“All I wanted when I was diagnosed was to understand what survivors are doing differently.”
-Julie Stevens
I met Julie Stevens at the 2026 Annie Appleseed Conference and was immediately impressed by her survival story, energy, intelligence, and passion for research.
Julie is a stage IV colon cancer survivor, healthcare advocate, health strategist, and Industrial and Organizational Psychologist who enthusiastically refers to herself as a “Data Gangster.”
In 2022, at 43, routine blood work showed Julie was low in iron. A colonoscopy revealed a large tumor, and Julie was eventually diagnosed with aggressive, inoperable stage IV colon cancer and told she had a 14% chance of survival.
With 25 years of experience analyzing people, performance, and data, Julie approached her cancer diagnosis the same way. She researched, gathered information, and asked questions in order to understand her cancer subtype and the best treatment options.
Julie found a more effective treatment option than her doctors initially recommended, and 9 months later she was cancer-free.
Today, Julie hosts two podcasts: Data and the Dirt and MOJO Rising: How to Make Cancer Suck Less, and is the author of a book called MOJO Healing: How to Build a Holistic Healing Strategy and Maximize Joy.
Julie is a brilliant, inspiring human, and this conversation will help you ask better questions, gather the right information, and become a more informed participant in your healthcare journey. Enjoy!
Watch our interview below, or listen to it on the Chris Beat Cancer podcast on iTunes or Spotify.
Show Notes
-Julie’s stage IV colon cancer diagnosis [3:04]
-Learning from survivors, doctors, and healing experts [5:07]
-The cancer testing Julie used to track her healing [8:36]
-The immunotherapy that worked for Julie [12:14]
-Monoclonal antibodies and immunotherapy explained [13:07]
-When cancer treatment causes more harm than the disease [14:42]
-How to get more information about your specific cancer [16:47]
-New AI tools that help patients understand their options [17:43]
-How Julie chose joy on her cancer journey [20:05]
-The tools and resources Julie created for cancer patients [24:23]
-What cancer survivors are doing differently [30:57]
-Why nutrition and lifestyle matter while healing [32:05]
-Healing happens at home [32:23]
-What Julie’s oncologist told her about diet and lifestyle [33:51]
-What “no evidence of disease” really means [35:17]
-ctDNA testing: Signatera, Personalis, and early detection [36:19]
-Looking for early warning signs before cancer returns [37:50]
-How to get ctDNA testing without insurance [40:20]
-The difference between treating cancer and healing [42:42]
Connect with Julie:
Website: https://www.beadatag.com
Book: MOJO Healing: How to Build a Holistic Healing Strategy & Maximize Joy
Vedalife App: https://vedalife.app
Instagram: @juliekstevens_
Podcast: Data and the Dirt Podcast
Resources mentioned in this interview:
SQUARE ONE Cancer Coaching Program
20 Questions for Your Oncologist
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I created a coaching program and a private online support community to help you survive and thrive through cancer. The SQUARE ONE Program contains the step-by-step strategies used by myself and many others who have healed cancer with a holistic approach using evidence-based nutrition and natural non-toxic therapies.
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Please provide a link so this interview can be forwarded. This is the best! Thank you.
All of your posted videos demonstrate that there are multiple options to treating cancer. In my own case, I’ve been treating myself without assistance from any Health Practitioner. Back in 2024, I had been diagnosed with Advanced Metastatic Prostate Cancer which had spread throughout my body, rendering it untreatable according to the physician I was seeing at the time. He told me I was a classic case and I should get my affairs in order as I had 4 to 6 months left to live. Long story short, I’ve been using the ‘how to starve cancer’ approach which as been most effective, along with a very strict diet (vegan) and supplement regimen. To date, I haven’t found anyone that uses the protocol I developed through trial and error. Granted, much of it, about 70% is from what has been published since 2016; sourced from alternative solutions to cancer treatments. Some of what I have introduced into my routine has been mentioned albeit briefly in Square One, but not to the detail that has been working quite well for me especially during the last 6 months. My cancer journey has been successful, so far, and I can safley say it is in remission due to the consistency of my daily health evaluations. The worst experience I’ve had is the indifference of doctors that don’t care about what I’m doing to achieve results without any conventional treatment(s). The other disturbing mantra that most of society swallows is: only a physician can diagnose and treat disease. People such as myself have proven this to be false. Before I can even consider being designated a ‘qualified cancer survivor’ I need to stay the course for another year or two to make it plainly obvious to even the most cynical experts that there are more options to pushing cancer into remission using alternative therapies than ever. It would be nice to share my story but it’s too soon. In the meantime, I keep watching your videos while I continue with my daily routine.
