Dr. Leandris Liburd and Tara Robinson discuss #heartdisease and the #LivetotheBeat campaign ~ #hearthealth

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes Dr. Leandris Liburd and Tara Robinson to Conversations LIVE to discuss the dangers of heart disease and how the Live to the Beat campaign is helping to raise awareness.

Find out more at www.livetothebeat.org/heart2heart

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Conversations Live. For morethan a decade, we've brought you the
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again for a radio audience tuning inat WYAD ninety four point one FM and
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Also tuning in through I heard radioon Amazon Music that you all could be
with us as well. This ispart of a music and use segment here
at WYAD. In today, we'retalking about heart disease. Heart disease is

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the number one killer of women inthis country, and the odds of dying
from it are even higher if you'rean African American woman. But there are
ways to reduce your risk for cardiovasculardisease, and that's why I'm excited about
the day's two guests. We're excitedto welcome doctor Lanslebert to our broadcast today,
just joining us from the Sooners fordisease controller prevention. We also have
back with us Tara Robinson Terry asa founder and CEO of the Black Heart

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Association. They're going to talk tous about a new campaign they help Black
women protect their heart health and alsolet you guys know we can go for
more information. Thanks for the twoof you for the time, but they
appreciate it. It's a pleasure tobe here. Well, well, doctor
le Bird, I want to beginwith you. I really appreciate the opportunity
to speak with you. So Imentioned in my intro of course about heart
disease being the number one killer andwomen in this country. But what kind

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of toll is cardiovascular disease taking onwomen in this country. Well, as
you said, it's the number onekiller of all women in this country,
killing more women than all forms ofcancer combined. But the group that's really
carrying the biggest toll of this ofheart disease are is African American women.

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We know that African American women aresixty percent more likely to have high blood
pressure, they experience higher rates ofcardiovascular disease, coronary disease, and stroke
depths when we compare their rates tonon Hispanic white women. So this is

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really a call to action because thegood news is that we can reduce this
toll among Black women and it requiresthat they participate in taking small steps to
really improve their health and also acknowledgingthat self care is healthcare. Yeah,

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such a great point. Terry hadan opportunity to speak with you first of
all back in twenty twenty two,and you share a bit of your story
if you don't mind for an audience, tell us about your own experience with
heart disease. Uh, happy tobe back. My own experience with heart
disease is that April tenth, Ihad a heart attack. April eleventh,
I had a heart attack. InApril twelfth, I had a massive heart
attack which led to sudden death.So I want women to know that the

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narrative of strong black women, orif you're internalizing your stress are just because
we look good on the outside doesn'tnecessarily mean we look good on the inside.
So really taking the time to knowwhere you stand as it relates to
your cardiovascular Uh the Z I meancardiovascular system. Excuse me, and to
join this initiative Live to the dotorg for a slash Heart to heart because

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it's so important that we get infront of it instead of working from behind
it. We don't want it tocatch anyone off guard as it relates to
their heart health. So it's verypersonal to me that each one teach one
y Caro, I want to staywith you for a second. They want
to talk to Dust a little bitmore about the campaign. Why has it
been such an important for you tospeak out? Because it's one thing you
to be a survivor, But whyhas it been so important for you to

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make sure that you're speaking out andraising awareness for others? I think it's
important because it's a It's a lotthat impacts us as it relates to our
heart health, as black women,as Black people in general, the stress
that we face from systematic, somaticissues such just racism, bias, and
care, lack of access, andwho better to speak up than a survivor?

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Who better to speak up than me? I almost lost my life to
this thing. And one thing thatI realized is that what makes it so
dangerous is that we don't look sick, and so that's a problem, and
we haven't seen images of us.Are enough representation of us that look like
me, thin and thin and unhealthy? Like me. So I just wanted

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to make sure that people are awarethat our community is aware that this thing
is taking us out and it doesn'thave to. It's important that we be
here with our families. It's importantthat we be here with our community.
So if we lose one member ofour community, it impacts the whole system.
Such a great thing. Doth Liabird Tarah mentioned, of course the
campaign with to thebe dot org slashparts of Heart. We're gonna leak it

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up for audience, but talk toour audience about the campaign and what its
mission is. So the mission ofthis CA campaign is to bring resources,
tools, excuse me, information thatwomen can use in order to protect their
health. I think part of theexperience of black women is that we spend

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most of our time taking care ofothers and not really attending to ourselves.
And so what we want the Heartto Heart Challenge to do is to give
Black women permission to prioritize their ownself care and their own heart health.
So there are three calls to actionwith the campaign. One of them is

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to first of all, make acommitment to take one small step, and
that can be something like committing todo a walk every day, committing to
get more sleep, committing to youknow, tracking our food and take and
physical activity. And it could alsomean committing to speaking with a healthcare or

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help a mental health professional when we'restarting to feel overwhelmed, you know,
just by the demands of our life. And then the second call to action
is to then share what you havecommitted to do, Share it with family,
friends, put it on your socialmedia site. And then thirdly,

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we want everybody to celebrate, takethe stop pause and celebrate that you have
made a commitment to your own hearthealth. And then we want you to
come to the Heart to Heart selfcare party that's going to be held in
Atlanta on February twenty fourth. Andif you can't make it to Atlanta on

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February twenty fourth, then you canjoin and participate virtually now where there's lots
more information tune about all of whatI just shared in terms of the challenge
is on the Live to thede dotorg forward slash Hard to Heart web page.

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Let's lived to the beat dot orgforward slash heart to Heart and women
should we linked it up for audienceas well. Again a great segment and
two powerful guests here to talk tous about the importance of not only the
dangers of heart disease, but alsowhat we need to do to combat as
and raise awareness. Again, everyone, we've been speaking with doctor Leandres Labert
as well as welcoming back Tera Robinson, the founder and CEO of the Black

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Heart Association. Thanks of the twoof you for the great work you all
are doing and really appreciate the timetoday. Thank you, Thank you,
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