“Beyond the Heart” is a brand-new podcast hosted by renowned Cardiologist, Women’s Health Advocate and Author, Dr. Nieca Goldberg. Weekly, she explores essential conversations with doctors, thought leaders, health practitioners and game-changers to help you redefine how to view your body and the healing process. This groundbreaking conversation series is a cross-generational exploration of all aspects of women’s health so that you can become your own best health advocate.
This Week’s Episode
Rita Ezenwa-Okoro is an author, performance activist, social entrepreneur and youth development advocate. She is also the founder and lead Visionary of Street Project Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that uses creative and performing arts tools to facilitate opportunities for youth leadership development, social mobilization, and cross-cultural dialogue in Nigeria.
Additionally, she is the author of Doing. Being. Becoming. For the love of the creative arts, published by the New Degree Press. In this interview Nieca and Rita discuss how she creates social change through creativity and the performance arts in Nigeria.
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About Dr. Nieca Goldberg:
Dr. Nieca Goldberg is Medical Director of Atria New York City and Clinical Associate Professor of medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She is a cardiologist, author, former radio show host, and a nationally recognized pioneer in women’s heart health.
Dr. Goldberg is the author of Dr. Nieca Goldberg’s Complete Guide To Women’s Health. She has also authored the award-winning and highly acclaimed book Women Are Not Small Men, which was updated and titled The Women’s Healthy Heart Program: Lifesaving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease published by Ballantine Books.
A graduate of Barnard College and SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, she completed her medical residency at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and a cardiology fellowship at SUNY Downstate. Dr. Goldberg’s research and medical publications focus on cardiovascular disease in women, exercise imaging and exercise.