Cancer Survivor Faces Deadly Career Gap

Ted Leonhardt
5 min readSep 20, 2022

This is the epic story of the birth of the brand NED, which stands for Not Entirely Dead, a brand inspired by Eason Yang’s personal cancer treatment experience. Doctors use the term NED when all symptoms of cancer are gone — which, in their terms, means “No Evidence of Disease.” Once Eason reached that status, he discovered he faced another challenge — a career gap. The new NED brand is designed to fill that deadly

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Ted Leonhardt

Recently I've been writing about growing up as a fostered, adopted child. Professionally I'm an advisor to creative professionals. http://www.tedleonhardt.com