The Heart Warrior Project

04/11/2025

🎙️ A new episode is out on our YouTube channel and podcast! ❤️‍🔥
In this conversation, I talk with George Biesmans, a fellow heart warrior from our community, to discuss the complexities of living with heart disease and the progressive heart disease he has, DSP cardiomyopathy. George shares the emotional impact of the diagnosis, the uncertainty of the condition, and the challenges of navigating relationships and life in general.

In this conversation, I talk with George Biesmans, a fellow heart warrior from our community, to discuss the complexities of living with heart disease and th...

30/10/2025

📅 We have a new date for our next meetup in November! ❤️ Come join us to meet and talk with fellow SCA survivors and heart warriors. 💪💓

https://calendly.com/d/cwmh-xpc-6nk/cardiac-comeback-crew-open-discussion

25/10/2025

🎙️ A new episode is out on our YouTube channel and podcast! ❤️‍🔥

This episode features Karen, a fellow heart warrior 💪 and member of our community here at The Heart Warrior Project. In this conversation, she shares her journey of being diagnosed with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy 🫀 — a heart condition she was diagnosed with two years ago — and the many changes and emotional challenges that have come with it

If you’d like to learn more about living with heart disease, check out the full video, where George, Karen, Dr. Sears, and I share insights on navigating tha...

24/10/2025

💓 Every Second Counts 💓

Worldwide, the survival rate for out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest is heartbreakingly low — often between 1% and 10%. But there’s hope: immediate CPR can double or even triple a person’s chance of survival. 💪

At the Heart Warrior Project, we believe knowledge saves lives. You don’t need to be a doctor or have a certificate — you just need the courage to act.

This free RevivR tool teaches you how to perform life-saving CPR in just 15 minutes — anytime, anywhere, right from your phone or computer. ❤️🫀

Please share this post. Together, we can turn bystanders into lifesavers. 💖

RevivR is a short, self-directed CPR training from British Heart Foundation, that could teach you how to save someone's life.

20/10/2025

Like what we’re doing at The Heart Warrior Project? Consider supporting us so we can keep this project alive! 🙏❤️

The Heart Warrior Project is a website for survivors of sudden cardiac arrest. If you care to support the project, click here.

17/10/2025

💖 Every heartbeat tells a story. ⚡️

October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month, and we’re shining a light on the life-saving importance of defibrillators and CPR, while supporting survivors, families, and those at risk of SCA.

Our mission is to:
💪 Promote the message that defibs and CPR save lives
❤️ Celebrate the strength and stories of survivors
🤝 Offer support and connection for anyone affected by — or living with the risk of — SCA

Whether you’ve experienced an SCA, care for someone who has, or live with a heart condition that puts you at risk, you’re not alone.

Join us, share your story, connect, and help spread the word.

🌍 Learn more & get involved: [www.heartwarriorproject.com]

16/10/2025

❤️ It’s World Restart a Heart Day! ❤️

Throwback to a year ago, when we hosted — together with the Red Cross 🚑 — a big event on World Restart a Heart Day. We went through the chain of survival: someone from the emergency line ☎️, my girlfriend (who performed CPR on me) ❤️‍🩹, me, the survivor 🙋‍♂️, and my cardiologist 🩺. Each of us shared our stories and how they connect, while also showing the unique struggles and challenges within each role.

The event was followed by a CPR training session from the Red Cross — a concept I developed together with them, proven to be very effective 💪. It’s a concept you’ll see more events built around in 2026 :).

I appreciate everyone who was there that day — and everyone reading this post right now, taking a moment to think again about the importance of CPR. As I’ve learned more about each role in the chain of survival, my respect for everyone involved has only grown 🙏.

I often get the screen time, and people feel amazed that I’m here doing all this. But none of this would have been possible if the emergency line hadn’t acted, if the ambulance hadn’t arrived, if my cardiologist hadn’t followed up on how I’m doing — and most of all, if my girlfriend hadn’t responded.

The person performing CPR is an absolutely essential part of making this chain of survival work.

So maybe, on this World Restart a Heart Day, let this be a small nudge — if you haven’t already — to sign up for a CPR course 🫀.

Because it takes people like you to raise these painfully low survival rates (around 10%) to something much higher. And we can all do our part — simply by learning CPR.

16/10/2025

Love seeing CPR awareness brought to the public like this 👏
Spotted at London Victoria Station — spreading life-saving knowledge, one heartbeat at a time 💓

14/10/2025

Very exciting news, everyone!

Prof. Dr. Saenen, an electrophysiologist, specialist in hereditary heart disease and sudden cardiac arrest, is joining us this month for a live Q&A meetup!

What questions do you have for him? Join us and ask him live!

As always, these meetups are free!

Click on the link to join: https://calendly.com/d/cw4f-fyn-b9p/live-q-a-meetup-with-prof-dr-saenen?month=2025-10

05/10/2025

Hey everyone! We have two new dates available to vote on for our next meetup in October. This one will be an open discussion meetup — always a great chance to catch up with each other or, if it’s your first time joining, to meet fellow heart warriors. You can use this link to sign up for the meetup: https://calendly.com/d/csm4-d4z-sx5/cardiac-comeback-crew-open-discussion

04/10/2025

New video! 🎥 In this video, I take a deep dive into living with a progressive, life-threatening heart disease 🫀.

Together with two amazing people from our community, Karen Acaster and George — who also have heart disease — we share what we’ve learned.

Alongside us, Dr. Sears — a clinical health psychologist who does incredible work to improve the quality of life for ICD carriers and those with heart disease 🩺 — joins to share his professional insights 🧠.

I sincerely hope this video can offer some support to those here dealing with heart disease ❤️🙏.

Help me keep The Heart Warrior Project alive: ⁠https://heartwarriorproject.com/getinvolved/In this episode, I share what I’ve learned from over 20 years of l...

30/09/2025

I know, I’m a day too late… ⏰

But September 29 was World Heart Day ❤️.

For the number one killer, heart disease 💔, in both men and women worldwide 🌍, I think we deserve another day — or even more so — to talk about heart disease 🫀 and heart health, and to raise awareness.

Today, I actually received the heartbreaking news that a former coworker of mine died suddenly from his heart while running. He was 34 years old. Young, fit, and otherwise seemingly completely healthy.

For such a vital part of us — our engine that keeps us running, that we are nothing without — I am always blown away by how little awareness heart health and heart disease receive 😔.

Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day 💓.

On let’s take a moment to be grateful for it 🙏.

And let’s also take a moment to grieve 🕯️ and hold in our minds those who lost their lives — whether because one of those 100,000 beats suddenly went wrong, or because of another form of cardiovascular disease.