Meet Our Current Board of Directors
Tellena Randall, CEO, Co-Founder
Usui Reiki Practitioner, Goddess Alchemy Reiki Practitioner Caregiver and Cancer Support Specialist
Tellena is the loving wife and care partner for Jason Randall. She earned a degree in Mathematics with an additional emphasis in International and Global Studies from the University of Kansas. Upon graduation, she worked as a loan analyst in corporate real estate banking for several years before leaving that work to be a stay-at-home mother and focus on her family. As she has found her calling in life to help others, she is now a certified Usui Reiki Practitioner and Goddess Alchemy Reiki Practitioner.
She has a deep passion to help others as they navigate their cancer journey by encouraging people to use science based integrative medicine and advocate for themselves for optimal outcomes. Finding light through the darkest of times, she utilizes reiki, qigong, various forms of meditation, journaling, and a foundation based in self-love which has helped her to discover herself and to further her passion to bring this to other people in similar situations. She sees that care partners often get overlooked with a cancer diagnosis since the attention tends to focus on the person with cancer. See empathizes with others and their struggles within their journeys and she aims to bring attention to and help them feel appreciated and supported. To aid in this, she currently supports other care partners through support group’s online working with mostly Stage IV care partner groups.
In addition, one of her main focuses of support is on families going through cancer and helping them to find their own path to healing together, as cancer effects the entire family. She understands what caregivers must go through being a spouse to someone with cancer and while having small children involved. She was still pregnant with their youngest child at the time of Jason’s diagnosis in July 2018 and has weathered what seemed like a near impossible storm.
Tellena and Jason currently live on a small farm in Eudora, KS and have 3 children, ages 15, 7, and 5 with a bigger dream and goal of owning and running their own cancer retreat someday to take their cancer support to a more personal and intimate level, helping patients, caregivers, and families learn to not just be alive, but to live again.
Jason Randall, Co-Founder
Stage 4 Colorectal Cancer Survivor
Cancer Support Specialist
Cartographer and Anthropologist
Jason is a stage 4 colorectal cancer survivor since July 2018 and for the last 3.5 years has been on the leadership cabinet at COLONTOWN, a wildly supportive online CRC support group which helps patients and caregivers navigate their own cancer diagnoses by providing education, empowerment, and programing from their vast network of patients, caregivers, and partner organizations. Jason also is on the leadership team at Man Up To Cancer, a male focused cancer support community which aims to keep men from isolating during a cancer diagnosis, as their Logistics and IT Coordinator. He is also one of the models for the Colon Club’s “On the Rise” class of 2023 to raise awareness for early onset CRC. In addition to this cancer support and advocacy, he also helps other men from isolating during a cancer diagnosis through his work at Man Up To Cancer.
Beyond his work for these organizations, he provides support to fellow veterans who are pursuing claims through the VA for toxic exposures during their military service. Jason was one of the first veterans with CRC to get his cancer service-connected when the “PACT Act for Burn Pits and Toxic Exposures” passed into law in August 2022 due to his various exposures to toxic chemicals while in the US Navy. After his military service ended in 2008, Jason went to both the University of Hawaii Manoa and the University of Kansas where he focused his studies on cultural anthropology, archaeology, and geography. He worked for over 10 years as a cartographer/GIS Analyst in the IT department helping analyze and manage data, and map and solve complex community needs and problems in Lawrence, KS.
In July 2018 at age 35, Jason was given a devastating terminal, chemo for life and inoperable, stage 4 CRC diagnosis with extensive liver involvement which completely changed him and his family’s life. By embracing online support early on in his diagnosis, researching and educating himself on his disease, and incorporating integrative medicine techniques, he found a path to receive a curative surgery in Feb 2020, changing his prior prognosis and has been off treatments for over 3 years and has no evidence of disease. He continues to practice integrative healing methods by sharing with others what he learned from his integrative approach to his diagnosis to make better dietary choices, regular exercise, finding a deep connection to the spiritual energy within, and having a strong will to live. He understands the complexities of not just the physical elements of a cancer diagnosis, but the mental and emotional ones as well, both during and after treatments. He strives to help others to release survival modalities and live life fully during and following a cancer diagnosis.
More information: https://linktr.ee/mrjasonrandall