“Absolutely. Crippling anxiety.”

That's how Florida Panthers star Aaron Ekblad describes the pressure of playing in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final.

He's reached the pinnacle of professional hockey, winning back-to-back Stanley Cups with the Florida Panthers. But even champions experience fear, self-doubt and moments that test their confidence.

In this episode of Please Hold for Sunshine, award-winning journalist Sandra Viktorova sits down with Aaron for a candid conversation about navigating pressure, overcoming setbacks and learning that there's more to life than winning.

Aaron opens up about leaving home at just 15 to pursue his NHL dreams, recovering from a devastating injury, facing criticism and navigating the suspension he calls “by far the lowest point” of his career.

But some of his most valuable insights go far beyond hockey. Aaron shares how family, time outdoors, hobbies and keeping things in perspective help him manage the extraordinary demands of professional sports. He also reveals why he steps away from social media during the season and how preparation helps him face even his biggest fears.

It's an honest and often uplifting conversation about success, failure, finding balance and remembering that what we do doesn't define who we are.

In this episode:

• What Stanley Cup Game 7 pressure really feels like
• Overcoming fear, anxiety and self-doubt
• The suspension he calls the lowest point of his career
• Recovering from a devastating injury
• Why he stays away from social media during hockey season
• The surprising role family, hobbies and nature play in his life
• Finding purpose and balance beyond professional hockey

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Model Jocelyn Binder lives what she calls a “double life”—one filled with glamorous photo shoots and another with the reality of ongoing treatment for Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Nearly nine years after being told the average survival was 24 months, Jocelyn says she feels a responsibility to live her best life.

Jocelyn Binder's fans know the beautiful images—a modeling career that has taken her around the world. But behind those images is a very different reality.

Jocelyn is living with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer.

In the first episode of Please Hold for Sunshine, journalist Sandra Viktorova sits down with Jocelyn for an intimate and revealing conversation about the diagnosis that changed her life, the years she's spent defying expectations, and how facing her own mortality transformed the way she chooses to live.

Jocelyn opens up about being dismissed by medical professionals when she first raised concerns about a lump in her breast in college. Doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer at just 28. She later learned it had become metastatic and was told the average survival on her treatment was just 24 months. Nearly nine years later, she's still modeling, traveling, advocating for herself and others, and refusing to let cancer define her life.

It's a conversation about beauty, fear, femininity, resilience and learning to value something none of us knows how much of we have left: time.

As Jocelyn puts it, “Time is the only currency we have.”

In this episode:

• The breast lump Jocelyn first discovered when she was in college
• The diagnosis that stopped her world
• Living with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer
• How cancer changed her relationship with modeling, beauty and femininity
• Why she wrote Sexy After Breast Cancer
• The importance of advocating for your own health
• Why nearly nine years later, Jocelyn says she wouldn't trade her life for one that's “routine and repetitive”
• What facing mortality has taught her about truly living

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