Invite Lee Rafkin to speak at your next event!

Lee Rafkin is a skilled storyteller and Stage IV colon cancer survivor who brings candor and honesty to the stage. Drawing from his own lived experience as a survivor, Lee challenges audiences to rethink how they approach health, family, kids, relationships, work, fear, embarrassment, and the fragile gift of time.

Rafkin is an energetic and engaging speaker, and his talks ignite perspective, introspection, and action.

Signature topics include:

• Early Detection & Challenging Taboos: Colon cancer is treatable, yet embarrassment and avoidance cost lives. Lee challenges stigmas head-on, while sharing practical insights into why screening matters, how fear and embarrassment delay diagnoses, and how organizations can encourage life-saving conversations.

• The Value of Second Opinions & Building an “A” Team: An 11% survival rate changes how you show up in life. Lee shares how second opinions, selection of the right care team, medical advocates, cancer buddies, and trusted allies can successfully alter outcomes.

• Life After Cancer: From Survival to Reinvention: What happens when you’re told to “get your affairs in order”? Lee reflects on what it means to face mortality with courage and purpose rather than fear and retreat. He shares the reality of navigating a Stage IV diagnosis not only as a patient, but as a parent, a friend, a colleague, and a partner, determined to remain present, honest, and grounded through uncertainty.

Audiences will feel informed, inspired, and empowered, ready to have the types of conversations that save lives.

Please join me to celebrate the launch of my first book. Invitations coming soon!

Save the date:

Tuesday, September 15 @ 7:30 pm
Virtual launch party | Google Meet

Saturday, September 19 @ 3:00 pm
Launch party  | New Marlborough, MA

Saturday, September 26 @ 3:00 pm
Reading and ice cream social  | New Marlborough Public Library

Thursday, October 8 @ 6:00 pm
NYC Launch party  | Museum of Ice Cream, 558 Broadway, New York, NY

Saturday, October 10 @ 1:00 pm
Book signing/Meet the author  | Lakeville Books & Stationery, Great Barrington, MA

Friday, November 20 @ 5:30 pm 
Sabbath reading & conversation with Senior Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz
Temple B’nai Jeshurun, Short Hills, NJ