Survivorship is not the end of your story.
It is the beginning of your most powerful chapter.
Own Your Next is an eight week coaching program and community for women reclaiming their identity, confidence, and career after breast cancer.
You finished treatment.
Now what?
Everyone expects you to go back to normal. To pick up right where you left off.
But you are not the same woman you were before, and that is not a loss. Your energy
is different. Your priorities have moved. The confidence that used to come so easily
may feel like it belongs to someone else right now.
You had doctors for your body. Therapy for your mind. Support groups for your heart.
But when it comes to rebuilding your professional identity, stepping back into
leadership, and choosing what you actually want next, most women are left to work it
out alone.
That is the gap we were built to close.
The gap is real
the scale
4.3 million
Women in the United States are living with a history of breast cancer, the largest group of cancer survivors in the country.
That number is expected to reach 5.3 million by 2035.
Source: American Cancer Society, Cancer Treatment and Survivorship Statistics, 2025
the career impact
nearly 1 in 3
Women who were working when they were diagnosed with early stage breast cancer were no longer working four years later, and for most of them it was not by choice.
Source: Jagsi et al., Cancer, 2014
the gap
42%
Of cancer patients received no guidance at all from a healthcare professional about returning to work.
Source: Dugan et al., 2021
Why we call you a Thriver
The women in our program are not patients here. We call them Thrivers.
A Thriver is a woman who has been through something enormous and is now deciding, on her own terms, what she wants her life and her leadership to look like. She is not going back. She is going forward, with more clarity than she has ever had.
When you join a cohort, you join a group of Thrivers who understand
this moment without needing it explained.
What you will experience
One to one coaching
Private sessions with a certified professional coach, shaped around your goals, your pace, and exactly where you are right now.
Group coaching
Small cohort sessions with other Thrivers who get it. No explaining required.
Community
A confidential space to connect, reflect, and rise alongside women navigating the same transition.
A private, HIPAA compliant portal
Your secure coaching hub for resources, reflection, and staying connected between sessions.
The eight week journey
Own Your Next runs in small cohorts, four times a year, so you can begin when the timing is right for you. Every cohort travels the eight weeks together, guided by certified coaches who volunteer their time and their expertise.
This is not therapy and it is not medical advice. It is structured, evidence informed executive coaching, built for the emotional, cognitive, and professional realities of life after treatment.
Phase 1: Reclaiming
Reconnect with your values, your voice, and your identity. Get clear on who you are now, not who you were expected to be.
Phase 2: Rebuilding
Rebuild confidence, presence, and momentum. Build practical tools for returning to work, changing direction, or redefining what success means to you.
Phase 3: Rising
Name what comes next on your own terms, and step into it with clarity, courage, and a community behind you.
Who this is for
Own Your Next is for women who have completed active breast cancer treatment and are ready to:
- Rebuild confidence and reconnect with themselves
- Reclaim their voice, their values, and their vision
- Navigate returning to work, changing careers, or redefining success entirely
- Step into leadership and life with greater clarity
- Create their next chapter intentionally, on their own terms
Our Thrivers are leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals across industries, most of them between 35 and 55, in their prime career years. They are not looking for medical advice or therapy. They are looking for clarity, confidence, identity, and a path forward.
If that sounds like you, you belong here.
A message from our founder
When my treatment ended, everyone expected me to bounce back. But no one was helping me reconnect with my values, my identity, or the woman I was becoming. I realized the very thing I needed did not exist, so I built it.
If you are standing at that same crossroads, I want you to know this: you do not have to figure out what comes next alone.
Gina Martin, MS, MCC
Founder and Managing Director, Own Your Next
Send a Thriver Through the Program
Participation in Own Your Next is offered at no cost to every Thriver, made possible by the generosity of supporters like you and by the coaches who volunteer their expertise.
That is possible because someone else paid for her seat.
Our average cost per participant is $500. That covers her one to one coaching, her group sessions, her secure portal, and her community for the full eight weeks.
Your gift is not a donation to an idea. It is a seat at the table for a woman who just finished treatment and does not know what comes next.