The Heart Life: Recent Episodes
Stacy-Ann Walker
The Heart Life is a podcast for women living with heart disease. The host, Stacy-Ann Walker, is a two time open heart surgery survivor currently living with Rheumatic Heart Disease. Each episode will feature a different heart disease survivor who will share her heart story with us including the highs and lows of living with heart disease. We will put a face to this deadly disease that kills 1 in 3 women by sharing our own experiences and encouraging other women to take positive steps to reduce their risk for heart disease and stroke.
The Heart Life podcast is all about empowering a tribe of heart disease survivors to continue to live an active, purposeful, and fun filled life…despite living with heart disease.
Hyvelle was living her life as a normal 41 year old woman when her life was suddenly changed by a stroke. That was just the beginning of her journey. Shortly after she had to undergo open heart surgery and multiple stent surgeries.
On this episode of The Heart Life we meet Sarah, Angie and Tamsen- Three women brought together by the most extraordinary of circumstances. Strokes brought them together – and now they’re homies. Stroke homies…STROMIES!
At 25 years old Molly’s life changed overnight. Her heart was beating 180 beats per minute with no sign of slowing down when she got to the emergency room. That night her life changed forever. She spent years fighting for her life.
Lisa Deck is a four time stroke survivor who is currently living with moyamoya disease. She has had two brain surgeries, she is a fighter and she uses her experience to educate and empower women about the risk factors for heart disease and stroke.
Helga was born with an aortic heart valve stenosis. After the first femoral catheter they decided to do another femoral catheter intervention where they used a balloon catheter to expand her aortic valve. But the surgery failed and so she had a valve w...
In 1993 when Rebecca was a sophomore in high school she was in the middle of field hockey summer sessions when she started having dizzy spells, tunnel vision, blackouts, and fainting. Her parents took her to her family doctor who ordered a holter monitor
Amanda Dejesus was born with Congenital Heart Disease. She had her first heart surgery at 14 days old, a pacemaker implanted when she was 13 and a heart transplant at 15 years old. She thought her ordeal was over but at age 22 her body started to reject her heart.
Stacy-Ann Walker was 29 years old and pregnant when she almost died due to undiagnosed heart disease. Learn more at www.theheartlifejournal.com