Paru le 27/03/2019 | Broché 121 pages
Tout public
English translation Alison Kamm
This book is the testimony of a committed woman, who bares her soul to lift the taboos weighing upon women's femininity, sexuality, and professional life, when they are affected in their own flesh by illness.
In August 2013, Isabelle Guyomarch is the head of a flourishing industrial cosmetic group, employing 250 people, 80% of whom are women. She is the mother of two grown-up girls and has been passionately in love for 10 years with her second husband.
Suddenly she is diagnosed with aggressive stage-3 breast cancer. This means surgery, chemotherapy, and radio therapy. Her intense life and successful career come to a brutal standstill.
While struggling to survive, she decides to create an innovative cosmetic brand meant especially for women suffering from cancer.
Five years after finishing treatment, Isabelle Guyomarch is still in remission. The author does not presume to teach any lessons. She shares her story to shed light on the experiences of others and liberate speech from the taboos surrounding women's cancers.
Isabelle Guyomarch is the President of the CCI Productions Group, which she took over in 2008 and transformed. Today, it has 250 employees. Having worked for major perfume and cosmetic labels for a decade, in 2017 she launched Ozalys, a groundbreaking French dermo-cosmetic brand, imagined by women for women suffering from cancer.
