From a glamorous pharmaceutical sales career once specializing in female healthcare to being rejected in the food stamp line, bald and under chemo - Susan LeBlanc is instrumental in capturing menopausal audiences, previvors, cancer survivors, and delicate divas by sharing her tumultuous ride through life. The unique trait she carries and delivers to audiences is passion and a unwavering desire to keep thriving through unusual adversities such as having a parent missing never to be found. Susan LeBlanc's Mission Statement is to "Create Medical Awareness - In a less medicinal way! She is a stellar performer, with theatrical flair inspiring others to survive their adversities. Susan is the creator of "Gutzky Girl" a role model, an oncology website, and a patient handbook instructing patients on literature this is the start of prevention and wellness: she proclaims. Her battle with breast cancer was not an ending but a new beginning following a passion for educating others with a Gutzky Girl mentality and breast cancer burlesque seminars that are engaging and interactive! Her goal is to have her handbook, "Speak Slow I've had Chemo" An A - Z Guide to Surviving Breast Cancer in the hands of many breast cancer patients as well as young women for prevention and wellness.

Susan is a native of Louisiana, and was formally educated at Southeastern Louisiana University with a BA in Communications. Her training in pharmacology was through major pharmaceutical companies as Wyeth Ayerst, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Abott Labs, Purdue and PDI. She was once asked if her passion was in theatrics during intense pharmacology training as she sang songs in her drug details! Her oncology experience was not the journey chosen but from this moment on a new career path has evolved into Fun, Direct, Advice. Her mentoring of writing and speaking is through the National Speakers Association of New Orleans. In addition, she inherited talents as her parents' playful, musical gifts, charm and wittiness for presentations skills.

If we can make cancer approachable and fun we can attract healthy women and men to understanding its' causes and scare tactics to create change in daily living. No one wants or chooses to start over in life but at least for some it is an option! An opportunity to live, learn, and grow at a slower pace but healthier place for positive life skills perhaps we were not aware of before.