Chuck Aiken: "It Costs Nothing to Be Kind"

Today on the show I welcome my dear friend Chuck Aiken from Glens Falls, NY

Chuck serves as membership director for Man Up to Cancer, and has been a key figure in planning and being an emcee at our annual Gathering of Wolves men's cancer retreat.

He is also known as the one who brought the phrase "It costs nothing to be kind" into the lexicon of our community.

For more than six years, Chuck has been living with an aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia, AML. He had a stem cell transplant in 2020 and since that time has battled Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD).

Through all of this he has continued to:

• Coach powerlifting to Special Olympics athletes
• Run his business as an emcee and DJ, Big Show Entertainment
• Speak at functions about his cancer journey

We've got a lot of big-hearted guys in the Man Up to Cancer community.

Chuck Aiken is in the Mount Rushmore of that select group.

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