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Episode 500 of the POZcast is not like any other episode in the series. It is the conversation Adam Posner has been working toward for seven years — and didn't know it until he got his own diagnosis.
Geoffrey Rogow is a two-decade veteran of financial journalism at the Wall Street Journal, the founder of After Treatment (a news platform serving more than 20 million cancer survivors in the US), and the author of the forthcoming book I'm Alive: Now What? — a survivor's guide to the complex, often overlooked reality of life after cancer treatment. He was diagnosed with primary mediastinal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 30, went through four and a half months of chemotherapy, and has been in remission for more than a decade.
Adam was diagnosed with Stage 3A Hodgkin's lymphoma at 45 — discovered accidentally, through a routine cardiac scan, because his brother-in-law had recently died of a heart attack. He finished treatment in September 2025 and is two scans post-remission.
What follows is one of the most honest, specific, and human conversations about cancer survivorship available anywhere. It covers the moment of diagnosis, the experience of chemotherapy (steroids, fatigue, hair loss, eyebrows, the taste of treatment), the communication crises that test relationships, the financial reality that hits long after the bills from treatment, the fertility decisions that have to be made in days, and the identity questions that don't resolve on a timeline. Geoffrey's framework for the biannual check-in — a structured, scheduled evaluation of whether you're on the path you want to be on professionally, relationally, and personally — is one of the most immediately actionable frameworks in the entire series.
His concept of ambition lanes is the most generous reframe of a diminished life any guest has offered. And his closing question to Adam — are you getting the support you need? — is a question every survivor and every person who loves one should be asking.
This is the episode for anyone who has had cancer, loves someone who has, or is going through it right now. It's also the episode for anyone who has reached a milestone and wondered what they were really building toward. Seven years. Five hundred episodes. This one matters.
Connect with Geoffrey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffrey-rogow/
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