February 17, 2025 • 30 mins
This week’s show featured Grow Nebraska Women’s Business Center executive director Eden Butler providing insight and education on the grants and resources they work to connect entrepreneurs with in the area. Then, Northwestern Medicine’s Dr. Clyde Yancy talked about heart disease prevention before NYU Medical Center’s Dr. Lawrence Phillips promoted the benefits of learning CPR.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Community Matters, a weekly public affairs program to
inform and entertain you with some of the great people, organizations,
and events in and around Omaha. Now here's the host
of the program from news radio eleven ten KFAB It's
Scott for Heats.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thank you so much for being a part of our program.
This week, we welcome the executive director of the Grow
Nebraska Women's Business Center online at g NWBC dot org.
That's Grown Nebraska Women's Business Center. Eden Butler, joins us
here on Community Matters and Eden, it's great to have
you on the program.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I am very disappointed that as a man, no one
came and told me about the Grow Nebraska Women's Business Center.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
This is the first time hearing it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Question.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I need someone to tell me so I can go
to your group and man'splain to the women about what
and how it works.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Please do GRASCA Business Center.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
We're here to be the bridge between the entrepreneur and
their goals in business, so anywhere from formation of franchising,
I can get you connected to resources to help you
grow your small business here in Nebraska. And I also
want a caveat all are welcome. It's not just specifically
for women. We're here for the greater Omaha as a whole,
So anyone's welcome to utilize our resources for some assistance.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
But obviously the organization was set up because it's a
it's certainly a different path if you're a woman who
wants to be entrepreneurial in spirit and actual deed. For sure,
it has been a different path. So can you tell
me about some of the origins of this organization?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Absolutely so.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Our parent organization is grown Nebraska Foundation based out of Carney.
We are the number one distributor of Dorothy lyn seal
addressing in the nation for ecmsals. Yeah, and we do
that throughout by Nebraska dot com site. So any Nebraska
entrepreneur that has retail items can get connected to our
organization so that we can help you on e comm.
We're also your partners with Google, so we can help you,
(02:02):
of course, get get your map taken care of and
get you placed so you can find some new clients
and we help.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
You with that.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Dorothy Lynch obviously has a woman's name attached to it.
Is it a woman owned organization?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Actually, that is a very good question. Let me find out,
let me find it.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I just wondered what the connection was between Dorothy Lynch
and your organization, so that could be we just really
like Dorothy Lynch.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I mean, I'm not from here. I'm from sus Oklahoma,
so I didn't know what Dorothy Lynch was and so
I got here.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
But uh, Nebraska gran Nebraska.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Foundation gives us an open door to be able to
facilitate assistance for our our entrepreneurs in my service area.
So of course, our main focus, of course is women primary,
of course women of color, to be able to provide
equity and accessibility for everyone. But it's gonna take, of
course everyone to build a community.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
And so that's what.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
We're here for is for the the whole. And so
of course, like I said, we do that through part
ship through our parent organization, Grow to BRASCA, so that
we can be able to facilitate growth and not just
offer lectures and talks were actually about work.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Got it? Sorry?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I started hitting you with the Nebraska salad dressing based
trivia questions. Go ahead and olaholm a girl but talking
here with Eiden Butler, executive director of the Grown Nebraska
Women's Business Center Online at GNWBC dot org. Let me
ask you some Eiden Butler trivia questions. How was it
that you came to be involved in this organization?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
That's a very good question.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
So, like I said, I'm not from here, and I
had an opportunity to actually move up here to work
with another nonprofit organization and to launch my own graphic
and branding marketing company.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And so originally I.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Was actually just hired to do some work for Growdabraska,
as you know, an entrepreneur trying to get my feet wet,
and a contract turned into a job opportunity, and that
job opportunity opened up the doors to become executive director
within the last within that probably a year and a
half period.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So it's been a journey for.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Sure, and I'm guessing more than a little bit daunting
to say, like, all right, you're in charge of women
making their business dreams come true? Like how hard all that?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
It's just so easy?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Where did you start?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well?
Speaker 5 (04:21):
I have a really amazing team of service advisors around me.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It's not just growing Obrascal Business Center.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
We have partners like Nebraska Enterprise Fund, Omaha one hundred,
the Commonwealth of Omaha. Of course, Growing, Nebraska Foundation, these
other organizations, Nebraska Development, Business Development Center, We're all here
to be able to provide services to the entrepreneur. It's
just that a lot of the entrepreneurs that we serve
don't know that there's a lot of free resources available,
and so just being able to make them aware that
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they're not having to go through the process of small
business by themselves, just know that they have a partner
with us within you know, GENWBC makes all the difference,
and I think that that's we've been a strong force
moving forward for the last four years.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, I would think that if I were starting a business,
if I had some entrepreneurial vision I wanted to have
might make them true. I would think that really, all
I have to do is just go out there and
just beg people for money, try and get it going.
You started talking about resources available because I was just
having this conversation with my daughter the other day because
she's a senior in high school thinking about college, and
(05:25):
we were talking about prospects for maybe her going into business.
She goes like, I don't know what business means. Said, well,
you've got to come up with a plan for your
business or proposal to take to someone to be a lender.
Once you actually start getting some money coming in, you
have to find a space that meets your needs. A
graphic design, with websites, hiring people, everything that goes into
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the HR. And suddenly her head spinning and I realized
I'm losinger. I talked for more than five seconds and
I didn't say bruh. So my teenage daughter was out.
But there's so much that goes into to entrepreneurial bro,
there's some race that goes I gotta do that with
you too, I say, for real. Fr So, so when
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you talk about resources being available, what kind of resources
are you talking about that people need?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Absolutely, So let's just start from the beginning. A lot
of entrepreneurs don't know where to start.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Uh, when we're looking at funding options, a lot of
people don't have those starting you know, starting resources to
be able to get them moving forward. So connecting them
with funding opportunities of course, like I said, partners with
Omaha one hundred Nebraska Enterprise Fund alt CAP. These are
people there are organizations that are CDFI, so they don't
need to go through a bank in order to finance
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a small business. So helping our clients get qualified for,
you know, their first business loans if that's what they're needing.
