Beauty After Breast Cancer! Sometimes beauty is described by our physical body rather than our mindset. I discovered my beauty from within after being diagnosed with breast cancer at age thirty. What could have been a devastating moment for me turned into the best thing that has ever happened. Although breast cancer does not define me, it did create in me a desire to live life to the fullest while searching for my purpose here on earth, to make sure that God got all the glory for every day that I lived past my diagnosis. My whole world changed the minute I heard those words, “You have breast cancer!” Rather than see this as a death threat I took that diagnosis and created a platform to share my story of survival through my business, “Geri Speak.” I started with one speaking engagement and after thirty-five years the speeches and events that I have attended and planned are too numerous to count. Every day that I wake up I thank God for another opportunity to be a light in a dark world. I ask Him to guide my thoughts, my deeds, my words, my efforts and my every move.