Meet Brandi Corbello

We were lucky to catch up with Brandi Corbello recently and have shared our conversation below.

Brandi, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

I haven’t really shared much of my history prior to my cancer diagnosis since launching Melan so I really love this question. I had a pretty rough childhood in which my biological father wasn’t in my life and my Mother’s second husband kicked me out when I was 15 and at that point, I knew I needed to take the path of the most uncertainty because it had to be better than what I knew. I found my way into college through volleyball and academics where I would say, and most of my teammates would say, I was kind of a pain in the ass as I held myself and others to high standards. Fast forward, I ended up being blessed with amazing opportunities in my career and at the age of 30, I remember thinking life was amazing and I felt like I had finally made it out and then I was hit with a stage III cancer diagnosis. I went through surgery and 13 months of immunotherapy treatment while still working on myself and I grew so much professionally and personally during that time. It was such a humbling experience that brought me back to Earth a bit as I been on a mission and charging so hard, I never took the time to really get to myself or others. Very early on, I realized you should really focus on what you can control instead of dwelling on the things you cannot as that will get you no where and I think that has played out my entire life which I am grateful for.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I love my career, it has given me so many opportunities and I have met incredible people. Coming out of my cancer diagnosis, I started wearing sunscreen and I had a heavy emphasis on paying attention to what I put in and on my body. What I learned with my new daily SPF routine, is there were not a lot of great products on the shelves. Five years later and still cancer free (woo hoo!), I launched Melan which is a sunscreen company that is focused on bringing energy and trust back into sunscreen while giving back to continued research for the prevention and treatment of melanoma and skin cancer. Our products are clean ingredient based and have none of the unnecessary baggage such as artificial fragrance, PEGs, and silicones to name a few. We just launched in July of 2024 and I am super excited that we will be releasing a non aerosol mineral spray and a travel size of our original sunscreen spray in early 2025! We also have so many fun events next year already planned such as Surf Expo, Wodapalooza, Outdoor Retailer, and some pop ups across some of our favorite cities so stay tuned!

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I think first and foremost, focus on what you can control, everything else is just white noise. Secondly, don’t ever find yourself on a rollercoaster of emotions with a lot of highs and lows, walk neutral so you can hear others and allow others to hear you. Lastly, don’t compromise on the things that will make a big impact and be willing to let go of the things that no one will remember tomorrow.

Awesome, really appreciate you opening up with us today and before we close maybe you can share a book recommendation with us. Has there been a book that’s been impactful in your growth and development?

I love to read! Less TV, more reading! I have read so many books that have been so impactful so I will just hit on one that is a recent favorite which was Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke. Annie was a professional poker player so how awesome is that?! For me, what I took away from the book was that life is like a game of poker or chess in which decisions are made all of the time with incomplete information and even the right decisions based on the information in front of you at the time of making that decision can end up in a loss or misfortune. I also flipped this into how I think about how others make decisions and it has allowed me to give people more grace. What I mean, for example, is you hear people say a coach made a bad call in a professional sporting event after the play has been unfavorable (to them at least) but no one says that was the right call based on the information they had on the time and the outcome was just unfortunate. We are so quick to judge the outcome but never take the time to understand was that the right thing to do in the moment with the information that was available!

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