So helping them develop their a strong business plan. I
think that that's really one of our strong suits. We
have a program called business Plan Snap and Boost h
Our last class ten actually was a milestone. We actually
launched that last week and have twenty seven entrepreneurs in
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that class for a seven week program so that we
can create their business plan from scratch, make sure their mission,
vision and values are understood, and go over their financial
projections and make sure they understand their numbers and make
sure exactly what their mission. They understand what their mission
is here in our community. I think that that's very
important as well, and so we kind of go over
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all of that with the development portion. We also connect
them to outside of of course funding, connect them with
other learning and training opportunities. We're premier partners with Google,
so we can help them with their Google Map, teach
them how to leverage their Google analytics, show them how
to build a strong SEO and an online platform. So
there's a lot of technical assistance that we try to pair.
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It just really depends on what industry they're in and
what their actual goals are. We just take it from
there and see how we can grow together.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So I know there are people listening right now going, wow,
I missed this opportunity. I missed this class, and they're
wondering when can I be a part of something like
this again? Is it like one once a year and
they missed it and they're done, They're going to wait
till next year? And also costs involved here.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Absolutely, So we actually do have two other training courses
this year. This one will graduate March, I believe seventeenth.
Our next one opens up for April first, so registration
is open right now. They can go to our website
like you said, GNWBC dot org. The snap and Boost
page gives that that place where they can go ahead
(08:32):
and get registered. There is a fifty dollars fee for registration.
But the cool part about our organization is that or
that program is that once you pay that fifty dollars,
you go through your seven week training course, I'll give
you back that fifty dollars and I'll also give you
an additional one hundred dollars to go towards your business
expenses or you know, growth of your company.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
So I know that that's just a little bit of
a carrot, but.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
It really forces you to kind of check your commitments
and see if this is really what you're wanting to do.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
But if you lean in, like I said, we'll meet you.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Meet you where you are talking here with Eden Butler,
executive director of the Grow Nebraska Women's Business Center again
online at GNWBC dot org. We've talked a lot about
getting that business started. What about if you're in business,
even if you've got like a fortune five hundred company,
because we have a few of those around here, absolutely
and you're like, but I want to get better, bigger,
(09:23):
better in other rest, Is this just for entrepreneurs starting
out or those who are already established?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Very good question.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
So we meet entrepreneurs on every leg of their journey.
A lot of people that we see that aren't you know,
just straight up you know, startup businesses. A lot of
people have hit that glass ceiling. What do I do next?
Like you said, I've already started making sales. I already
have some kind of traction here in this space. What
do I do next? So we come in and try to,
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you know, help you formulate a plan. What do you
want to do next? Do you want a franchise? Do
you want to do some business outside of Nebraska? Are
you looking to partner with other organizations so that it
gives you a bigger platform to be able to sell
and grow whatever that looks like for you. We're open
to be able to, you know, finding out what that
path is for you. And again, if I don't have
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the resources in house, then I have connections to other
people that would be able to assist as well.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Do you want people in Tulsa to know what Dorothy
Lynch salad dressing is? Then you reach out to this
organizations they can help you expand into some untapped markets. Yea,
and so forth. By the way, Dorothy Lynch salad dressing
sour cream mixed together as a dip and then potato chips.
Really it's and it's also good for you, Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Really.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I wouldn't recommend eating it three meals a day, but
once in a while it's a fantastic treat.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Absolutely, We're gonna have to try that.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So, if people want to reach out to the Grown
Nebraska Women's Business Center and learn about all the different
offerings throughout the year, how do they reach you? How
do they do.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
All this absolutely, they can just go to our website,
take a look around. There's a lot of resources available
at your disposal, a lot of download stable information that
they can access at any time, but anytime when they're
ready to actually get connected to us, just go to
the contact us page, fill that out, fill out that
short form, and someone from our team will reach out
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with next steps and we'll get started together.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Before we let you go eat, and I have to
talk to you about your subject line because I initially
saw this as a realtor, and I thought I didn't
know we were talking about real estate. Then I looked
at as like, it's not realtor. Your subject line talks
about all the different things you are. Relater, futuristic, developer, responsibility, intellection.
There's a lot said right there. It is tell me
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about all of that.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I took the strength Finder test and so that's essentially
my five strengths after the test was done. And so
I feel like, you know, people understanding who I am
before we actually meet. You kind of understand exactly what
my mission is, why we're having the conversation, why are
we here together.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
We're here for a mission, And if you can relate
to me.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Of course, if you can kind of understand who I
am just coming in at the beginning, then it kind
of gives us something to kind of connect on.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, I just I just enjoyed seeing that because my
head and realize I have not gotten a lot of
sleep lately. So I look, you know, relater and futuristic,
and I first thought real tour and like futurists, like
a psychic, and I thought, that's the best service I've
ever heard.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You just call you might it's wrap around service.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
As soon as someone calls you, you're like, hello, Amy,
we already found your home. It's thirty eight forty and
you're like, she is so good. Then I realized those
are not the words, and at least not in that way.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
That's yeah, yeah, that's not it.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
But I mean, you know, we'll see what other kind
of magic we can come up with a grand Nebraska,
and I'll let you know once I can be able
to have that psycha ability, for.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Sure, I want to go through the same process you
did and put these in my subject line. It'd be
like blow hard knee jerk reactor listens with half an
ear er, you know, So that yeah, there's a lot
we can do here. My subject line is going to
get ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I support you.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
It's been so.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Great relating with you here, and I love what you're
doing here with the Grown Nebraska Women's Business Center again
online at g nwbc dot org. And if you can
learn more about the resources and the grants and everything
else available for entrepreneurs either getting started, like I'm already
thinking about my daughter. You know, she's that she's going
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to do some college and and she's got a great
mind for business, and I'm already kind of planning that seed,
like you know, if you want to start your own business,
and I'm already thinking about investing in her want to
I want to retire and have her pay me.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I should also say freeloader. That'd be one of the
funny things on my subject lines, but no, she I
mean stuff like this, especially for women starting out. This
is a tremendous resource g NBUBC dot org for the
Grow Nebraska Women's Business Center all the way from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Glad to have you in Omaha. Eden Butler, executive Director,
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thank you for what you're doing for entrepreneurs in our community,
and thanks for telling us about it on Community matters.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Absolutely, feel free to send your daughter whenever she's ready,
and I'm looking forward to seeing the community very soon.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Next up here on community matter is a very important
conversation about your heart by iHeartRadio Brethren, Manny Munos. We'll
take it from here.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
February is American Heart Month, and heart disease happens to
be the number one cause of death for Americans.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Yet more than half of us don't even really know
what it is.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
So how about we get some clarity on it, why
it's so deadly in our country, and what we should
all know about being able to take better health, better
care of ourselves and our loved ones. Let's bring in
doctor Clyde Yancey. He's chief of Cardiology Northwestern Medicine Blum
Cardiovascular Institute. Doctor Yancey, I appreciate the time.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Happy to be here, Mannie, Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Bill.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Let me start off with this, what exactly is heart
disease and what are the different types?
