Episode 54 -Danni Duncan on Bowel Cancer, Resilience, and Owning Your Health

In this episode, Vicki interviews Australian health coach, entrepreneur, author, and podcast host Danni Duncan, a bowel cancer survivor. Danni shares how her background in ballet, struggles with eating disorders, and motherhood led her to study nutrition, build the “Figure Babe” community during lockdown, and later launch her fitness app. She discusses the pressures of online work, dealing with trolls, and a recent controversy about ultra-processed school lunchboxes, linking childhood diets to rising bowel cancer risk.

Danni recounts her diagnosis after severe iron/hemoglobin drops, fatigue, and dizziness postpartum, leading to urgent colonoscopy, robotic surgery removing a malignant tumor and 30 cm of bowel, and chemotherapy. She emphasizes mindset, exercise, gratitude, advocacy for early detection, and offers tips: nourish your body, move daily, and practice gratitude.