's a new way to think about putting me
first or putting ourselves first.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's like, bring a friend with you. Make it it's
not And also, let's be honest, I'd rather have a
coffee any day, or you know, run a mile then
go to go to the doctor's appointment. You know. So
I'm like, okay, maybe make it fun, make it like.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
A lunch, have lunch and you can come, and then
next month we'll have lunch again and I'll go with you.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I like that exactly, girl time.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
That's good stacking, by the way, that's like you know
when you stack things in your calendar.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I do that all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
When I have something that like a lunch or something,
I really am so busy I can't do it. But
I'll stack that on my way to another meeting. And
then I'll stack a workout somewhere on the you know,
like I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The day stacker.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So that theory works well for me.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yes, yes, you know, yeah, cause it's not. I think
that's getting support and I think that, you know, again,
I can only speak for myself, but it's a I
think to deal with medical stuff and with our health
is just it can be really intimidating. And it's still new,
(13:18):
not just this technology with grails M said stuff, but
it's still so new. This consciousness is idea of prevention
and early detection. So it's just important, you know, we're
just retraining ourselves in the way we think and with this,
with the access that we have, with this early detection testing,
(13:39):
it's really it is truly generation possible. So it's it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And you said before early detection, prevention, longevity, it's all
about implementing things in our daily routine that will have
a positive impact, you know, for our overall health, not
just the things that we're the most scared of. And
I was wondering, what are some of your healthy practices,
anything that you think people should be trying out other
(14:06):
than this amazing test.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well, what of the things? I mean, I'm sure that
you know, look at when I was in my twenties
and thirties and even forties, I had a totally different lifestyle.
You know, I was working, I could survive on four
hours sleep, I would thrive, I was like, I'm fine,
you know, go out and then go to work seventeen hours,
then go out, you know, go home, go out whatever,
eat burgers and drink and smoke and coffee and all
(14:30):
the things. And then that changes. You're like that no
longer works for me. That doesn't that just doesn't work.
And yeah, so those days are over. Those days are over.
My life completely changed. I think it's really cool if
this younger generation has so much consciousness and awareness and
(14:50):
are so in many ways of just so much healthier.
But I work out, I changed even my workout stuff,
like once I learned to the possibility of having a
compromised bone density. For me, I'm like, oh, weight training.
I have to incorporate weight training into you know, beyond
just you know and not and plates is great. I've
(15:10):
always loved plates, yoga, I love, like, you know, all
all of the things. I sort of mix it up
a Weights was a big thing for me to incorporate
into my practice. And I'm so.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Scared of weights. They think they're going to get like.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
They're going to get big and bulkal Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's not it's not true.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I've been doing weights for a number of years now.
And I don't feel like I'm a I'm gonna go
grease up and do the show.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, I know, I know. No, that's I think that
that is sort of like a yeah, misnomer that you
think you're going to become. But I get it. You're like, oh,
I don't want to get bunky, but I but it's
truly amazing that it actually helps strengthen your bones. I
mean it's I've taken tests before and after and you're like, oh,
(15:56):
you were sort of in osteopenia. Now you're not like, Okay, great,
it's working. So I love things that are effective. I eat.
I like to eat food. I like to cook. I'm
half Italian. I'm like, I'm going to cook and I'm
going to eat. But everything in moderation and sleep is
a big one. Sleep hygiene. It's been in tho geys
for a number of years now, but it's really really
critical for me, and I feel it and then hormone
(16:19):
help all of it. I'm like, guess what here I am.
It's happening. Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
What can you do?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
You have to embrace it and just love yourself even
more through all of it, because if you try to
fight it it's not good for us. It adds more stress,
change our hormones. You know, it just kind of offsets
everything and puts your body in that data stress and
it's not doing the things it's supposed to be doing,
which is keeping us healthy and strong.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, and I think too that I don't know, I
can only speak for myself, I guess, but I feel like,
and I'll say, as women, we're just there isn't a
lot of teaching or consciousness around rest, around surrender, acceptance,
around like Okay, this is like now it's changed. Things
are changing. I think there. I think there's more of
(17:08):
it than ever before in many ways, like and there's
more options for women who are living longer and healthier.