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Mannie. Let's think about the way you frame this beginning
with you talked about this being a deadly condition. Let's
let the first takeaway for the audience be this, it
doesn't have to be a deadly condition. Let me tell
you what heart disease is, so we can start from
the same point. Anytime the heart are blood vessels, and
particularly the two together are functioning abnormally, we are at
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risk for heart conditions. What does that mean. It means
heart attacks, it means strokes, it means heart failure, it
means a regular heart rhythms. You can see that there
are any number of ways in which heart disease can
be experienced, but it all starts from a floor a
floor of any scenario, any circumstance where the heart or
blood vessels are the two together are no longer healthy.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Why is heart disease the number one cause of death
here in our country?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
What makes it so widespread?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
So that definition allows us to really address what's important.
When the vessels become unhealthy, when the heart becomes unhealthy,
we start to have these conditions. And because of our lifestyle,
in particular, because of the way in which we engage
with our communities, our society, it means that we have
these burdens of risk. It also means that these burdens
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are risk and modifiable. What are those risk factors? Thinking
about how we engage in life. Smoking definitely a risk factor,
high blood pressure, obesity. Our dietary choice is physical and activity.
We need to understand all of them, taken together put
us at risk. In add family history to that, and
now you can begin to understand that is this whole
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assortment of different exposures that puts us at risk for
these heart conditions. But they all are modifiable. And that's
the really good messaging we want to share.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Is this a uniquely American problem? Do they have the
same levels of heart disease in other countries?
Speaker 8 (16:50):
For example, heart conditions vary across the world. It turns
out that high blood pressure is the number one heart
condition worldwide, but in all communities, particularly in western as
communities northern you're, for example, the Pacific Rim, we see
the same kind of profile of heart disease. But this
is not just in economically resourced countries. Low and middle
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income countries are having more and more awareness of heart
disease in their communities as well. So let's think about this.
Heart disease is ubiquitous, it doesn't vary according to geography
in any great extent. We should all hear these messages.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
I'm guessing one of the problems is that so many
of us, and especially men in our country, try to
avoid visiting the doctor at every turn, and there's early
warning signs and symptoms that people often probably overlook as well.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
No, so there are three things embedded in what you
just said, Manny. The first is that because we're so
intimidate about the deadliness of heart disease, then we kind
of de select, we kind of step away. That's part
of the hesitancy. I wouldn't just drop that on the
back of men. The other thing is that we don't
elevate the risk of women nearly enough. We need to
do that because the risk factors apply for both sexiests.
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So that's yet again another very important thing if we're
talking about how do we address this condition.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
You've mentioned men and women there, but I do know
heart disease is it different between the two.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
So let's get to this issue of signs and symptoms
and the way it becomes we might say manifest So
the way you might say it becomes experienced, it is
experienced differently in men versus women. That is correct. That's
why we need to have these conversations and so that
women recognize that anytime they feel not at ease not well,
particularly in the central chest. We should think immediately about
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heart conditions, whether it's typical or not. For healthcare providers
and particularly for doctors like myself, we should realize that
women can have different presentations than men can have, So
that's important across the board, though. What are the signs
and symptoms, Well, the symptoms of which you experience. If
you're experiencing justice comfort of any sort. If you're experiencing inexplicable,
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uncertain amounts of weakness, that requires a conversation. If you
have any shortness of breath that requires a competition, palpitations,
that requires a conversation. The conversation is with your healthcare provider,
your doctor, your family practitioner, the people that help you
restore your health and improve your health. Those are the symptoms.
The signs are things that we identify at the bedside.
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What's your blood pressure, what's your cluster level, what does
your heart examination sound like? We put the two together
and then we'll be able to understand who's at risk
and what can we do about it.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
What are the.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Biggest misconceptions about heart disease?
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Doctor, There are several misconceptions that we just have to
eliminate right now women are at risk for disease. That's
incredibly important. But the second misconception is two people. Too
many times people feel as if there's nothing you can
do about it. That's wrong. Eighty percent of heart disease
is preventable. The third thing people think, well, they're just
going to prescribe a pill a dual procedure. No, so
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much can be done with lifestyle so that you can
control this on your own. So those are three there
immediate mess that I want to dismiss. Women do have
heart disease. There is something we can do about it.
Eighty percent of it is preventable and it doesn't always
require a drug ard procedure. Lifestyle coaching, lifestyle changes can
make a difference.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I want to get back to that lifestyle thing in
just a moment. Here we're speaking with doctor Clyde Yancey,
Chief of Cardiology, Northwestern Medicine Blum Cardiovascular Institute. Why is
American Heart Month so important in drawing attention to heart disease?
And what has been the impact of heart disease awareness?
Speaker 8 (20:32):
So two important things in your question, and the key
word was attention. One of the unique things about having
a designated window like February as Heart Month is because
it gets all of us to centralize our conversations. First
about the heart, yes, but more broadly about our health.
That's incredibly important because health is our most precious asset.
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When we have health, we can do anything. If we
don't have our health, there's nothing we can do. So
that's the first thing. But the second part of question
is really quite insightful. What can we do about it?
