708176196694798 Chef Kevin Gillespie: Cancer and the Things that Really Matter - Man Up to Cancer

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27th Oct 2020

Chef Kevin Gillespie: Cancer and the Things that Really Matter

One day this summer, Sarah and the girls and I were watching Chef Kevin Gillespie crush it on Top Chef. We love that guy! Then we find out he’s a fellow cancer survivor, and I’m like, hey, Kevin, you should come on the podcast! And because he’s an awesome human, he does!! 

Kevin is the real deal, super inspirational without the BS.

He is an acclaimed chef, restaurant owner, and businessman who became a breakout star on Bravo’s award-winning television series Top Chef.

Kevin is the founder and owner of Red Beard Restaurants, including the restaurants Gunshow and Revival in his home state of Georgia. 

He has the greatest titles ever for his cookbooks: 

Fire in My Belly and Pure Pork Awesomeness.

Importantly for this show, Kevin is a survivor of a rare form of renal cancer, for which he had a kidney removed in 2018.

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I'm your host, Trevor Maxwell. I'm a stage IV colon cancer survivor, and I've got a message for other men: You don't have to go through cancer alone.

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Trevor Maxwell is a stage IV colon cancer survivor from Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He is the founder of Man Up to Cancer, a national nonprofit organization that inspires men to connect and avoid isolation during their cancer journeys, and he is the author of the book Open Heart, Warrior Spirit: A Man’s Guide to Living with Cancer.