But it's also like, oh yeah, we have to like
part of that is acceptance, like I'm not who I
wasn't in my twenties I was in my thirties, and
I love the way that it's not a negative thing,
but it's also everything is different, and like you said,
(17:30):
to try to fight that is ridiculous. It's like, no,
I can't try to go back, you know, get that.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I feel like, so, you know, being in the industry
that we're in, I feel like I've seen so many
I won't just say women. So many people try to
fight it so so hard instead of embracing it and
resetting the narrative in their head. Because we both come
from an industry that gave us pretty toxic narratives about aging,
and I think all women in the world are given
(17:59):
a lot of toxic messages about how we should look
and how we should feel and how we should present
ourselves and all of those things. But yes, it's about
accepting where you are and embracing it and like loving
yourself enough to hold your own hand through any of
(18:19):
those uncertain times when when you're you're grappling with like
I'm aging and I'm changing, my body is changing and
my needs are changing.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's it's something really interesting to sort of like embrace
and investigate as we because I'm fifty three. I just
turned fifty three recently, and I've learned more in my
fifties about most things in life, but specifically about myself
than I ever have before.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, same, same, Isn't it cool? It's really cool? And
I think you find your people and you find community,
you find people that are like minded in that sense
of because other. I mean, resistance is futile, but also like,
oh yeah, our bodies are changing. How cool, Just like
(19:09):
I'm not going to look the way I looked when
I was seven, when I'm ten, or when I'm thirteen
or twenty one. Like, no, we are constantly evolving and changing,
and we have this great gift of living longer and
an awareness of how to take really good care of ourselves.
(19:31):
I should also mention in the holistic aspect of all
that meditation community joy. I have a joy list. I'd
have a dry rise board in my office and I
have a list of twenty things twenty fun things to do.
This was on suggestion of an older lady friend mentor
(19:51):
of mine. She's like, let's here, do a joy list.
Write down twenty things that give you joy, and try
to do five a day. Like, hold up, that's a wow. Listen,
but listen, this is really a day. This is really interesting.
She's like. It can be as innocuous as taking a
nap or a walk, or calling a girlfriend, or hanging
(20:12):
out with your cats or dogs, whatever, being with you.
It can be as big as an exotic travel. It
could be seeing a movie. It could be cooking, it
could be enjoying grocery shopping, So it can be any
of these things, you know, singing, just dancing around the house.
So I just make a list of twenty from you know,
(20:33):
like I said, exotic travel or travel to just I
like cooking. You know, cats, Cats are at the top.
So my god, but he'd much yeah so, but but
it's like you actually find out. First of all, for me,
I was super aware of how much conditions I put
(20:54):
on fun, like, oh, it has to be earned. I
haven't done X, Y and Z. I need to earn
fun or earn my joy and like, nah, that starts
to go. So that is really my little joy list.
And then meditation. You know, meditation is a big one.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Do you meditate every day?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I do, and I don't. I'm in and out. But
I also trying to be kind about that, like I'm
not a rigid person, and I'm like, you know, my
life is different every day, and so I'm also you know, look,
I live in Australia most of the time. I still
have my apartment in New York. But I'm really lucky
to be by the ocean. Nature is my one of
(21:32):
my greatest sabs and joys. So I you know, kind
of want to see keep my schedule. I have a
friend who says she has a ventilated schedule. So if
I can so as much as I can, I can
stack too go up. Then I have like real like
chill days of like what's what's the world going to bring?
What's life going to bring me today?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So yeah, I tend to get super wrapped up in
my schedule and my calendar and all the entries in it,
and I got to get check everything off in the
day or else I have even more to do the
next day. But I think, yeah, it's really important. I'm
absolutely going to put a joy list up on my wall.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I'm telling you, just twenty things. It could be a nap,
it can be a crossword, it can be just calling
a girlfriend. It's just but just to be conscious of it.
And then I have it and I tick it off
and I'm like, okay, did I do my five things today?
And then you're aware of like, actually this is really cool.
I can't because I have that habit of anxiety and
(22:30):
worry of like, oh, and the meditation definitely helps her out,
but I'm working out all the things help but I'm like, oh,
there's not enough time, and I'm like, okay, but okay,
but that's just a thought and a feeling. But actually,
look at all the delightful things that I got to
do today, you know, so I.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Those are such such good tips.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It's funny you said you played a doctor on TV
for many.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Years, because I don't know about you, but like people.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Think that you are a doctor somehow, and.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
You're read.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Cause you are really good at playing the doctor.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
So there, thanks. Yeah, it's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Switching gears for a second.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I mean a lot of our listeners love Emily in Paris. Yeah,
you are we going to be seeing you coming back
or how's that?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I don't know, not this season. I have no idea.
I would love to go back. I mean it was
what a joy. I mean working in Paris, and I
love Darren Starry is so fun and I mean and yeah,
I mean he's She's just a delight and love. I
just so that was so fun. So I have no idea.