What's been the result of this awareness. It turns out
that over the last three decades, we've seen a fifty
percent decrease in deaths due to heart disease. We should
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celebrate that, we should applaud that, but we also see
a worrisome increase in a burden of risk, and those
curves are going to begin to change. So that's why
Heart Month is great because it's allowed us to get
the message out and we've seen this reduction. But Heart
Month is also necessary because we see more risk factors
coming along.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
One of those reasons I imagine that we've made such
great strides, as you mentioned over the last three decades,
is not only the diagnosis but treatment exactly.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
We've been able to do more for heart disease than
ever before. The therapies we have the procedures are incredibly effective,
again than ever before, but also for prevention. But we
also know this that reduction in depths due to heart disease,
over half of that is come from heart healthy messaging
taking steps to prevent heart disease. Treatments are terrific today,
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better than they've ever been, but prevention is powerful as well.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Let's go back and talk about something you've already mentioned,
but I want to reiterated the biggest risk factors for
heart disease that we can control.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
We need to be more active because physical inactivity, sedentary lifestyle,
sitting puts us at risk for heart disease. We need
to think about our diet. I want to articulate the
things you've heard before. You know about fresh fruits and
vegetables and low fat, but I want to give you
something simple. Think about just eating less. If we can
just think about eating less, that gets the journey started
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to what's becoming healthier. If we can completely avoid tobacco,
that's incredibly important. Weight management is incredibly important. Medical obesity
is a risk factor for disease. So to be very clear, smoking,
physical activity a heart, unhealthy diet, diabetes, particularly hypertension, and
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your family history. All those are risk factors. And like you,
let's just focus on one thing, high blood pressure. If
you don't know your blood pressure today, you should go
and have it checked. It's just that important.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Some of the best things in life are the things
that are bad for you, right, red meat, I love
to drink, my wine, love fried foods. You're not suggesting
that we completely deny ourselves those things, but everything in moderation.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
So some of the best things in life are health
and happiness and healthiche. But what I'm also suggesting is
that it's all about moderation. No one is. You don't
hear me telling you don't do things with the exception tobacco.
Everything else is moderation. Everything else is about eating less
about doing more about positive things we can do to
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gain our health.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
A little bit of movement more better than no movement
at all.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
We've talked about diet and exercise are the most significant
impacts on preventing heart disease. I want to ask you
something that is still kind of taboo to discuss in
our society, but I think we're making great strides. Stress
and mental health because both of those things do have
an effect on heart health as well.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
There's nothing taboo about talking about a risk factor that
we know is important for heart disease, and that's particularly stress.
It used to be a vague sort of consideration, but
now we understand this stress when it becomes manifest as inflammation,
is in fact a risk factor for heart disease. Now,
what does inflammation mean. It's a big fancy word. Imagine
getting an insect bite, looking at your hand and seeing
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a red circle around it bite. That's inflammation. When that
happens in your blood vessels, that puts you at risk
of disease. That's a visual that everyone can understand. Stress
does in fact cause heart disease working through inflammation, and
so we can find ways to manage stress. Well. It
adds to our understanding of what we can do to
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reduce this burden. But one other thing adds for our understanding,
and that's knowledge. We have to know our numbers. We
can't measure stress, but we can measure blood pressure, we
can measure clusterole, we can measure temoglobmin a wancy, we
can know our weight. All the things we're talking about,
All of these things can reduce this exposure to heart condition.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Doctor Clyde Yancey, Chief of Cardiology, Northwestern Medicine, Blum Cardiovascular
Institute for American Heart Month, thank you so much for
the time and all the wonderful information.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
I appreciate you. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
There are many angles that we can and will take
in discussing heart related issues this month, but I.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Found this one to be fascinating.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
We all know what CPR is, but how exactly does
it work and how has it developed?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Why should all.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Of us know how to save a life. Let's bring
in an expert to discuss it. Doctor Lawrence Phillips is
Director of Nuclear Cardiology at ny u's Langon Medical Center.
Doctor Phillips, I appreciate the time, thanks for joining.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Us, thanks to the invitation to talk today.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Let's start off with the basics. What does CPR stand for.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
So CPR is called cardiopomer resuscitation, and the idea of
CPR is to essentially help support what's been a failing part,
to allow oxygenation to the body when that body is
not able to do it by itself. There are two
major things we think about. First is oxygen and the
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second is essentially transportation throughout the body.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
How do we know when someone is in need of
cardiac arrest?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
So classically what we think about, especially when we're thinking
about the community, is somebody suddenly collapsing and becoming non
responsive or unresponsive, and it's important that as bystanders we
immediately jump into help because the amount of time that
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the body, especially the brain, is about oxygen is completely
related to the likelihood of having a poor outcome.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Can CBR be performed or be supported performed on someone
who is breathing? Is it only on somebody breathing has stopped?
Speaker 6 (27:07):
If they have not, if they're not breathing, that's when
you would start CPR. And if we broaden it, what
we want to think about is when somebody collapses unresponsive,
they're not moving, they're not breathing, their heart is likely
stopped or is it a fatal lihythm that's not able
to sustain life, And so a bystander who's there will
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to help them by by providing providing CPR is actually
increasing the chance of their survival. Without bystander CPR in
these situations, death is grare than ninety percent, and so's
it's really important that first people learn how to do it.
It's very simple to do, right, and they also be
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willing to step up to help when they see somebody
underneath it.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah. I guess both of those are equally important, aren't they.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
It's one thing to know how to do it, but
then refuse to up been when you need to.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
And I want to get into how somebody brains and
learns how to do this properly.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
I guess all of us are familiar with CPR from
you know, watching movies, TV shows and things like that,
and I know it's changed a little bit. You've got
chess compressions and you've got assisting, is that right?
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Yeah? So in classics are and this is think about
the history of CPR. Different components of this was looked
at over centuries, but really in the last century where
the greatest developments made up until the point of nineteen
sixty when it was all put together for what we
classically think of a CPR, so assisted breathing and chess compressions. Now,
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what was found is that when you combine those two,
even with people that are learning, they often are uncomfortable
for many reasons doing it when the situation arises, and
so in the late two thousands two thousand and eightish,
the American Heart Association said, based on good scientific data
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that if you're a bystander and you're going to help,
that hands only CPR can be as effective, meaning removing
the resuscitation part with the breathing from it and using
the hands only component of it, so the chess compressions,
and so the way I look at it is in
the medical community, when we're involved in a resuscitation, clearly
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we're using ventilations as well as chess compressions. But for
a bystander, so somebody in the community, for family member,
even doing chess compressions alone can increase a likely their
survival by two or three times. And so there's a
big push on the community level to train everybody in
hands only CPR so they can increase the response with this.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
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Scott for Heats.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thank you so much for being a part of our program.
