SURVIVAL IS MY SUPERPOWER: Diagnosis to Dominance Thriving with Stage IV Breast Cancer and Lymphoma

Broken. Rebuilt. Unstoppable.

After 23 years of normal mammograms , LeAnita Ragland-Brooks discovered her own breast cancer. She followed every treatment plan only to learn it had progressed to Stage IV metastatic breast cancer and lymphoma .

This is the story of how she refused to let it break her.

A life-changing diagnosis can shatter everything you thought you knew about your future.

It does not have to destroy your power.

After 23 years of routine mammograms , executive leader LeAnita Ragland-Brooks , who spent more than three decades building award-winning, high-performance teams, discovered the cancer herself. She was diagnosed with Stage III Invasive Lobular Carcinoma , a form of breast cancer often difficult to detect on mammograms.

She confronted the diagnosis with discipline and determination.

Surgeries.
Chemotherapy.
Radiation.
Medication.
Every protocol. Every step.

Then the unimaginable happened.

Despite aggressive treatment, the cancer progressed to Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, an incurable diagnosis , and she later learned she was also living with lymphoma .

In a single moment, the future she had carefully built felt shattered. Certainty disappeared. The life she knew felt broken in ways few people truly understand.

Most people would have stopped there.
She refused to.

But this is not a story about staying broken.

Survival Is My Superpower is a powerful and deeply human story about courage, leadership, and what it means to live fully even when life changes without warning.

Drawing on more than three decades of experience building award-winning, high-performance teams , Ragland-Brooks brings a rare perspective to the cancer journey. She approaches diagnosis the way great leaders approach crisis: with strategy, clarity, and the belief that even devastating challenges can become catalysts for transformation.

Through raw storytelling, affirmations for medical events, and the mindset framework she calls the S.U.P.E.R.P.O.W.E.R.™ Methodology , she shows readers how to move beyond fear and uncertainty and reclaim control of their lives.

This book is for anyone facing a life-altering diagnosis.
For the families standing beside them.
And for anyone who has ever wondered how to keep living boldly when life suddenly feels fragile.

Inside this inspiring and empowering book, readers will discover:

• How to navigate Stage IV cancer with courage and clarity
• Mindset strategies for facing medical uncertainty
• Affirmations for difficult treatment and testing days
• Leadership lessons for surviving life’s hardest moments
• A path toward gratitude, alignment, and abundance , even in adversity

Because survival is not just about making it through.

It is about rising stronger.

Even when life breaks you.
Even when certainty disappears.
Even when the future looks nothing like you imagined.

Strength is not the absence of struggle.