We'll see, but it's I loved playing a character is
(23:47):
so ridiculous and funny, and creating their costumes with Madly
and Patussi and Patricia Field. It was just delightful.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
So I mean alone being by those two powers I
know in Paris. Like, there's so many upsides of that job.
Those are all on my joy list.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
It was a good dream. It was all a good dream. Like, wait,
what we're shooting at Versa today? Oh, I'm at the
Oh you've shut down the Eiffel Tower so we can
go to the restaurant at the top. Okay, Like it's
just nuts. It was just like so much fun. I'm
so glad and I think I'm so thrilled for all
of the women on that show and the guys. But
(24:30):
it's because it is just fun and escapist and delightful
and so yeah, I have a really good time. But
right now I'm doing what am I? I'm just developing
a show to shoot here, a streaming show, so we'll
see how that goes. You know, it takes forever to delp.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You said you are happy where you are living in Australia.
I asked if you were going to be if you're
working there, and you said, no, I'm just here for love,
and I'm so I love that so much.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, yeah, he seems.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Really happy and like whole and I don't know, there's
just a beautiful light coming out of you, even at
this early hour, you're really.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Thank you good things, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I want to.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Circle back before we end this and mind people where
they can go.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Give us the website one more time.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Absolutely, it's genpossible dot com. This is for Grail's m
said M SAIDs danced for mult cancer early Detection. Go
to gen possible dot com. There's a quiz there to
help you understand if you think this is viable for you,
how to have a conversation with your doctor about it.
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You definitely want to have a conversation with your doctor
and see what they think.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
What if they say no, though, Kate, like, what if
I went to the website, I took the quiz. I'm
really intrigued by this, and I even watched the testimonials.
I went deep and what if I go to my
doctor and say I haven't experienced similar to what you had,
and they push back and they say, oh, you don't
need that, or.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I can't order it for you or whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
They should be able to order. They should be able
to order it. Be if you're over fifty then that's
one of the things I had said earlier is I
realized that you're thirteen times more likely to be vulnerable
to cancers. So that's a pretty high statistic. If there's
any concern in your family. I mean, I just really encourage.
I don't think you're going to get pushed back from
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a doctor. But there's all of the information is on
gen possible. So yes, yes, it's there, And I always
encourage people to really be advocate for their own health.
You know, I certainly have had to, and it's critical,
and this is a great asset. It is early detection.
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We know with early detection there are more options for treatment.
And this is not meant ps. I want to also
just reiterate, it's not meant to be substituting for the
regular cancer screenings Mamma brands, ultra sounds, you know, ovarian,
all the other typical cancers that we are colon rectal.
We still screen for those of those tests. But this
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has meant and said conjunction. It's one blood draw, it
can screen for many, many, many cancers. So yeah, it
truly is generation possible.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yes, it's exciting, so exciting.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I'm so glad that you shared this with me and
with everybody listening. It's really important and I think also
I hear this a lot when it's sort of directed
at me. But I'm just going to reflect it back
to you. What you're doing by speaking of about your
challenges in life, your health challenges, your mental challenges, whatever
it is. It makes people feel so less alone, so
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braver when they have somebody leading the way like this.
So I commend you for that and thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
For using your cloye.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
You're so welcome.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Before I let you go, though, Kate Walsh, what was
your last I Choose me moment?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Oh, A great question. I'm gonna I'm not gonna lie.
It was earlier today. It's just like I just it
was really pretty innocuous. I'm like, I'm not gonna do
that work. I'm gonna go take a nap. My gosh,
I took a.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
NAP's ohs big time.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Okay, I'm gonna take a nap.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I'm gonna do a crossword first and then gonna do
take a nap.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I'm just gonna I'm not gonna lie. I love bed if.
I just joke when I was in la if I
could take bed down the four or five, I would have.
I love reclining. I love me too, so I'm made
to rest. I know me too, and I think that
that I swear to God, there should just be like
a whole episode on relaxing and women. And that is
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it so hard? Rest? Rest? Rest? It's really hard. I
feel like rest means you have to deal with for me, anxiety,
the worry that am I good? And all the negative,
all the stuff that comes like wait at work, who
do you think you are? What are you doing? Who
are you right?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
It's so important though we ought to take care of ourselves.