This week, we welcome the executive director of the Grow
Nebraska Women's Business Center online at g NWBC dot org.
That's Grown Nebraska Women's Business Center. Eden Butler, joins us
here on Community Matters and Eden, it's great to have
you on the program.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I am very disappointed that as a man, no one
came and told me about the Grow Nebraska Women's Business Center.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
This is the first time hearing it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Question.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I need someone to tell me so I can go
to your group and man'splain to the women about what
and how it works.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Please do GRASCA Business Center.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
We're here to be the bridge between the entrepreneur and
their goals in business, so anywhere from formation of franchising,
I can get you connected to resources to help you
grow your small business here in Nebraska. And I also
want a caveat all are welcome. It's not just specifically
for women. We're here for the greater Omaha as a whole,
So anyone's welcome to utilize our resources for some assistance.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
But obviously the organization was set up because it's a
it's certainly a different path if you're a woman who
wants to be entrepreneurial in spirit and actual deed. For sure,
it has been a different path. So can you tell
me about some of the origins of this organization?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Absolutely so.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Our parent organization is grown Nebraska Foundation based out of Carney.
We are the number one distributor of Dorothy lyn seal
addressing in the nation for ecmsals. Yeah, and we do
that throughout by Nebraska dot com site. So any Nebraska
entrepreneur that has retail items can get connected to our
organization so that we can help you on e comm.
We're also your partners with Google, so we can help you,
(02:02):
of course, get get your map taken care of and
get you placed so you can find some new clients
and we help.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
You with that.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Dorothy Lynch obviously has a woman's name attached to it.
Is it a woman owned organization?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Actually, that is a very good question. Let me find out,
let me find it.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I just wondered what the connection was between Dorothy Lynch
and your organization, so that could be we just really
like Dorothy Lynch.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I mean, I'm not from here. I'm from sus Oklahoma,
so I didn't know what Dorothy Lynch was and so
I got here.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
But uh, Nebraska gran Nebraska.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Foundation gives us an open door to be able to
facilitate assistance for our our entrepreneurs in my service area.
So of course, our main focus, of course is women primary,
of course women of color, to be able to provide
equity and accessibility for everyone. But it's gonna take, of
course everyone to build a community.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
And so that's what.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
We're here for is for the the whole. And so
of course, like I said, we do that through part
ship through our parent organization, Grow to BRASCA, so that
we can be able to facilitate growth and not just
offer lectures and talks were actually about work.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Got it? Sorry?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I started hitting you with the Nebraska salad dressing based
trivia questions. Go ahead and olaholm a girl but talking
here with Eiden Butler, executive director of the Grown Nebraska
Women's Business Center Online at GNWBC dot org. Let me
ask you some Eiden Butler trivia questions. How was it
that you came to be involved in this organization?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
That's a very good question.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
So, like I said, I'm not from here, and I
had an opportunity to actually move up here to work
with another nonprofit organization and to launch my own graphic
and branding marketing company.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And so originally I.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Was actually just hired to do some work for Growdabraska,
as you know, an entrepreneur trying to get my feet wet,
and a contract turned into a job opportunity, and that
job opportunity opened up the doors to become executive director
within the last within that probably a year and a
half period.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So it's been a journey for.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Sure, and I'm guessing more than a little bit daunting
to say, like, all right, you're in charge of women
making their business dreams come true? Like how hard all that?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
It's just so easy?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Where did you start?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well?
Speaker 5 (04:21):
I have a really amazing team of service advisors around me.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It's not just growing Obrascal Business Center.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
We have partners like Nebraska Enterprise Fund, Omaha one hundred,
the Commonwealth of Omaha. Of course, Growing, Nebraska Foundation, these
other organizations, Nebraska Development, Business Development Center, We're all here
to be able to provide services to the entrepreneur. It's
just that a lot of the entrepreneurs that we serve
don't know that there's a lot of free resources available,
and so just being able to make them aware that
(04:49):
they're not having to go through the process of small
business by themselves, just know that they have a partner
with us within you know, GENWBC makes all the difference,
and I think that that's we've been a strong force
moving forward for the last four years.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, I would think that if I were starting a business,
if I had some entrepreneurial vision I wanted to have
might make them true. I would think that really, all
I have to do is just go out there and
just beg people for money, try and get it going.
You started talking about resources available because I was just
having this conversation with my daughter the other day because
she's a senior in high school thinking about college, and
(05:25):
we were talking about prospects for maybe her going into business.
She goes like, I don't know what business means. Said, well,
you've got to come up with a plan for your
business or proposal to take to someone to be a lender.
Once you actually start getting some money coming in, you
have to find a space that meets your needs. A
graphic design, with websites, hiring people, everything that goes into
(05:48):
the HR. And suddenly her head spinning and I realized
I'm losinger. I talked for more than five seconds and
I didn't say bruh. So my teenage daughter was out.
But there's so much that goes into to entrepreneurial bro,
there's some race that goes I gotta do that with
you too, I say, for real. Fr So, so when
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you talk about resources being available, what kind of resources
are you talking about that people need?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Absolutely, So let's just start from the beginning. A lot
of entrepreneurs don't know where to start.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Uh, when we're looking at funding options, a lot of
people don't have those starting you know, starting resources to
be able to get them moving forward. So connecting them
with funding opportunities of course, like I said, partners with
Omaha one hundred Nebraska Enterprise Fund alt CAP. These are
people there are organizations that are CDFI, so they don't
need to go through a bank in order to finance
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a small business. So helping our clients get qualified for,
you know, their first business loans if that's what they're needing.
So helping them develop their a strong business plan. I
think that that's really one of our strong suits. We
have a program called business Plan Snap and Boost h
Our last class ten actually was a milestone. We actually
launched that last week and have twenty seven entrepreneurs in
(07:06):
that class for a seven week program so that we
can create their business plan from scratch, make sure their mission,
vision and values are understood, and go over their financial
projections and make sure they understand their numbers and make
sure exactly what their mission. They understand what their mission
is here in our community. I think that that's very
important as well, and so we kind of go over
(07:28):
all of that with the development portion. We also connect
them to outside of of course funding, connect them with
other learning and training opportunities. We're premier partners with Google,
so we can help them with their Google Map, teach
them how to leverage their Google analytics, show them how
to build a strong SEO and an online platform. So
there's a lot of technical assistance that we try to pair.
