When I sat down with Suraj Vaghjiani and his father on The Migrant Mentor Podcast, we began discussing my career in journalism, my life as an entrepreneur, and my forthright views on the craft of writing. After a while, our conversation took a deeply personal turn, and for the first time publicly, I opened up about the most difficult period in my life—my brush with terminal cancer. It all began in December 2020, when I received the devastating diagnosis. Just when I thought I had reached a pinnacle in my life, everything changed in an instant. I'd capped off a successful career as an editor at The Wall Street Journal and I was living my dream—earning a healthy passive income and teaching the craft I loved to over a million students worldwide. Then, out of nowhere, came the news I had stage-four colon cancer. The prognosis wasn’t good either; they told me I might not survive more than 18 months. Just like that my world came crashing down. Then it got worse. After enduring multiple surgeries and gruelling rounds of chemotherapy to combat the cancer in my colon and liver, the disease continued to spread aggressively, making its way to my lungs. With my survival prospects looking increasingly grim, I knew I had to explore every possible avenue to save myself. That’s when I decided to embark on a healing journey that went beyond conventional medicine. I tried everything—from anti-cancer diets and detoxing to juicing, fasting, cognitive therapy, hypnosis, reiki, meditation, mantras, and even ice baths. Eventually, I realised the only way to fight back against this relentless disease would be to focus not only on treatments, but also on healing my body, mind, and spirit. I'm writing about my roller-coaster of a journey in a memoir I hope to finish by next year. There are many lessons I want to share from my experience with cancer that I'm certain will help others facing a similar diagnosis, or even just those seeking to improve their physical, mental and spiritual well-being.