One in One Hundred

SMALL HEARTS, LOUD VOICES Episode 001 — "One in One Hundred"

Episode Notes

There is a number that stopped me the first time I heard it.

One in one hundred.

That is how many babies are born with congenital heart disease. Every single day. In every country. In every hospital. In every family that thought they were ready for what was coming next.

One in one hundred.

It is the most common birth defect in the world. It affects more children every year than all childhood cancers combined. And most people, until it becomes personal, have never heard those three words together. Congenital. Heart. Disease.

That is what this first episode is about. Not just the number. But the children living inside it.

This episode is the reason this podcast exists. It is the conversation I needed someone to start years ago. It is the fact that deserves to be said out loud, the story that deserves to be told with care, the encouragement that every parent in a cardiac waiting room deserves to feel in their bones, and the call to action that asks only one thing of you today.

Tell one person.

That is it. Just one. Tell them what you learned. Tell them one in one hundred babies is born with a heart that needs more than the world is currently giving it. Tell them these children are real and they are here and they are fighting every single day in ways most of us will never fully understand.

Because awareness starts with a conversation. And you just had one.