(07:48):
It just really depends on what industry they're in and
what their actual goals are. We just take it from
there and see how we can grow together.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So I know there are people listening right now going, wow,
I missed this opportunity. I missed this class, and they're
wondering when can I be a part of something like
this again? Is it like one once a year and
they missed it and they're done, They're going to wait
till next year? And also costs involved here.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Absolutely, So we actually do have two other training courses
this year. This one will graduate March, I believe seventeenth.
Our next one opens up for April first, so registration
is open right now. They can go to our website
like you said, GNWBC dot org. The snap and Boost
page gives that that place where they can go ahead
(08:32):
and get registered. There is a fifty dollars fee for registration.
But the cool part about our organization is that or
that program is that once you pay that fifty dollars,
you go through your seven week training course, I'll give
you back that fifty dollars and I'll also give you
an additional one hundred dollars to go towards your business
expenses or you know, growth of your company.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
So I know that that's just a little bit of
a carrot, but.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
It really forces you to kind of check your commitments
and see if this is really what you're wanting to do.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
But if you lean in, like I said, we'll meet you.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Meet you where you are talking here with Eden Butler,
executive director of the Grow Nebraska Women's Business Center again
online at GNWBC dot org. We've talked a lot about
getting that business started. What about if you're in business,
even if you've got like a fortune five hundred company,
because we have a few of those around here, absolutely
and you're like, but I want to get better, bigger,
(09:23):
better in other rest, Is this just for entrepreneurs starting
out or those who are already established?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Very good question.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
So we meet entrepreneurs on every leg of their journey.
A lot of people that we see that aren't you know,
just straight up you know, startup businesses. A lot of
people have hit that glass ceiling. What do I do next?
Like you said, I've already started making sales. I already
have some kind of traction here in this space. What
do I do next? So we come in and try to,
(09:49):
you know, help you formulate a plan. What do you
want to do next? Do you want a franchise? Do
you want to do some business outside of Nebraska? Are
you looking to partner with other organizations so that it
gives you a bigger platform to be able to sell
and grow whatever that looks like for you. We're open
to be able to, you know, finding out what that
path is for you. And again, if I don't have
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the resources in house, then I have connections to other
people that would be able to assist as well.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Do you want people in Tulsa to know what Dorothy
Lynch salad dressing is? Then you reach out to this
organizations they can help you expand into some untapped markets. Yea,
and so forth. By the way, Dorothy Lynch salad dressing
sour cream mixed together as a dip and then potato chips.
Really it's and it's also good for you, Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Really.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I wouldn't recommend eating it three meals a day, but
once in a while it's a fantastic treat.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Absolutely, We're gonna have to try that.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So, if people want to reach out to the Grown
Nebraska Women's Business Center and learn about all the different
offerings throughout the year, how do they reach you? How
do they do.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
All this absolutely, they can just go to our website,
take a look around. There's a lot of resources available
at your disposal, a lot of download stable information that
they can access at any time, but anytime when they're
ready to actually get connected to us, just go to
the contact us page, fill that out, fill out that
short form, and someone from our team will reach out
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with next steps and we'll get started together.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Before we let you go eat, and I have to
talk to you about your subject line because I initially
saw this as a realtor, and I thought I didn't
know we were talking about real estate. Then I looked
at as like, it's not realtor. Your subject line talks
about all the different things you are. Relater, futuristic, developer, responsibility, intellection.
There's a lot said right there. It is tell me
(11:40):
about all of that.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I took the strength Finder test and so that's essentially
my five strengths after the test was done. And so
I feel like, you know, people understanding who I am
before we actually meet. You kind of understand exactly what
my mission is, why we're having the conversation, why are
we here together.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
We're here for a mission, And if you can relate
to me.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Of course, if you can kind of understand who I
am just coming in at the beginning, then it kind
of gives us something to kind of connect on.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, I just I just enjoyed seeing that because my
head and realize I have not gotten a lot of
sleep lately. So I look, you know, relater and futuristic,
and I first thought real tour and like futurists, like
a psychic, and I thought, that's the best service I've
ever heard.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You just call you might it's wrap around service.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
As soon as someone calls you, you're like, hello, Amy,
we already found your home. It's thirty eight forty and
you're like, she is so good. Then I realized those
are not the words, and at least not in that way.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
That's yeah, yeah, that's not it.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
But I mean, you know, we'll see what other kind
of magic we can come up with a grand Nebraska,
and I'll let you know once I can be able
to have that psycha ability, for.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Sure, I want to go through the same process you
did and put these in my subject line. It'd be
like blow hard knee jerk reactor listens with half an
ear er, you know, So that yeah, there's a lot
we can do here. My subject line is going to
get ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I support you.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
It's been so.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Great relating with you here, and I love what you're
doing here with the Grown Nebraska Women's Business Center again
online at g nwbc dot org. And if you can
learn more about the resources and the grants and everything
else available for entrepreneurs either getting started, like I'm already
thinking about my daughter. You know, she's that she's going
(13:32):
to do some college and and she's got a great
mind for business, and I'm already kind of planning that seed,
like you know, if you want to start your own business,
and I'm already thinking about investing in her want to
I want to retire and have her pay me.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I should also say freeloader. That'd be one of the
funny things on my subject lines, but no, she I
mean stuff like this, especially for women starting out. This
is a tremendous resource g NBUBC dot org for the
Grow Nebraska Women's Business Center all the way from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Glad to have you in Omaha. Eden Butler, executive Director,
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thank you for what you're doing for entrepreneurs in our community,
and thanks for telling us about it on Community matters.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Absolutely, feel free to send your daughter whenever she's ready,
and I'm looking forward to seeing the community very soon.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Next up here on community matter is a very important
conversation about your heart by iHeartRadio Brethren, Manny Munos. We'll
take it from here.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
February is American Heart Month, and heart disease happens to
be the number one cause of death for Americans.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Yet more than half of us don't even really know
what it is.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
So how about we get some clarity on it, why
it's so deadly in our country, and what we should
all know about being able to take better health, better
care of ourselves and our loved ones. Let's bring in
doctor Clyde Yancey. He's chief of Cardiology Northwestern Medicine Blum
Cardiovascular Institute. Doctor Yancey, I appreciate the time.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Happy to be here, Mannie, Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Bill.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Let me start off with this, what exactly is heart
disease and what are the different types?
