Later this month, hundreds of pe
will gather while dressed in heo
toe red for the annual Go Red for Women
luncheon right here in Louisvil.
And that event aims to raise
awareness and help fund the figt
against heart disease and strok.
Joining me now with more on
everything that the event has in
store this year is Louisville.
Go Red for Women chair Paige Mankovich.
Paige, nice to meet you and
have you on the show.
I feel like this is always a big event in
May after Derby that that I feel like.
Every woman across Louisville,
I feel like any everyone in Louisville
period descends on this event.
It it's just such a big hallmark
event for you guys
it is and we are so excited to have it
back at the Omni this year on May 19th.
We're looking forward to having
the room very full with everyone
in attendance to your point.
And head toe red and I'm just
so excited to be the chair and
and really be advocating for
women's heart health and and moe
information and knowledge about that.
And I always feel like every
year it is more than a luncheon,
It is more than hearing from a keynote.
And you kind of have so many
different things staged around
this midday event as well.
Yes, yes. So you will see some
local celebrities there this yer
is the event and Eric are
going to emcee the event.
Any others that you can
tell, so I don't know
about other celebrities,
but there will be a fashion sho.
Everyone that walks in the fashion show
is a survivor of a cardiac evenr
heart disease or something like that.
And they are outfitted by Macy'd
it's just such a wonderful thing because
while they are walking on the catwalk,
they're also we're hearing their
story of survival and who played
a role in saving their life and.
Just how important it is that pe
are coming together to to learn about
how important women's heart health is.
It's such a celebration.
But I I'm always struck by whenI
hear those stories and I realiz,
oh, wow, you know, a woman.
Wait a minute, that's my age.
Wait a minute. She had, you kno,
you you hear those warning sign.
And I think that we just think as women,
either we ignore things or we dt
think it's going to happen to u.
We think that's something
that happens with men, right?
Yeah, that and. It can happen at any age.
And I think the focus for this year and
I think it's so important that e
focusing on this is CPR and the fact that
women often are not administered CPR,
They're administered at less than men are.
And then often people just unfortunately
pass away because someone doesn't know CPR.
So we're really focused on how important
it is that people get trained in CPR.
You can look contact a local chr
to get someone to train you andw
to do CPR come to your business.
And teach you how to do CPR bece
to your point, age doesn't matt,
socioeconomic class doesn't mat,
You can be a picture of perfect health
and it might have an underlying heart
condition that that you're not aware of.
You know in February for Go red month,
we had so many different groups
come on you all were a big part
of our go red month in February.
And show how easy it is to learn CPR.
It is like to you to have someby
come in and show you but it wast
it's something that you can lean
on a lunch break or or. Go onli.
If there's just so many ways to learn,
yes, it is. And to your point,
it's very accessible,
it's very easy and it's really
important that we have a lot moe
people in our community who are
educated and how to perform it,
perform it appropriately and effectively.
Are there tickets still available for the?
There are. So I believe we do
have a link that we can put up
with the information for ticket.
They're available for purchase by the public.
We hope that people come out and
really participate in this even.
It's a celebration and it's a wonderful day.
I feel like it's always a great thing
to you know, if your local busi,
if you can get a group of together and
your business will support that, right.
That I think it sends a great message
that we're kind of all in this together.
Yes. And I'm bringing a large group of
women from my office. Are you really?
It's, we love it. It's a great event.
Well, it gives us all a break after Derby.
It does. It does like, it's lik,
Oh well, let's just take the daf
again and go do something. Like that.
And then more than anything, wh,
when people walk away from this event,
what do you, what do you hope that they've
learned or they take away? I'm t
always so inspired by the Survir
stories and I hope they, you kn,
learn the importance of women's heart health.
I just think we're talking abou.
It's wonderful that we're talking about it,
but it's very serious.
And so hopefully.
During all the celebration,
we also strike the note of making sure
that we're all focused on this and not
taking things like that for gra.
Important message page Thank you so much.
Absolutely thank
you to get your tickets.
You know, bring your whole office down.
It would be a really fun thing
to kind of spend time doing.
Just go to goredforwomen.org.