I have to choose ourselves. And that's a perfect example. Well,
thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Gooday.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I don't know, it's so like Australian gooday, you have
a wonderful day.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Good day, okay, thank you, Thanks Jenny, take good care
you too. Thanks so much,
You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garth. Hi, everyone,
welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast is all about
the choices we make and where they lead us. My
guest today is known for her role as doctor Addison
Montgomery on the hit shows Gray's Anatomy and Private Practice,
(00:24):
and her role on the wildly popular Netflix show Emily
in Paris.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
On this podcast, we.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Talk about choosing ourselves, and today we're going to discuss
a huge way we can all choose ourselves. It's an
important message and I cannot wait to talk all about
it with my guest. Please welcome Kate Walsh to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
HII, oh my gosh. I'm really excited to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
We're doing this because this subject matter that you are
here to talk about is so important and I can't
wait for you to share this information with our listeners.
I remember, though, the moment you came on.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
To my TV.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I loved your character, doctor Addison.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, no, doctor, I started with a M.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, Addison Montgomery.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Adison Montgomery, you were so bad ass, you were wonderful
and I don't know, I just something ignited in me
as a woman when I saw you on screen. Because
you were strong and beautiful and intelligent.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I don't know, I really loved your character.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Thank you, Thank you so much. I mean I could
stay in your praises. But yeah, that's all. I mean,
it's all all the things. So thank you very very much.
And I'm so excited to come on and talk to
you about you know, advocating for our health and partnering
for me with GRAIL and M said testing very exciting. Yes,
(01:55):
I mean, I don't know anyone who's lied, has has
not been touched by cancer getting that terrible call or
test results and including me. You know, both my parents
were diagnosed with cancer. My dad died of lung cancer.
They didn't have any kind of early detection in those days.
(02:16):
My mother gratefully was a breast cancer survivor and after
a double mestectomy, was able to live in other thirty years,
you know, in great health. But early detection is where
it's at. We know that with early detection and more options.
So when I was approached by GRAIL for the multi
cancer Early Detection Test, I was super excited to partner
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because this is literally technology that we've never had before.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's what's so exciting.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And I love I you know, I don't love that
you have this passion behind why you're involved, but there's
such a meaning to your why when you're spreading this information,
So that really comes through I think, and people know
that it's so authentic and like this is something we
have to talk about well, that you have this personal connection.
I'm so sorry about your dad and thank you. But
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what a I mean, I'm I've got to be honest.
I'm terrified of getting cancer.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It is.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I mean, I'm terrified of getting any illness. Like I
don't I don't want that. I don't think anybody wants that. No,
And it's so powerful technology today because what you're talking
about this m said test.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What is the full name of.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
It, Multi cancer early Detection, Early detection. Yes, and it's
incredible technology. It's one blood draw and it can test
for many different types of cancer, even some of the deadliest.
Now this is uh suggested in conjunction with regular cancer screenings,
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you know, so it's not meant to replace ovarian or
you know, colon retal cancer screenings or what have you,
or breast cancer or your screenings regular mammograms and ultrasounds.
This is you know, in conjunction, and you can find
out if you're if you're a candidate for it, you
can go to gen possible dot com. There's a quiz there.
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We suggest talking to your doctor about it, seeing if
it's right for you. But we know it's a fact
that with early detection there are more options for treatment
full stop. And we also know if there's a big
psychological component to self care and well being. It's scary.
(04:37):
It's scary to go and advocate for yourself. It's scary
to look your fears in the eye and go, oh
my gosh. But I was so interested to know. I mean,
it truly is Generation possible. We did not have this,
we didn't have it ten years ago. It's just this
is just so exciting to me that you can, you know,
go and talk to your doctor and see is this
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something that's right for me? And then I found out,
which I didn't know, that after fifty or thirteen times
more likely to be vulnerable to cancer. So I was like, WHOA, Okay, yeah, So,
I mean my dad wasn't diagnosed until he was fifty eight.
My mother was always getting mammograms and had biopsies and
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ultrasounds and everything, and she wasn't you know she got
it when she was sixty two. So it's it's just
great to have this information, to have this access to
this technology, and to go to Genpossible dot com and see,
you know, it even shows you and if you get nervous,
because I get nervous when I go to doctors, for
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sure I did too.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I got nervous signing on to the to the website
that you just.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Gave us last night.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I took a deep time. I mean, yeah, it's like
I don't want to look at it, but it's it
is the most important thing. We're nothing without our health.
And so but there was a questionnaire on there if
you saw that, so it can help you even understand
how to have a conversation with the doctor and I
did you? How did? How did did? What was your experience?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Well, I wasn't shocked that it suggested that I talked
to my doctor about getting the test, and I've already
sent an email. So I'm very grateful that this conversation
is happening because I wouldn't have known about this technology,
and I wouldn't have been had the impulse or the
urge to take action. And I think that's what someone
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like you talking about this that's why it's so important,
or just bringing this to people's awareness. Yes, I mean
it's good that April is National Cancer Prevention and Early
Detection Month. And yeah, I know that, like you said before,
we've all been personally affected by cancer in one way
or another, and it's not it's not fun. Nobody wants
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to hear that test result come back negative or positive.
