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Heart Talk with Hillary
Hillary Steffen
19 episodes
1 week ago
In today’s episode you will hear from an incredible woman named Tara Benoit. Tara is a former fitness competitor who was in the greatest shape of her life when she suffered the unexpected, a SCAD heart attack. SCAD stands for Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection and has also been dubbed the healthy woman’s heart attack. I previously interviewed another SCAD survivor in April of 2024 named Marcie Westwater so if you’d like to hear another story on SCAD please go back and listen to that one a...
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Health & Fitness
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In today’s episode you will hear from an incredible woman named Tara Benoit. Tara is a former fitness competitor who was in the greatest shape of her life when she suffered the unexpected, a SCAD heart attack. SCAD stands for Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection and has also been dubbed the healthy woman’s heart attack. I previously interviewed another SCAD survivor in April of 2024 named Marcie Westwater so if you’d like to hear another story on SCAD please go back and listen to that one a...
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Health & Fitness
Episodes (19/19)
Heart Talk with Hillary
Tara Benoit - SCAD
In today’s episode you will hear from an incredible woman named Tara Benoit. Tara is a former fitness competitor who was in the greatest shape of her life when she suffered the unexpected, a SCAD heart attack. SCAD stands for Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection and has also been dubbed the healthy woman’s heart attack. I previously interviewed another SCAD survivor in April of 2024 named Marcie Westwater so if you’d like to hear another story on SCAD please go back and listen to that one a...
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1 week ago
50 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Katy Coski - Part 2: Acute Viral Myocarditis, Heart Transplant
Today's episode is Part 2 of a 2 Part series. So if you haven't already listened to Part 1 please go back and listen to that one first. In this episode, Katy and her husband, Aaron walk us through her entire heart transplant journey. From spending 5 weeks in the CICU to being discharged while still on the transplant list, then getting the call and even post-transplant life. Katy and Aaron's resilience and outlook on life is so beautiful and our prayer is that their story will bring some...
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2 months ago
40 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Katy Coski - Part 1: Acute Viral Myocarditis, Heart Transplant
Sometimes life brings people into your path in ways that feel nothing short of divine and that is the case for today’s guests. I’ll never forget when I first heard about Katy Coski. Her sister, Karley reached out to me over social media, telling me that it sounded like her sister was going through exactly what I had been through. I was stunned to learn that not only did Karlee live in Salem and work out at the same gym as me but her sister Katy who lives in Alaska was now being treated at the...
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3 months ago
42 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Lauryn Sousa - Acute Viral Myocarditis
Today’s guest is my friend, Lauryn Sousa. She’s a young, active preschool teacher from Rhode Island whose life took a terrifying turn earlier this year after she contracted the flu. What started as a common illness quickly spiraled into a life-threatening emergency. Lauryn lives alone, and navigating the early symptoms on her own was incredibly scary. Thankfully Lauryn made it to the hospital in time but it wasn’t all uphill from there— at one point, her doctors told her parents something no ...
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3 months ago
49 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Salina's Story - Cancer, CHF & Heart Transplant
Today, I’m honored to share the incredible journey of Salina — a woman whose story is filled with strength, unexpected turns, and undeniable miracles. Salina was diagnosed with cancer at 14 years old, and while she bravely made it through treatment during her high school years, the chemotherapy drug was so strong that it weakened her heart muscle eventually leading to heart failure. As a first time mom in her 20’s Salina was going through the unthinkable but she held onto hope, even in the da...
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4 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Dr. Thorsten Siess - Inventor, Impella Heart Pump
In the past, you’ve heard powerful stories from heart failure survivors and their caregivers—but today, we’re hearing from someone who has played a very different role in the fight to save lives from heart failure. This is someone extremely near and dear to my heart. Truthfully I don’t think I’d be alive today if it weren’t for this man, Dr. Thorsten Siess, the inventor of the Impella heart pump. I had the privilege of meeting Thorsten a couple of years ago and it is one of the highlights of ...
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4 months ago
1 hour 1 minute

Heart Talk with Hillary
Sienna's Story - HLHS & Severe Heart Failure
In today’s episode you’ll get to hear from Fano and Francesca, the proud parents of a beautiful 4yr old girl named, Sienna. Sienna was born with HLHS which stands for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. HLHS causes the left side of the heart to be underdeveloped. Thankfully it has a good prognosis with the help of multiple surgeries including an open heart surgery that usually occurs when a baby is just a few days old. Sienna was doing really well until their entire family got sick with the flu ...
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10 months ago
58 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Acute Viral Myocarditis - Tru's Story
If you follow me on instagram then you know how special this episode is. Back in June of this year a friend of mine had sent me a post on instagram about a little 3 year old boy named Tru who was on vacation in Hawaii and suddenly became very ill. It turned out that he was fighting acute viral myocarditis. I immediately began praying for this little boy and his entire family. I shared every update I saw over the course of the next few weeks and I know many of you were praying for him as well....
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1 year ago
48 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Jenna Tanner - Myocardial Infarction
In today’s episode you get to meet Jenna Tanner a wife and Mom of 3 from Oklahoma. Jenna shares her story of surviving a sudden and major heart attack while home alone in 2022. In our conversation Jenna shares about her subtle symptoms leading up to the heart attack and how easy it is as women to disregard these symptoms. We discuss the disparity of information on female heart attack symptoms as opposed to male’s. She also shares about the critical moment she managed to call 911 and how quick...
