My client, Everwell TV needed an event covered and the script written quickly. There wasn’t time for advance research or planning. We had only one day to shoot. I would meet my potential interviewees when I arrived on location and decide then where we’d do our interviews.

The topic was exciting: kids living with heart disease who were given the gift of being “normal” for a day at Camp Braveheart. For years I reported from the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology annual conferences. I had the honor of being the first broadcast journalist awarded with the American Heart Association’s Lifetime Achievement award in reporting. My medical background freed me up to focus on the people. The story telling.