However it works, I'm not sure, but I'll know soon
because I'm going to get it good.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I know I plan to get it as well. It's
also it's just that for me, I think that there's
so much information out there too that can be overwhelming
for people as well that you're like, oh my gosh,
what do I do? And then people are just like
freezing and they're not going to do anything. You're like,
I'm just going to go pull my put the covers
over my head and pretend this is not happening. So
(07:26):
this is something that I think it's so easy and accessible,
and again you're not doing it alone. You go to
gempossible dot com, take the quiz, talk to your doctor
see if it's right for you. This is not something
you just go on your own and go okay, and
roll the dice and see and just that again. Not
to you know, hit the nail on the head too
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many times. But early detection is critical. It gives more
options for treatment. We know that.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I talk a lot about that with heart health and
early section and prevention, and I think it's so key.
And I'm really diligent about taking care of myself. You know,
I have some bad family genetics in a few areas,
So getting my stands in my exams is so important
to me. And yeah, I want to know so that
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I can do something about I just completed my blood
my fresh blood work, my papsmear, my black test for
my heart, I have my mammogram schedule.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And that's a lot to.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Like coordinate and wrangle around if you're doing it on
your own like I am. And so the thought of
going to one blood test which can detect a lot
of the things that I'm looking for individually, that's really cool.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's it's so great that it's one blood draw and
it can test for even some of the most deadly cancers.
It's incredible. Actually, we've never had this time. My parents
generation did not have this technology. And we know too
just what you're saying. You were just saying that how
much work it takes to get all this stuff done.
And even my partner is like, I gotta get my
eyes tests. I mean these are basic things like yeah,
(09:05):
I think I should get my hearing test, and I'm like,
have you done it? Have you made the appointment? Oh? No,
I haven't. It's like people and I think we're so
you know, socialized, and we're in this. The great thing
about this age of information is that it's changing. Our
consciousness around self care is changing, but it's still I
think for most people the hardest thing to do. They
(09:27):
put themselves last on the list, and it's like no,
and they wait until something is wrong. Right, But this
is just the you know, green light goat to not
wait until something's wrong, have yourself checked out, and statistics
of like, oh my gosh, over fifty thirteen times weren't
susceptible to cancers?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Right, Okay, yeah, it's it's very second.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
No, brand, I've been there.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I've had that calendar scheduled nine am, call the doctors,
scheduled this appointment whatever, And I will take that when
I get busy, I will take that event in my calendar,
and I'll slide it to the next day, and the
next day we'll come and go and I'll be like,
oop's got to get that done tomorrow, and it will
slide for weeks sometimes, and I feel terrible about that
because I probably, actually I know, I wouldn't do that
(10:15):
for anybody that I love. I would get that done
at nine am on Monday morning when I said I.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Would, right, And that's if we.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Do that to ourselves. I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I'm too busy. I've got other things i have to handle.
And I think that that's such an important message that
people hear that you're not alone if you're doing that too.
We all tend to do that, but we have to stop.
And this is like the ultimate I choose me moment,
to choose to take care of yourself, to choose to advocate.
And I was reading about you that when you had
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your mom struggling with her breast cancer, like you said,
I think you were in your late twenties when that happened,
and you said that you started advocating for yourself at
that time and asking requesting for mammogram. Was that something
that your doctor was like, honey, you don't.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Yeah, they were pushing back about that. They're like, why
do you need it. I'm like, because my mother had
breast cancer, it's still a little early for you. I'm like, no,
it's not. So I've had to push and advocate so often.
But one of the things I wanted to circle back
(11:24):
to what you were saying, like me first, or that
if it was your friend, you wouldn't push it off.
If it was your friend that had a really important
appointment you were with her or whatever with them, you
wouldn't put them on hold or push it and push it.
But one of the things I did is I even
though I did play a doctor on tape, I would
get super nervous, and so I brought people. I would
bring someone with me to my appointments, you know, like
(11:45):
when I was going through back in the day fertility stuff.