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1 year ago
44 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Michelle Averitt - Cardiac Arrest
In this episode you get to meet my friend, Michelle. I was so encouraged after this conversation. Michelle’s cardiac arrest happened in 2011 and yet she’s still out here sharing and bringing awareness to what happened to her. I can only hope that I’ll be doing the same in another decade or so. Michelle's story is one of incredible resilience while enduring many trials. In 2011 while in her early 30’s, Michelle was a wife and young mother. She was incredibly active running 4 miles a day and ve...
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1 year ago
35 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Franziska Bleis - Myocarditis and Heart Transplant
Abiomed has been such a wonderful resource for me, connecting me to so many people all over the world who have experienced heart failure. Today, I get to introduce you to Franzi. She lives in Germany which also happens to be where Thorstein Seiss, the inventor of the Impella lives and is from. Franzi shares her story about how coming down with the common cold led her on a scary years long journey of battling heart failure. She went from a common cold to heart failure and needing an Impella, t...
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1 year ago
45 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Chavez Adams - Viral Myocarditis & Cardiomyopathy
I am so excited for you all to hear today’s episode. This conversation is definitely the most I’ve ever laughed while discussing heart failure. Chavez has the most infectious and positive personality and he just radiates joy. Today he shares his story of battling viral myocarditis at 29 years old after having recovered from covid. We talk about everything from law school to food blogging to heart failure and hospitals. Chavez graciously highlights the disparity he experienced as a black...
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1 year ago
44 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Cheyenne Tallmon - Peripartum Cardiomyopathy & Heart Transplant
Welcome back to the podcast. In this episode I interviewed my friend, Cheyenne. I first heard about Cheyenne through a friend whose sister was being treated for acute viral myocarditis at Providence St.Vincent’s just like I had been. My friend told me there was this girl who was also at St.Vincent’s due to heart failure but she had also just given birth. I remember praying for Cheyenne as I heard bits and pieces about her story but hadn’t met her. In April of last year I received a message fr...
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1 year ago
1 hour 3 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Marcie Westwater - SCAD Survivor
On today’s episode you will get to hear from my friend Marcie Wastewater. She is a beautiful, healthy, super active wife and mom of 2. She is going to share with you her story of surviving SCAD (S-C-A-D) which stands for Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection. It’s as scary as it sounds and it has also been called the “healthy woman’s heart attack”. I can’t wait for you to hear how proactive and intuitive Marcie was with her initial symptoms and how her quick actions and directions helped sav...
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1 year ago
52 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Jessica Grib - Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
In this episode you get to meet my friend, Jessica Grib. Jessica is a peripartum cardiomyopathy and paraganglioma survivor and advocate. In this episode she shares her story about the birth of her 2nd born child in 2016 and how she experienced heart failure and nearly died in the recovery room after delivery. Jessica later learned that she had a tumor called a paraganglioma that was the actual cause of her heart failure after giving birth. Jessica and I have only met via instagram but both ha...
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1 year ago
47 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Lauren Delaney - Acute Viral Myocarditis & Heart Transplant
In this episode you get to meet my friend, Lauren Delaney. Lauren and I met through social media and as wild as it sounds we also had the exact same team of cardiologists. Lauren lives about an hour north of me and super close to Providence St. Vincent's Hospital. Today she's sharing her heart failure and heart transplant story with you all. I'm so grateful for her willingness to share when she is only just shy of 6-months post transplant. If you have not registered to become an organ donor p...
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1 year ago
58 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Bobby Goines - Acute Viral Myocarditis
In this episode, you get to meet my friends Bobby and Carly Goines. Abiomed's Patient Advocacy program connected Bobby and I in the Spring of 2022 a few months after we had both recovered from Acute Viral Myocarditis. Our stories are eerily similar which has created a lifetime bond for our two families. We got to meet in person last February and I am really excited for you all to hear his story. We talk about his initial symptoms, his ambulance rides, hospitalization, isolation, scars and eve...
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1 year ago
1 hour 8 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Acute Viral Myocarditis - Part 2 of Hillary's Story
In this episode my husband and I walk you through the remainder of my hospitalization. From arriving at the second hospital while bleeding out in the ambulance all the way to discharging a few weeks later and going home. We did our best to summarize a 20-day hospitalization in two 1-hour episodes. There is certainly a whole lot more that could be said here and we could spend hours just on a single topic like recovery, isolation or an acute heart failure diagnosis but I hope that these two epi...
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1 year ago
1 hour 6 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
Acute Viral Myocarditis - Part 1 of Hillary's Story
For the very first episode of Heart to Heart I thought it would be helpful as the host to share my own experience with heart failure. I'm excited to also have my husband, Daniel along for this 2-part episode sharing his own perspective. In the first 48 hours of my hospitalization I was in and out of consciousness and Daniel was there with me. Soon after we were separated while I was put in Covid isolation. Daniel's perspective is not only helpful in piecing the timeline together but he also a...
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1 year ago
45 minutes

Heart Talk with Hillary
In today’s episode you will hear from an incredible woman named Tara Benoit. Tara is a former fitness competitor who was in the greatest shape of her life when she suffered the unexpected, a SCAD heart attack. SCAD stands for Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection and has also been dubbed the healthy woman’s heart attack. I previously interviewed another SCAD survivor in April of 2024 named Marcie Westwater so if you’d like to hear another story on SCAD please go back and listen to that one a...