Sheila Godreau was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is the oldest of three sisters. She moved to the US right after graduating from college to pursue an MBA at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After working a few years as a consultant for an accounting firm in Chicago, she relocated to Florida. She has raised two amazing children, Melanie and Ozzie, alongside with Juan, her husband of 25 years. Her family is her everything, her pride and joy. Her faith is her rock, her guiding light, her strength.
In 2015, at age 44, Sheila was diagnosed de novo with stage IV metastatic breast cancer (MBC), ER+, PR+ and HER2-. What started as just a concern with a mass on the right breast ended up being not just breast cancer but metastasis to the liver and nodes. She is still in her first line of treatment, hormone therapy, and scans aren’t showing any evidence of active disease since 2016.
As scary as the MBC diagnosis was, she decided to continue living fully, sharing with others what a joy, blessing and privilege it is to live to see another day and and serving others through various nonprofits, including Ceridian Cares, Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church and youth soccer clubs.
She works full time as a project and program manager for a human capital management company. In 2019 she was named Working Mother of the Year and received her award at the Working Mother’s 100 Best Companies Gala Awards Dinner. She is also an entrepreneur, building network marketing businesses since 2019.
She is an avid MBC advocate. She participated in the 2021 #ThisIsMBC fearLESS campaign, is a Project Life mentor for others living with MBC, Florida co-captain for METAvivor’s Virtual Stampede and a Living Beyond Breast Cancer Hear My Voice advocate.
