Author ‘pays it forward’ with new book

Travis Brady

Excerpted from the Salisbury Post (North Carolina). Published Thursday, October 10, 2024.

By Karen Kistler

When she heard the words cancer, Travis Brady (China 1994) said her reaction was utter disbelief. Now, in remission and eight years out, she has written a book entitled “Make Room for Healing: 40 Tips from a Breast Cancer Survivor,” which she said is a way to pay it forward. “The book is not a memoir,” Brady said. “It’s really about the tips and tricks and things that helped me get through treatment because I knew I wanted to pay forward a way to make going through breast cancer treatment easier for people that we love. That’s really my mission.”

Raised in Salisbury and serving as vice president of HR for Hedrick Industries, Brady, along with her husband, David Grose and three-year-old daughter Grier, who now live in Chapel Hill, were living in Northern California when she received a diagnosis of breast cancer. This was just five days before they were to move back to North Carolina. Brady said when she thought about returning home, she said, “I didn’t think I would start my first year off with breast cancer treatment,” but she did feel fortunate to have had family and friends for support plus Duke University and UNC hospitals.  Her mom, Judy Newman, “was right there helping us out every step of the way,” she said. Newman died about two years ago, but her stepfather, Hank Newman and her dad and his wife, Alice and Burl Brady, are still in the area.

In addition to family support, she said it extended beyond Salisbury as she had joined the Peace Corps and lived in Yemen, as well as in New York and California. Therefore, their support network was spread out with people helping in different ways.

Read more at: https://www.salisburypost.com/2024/10/10/author-pays-it-forward-with-new-book-signing-set-for-oct-17/

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