It all started when…

Margo Wickersham felt like giving up for the first time in her life, when she endured a lonely battle for her life against bladder cancer during the quarantine phase of Covid19. With relentless and fierce perseverance, she endured soul-crushing loneliness, unbearable physical pain, and shocking emotional and bodily losses during a year that challenged the entire world. Her ability to channel gratitude strengthened her grit and determination during her darkest hours. This gratitude gave her the the will to live and along with the phenomenal doctors at MD Anderson, she is surviving and thriving now after cancer and monumental losses

A Jacksonville, Florida, native, Margo has always loved being by or in the water. She’s been certified to SCUBA dive since 1988. She worked full-time to earn her degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has enjoyed a varied and colorful sales and marketing career ever since.

As a dell.com website manager, Margo led her team to create an award-winning redesign of the e-commerce site, created and launched successful PR and marketing campaigns, and built partner programs from the ground up. She is an accomplished author, speaker, and trainer. Margo has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Tampa Business Journal, West Austin News, Money Inc., Self Esteem Magazine, and Exceptional People Magazine, among others. She has written blogs; participated as a guest on several podcasts and YouTube channels, including The Patient Story, the Bladder Cancer Awareness Network (BCAN) and MD Anderson Cancer Center; and has been featured as a guest speaker at numerous local, national, and international events.

Well before self-publishing was commonplace, Margo published her grandparents’ memoirs, an onerous yet rewarding task. As she presented the finished books to her grandparents while visiting them in Pensacola, Florida, a Pensacola Times reporter captured the touching moment and printed the story on the front cover of the People section.

The proud mother of two outstanding adult children, Read and Rachel, Margo takes every opportunity to spend time with them and her wonderful husband Coleman. She and Coleman are thriving empty-nesters in Austin, Texas, where they walk and hike with their two dogs, Casey and Nova. They recently purchased a condo on the beach and stay there every chance they get.

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Watch, Listen and Read Interviews with Margo About Her Bladder Cancer Story