Sometimes purpose requires you to use your voice, even when you’d much rather stay quietly in the background.

For Frances, advocacy wasn’t born from being the loudest person in the room. Quite the opposite. Her breast cancer story has taken her from an early-stage TNBC diagnosis at 39 to metastatic disease at 42, from questions about her own BRCA2+ status to bigger questions about genetics, family history and health equity, and even all the way to a runway at New York Fashion Week. Through it all, she’s learning that life doesn’t have to follow the plan to still have purpose. Meet Frances beyond the diagnosis in this week’s #BehindTheBaddie blog.