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How We HealAuthor: CaringBridge
The Bridges Between Us shares stories of real families navigating traumatic health challenges - including cancer, traumatic brain injuries, stroke, Alzheimer's, and more. Through intimate, thoughtful conversations with caregivers, patients, healthcare experts, and advocates, the podcast explores what it truly means to navigate illness, recovery, loss, and everything in between.Each episode is a window into lived experience - how people found strength when they least expected it, how communities rallied around families in crisis, and how connection became a form of care all its own. These stories are raw, honest, and deeply human.At its heart, The Bridges Between Us is about exactly what its name suggests: the bridges we build between people, between isolation and community, between hardship and hope. Wherever you are on a health journey - as a caregiver, a patient, a supporter, or someone who simply wants to understand - this podcast invites you to listen slowly, reflect openly, and feel a little less alone. Language: en-us Genres: Business, Non-Profit Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Three Minutes and Forty-Nine Seconds: Paolo Narciso on Cardiac Arrest Mid-Run, the Tech That Saved Him, and Why Data Isn't Destiny
Episode 7
Friday, 3 July, 2026
Paolo Narciso has spent four decades building companies - call centers, healthcare startups, AI ventures - and currently serves on the CaringBridge board, bringing a technologist's eye to social connection and care coordination. He knows data. He tracks everything: blood panels, visceral fat, lactate thresholds, sleep, recovery scores.So when his Apple Watch gave him a readiness score of fifty percent before a training run in Egypt - practically begging him to rest - he ran anyway.Three minutes and forty-nine seconds in, his watch paused. He doesn't remember what happened next. What he knows is what the data, the wreckage, and seventeen and a half minutes alone on a trail eventually told him: a sudden cardiac event, four impacts with the ground, a traumatic brain injury, a shattered face, and an Apple Watch that called emergency services, broadcast his exact coordinates, and brought help to a man lying alone in the middle of nowhere.In this episode of The Bridges Between Us, Paolo shares the full story - the diagnosis he still doesn't fully believe, the week tied to a hospital bed, and the CaringBridge page that let him stop narrating his own emergency to everyone who loved him. He also opens up about caregiving for his 89-year-old mother, the BPO industry health crisis that led him to start his first healthcare company, and why he believes every doctor should be telling their patients about CaringBridge.Send us your comments. We'd love to hear from you.
