What happens when cancer defines your family for 40 years—and you’re still finding reasons to laugh?

Richard Willmore was seven when his father’s cancer diagnosis turned their family from “the neighborhood hub where everyone hung out” into “the sad family getting dinners delivered.” Thirty-eight years later, his dad is still fighting, and Richard has become something of a “cancer whisperer”—someone who speaks the unspoken language of treatment centers.

In this conversation, Richard shares why he brought his cancer-fighting father to fourth-grade show-and-tell, how hospital art classes taught him that patients will coordinate chemo around what matters to them, and why telling a hospice patient “that sucks” created more healing than any positive platitude could.

You’ll discover how small daily rituals become anchors when medical chaos takes over, why 70% of cancer patients worry more about money than dying, and how Richard learned to find joy not despite the hardest chapters, but within them.

His 4:15 AM gym routine and black coffee rituals aren’t magic—they’re yours to control when everything else isn’t.