S E456: Wellness Wednesday: Don Calloway Talks About His Heart Attack
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🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Karen's guest Don Calloway shares the destructive lifestyle choices that led to a heart attack at 39 years old. He talks about how social drinking played a silent and deadly role in destroying his health.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Don Calloway you were tweeting about your own personal struggles |
| 0:17.0 | health-wise and I was like you overcame what what happened what did, and I was you know and we're going to talk a little bit later with someone about love and loving yourself and relationships and we also have Dr. Chris T Parnell is on today. |
| 0:33.4 | She's from Jersey. |
| 0:34.2 | She's a doctor from New Jersey who was in the Moderna |
| 0:37.8 | clinical trial and she promised to come back |
| 0:39.8 | to give us updates about the vaccine. |
| 0:42.0 | As we, you know, and I've been holding off really talking about until we talk to an expert |
| 0:47.1 | but you know health this is Wellness Wednesday and I thought it would be really |
| 0:51.3 | poignant for you to share what you share publicly so I'm not dragging you into. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah, no, I appreciate it. I hadn't talked about it in a while, but it is definitely not a secret. |
| 0:59.9 | So February of, what's this, 21, the pandemic time |
| 1:05.0 | is all kind of goes together in my head. |
| 1:07.0 | February of 19, I had a heart attack, |
| 1:09.0 | and I had a heart attack after, gosh, |
| 1:12.0 | probably four or five years of really over drinking and over drinking the hard stuff right and so I worked as an alcohol company for a long time and that's kind of where I became a |
| 1:24.0 | lobbyist and such but that has opened the door to more alcohol consumption and |
| 1:27.8 | I was really over drinking and particularly hard liquors and stuff like that. |
| 1:33.0 | So when you say over drinking, give us like an example. |
| 1:36.0 | So Washington, D.C., the currency of the city is the reception, right? |
| 1:41.9 | And you go out, you do it, you have a drink at a reception, |
| 1:45.2 | and then you follow your friends |
| 1:46.9 | to another reception that you didn't know about |
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