Love your info. I dont do zoom or anything techy but what i do get is helpful.
I have read and absorbed all of Chris’s info, and treatment he chose. I had my first endoscopy and he found a “sliding hiatal hernia”. Put me on Omeprazole. The lab said stomach cancer, very tiny spot biopsied. I wish I had been more cognizant of my issue. I was overwhelmed and the doctors took full advantage of my ignorance. Four surgeries in two weeks. Four rounds of chemo treatment…another set of scans and an MRI. Every test that has come back is negative…except of course for the first endoscopy…which I truly feel may have been misread and inaccurate. A possible lab error.
I have no genetic markers, no family history, not a smoker or a drinker. Not obese and didn’t feel bad until they started cutting up my insides with Biopsies. Now the last test, the MRI says, no sign of cancer tumors, only some inflammation and scar tissue where previous surgical biopsies were done. Believe me I know exactly where that biopsy was taken because that is where my pain and discomfort is now. Lost all my hair, have neuropathy in my hands and feet. I’m an artist so the hands are a huge issue. I aged dramatically, when I was in pretty good shape for my age. I felt fine. One surgeon said at my second visit, “you look great, you just don’t look like someone that has cancer”.
Well, do I?? No one will admit they were wrong, made a mistake in not looking further to be sure of the diagnosis. Started searching my insides for the culprit, then shoved me into Chemo. WORST year of my life, I am 74.
I was scared, confused and not thinking clearly about this diagnosis. I feel cheated and mistreated by every doctor I saw. After my first endoscopy, my family doctor called me on the phone and said, “the labs came back, you have cancer, so call the Rocky Mountain Cancer Center and make an appointment”…then my hell began. She never followed up with me, didn’t call and check on me, no communication after her obligatory call.
I am confused, angry and neither is good for my psyche or health. Where on earth can I find the truth, I do not trust our medical professionals. After all, that’s why they call it, “practicing medicine”
I found great info from Chris’s site, but no solution for a misdiagnosis.
If anyone else has had similar experiences, please get in touch.
An informative interview. Julie is brilliant. She made ne laugh as well as all the info. By the way what is MSI
Excellent info, Julie and Chris. Thank you.
Chris, I greatly appreciate all that you have done over the years to disseminate information about treating cancer holistically. I have watched most of the interviews you have done, and this is the first one that I couldn’t even finish watching. This lady is so insistent on mentioning her many job qualifications and she is so all over the place, I cannot use any of the information she imparts. She got suckered into doing chemo? She attended oncology conferences and took medical classes to fight her cancer? Just not useful for most of us who are NOT data analysts, industrial psychologists, or project managers….
I’m so glad I listened to this interview Chris. I just happen to be a cancer survivor. Like Julie I had no idea I had colon cancer! My body was like a timeclock, every day, I had a bowel movement. Yet I had colon cancer! My gynecologist always checked my anemia bc of heavy flows. It became so low he told me I was bleeding heavier than I thought or bleeding out. So he referred me to a Gastroenterologists. He said we’ll we can do the stick test or actually do a colonoscopy to be 100% sure. Best decision is made in 2004 @ 43. Fast forward to 2020 he decided to do an upper gi and found that my intestinal cells were growing in my stomach. I’m 66 now and still want to live! I changed my diet ( 98% organic), exercise, I rarely go out for dinner bc I don’t know where the food comes from. I don’t know what more I can do? Help!
Thanks Chris thanks Julie What a lady will follow her, very informative.