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Mannie. Let's think about the way you frame this beginning
with you talked about this being a deadly condition. Let's
let the first takeaway for the audience be this, it
doesn't have to be a deadly condition. Let me tell
you what heart disease is, so we can start from
the same point. Anytime the heart are blood vessels, and
particularly the two together are functioning abnormally, we are at
(15:26):
risk for heart conditions. What does that mean. It means
heart attacks, it means strokes, it means heart failure, it
means a regular heart rhythms. You can see that there
are any number of ways in which heart disease can
be experienced, but it all starts from a floor a
floor of any scenario, any circumstance where the heart or
blood vessels are the two together are no longer healthy.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Why is heart disease the number one cause of death
here in our country?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
What makes it so widespread?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
So that definition allows us to really address what's important.
When the vessels become unhealthy, when the heart becomes unhealthy,
we start to have these conditions. And because of our lifestyle,
in particular, because of the way in which we engage
with our communities, our society, it means that we have
these burdens of risk. It also means that these burdens
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are risk and modifiable. What are those risk factors? Thinking
about how we engage in life. Smoking definitely a risk factor,
high blood pressure, obesity. Our dietary choice is physical and activity.
We need to understand all of them, taken together put
us at risk. In add family history to that, and
now you can begin to understand that is this whole
(16:36):
assortment of different exposures that puts us at risk for
these heart conditions. But they all are modifiable. And that's
the really good messaging we want to share.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Is this a uniquely American problem? Do they have the
same levels of heart disease in other countries?
Speaker 8 (16:50):
For example, heart conditions vary across the world. It turns
out that high blood pressure is the number one heart
condition worldwide, but in all communities, particularly in western as
communities northern you're, for example, the Pacific Rim, we see
the same kind of profile of heart disease. But this
is not just in economically resourced countries. Low and middle
(17:11):
income countries are having more and more awareness of heart
disease in their communities as well. So let's think about this.
Heart disease is ubiquitous, it doesn't vary according to geography
in any great extent. We should all hear these messages.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
I'm guessing one of the problems is that so many
of us, and especially men in our country, try to
avoid visiting the doctor at every turn, and there's early
warning signs and symptoms that people often probably overlook as well.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
No, so there are three things embedded in what you
just said, Manny. The first is that because we're so
intimidate about the deadliness of heart disease, then we kind
of de select, we kind of step away. That's part
of the hesitancy. I wouldn't just drop that on the
back of men. The other thing is that we don't
elevate the risk of women nearly enough. We need to
do that because the risk factors apply for both sexiests.
(18:02):
So that's yet again another very important thing if we're
talking about how do we address this condition.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
You've mentioned men and women there, but I do know
heart disease is it different between the two.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
So let's get to this issue of signs and symptoms
and the way it becomes we might say manifest So
the way you might say it becomes experienced, it is
experienced differently in men versus women. That is correct. That's
why we need to have these conversations and so that
women recognize that anytime they feel not at ease not well,
particularly in the central chest. We should think immediately about
(18:36):
heart conditions, whether it's typical or not. For healthcare providers
and particularly for doctors like myself, we should realize that
women can have different presentations than men can have, So
that's important across the board, though. What are the signs
and symptoms, Well, the symptoms of which you experience. If
you're experiencing justice comfort of any sort. If you're experiencing inexplicable,
(18:57):
uncertain amounts of weakness, that requires a conversation. If you
have any shortness of breath that requires a competition, palpitations,
that requires a conversation. The conversation is with your healthcare provider,
your doctor, your family practitioner, the people that help you
restore your health and improve your health. Those are the symptoms.
The signs are things that we identify at the bedside.
(19:19):
What's your blood pressure, what's your cluster level, what does
your heart examination sound like? We put the two together
and then we'll be able to understand who's at risk
and what can we do about it.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
What are the.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Biggest misconceptions about heart disease?
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Doctor, There are several misconceptions that we just have to
eliminate right now women are at risk for disease. That's
incredibly important. But the second misconception is two people. Too
many times people feel as if there's nothing you can
do about it. That's wrong. Eighty percent of heart disease
is preventable. The third thing people think, well, they're just
going to prescribe a pill a dual procedure. No, so
(19:53):
much can be done with lifestyle so that you can
control this on your own. So those are three there
immediate mess that I want to dismiss. Women do have
heart disease. There is something we can do about it.
Eighty percent of it is preventable and it doesn't always
require a drug ard procedure. Lifestyle coaching, lifestyle changes can
make a difference.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I want to get back to that lifestyle thing in
just a moment. Here we're speaking with doctor Clyde Yancey,
Chief of Cardiology, Northwestern Medicine Blum Cardiovascular Institute. Why is
American Heart Month so important in drawing attention to heart disease?
And what has been the impact of heart disease awareness?
Speaker 8 (20:32):
So two important things in your question, and the key
word was attention. One of the unique things about having
a designated window like February as Heart Month is because
it gets all of us to centralize our conversations. First
about the heart, yes, but more broadly about our health.
That's incredibly important because health is our most precious asset.
(20:54):
When we have health, we can do anything. If we
don't have our health, there's nothing we can do. So
that's the first thing. But the second part of question
is really quite insightful. What can we do about it?
