Difficult Communications

I have been on medical leave for a few weeks now and yesterday was day thirty since I saw that MyChart result that revealed all of the “C” words you never want to read. While yes, I am a transparent person who may share too much at times, the notion of sharing this stage IV cancer diagnosis with my professional network on LinkedIn was really not something I could ever imagine doing. For those connected with me, they see a lot of activity on LinkedIn including a bimonthly newsletter with subscribers, a constant stream of AI experiments I am running with our models, tools, applications and all the abundant AI announcements from Google. But I’ve been silent. Absent. Off-the-grid for a MONTH. So silent that I received messages asking if I was ok as people were wondering if I was impacted by recent layoffs.

No, I was just avoiding this and procrastinating and hoped it was all a big mistake. Since I work with sooooooo many people, companies and partners I felt it was necessary but more important, I wanted to call out the irony of my March 11, 2026 newsletter that I published on my late mothers birthday. It was all about how I would do things different as her care giver if I had the AI tools and skills I had today. For those already following my story I’ve harped on this a few times but it is UNBELIEVABLE to me that the article I wrote March 11 would be the blueprint on how I documented and built tools for my OWN cancer journey. Still shake my head at the irony here.

So, yesterday I spent a few hours writing this personal update to my professional network. As soon as I hit publish I cried in my porch swing. Now almost 10,000 1st degree connections and 1600+ “GoGo’s AI Obsession” newsletter subscribers might see this update. I already KNOW it was the right thing to do as I couldn’t even sleep last night reading messages of support, concern and love from around the GLOBE. I work with international teams, studied in Kerala, India for my Masters from DePaul and was a part of the FIRST cohort of a leadership and coaching program from UC Berkeley that took place in Japan. As I mentioned earlier, I can FEEL the positive energy, healing vibes and love from all over the world and basically forty years of building connections from my nine lives and different careers. I am reinforced and relieved now that I pushed myself to publish. I’d be CRAZY not to!!!!

Thank you to ALL who have reached out in the last 12 hours since learning about my battle.

Why I Have Been Quiet: A Sudden Stage IV Cancer Diagnosis.

Read the post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-have-been-quiet-sudden-stage-iv-cancer-diagnosis-gogo-morris-axugc

P.S. I have added computer voice transcription to give you the option to LISTEN along while reading. Next ambition is to narrate my own posts. Who knows what’s coming soon, I just want to keep building.