Doing Good! Women Build
With the anniversary of 9-11 just passed and the excellent initiative, 911 Day making each September 11th a day to do one good deed, I thought it most fitting to write about a wonderful group of women who are doing a terrific good deed with Women Build.
Women Build, a program from Habitat for Humanity, brings together teams of women to build houses for low-income families in New York City.
The woman I met who told me about this effort is Nicky Pattison. Nicky and her team, called The Bricks and Sticks Chicks (cute name!) are a group of lovely ladies in the process of raising funds to support the effort. Women Build hopes to raise $250,000 to help build affordable housing in New York City.
Nicky and The Bricks and Sticks Chicks are doing a tremendous good deed, and we can help them, Women Build and Habitat for Humanity in this wonderful and needed service.
Click here to learn more and support their team. #womenbuildnyc
Check out Valerie’s conversation with star chef Barbara Sibley, owner of acclaimed La Palapa Restaurant on St. Mark’s Place in New York. Barbara is one of the chefs participating in Share Cancer Support’s A Second Helping of Life on Sept. 21. This passionate chef reveals her secret to great guacamole in Valerie’s latest podcast.
Valerie Smaldone is a 5-time Billboard Magazine Award winner and is well known for her unprecedented success holding the #1 on-air position in the New York radio market on 106.7 Life-FM, an iHeart station. She has hosted, produced, and created several award-winning nationally syndicated programs featuring in-depth interviews with stars like Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Elton John and Mariah Carey among others. Her radio talk show "Bagels and Broadway" highlighted theatre and food personalities. She is an accomplished interviewer and voice artist heard on commercials, narrations, promos and audiobooks, as well as a sought after live announcer.
Most recently, Valerie produced and directed a film, The Thursday Night Club, featuring pop diva Gloria Gaynor in her movie acting debut. She is one of the creators and producers of a docu-series, Divine Renovation, starring Erik Estrada, on streaming networks soon.