I'm like, I'm going to go on this office and
to leave my body because I'm dissociate because I'm so
scared and nervous and I can't. So I'd bring a
friend with me. I remember my girlfriend game this was
in La years ago, and she brought a little Yorky
I'm like, okay, Karenn, You're coming with me. Because you
take notes and ask the questions that I'm going to
(12:07):
probably forget to ask. So I think that, you know,
maybe that's a new way to think about putting me
first or putting ourselves first.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's like, bring a friend with you. Make it it's
not And also, let's be honest, I'd rather have a
coffee any day, or you know, run a mile then
go to go to the doctor's appointment. You know. So
I'm like, okay, maybe make it fun, make it like.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
A lunch, have lunch and you can come, and then
next month we'll have lunch again and I'll go with you.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I like that exactly, girl time.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
That's good stacking, by the way, that's like you know
when you stack things in your calendar.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I do that all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
When I have something that like a lunch or something,
I really am so busy I can't do it. But
I'll stack that on my way to another meeting. And
then I'll stack a workout somewhere on the you know,
like I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The day stacker.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So that theory works well for me.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yes, yes, you know, yeah, cause it's not. I think
that's getting support and I think that, you know, again,
I can only speak for myself, but it's a I
think to deal with medical stuff and with our health
is just it can be really intimidating. And it's still new,
(13:18):
not just this technology with grails M said stuff, but
it's still so new. This consciousness is idea of prevention
and early detection. So it's just important, you know, we're
just retraining ourselves in the way we think and with this,
with the access that we have, with this early detection testing,
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it's really it is truly generation possible. So it's it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And you said before early detection, prevention, longevity, it's all
about implementing things in our daily routine that will have
a positive impact, you know, for our overall health, not
just the things that we're the most scared of. And
I was wondering, what are some of your healthy practices,
anything that you think people should be trying out other
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than this amazing test.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Well, what of the things? I mean, I'm sure that
you know, look at when I was in my twenties
and thirties and even forties, I had a totally different lifestyle.
You know, I was working, I could survive on four
hours sleep, I would thrive, I was like, I'm fine,
you know, go out and then go to work seventeen hours,
then go out, you know, go home, go out whatever,
eat burgers and drink and smoke and coffee and all
(14:30):
the things. And then that changes. You're like that no
longer works for me. That doesn't that just doesn't work.
And yeah, so those days are over. Those days are over.
My life completely changed. I think it's really cool if
this younger generation has so much consciousness and awareness and
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are so in many ways of just so much healthier.
But I work out, I changed even my workout stuff,
like once I learned to the possibility of having a
compromised bone density. For me, I'm like, oh, weight training.
I have to incorporate weight training into you know, beyond
just you know and not and plates is great. I've
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always loved plates, yoga, I love, like, you know, all
all of the things. I sort of mix it up
a Weights was a big thing for me to incorporate
into my practice. And I'm so.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Scared of weights. They think they're going to get like.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
They're going to get big and bulkal Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's not it's not true.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I've been doing weights for a number of years now.
And I don't feel like I'm a I'm gonna go
grease up and do the show.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, I know, I know. No, that's I think that
that is sort of like a yeah, misnomer that you
think you're going to become. But I get it. You're like, oh,
I don't want to get bunky, but I but it's
truly amazing that it actually helps strengthen your bones. I
mean it's I've taken tests before and after and you're like, oh,
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you were sort of in osteopenia. Now you're not like, Okay, great,
it's working. So I love things that are effective. I eat.
I like to eat food. I like to cook. I'm
half Italian. I'm like, I'm going to cook and I'm
going to eat. But everything in moderation and sleep is
a big one. Sleep hygiene. It's been in tho geys
for a number of years now, but it's really really
critical for me, and I feel it and then hormone
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help all of it. I'm like, guess what here I am.
It's happening. Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
What can you do?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
You have to embrace it and just love yourself even
more through all of it, because if you try to
fight it it's not good for us. It adds more stress,
change our hormones. You know, it just kind of offsets
everything and puts your body in that data stress and
it's not doing the things it's supposed to be doing,
which is keeping us healthy and strong.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, and I think too that I don't know, I
can only speak for myself, I guess, but I feel like,
and I'll say, as women, we're just there isn't a
lot of teaching or consciousness around rest, around surrender, acceptance,
around like Okay, this is like now it's changed. Things
are changing. I think there. I think there's more of
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it than ever before in many ways, like and there's
more options for women who are living longer and healthier.
