Both Erica and Cindi survived cancer in 2018, leaning on each other and their loved ones the entire time. And the shared experience made an already close mother and daughter even closer. “I feel like it was almost a blessing that we had it around the same time,” Erica says. “It’s almost like I got diagnosed first and went through what I did so I could help her through what she was about to go through.” Get a behind-the-scenes look at their episode of Ryan Shazier’s #50Phenoms, and watch the full episode at upmc.me/shazier.