Sometimes the best conversations happen when you’re not sitting in front of a screen.
The Jonesing For The Journey Podcast brings the same honest stories, lessons, patient advocacy, and real-life conversations from JFTJ into an audio format you can take with you — whether you’re driving, walking, sitting in a waiting room, or simply looking for a little perspective during your own journey.
These aren’t polished stories told after everything has been neatly resolved. They’re conversations from the middle of the journey.
Sue and I share what we’re learning as life unfolds: navigating prostate cancer, treatment and recovery, caregiving, changing plans, difficult decisions, advocacy, relationships, retirement dreams, and all the unexpected detours that come with rebuilding a life you thought would look very different.
What You’ll Hear
The Patient Journey
Real conversations about diagnosis, appointments, treatment decisions, recovery, setbacks, milestones, and what happens when the next test changes the road ahead.
Patient Advocacy
Why understanding your own information matters, why one test rarely tells the whole story, and why asking one more question can change the conversation.
The Caregiver Perspective
A serious diagnosis never affects just one person. We also talk about spouses, partners, caregivers, family members, and the people traveling beside us.
Life Beyond the Diagnosis
Cancer may be part of our story, but it isn’t the entire story. We also talk about relationships, purpose, retirement, travel, family, hope, and continuing forward when plans change.
If You’re New to the Podcast
You don’t need to listen in order. Start with the episode that speaks most directly to what you’re facing today.
If you’re newly diagnosed, begin with episodes about diagnosis and learning to advocate for yourself. If treatment is approaching, explore the conversations about surgery, radiation, recovery, and preparing for what comes next.
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LISTENEvery episode is another Mile Marker — a snapshot of what we knew, what we were experiencing, and what we were learning at that moment in the journey.
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Real Life. Real Journeys. Real Hope.
Life doesn’t always follow the map we planned.
I’m Mike Jones, documenting my prostate cancer journey in real time while talking with patients, caregivers, doctors, and advocates. Together we explore the questions that lead to better decisions, stronger hope, and purpose through life’s unexpected detours.
If you’re facing cancer, supporting someone you love, or navigating a major life change, this podcast is for you. Because sometimes asking one more question changes everything.
And so…the adventure continues.
The first four weeks at home after my prostatectomy brought a lot of things I wasn’t fully prepared for.
Leakage. Protecting the bed at night. Walking when I didn’t feel completely steady. Managing a Foley catheter. Constipation and gas. And sometimes just trying to feel clean and normal again.
In this episode of Jonesing For The Journey, I’m sharing 7 things that genuinely helped me through prostatectomy recovery weeks 1–4, along with several bonus products, practical ideas, and lessons Sue and I learned along the way.
This is not a shopping list.
It’s a preparation list.
We talk about:
• Daytime leakage protection
• Nighttime protection
• Walking support
• Having somewhere to stop and rest
• Compression socks
• Bowel and gas management
• Easier ways to clean up during recovery
• Managing a Foley drainage bag
• The little things Sue and I wish we had thought about before surgery
One of the biggest lessons I learned was that recovery wasn’t one giant problem we had to solve.
It was dozens of little problems.
And every little problem you can prepare for ahead of time leaves you with a little more energy for the one job that really matters:
Healing.
These are things that helped during my personal recovery. Your experience may be different, and your surgeon’s instructions and discharge plan should always come first. 7 THINGS THAT GOT ME THROUGH PR…
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6 Things Nobody Warns You About After Radical Prostatectomy
That video goes deeper into the gap between what we talk about before surgery and what everyday recovery can actually feel like once you get home.
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Real Life. Real Journeys. Real Hope.
If you’ve already been through prostatectomy, I’d love to hear your answer:
What was the one thing you were really glad you had at home — or the one thing you wish somebody had told you to have ready?
Your experience might help the next person preparing for surgery.
And so…the adventure continues.
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Keep the Conversation Going
The podcast is just one part of Jonesing For The Journey. You can also follow the journey on YouTube, read the Mile Marker Journal, explore patient advocacy resources, download the free JFTJ guide, or become part of the JFTJ Road Crew.
Because none of us travels this road alone.
Real Life. Real Journeys. Real Hope.
And So…The Adventure Continues.