But it's also like, oh yeah, we have to like
part of that is acceptance, like I'm not who I
wasn't in my twenties I was in my thirties, and
I love the way that it's not a negative thing,
but it's also everything is different, and like you said,
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to try to fight that is ridiculous. It's like, no,
I can't try to go back, you know, get that.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I feel like, so, you know, being in the industry
that we're in, I feel like I've seen so many
I won't just say women. So many people try to
fight it so so hard instead of embracing it and
resetting the narrative in their head. Because we both come
from an industry that gave us pretty toxic narratives about aging,
and I think all women in the world are given
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a lot of toxic messages about how we should look
and how we should feel and how we should present
ourselves and all of those things. But yes, it's about
accepting where you are and embracing it and like loving
yourself enough to hold your own hand through any of
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those uncertain times when when you're you're grappling with like
I'm aging and I'm changing, my body is changing and
my needs are changing.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's it's something really interesting to sort of like embrace
and investigate as we because I'm fifty three. I just
turned fifty three recently, and I've learned more in my
fifties about most things in life, but specifically about myself
than I ever have before.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, same, same, Isn't it cool? It's really cool? And
I think you find your people and you find community,
you find people that are like minded in that sense
of because other. I mean, resistance is futile, but also like,
oh yeah, our bodies are changing. How cool, Just like
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I'm not going to look the way I looked when
I was seven, when I'm ten, or when I'm thirteen
or twenty one. Like, no, we are constantly evolving and changing,
and we have this great gift of living longer and
an awareness of how to take really good care of ourselves.
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I should also mention in the holistic aspect of all
that meditation community joy. I have a joy list. I'd
have a dry rise board in my office and I
have a list of twenty things twenty fun things to do.
This was on suggestion of an older lady friend mentor
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of mine. She's like, let's here, do a joy list.
Write down twenty things that give you joy, and try
to do five a day. Like, hold up, that's a wow. Listen,
but listen, this is really a day. This is really interesting.
She's like. It can be as innocuous as taking a
nap or a walk, or calling a girlfriend, or hanging
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out with your cats or dogs, whatever, being with you.
It can be as big as an exotic travel. It
could be seeing a movie. It could be cooking, it
could be enjoying grocery shopping, So it can be any
of these things, you know, singing, just dancing around the house.
So I just make a list of twenty from you know,
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like I said, exotic travel or travel to just I
like cooking. You know, cats, Cats are at the top.
So my god, but he'd much yeah so, but but
it's like you actually find out. First of all, for me,
I was super aware of how much conditions I put
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on fun, like, oh, it has to be earned. I
haven't done X, Y and Z. I need to earn
fun or earn my joy and like, nah, that starts
to go. So that is really my little joy list.
And then meditation. You know, meditation is a big one.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Do you meditate every day?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I do, and I don't. I'm in and out. But
I also trying to be kind about that, like I'm
not a rigid person, and I'm like, you know, my
life is different every day, and so I'm also you know, look,
I live in Australia most of the time. I still
have my apartment in New York. But I'm really lucky
to be by the ocean. Nature is my one of
(21:32):
my greatest sabs and joys. So I you know, kind
of want to see keep my schedule. I have a
friend who says she has a ventilated schedule. So if
I can so as much as I can, I can
stack too go up. Then I have like real like
chill days of like what's what's the world going to bring?
What's life going to bring me today?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So yeah, I tend to get super wrapped up in
my schedule and my calendar and all the entries in it,
and I got to get check everything off in the
day or else I have even more to do the
next day. But I think, yeah, it's really important. I'm
absolutely going to put a joy list up on my wall.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I'm telling you, just twenty things. It could be a nap,
it can be a crossword, it can be just calling
a girlfriend. It's just but just to be conscious of it.
And then I have it and I tick it off
and I'm like, okay, did I do my five things today?
And then you're aware of like, actually this is really cool.
I can't because I have that habit of anxiety and
(22:30):
worry of like, oh, and the meditation definitely helps her out,
but I'm working out all the things help but I'm like, oh,
there's not enough time, and I'm like, okay, but okay,
but that's just a thought and a feeling. But actually,
look at all the delightful things that I got to
do today, you know, so I.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Those are such such good tips.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It's funny you said you played a doctor on TV
for many.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Years, because I don't know about you, but like people.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Think that you are a doctor somehow, and.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
You're read.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Cause you are really good at playing the doctor.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
So there, thanks. Yeah, it's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Switching gears for a second.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I mean a lot of our listeners love Emily in Paris. Yeah,
you are we going to be seeing you coming back
or how's that?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I don't know, not this season. I have no idea.
I would love to go back. I mean it was
what a joy. I mean working in Paris, and I
love Darren Starry is so fun and I mean and yeah,
I mean he's She's just a delight and love. I
just so that was so fun. So I have no idea.
