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Kristen Hagopian Show - 09 17 25

September 15, 2025·39 min·3 clips

Gregory, a 70-year-old with tricuspid regurgitation, walked and played golf just days after a non-invasive heart valve repair.

1. The Kristen Hagopian Show covers personal finance, home management, and health in a syndicated format on the BizTalk Radio Network. 2. Kristen Hagopian hosts; guests include former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams and Abbott cardiologist Dr. Nadeem Ghalou, along with patient advocate Gregory. 3. The episode's core thesis is that practical fall home management — decluttering, deep carpet cleaning, and smart investing of sale proceeds — directly improves financial and physical wellbeing. 4. Kristen introduces the concept of a "trash bag tango" for decluttering: knowing one's clutter personality (too busy, save-everything, overwhelmed) before deciding what to remove. 5. She identifies three clutter personalities: over-buyers who duplicate items they already own, save-everything types who keep children's outgrown gear "just in case," and overwhelmed people who dedicate entire rooms to accumulated clutter. 6. Her practical advice is to grab a full box of trash bags, start with personal clothing, and remove anything not worn in over a year — including shoes and jeans — without exception for sentimental items like wedding attire. 7. Kristen tells listeners that selling decluttered items on eBay, Craigslist, and consignment stores has yielded between $2,000 and $3,700 in just weeks for multiple listeners. 8. She walks through a compound-interest example: $5,000 in decluttering proceeds invested at an historical 8% stock market return, untouched for 20 years, grows to approximately $23,000. 9. Listener Saks contributes detailed resale advice, recommending consignment stores for children's toys and clothes, and reserving eBay and Amazon for high-end branded items where sellers can recoup 40–50% of retail. 10. Dr. Jerome Adams reports COVID is "spreading like wildfire," with wastewater data confirming a sharp rise alongside 10,000–15,000 confirmed hospitalizations per week. 11. Adams notes that 30% of adults who have had COVID now report long COVID symptoms, and emphasizes that a third of current U.S. COVID hospitalizations involve adults aged 18–64, not just those over 65. 12. He describes an "MTV" framework — masking, testing and treatment, vaccines, and ventilation — as the practical personal-protective toolkit heading into fall and school season. 13. Adams recommends the upcoming updated COVID vaccine, which he describes as a good match for circulating variants, and says his own three children and parents in their 70s will receive it. 14. He promotes his book "Crisis and Chaos," available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, which includes accounts of his pandemic interactions with figures including Axl Rose, Oprah Winfrey, and Colin Powell. 15. Dr. Ghalou explains that 1.6 million Americans live with tricuspid regurgitation, a leaky right-side heart valve that causes leg and abdominal swelling, fatigue, and shortness of breath. 16. The Abbott TriClip procedure enters through a small leg puncture at the femoral vein, travels to the heart, and clips the leaking valve leaflets — patients walk the same day and are discharged the next morning. 17. Clinical trial data showed 98% of TriClip patients were free of adverse events at 30 days, forming the basis for FDA approval of the device for high-surgical-risk patients. 18. Patient Gregory, age 70, had previously undergone triple bypass surgery, three stents, and kidney failure before receiving the TriClip; he returned to golf within two weeks and reports operating at approximately 85% of prior capacity. 19. The episode has a warm, high-energy talk-radio style, with Kristen frequently reacting with enthusiasm, asking follow-up questions, and offering personal anecdotes alongside expert interviews. 20. Best for listeners interested in personal finance, home organization, or consumer health updates; less suited for those seeking in-depth clinical or investment analysis.

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A brisk frugal-living hour that widens into public health advice and a satisfying declutter payoff.

This episode keeps a practical line from the start: Kristen Agopian pairs frugal-living advice with a hurricane check-in for the Southeast, then shifts into a physician-led COVID discussion that puts risk, comorbidities, and updated vaccine guidance into plain language.

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You get frugal pep talk, storm empathy, and plainspoken COVID guidance.

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