Chrisie Canny

Chrisie Canny is a breast cancer survivor, author, speaker, inventor, serial entrepreneur, small-business advisor, community organizer, and avid FUNdraiser. She believes her ability to bring people together, recognize when someone needs help, and turn an idea into action is one of the gifts God has given her.

Long before breast cancer became part of Chrisie’s own story, giving back was already central to her life. For years, she organized fundraisers and community events benefiting numerous charities, local families, and people facing difficult circumstances. She has a special ability to unite businesses, neighbors, and supporters around a shared purpose—while putting the “fun” in fundraising.

After losing her father to cancer and watching many other members of her family face cancer diagnoses, Chrisie’s charitable work became deeply connected to supporting cancer patients and their families. Through Vented in Brooklyn, the aromatherapy company she co-founded, she supported cancer-related causes and gifted thousands of aromatherapy bracelets to patients. As the host of Vented Uplift, her weekly interview series, Chrisie spoke with inspiring women—including many breast cancer survivors—who openly shared their diagnoses, treatment choices, fears, lessons, and lives after cancer.

At age 49, Chrisie received her own Stage 1A breast cancer diagnosis. She often describes herself as “unfortunately fortunate.” Although no one would choose cancer, Chrisie entered her diagnosis carrying the collective wisdom of the survivors she had interviewed. Looking back, she believes God had placed these women and their stories in her life before she knew how much she would one day need them. Her faith, their knowledge, and the tremendous support of the community she had spent years lifting helped her trust her instincts, advocate for herself, and find peace in her decisions.

Chrisie then felt called to create and curate Lifted, By My Girls!—an anthology bringing together twenty women, twenty journeys, and one mission. Through the book, interviews, journals, speaking engagements, workshops, survivor panels, and community events, she is passing forward the same honesty, knowledge, faith, friendship, prayer, and encouragement that helped lift her.

Chrisie believes God can use our hardest seasons to reveal our strength, deepen our gratitude, and give new purpose to our lives. Her guiding belief continues to shape everything she creates: You find strength by giving strength.