Sister to Sister

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Last year when I started working for Sister to Sister: The Women's Heart Health Foundation, I had a lot to learn about heart disease. There were endless statistics to make sense of. Still, the one that seemed the most senseless to me both then and now is this: One in four women dies of heart disease, even though preventive screenings could be saving lives.

I started to consider who that "one in four" in my life might be - my best friend, Beth? My co-worker, Dottie? My mom? Or even me (yikes). Those odds were scary to think about...but even scarier to ignore.

So I asked them—Beth, Dottie, my mom. "Can I motivate you to get screened for heart disease and get serious about heart health if I promise to do it, too?" It was peer pressure at its finest and it worked—they all said yes!

That's how the idea for Sister to Sister's Screen Four campaign was born. I realized that, like me, it wouldn't take much for other women to motivate themselves and three others to get screened for heart disease. (It's the number one killer of women, after all!)

Just imagine: If I Screen Four and you Screen Four and thousands of other Sister to Sister members Screen Four ... together we can make a major impact in changing those "one in four" odds.

I've told you about my Screen Four foursome. Will you tell me about yours?