What's been the result of this awareness. It turns out
that over the last three decades, we've seen a fifty
percent decrease in deaths due to heart disease. We should
(21:14):
celebrate that, we should applaud that, but we also see
a worrisome increase in a burden of risk, and those
curves are going to begin to change. So that's why
Heart Month is great because it's allowed us to get
the message out and we've seen this reduction. But Heart
Month is also necessary because we see more risk factors
coming along.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
One of those reasons I imagine that we've made such
great strides, as you mentioned over the last three decades,
is not only the diagnosis but treatment exactly.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
We've been able to do more for heart disease than
ever before. The therapies we have the procedures are incredibly effective,
again than ever before, but also for prevention. But we
also know this that reduction in depths due to heart disease,
over half of that is come from heart healthy messaging
taking steps to prevent heart disease. Treatments are terrific today,
(22:05):
better than they've ever been, but prevention is powerful as well.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Let's go back and talk about something you've already mentioned,
but I want to reiterated the biggest risk factors for
heart disease that we can control.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
We need to be more active because physical inactivity, sedentary lifestyle,
sitting puts us at risk for heart disease. We need
to think about our diet. I want to articulate the
things you've heard before. You know about fresh fruits and
vegetables and low fat, but I want to give you
something simple. Think about just eating less. If we can
just think about eating less, that gets the journey started
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to what's becoming healthier. If we can completely avoid tobacco,
that's incredibly important. Weight management is incredibly important. Medical obesity
is a risk factor for disease. So to be very clear, smoking,
physical activity a heart, unhealthy diet, diabetes, particularly hypertension, and
(23:00):
your family history. All those are risk factors. And like you,
let's just focus on one thing, high blood pressure. If
you don't know your blood pressure today, you should go
and have it checked. It's just that important.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Some of the best things in life are the things
that are bad for you, right, red meat, I love
to drink, my wine, love fried foods. You're not suggesting
that we completely deny ourselves those things, but everything in moderation.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
So some of the best things in life are health
and happiness and healthiche. But what I'm also suggesting is
that it's all about moderation. No one is. You don't
hear me telling you don't do things with the exception tobacco.
Everything else is moderation. Everything else is about eating less
about doing more about positive things we can do to
(23:47):
gain our health.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
A little bit of movement more better than no movement
at all.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
We've talked about diet and exercise are the most significant
impacts on preventing heart disease. I want to ask you
something that is still kind of taboo to discuss in
our society, but I think we're making great strides. Stress
and mental health because both of those things do have
an effect on heart health as well.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
There's nothing taboo about talking about a risk factor that
we know is important for heart disease, and that's particularly stress.
It used to be a vague sort of consideration, but
now we understand this stress when it becomes manifest as inflammation,
is in fact a risk factor for heart disease. Now,
what does inflammation mean. It's a big fancy word. Imagine
getting an insect bite, looking at your hand and seeing
(24:33):
a red circle around it bite. That's inflammation. When that
happens in your blood vessels, that puts you at risk
of disease. That's a visual that everyone can understand. Stress
does in fact cause heart disease working through inflammation, and
so we can find ways to manage stress. Well. It
adds to our understanding of what we can do to
(24:54):
reduce this burden. But one other thing adds for our understanding,
and that's knowledge. We have to know our numbers. We
can't measure stress, but we can measure blood pressure, we
can measure clusterole, we can measure temoglobmin a wancy, we
can know our weight. All the things we're talking about,
All of these things can reduce this exposure to heart condition.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Doctor Clyde Yancey, Chief of Cardiology, Northwestern Medicine, Blum Cardiovascular
Institute for American Heart Month, thank you so much for
the time and all the wonderful information.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
I appreciate you. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
There are many angles that we can and will take
in discussing heart related issues this month, but I.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Found this one to be fascinating.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
We all know what CPR is, but how exactly does
it work and how has it developed?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Why should all.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Of us know how to save a life. Let's bring
in an expert to discuss it. Doctor Lawrence Phillips is
Director of Nuclear Cardiology at ny u's Langon Medical Center.
Doctor Phillips, I appreciate the time, thanks for joining.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Us, thanks to the invitation to talk today.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Let's start off with the basics. What does CPR stand for.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
So CPR is called cardiopomer resuscitation, and the idea of
CPR is to essentially help support what's been a failing part,
to allow oxygenation to the body when that body is
not able to do it by itself. There are two
major things we think about. First is oxygen and the
(26:20):
second is essentially transportation throughout the body.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
How do we know when someone is in need of
cardiac arrest?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
So classically what we think about, especially when we're thinking
about the community, is somebody suddenly collapsing and becoming non
responsive or unresponsive, and it's important that as bystanders we
immediately jump into help because the amount of time that
(26:52):
the body, especially the brain, is about oxygen is completely
related to the likelihood of having a poor outcome.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Can CBR be performed or be supported performed on someone
who is breathing? Is it only on somebody breathing has stopped?
Speaker 6 (27:07):
If they have not, if they're not breathing, that's when
you would start CPR. And if we broaden it, what
we want to think about is when somebody collapses unresponsive,
they're not moving, they're not breathing, their heart is likely
stopped or is it a fatal lihythm that's not able
to sustain life, And so a bystander who's there will
(27:30):
to help them by by providing providing CPR is actually
increasing the chance of their survival. Without bystander CPR in
these situations, death is grare than ninety percent, and so's
it's really important that first people learn how to do it.
It's very simple to do, right, and they also be
(27:51):
willing to step up to help when they see somebody
underneath it.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah. I guess both of those are equally important, aren't they.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
It's one thing to know how to do it, but
then refuse to up been when you need to.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
And I want to get into how somebody brains and
learns how to do this properly.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
I guess all of us are familiar with CPR from
you know, watching movies, TV shows and things like that,
and I know it's changed a little bit. You've got
chess compressions and you've got assisting, is that right?
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Yeah? So in classics are and this is think about
the history of CPR. Different components of this was looked
at over centuries, but really in the last century where
the greatest developments made up until the point of nineteen
sixty when it was all put together for what we
classically think of a CPR, so assisted breathing and chess compressions. Now,
(28:39):
what was found is that when you combine those two,
even with people that are learning, they often are uncomfortable
for many reasons doing it when the situation arises, and
so in the late two thousands two thousand and eightish,
the American Heart Association said, based on good scientific data
(28:59):
that if you're a bystander and you're going to help,
that hands only CPR can be as effective, meaning removing
the resuscitation part with the breathing from it and using
the hands only component of it, so the chess compressions,
and so the way I look at it is in
the medical community, when we're involved in a resuscitation, clearly
(29:21):
we're using ventilations as well as chess compressions. But for
a bystander, so somebody in the community, for family member,
even doing chess compressions alone can increase a likely their
survival by two or three times. And so there's a
big push on the community level to train everybody in
hands only CPR so they can increase the response with this.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
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