We'll see, but it's I loved playing a character is
(23:47):
so ridiculous and funny, and creating their costumes with Madly
and Patussi and Patricia Field. It was just delightful.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
So I mean alone being by those two powers I
know in Paris. Like, there's so many upsides of that job.
Those are all on my joy list.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
It was a good dream. It was all a good dream. Like, wait,
what we're shooting at Versa today? Oh, I'm at the
Oh you've shut down the Eiffel Tower so we can
go to the restaurant at the top. Okay, Like it's
just nuts. It was just like so much fun. I'm
so glad and I think I'm so thrilled for all
of the women on that show and the guys. But
(24:30):
it's because it is just fun and escapist and delightful
and so yeah, I have a really good time. But
right now I'm doing what am I? I'm just developing
a show to shoot here, a streaming show, so we'll
see how that goes. You know, it takes forever to delp.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You said you are happy where you are living in Australia.
I asked if you were going to be if you're
working there, and you said, no, I'm just here for love,
and I'm so I love that so much.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, yeah, he seems.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Really happy and like whole and I don't know, there's
just a beautiful light coming out of you, even at
this early hour, you're really.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Thank you good things, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I want to.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Circle back before we end this and mind people where
they can go.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Give us the website one more time.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Absolutely, it's genpossible dot com. This is for Grail's m
said M SAIDs danced for mult cancer early Detection. Go
to gen possible dot com. There's a quiz there to
help you understand if you think this is viable for you,
how to have a conversation with your doctor about it.
(25:42):
You definitely want to have a conversation with your doctor
and see what they think.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
What if they say no, though, Kate, like, what if
I went to the website, I took the quiz. I'm
really intrigued by this, and I even watched the testimonials.
I went deep and what if I go to my
doctor and say I haven't experienced similar to what you had,
and they push back and they say, oh, you don't
need that, or.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I can't order it for you or whatever.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
They should be able to order. They should be able
to order it. Be if you're over fifty then that's
one of the things I had said earlier is I
realized that you're thirteen times more likely to be vulnerable
to cancers. So that's a pretty high statistic. If there's
any concern in your family. I mean, I just really encourage.
I don't think you're going to get pushed back from
(26:29):
a doctor. But there's all of the information is on
gen possible. So yes, yes, it's there, And I always
encourage people to really be advocate for their own health.
You know, I certainly have had to, and it's critical,
and this is a great asset. It is early detection.
(26:51):
We know with early detection there are more options for treatment.
And this is not meant ps. I want to also
just reiterate, it's not meant to be substituting for the
regular cancer screenings Mamma brands, ultra sounds, you know, ovarian,
all the other typical cancers that we are colon rectal.
We still screen for those of those tests. But this
(27:13):
has meant and said conjunction. It's one blood draw, it
can screen for many, many, many cancers. So yeah, it
truly is generation possible.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yes, it's exciting, so exciting.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I'm so glad that you shared this with me and
with everybody listening. It's really important and I think also
I hear this a lot when it's sort of directed
at me. But I'm just going to reflect it back
to you. What you're doing by speaking of about your
challenges in life, your health challenges, your mental challenges, whatever
it is. It makes people feel so less alone, so
(27:51):
braver when they have somebody leading the way like this.
So I commend you for that and thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
For using your cloye.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
You're so welcome.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Before I let you go, though, Kate Walsh, what was
your last I Choose me moment?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Oh, A great question. I'm gonna I'm not gonna lie.
It was earlier today. It's just like I just it
was really pretty innocuous. I'm like, I'm not gonna do
that work. I'm gonna go take a nap. My gosh,
I took a.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
NAP's ohs big time.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Okay, I'm gonna take a nap.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I'm gonna do a crossword first and then gonna do
take a nap.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I'm just gonna I'm not gonna lie. I love bed if.
I just joke when I was in la if I
could take bed down the four or five, I would have.
I love reclining. I love me too, so I'm made
to rest. I know me too, and I think that
that I swear to God, there should just be like
a whole episode on relaxing and women. And that is
(29:03):
it so hard? Rest? Rest? Rest? It's really hard. I
feel like rest means you have to deal with for me, anxiety,
the worry that am I good? And all the negative,
all the stuff that comes like wait at work, who
do you think you are? What are you doing? Who
are you right?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
It's so important though we ought to take care of ourselves.
I have to choose ourselves. And that's a perfect example. Well,
thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Gooday.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I don't know, it's so like Australian gooday, you have
a wonderful day.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Good day, okay, thank you, Thanks Jenny, take good care
you too. Thanks so much,
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Tori Spelling
Jennie Garth
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