A podcast & community for childhood-cancer families
Hosted by bereaved mothers Tammy and Julya, Angel Moms Lumina holds honest conversations about childhood cancer, caregiving, grief, advocacy, and the light our children leave behind.
For families at every point in the journey. You are welcome here.
Daughters. Sisters. Artists. Singers. Advocates. Angels.
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Join Tammy and Julya for honest conversations about their daughters, childhood cancer, and the community growing around Lumina.
▶Watch on YouTubeEpisode 02 · September 13, 2026
Tammy and Julya share Sasha and Carrigan's diagnosis stories and discuss pediatric cancer specialty centers, second opinions, clinical trials, and what they wish they had known on diagnosis day.
Why Lumina
“That kind of light just doesn’t fade.”
Lumina began with a friendship between two mothers, bonded by their daughters and by a grief that changed everything. Carrigan and Sasha lived with grit, creativity, generosity, and an insistence on making every moment count.
This is a space to keep their light moving—through stories, useful experience, advocacy, and room for every family to find its own way forward.
Carrigan kept creating and singing throughout seven years with osteosarcoma. Her compassion lives on through art, scholarships, research, care packages, education, and advocacy.
Keep creating. Keep helping.Sasha stayed fiercely true to herself and chose to live fully through every chapter. Her reach continues through awareness and a vision for more hopeful, accessible treatment for children.
Not just to be alive, but to live.Meet the hosts
Tammy and Julya bring lived experience, advocacy, honesty, and a friendship that makes room for both the unbearable and the beautiful.
Artist, advocate, and keeper of Carrigan’s creative and compassionate legacy.
Advocate focused on childhood-cancer awareness and expanding access to treatment.
More than a podcast
Three ways Lumina hopes to serve a community that has so much to teach one another.
Raw conversations, thoughtful guests, show notes, and transcripts for the moments when you need another voice beside you.
Explore episodes →A welcoming place to suggest a topic, share an experience, or remind another family that they are not the only one.
Learn more →Practical resources, advocacy, awareness, community events, and legacy work that turns love into meaningful action.
Learn more →There is no single right way
Lumina welcomes families before, during, and after childhood cancer—as well as the friends, clinicians, advocates, and communities who walk beside them.
THE LUMINA COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Gatherings, conversations, and ways to carry the light together. Each event is shared after review by the Lumina team.
No community events have been announced yet. Check back for future gatherings.
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