Trigger Warning: This episode discusses suicide, gun violence, and cancer. Listener discretion advised.

In this powerful episode of What’s Behind the Bra? — Behind the Stories, Monique Bass sits down with mural artist and breast cancer warrior JohnFredrick Daniels for a deeply transparent conversation about loss, purpose, faith, and fighting.

JohnFredrick opens up about the devastating loss of his child to suicide — a moment that forever changed his life and nearly broke him. Out of that pain, purpose was born. He shares how painting a mural in Buffalo, NY for his community after a racially motivated mass shooting became a turning point that helped him begin to heal.

Not long after, JohnFredrick received another life-altering diagnosis: Stage 2 HER2-positive male breast cancer.

In this episode, he courageously shares:

• What it’s like being a man diagnosed with breast cancer

• How he’s navigating chemotherapy

• How grief reshaped his purpose

• What fatherhood looks like while raising four sons during cancer treatment

• How art, faith, and community continue to save his life

This is not just a cancer story — it is a story of survival, transformation, and choosing to live out loud even when life hurts.

🎗 Male breast cancer is real.

🎗 Grief is real.

🎗 And so is healing.

Thank you JohnFredrick f