Toniya Farmer was one of my very first life coaching clients, and from day one she carried the kind of strength you don't have to announce, you feel it. When she survived a SCAD (Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection) heart attack, coronary vasospasm, and cardiac arrest, it was a reminder that women's heart stories don't always look like what we've been taught to expect, and too often, they aren't believed fast enough.
Supporting Toniya's Women of Impact campaign is personal for me, not just because I've witnessed her transform survival into service, but because heart health stopped being "a cause" and became "our life" in real time.
On AHA Wear Red Day, I was in the hospital wearing red for Toniya, the same day we learned my husband Prince would need to be airlifted for emergency open-heart surgery due to an aortic dissection. When I arrived, I looked around and saw red everywhere. It felt bigger than coincidence. It felt like coverage. Like a room full of angels quietly saying: you're not alone, and you're going to get through this.
That day stitched Toniya's mission to my own family's reality. It made her campaign feel like a lifeline, not a fundraising page.
I'm standing with Toniya because her story is what happens when a woman listens to her body, fights to be taken seriously, and lives to tell the truth. Your donation supports lifesaving research, education, and advocacy through the American Heart Association so more women are heard, believed, and saved.
I'm proud to support Toniya, a Heart Victor turning her testimony into impact and making sure more families get a different ending.