April Capil

April Capil
Location
Pleasant Hill, California, USA
Birthday
January 08
Bio
Breast cancer survivor and author April Capil holds a Green M.B.A. in Sustainable Enterprise and blogs about survivorship and sustainability at teamapril.blogspot.com. Her book, RECIPE FOR LEMONADE, is available at Amazon.com and Authonomy.com.

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MAY 15, 2012 9:14PM

Really excited for my webinar with the Life Beyond Cancer Foundation tomorrow! This organization has been so amazing and supportive - learn more about it at http://www.lifebeyondcancer.org/index.htm and register for this FREE webinar on "How to Build a Ladder" at http://www.lifebeyondcancer… Read full post »
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APRIL 30, 2012 12:37AM

Join me this coming Tuesday in Boulder, CO for a short preview of a TED-format talk I'm working on - 18 minutes of Lemonade-Making Lessons:

http://www.meetup.com/StartupWomen/events/61835852/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1&_af_eid=61835852&_af=event&_af_mid=39553772

Also I'll be doing a webinar MAY 9…

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011 11:23PM

"Life After Lemonade" now available in paperback!!

"Life After Lemonade"won't be available on Amazon.com for a week, but you can get an advance copy at the CreateSpace e-Store by using this link! https://www.createspace.com/3725848

- April
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NOVEMBER 14, 2011 1:30AM

Long Time, No See!

I know I haven't blogged in forever, life has been a little nuts! I've been spending all my writing time working on my second book, and I finished it tonight! Today was actually the three-year anniversary of my cancer diagnosis, which makes this accomplishment that much sweeter. :)

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JANUARY 26, 2011 3:53AM

FORD PICKS MY VIDEO & DONATES $10,000 TO FIRST DESCENTS!!


So, it's official: I'm going to Madrid to test drive the 2012 Ford Focus as part of Ford's Global Test Drive Challenge! The campaign's slogan is "Start More Than A Car," and so, with $10,000 in grant money, Ford is helping First Descents, my favorite charity, send 10 young adult survivors/… Read full post »
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JANUARY 25, 2011 12:40AM

40-By-40 Update: My 2011 Schedule

I wanted to share a formal update of my 40-by-40, since I've not only checked off a few of them, but there are quite a few I'm working on for THIS YEAR, and I want to invite as many people as I can to join me!

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JANUARY 22, 2011 2:51AM

Deja Vu: What To Do When A Lemon Returns

"You fell off the wagon AGAIN?"
"You're getting divorced AGAIN?"
"You have cancer AGAIN?"

AGAIN. It's the hardest word in the English language to hear. It fills us with shame and disappointment and fear and exhaustion. ANOTHER lemon. ANOTHER unmet expectation. AGAIN.

The day after I celebrated my second… Read full post »
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DECEMBER 29, 2010 9:01PM

FOCUS ON FIRST DESCENTS!

VOTE FOR OUR VIDEO BY CLICKING HERE!


Here is a video I made for First Descents to enter the Ford Focus Global Drive Contest - they have a chance to win $10,000 and send TEN young adult survivors to c/
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NOVEMBER 20, 2010 12:56AM

Be Down For The Adventure! (November 40-by-40 Update)



You may know me as April Capil, but in the First Descents family, my name is "Lemon Drop." I got my nickname because I wrote a book called "Recipe For Lemonade" - about how to rebuild your optimism post-disaster. If you *really* know me, you know I know a thing or
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OCTOBER 30, 2010 1:08AM

Screening Options For Breast Cancer - My 2 Cents

There's been a lot of attention on mammograms for women as an early detection tool for breast cancer - early detection saves lives! - and yet, the American Cancer Society recommends against women under 40 getting them. With such an effective tool out there, many women are demanding to know why.

I
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OCTOBER 17, 2010 2:47PM

To Chemo, or Not To Chemo?

This is a response I wrote this morning to someone who e-mailed me about natural therapy for "disease reversal." I just thought I should share my opinions and motivations on the topic because many people have asked me why I went through chemo instead of various other alternatives (Essiac tea, going…

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OCTOBER 16, 2010 2:56PM

Update From The Road: California to Chicago

"A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." - Joseph Campbell
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 12:06PM

Life Throws You Curves... Learn to Swerve!

