Still Standing by Heartline Endurance

This week on Still Standing, Dawn talks with Laura Patts, a mum, motivator and spin instructor, about dealing with negativity on social media. They cover how Laura handles the critics, protects her energy and keeps showing up anyway.

If you've ever held back because of what people might say, this one's for you.

Sarah Ford was 39 when she had a heart attack mid-game on a netball court. Fit, healthy, no risk factors and no warning — she thought she was coming down with a bug. It took a night in hospital, an angiogram and a tear in her coronary artery before anyone understood what had happened, and longer still before she heard the word SCAD.

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection can strike fit, healthy adults in their 30s, 40s and 50s, including athletes. When Sarah went looking for information and support, there was almost none. So she and a handful of fellow survivors built it — founding SCAD Research Inc. in 2016, an entirely volunteer-led Australian charity that has since put more than $337,000 into medical research.

Sarah joins Dawn to talk about the day itself, the new normal it left behind, and why heart attacks don't always look like you'd expect.

This week on Still Standing, I'm joined by Cam Smit — founder of Cam's Run Club and living proof that you don't have to be fast to be a runner.

Cam started CRC in January 2024 with a simple idea: create the run club he wished existed when he was the intimidated beginner who hated his first ten minutes of running. He ran the first two sessions alone. Now the Adelaide community meets twice a week, Tuesdays at 6pm and Fridays at 5am, and Cam finishes every run at the very back — chatting, walking, and looking after whoever needs it most.

He's a running coach with ten marathons behind him, including a 3:27 PB at the 2026 Gold Coast Marathon. But these days he gets more out of helping someone cross their first 5K than chasing his own times. His motto says it all: slow runs are better than no runs.

At sixteen, Sarah Jeavons carried an entire horror film on her own — and won Best Female Performance for it. It was her first ever role.

She went on to build a career as a dating and social-development coach and speaker, running live seminars in cities around the world.

At twenty-five she walked into SAS Australia: Hell Week. Fourteen recruits started. Two passed selection. She was one of them.

Earlier this year she was back on stage at the Adelaide Fringe.

Sarah on backing yourself, building a career on your own terms, and why she keeps choosing the hard thing.

Welcome to Still Standing — the next chapter of Heartbeats and Strides.

Some people choose their hard thing. Some people get handed one. This show is about what you do next.

Host Dawn Beaumont opens with her own story, told in three parts. First, the years: training in the dark before work, route planning, permits, funding it themselves when almost nobody backed her. Then the two hundred days — around 15,000km around Australia for heart health, no rest days — including the hardest day of the whole ride, which wasn't a mountain or the heat. And then the part nobody asks about: the flatness after the finish line, and learning how to be around people again.

Plus three people who are alive because of a conversation on that road.

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