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Shortlisted for a Speakie, The British Audio Award, for Best Audiobook: Non-Fiction Memoir 2025 'A beautifully thoughtful, considered and candid read. As always, Katie’s trademark warmth and grace shines through’ - Stacey Dooley, TV presenter and author Age is a gift not everybody is...

Natalie Queiroz was eight months pregnant when she was stabbed by her partner in the most vicious attack imaginable. In the space of nine minutes, and in broad daylight, Natalie was stabbed twenty-four times with a carving knife. She suffered horrific wounds to her lungs, liver, stomach and...

👉 This is a serialized story. Start with Episode 1 so it all makes sense. A heart attack. Cardiac arrest. Heart valve replacement. I survived all three—and now I’m trying to make sense of the wreckage they left behind. This isn’t a podcast about advice, inspiration, or being strong. It’s raw. It’s honest. Sometimes dark. Sometimes funny. Just me, processing the absurdity of what happened—physically, emotionally, spiritually—and saying the things I couldn’t say in the moment. If you’ve ever faced something life-shattering… maybe this will land with you too.

Was I lucky to survive three brushes with death — or unlucky to still be here, sorting through the wreckage? A heart attack. A cardiac arrest. A heart valve replacement. I survived all three — and now I’m figuring out what survival actually looks like. Three Strikes and Still Beating is my twenty-two-episode documentary memoir — a limited series that follows my journey from the morning of my first heart attack, to the near-death experience of cardiac arrest, to the slow walk into my home after open-heart surgery — a story that unfolds over seven years. It’s about hospitals, ...