I have been remiss in blogging here AND posting on my YouTube Channel these last few months. I'm afraid the online forums that so helped me during my cancer fight have somewhat fallen by the wayside in the face of a few recent medical challenges - challenges I was too cocky… Read full post »

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AUGUST 17, 2010 4:02PM

Once More, With Feeling: The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie

If you're attending my seminar tonight in Pleasant Hill, you'll get a taste of these...

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe:

2 scant (barely) cups Trader Joe's "White" Whole-Wheat Flour*
3/4 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt

1 1/4 sticks butter, at room temperature (1/2 cup + 2 Tbsp)
1/3 c. dark brown sugar
1/3 c. li/…

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AUGUST 13, 2010 7:54PM

RECIPE FOR LEMONADE SEMINAR PREVIEW in Pleasant Hill this TUESDAY, AUGUST 17th at 6:00 p.m.!

Announcing a new Meetup for Creating Health, Wellness and Success!!

What: When Life gives you Lemons, can you make Lemonade?

When: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 6:00 PM

Price: $5.00 per person

Where: Networking Lounge
1934 Contra Costa Blvd Upstairs Next to Starbucks in Safeway Plaza
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
925-/… Read full post »
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AUGUST 1, 2010 3:30AM

Life After Lemonade: Stage Four - The Yellow Wood

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as
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JULY 31, 2010 2:27PM

Life After Lemonade: Sidebar - The Ricky Bobby Factor

"Do you want to know why I think you should race again? It's because it's what you love, Ricky. It is who you were born to be. And here you sit, thinking. Well, Ricky Bobby is not a thinker. Ricky Bobby is a driver. He is a doer. And that's what… Read full post »
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JULY 30, 2010 2:28PM

Life After Lemonade: Stage Three - To Be, or Not To Be (That Is The Question)

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand/… Read full post »
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JULY 29, 2010 10:52PM

Life After Lemonade: Stage Two - Acknowledging Your Mortality

Before you read this post, watch this video, from Superman II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRRFMrzTYpE

The Second Stage of survivorship is what I call "Acknowledging Your Mortality." Really, it should just be called "Acknowledging Mortality," because the face is, no one gets out of here alive.

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JULY 27, 2010 2:28PM

Life After Lemonade: Stage One - the Grieving Stage

“At this point, I've got the confidence to know that I'll get through anything in my life given I have the motivation to do it, ... If it's an act of survival, we've all got a reason to keep living. It may not be pretty, but surviving is grit and determination… Read full post »
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JULY 19, 2010 7:35PM

The Balance Between Under-Doing it and Over-Doing It

The best advice I've ever gotten came from a Balinese surf instructor. I was in Seminyak to learn how to surf, because I'd heard there are no sharks in Bali (not true, unfortunately - on our last day, the same instructor laughed and said, "Who told you that?!"). Problem was, I…

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JULY 7, 2010 11:35PM

#31: Take A Cross Country Road Trip Across the U.S.A.

When I was halfway through graduate school, I had dinner with a close friend and remember uttering the phrase, "I think it's much more insidious than you realize," (probably referring to some corporate greed-driven resource scarcity that had been denied mainstream media coverage), at which point she… Read full post »
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JUNE 29, 2010 8:52PM

YOU and THEM

I said to a friend the other day, "Things that really, truly change the world don't start with a corporate marketing campaign." I was talking about the Pepsi Refresh Project, comparing it to my recent disappointment with not being called back for the OWN "Your OWN Show" contest.* I was intending…

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JUNE 1, 2010 7:43PM

#22: CHECK, Bitches!! ("Perfect My Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe")



Like many women, I have devoted quite a bit of time to perfecting my own personal chocolate chip cookie recipe (#22 on my 40-by-40). I have made them from the version on the back of the Nestle Toll House chip bag, which, to be quite honest, simply does not work. I/…

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MAY 31, 2010 8:32PM

Hygeia



We did an exercise in my cancer writing class a couple of months ago that, I think, will stick with me forever. Our instructor passed out different pictures of paintings and images, and we wrote for ten minutes about them.

What I noticed first about the image/…

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