Posted by Gabe on January 23, 2011 under Facebook, Kids are Heroes | 
In celebration of the fact that our new radio show was quickly promoted to a full hour, we are going to start something new. We would like to involve our Facebook fans in the shaping of the show. Each week we will select the top two best questions as submitted on our Facebook page. These questions will be answered by MaryMargaret on the show. The questions can be related to Kids Are Heroes or not. So if you think you have a good question that would really add to the show, post it up on our Facebook page. Questions posted here in the comments, via email or Twitter will not be considered.
The Kids Are Heroes radio show airs weekly on WBTN AM in Bennington, Vermont from 8AM-9AMEST. It does have a Listen Live feature so that virtually everyone can listen to it as it airs. The two guests for our 1/22 broadcast are heroes Daniel Dietz and Shannon McNamara. Hope you all can have coffee with us as we offer some truly inspiring conversations. Here is the link to listen to the show.
Posted by Gabe on January 19, 2011 under Kids are Heroes |
Well 2011 is starting off like a rocket for Kids Are Heroes. We couldn’t be more excited about it. One of the things we have been working on is to get on local radio stations around the country to help spread the word. MaryMargaret and I were invited by Brian Dempsey of WBTN AM in Vermont to do an interview. He liked it so much he asked us to do a half-hour weekly show on Saturday mornings. Wow! Talk about learning how to swim the hard way! After only one show, the big muckety-mucks of the station decided they wanted us to do a full hour! That starts on January 29th. (To listen live via the internet to our weekly show or to listen to previous shows and to see a schedule, visit this page.) Update: I was just asked to do an interview on the same station this Tuesday, Jan. 25th at 8:30AM EST. We are going to talk about our Saturday show. A radio show about a radio show. It’s all good!
On Tuesday, January 25, at 12PM EST, I will be live on Debbie Glickman’s Toginet Radio show. The show is called “Believe in Your Fairytale and Your Zing will Come True!” Well here’s hoping our “zing” comes true. Here is the link for that show.
More exciting news came the other night when we were invited to have a guest spot on Radio Disney (KMIC AM) in Houston Texas. As it was explained to me there are many affiliate stations around the country that carry the national feed of Radio Disney. According to Lauren our interviewer, “Each market then has a public affairs program that airs weekly. This is the only local show in each market so its a very important show!” Our interview will be aired on April 3 as April is National Volunteer Month. Even though it is local, it is a 5000 watt station and we are very excited to be introduced to the folks in Houston.
So if you know of a radio show producer or are one we would love it if you would help us get the word about about what our kids are doing. I can’t say enough about how our kids are making so many positive impressions on kids around the world and getting them to take part in volunteer activities. It’s an amazing sight to see. And if you get time kindly support us by listening to our radio shows — even call in if you get the opportunity. We’d love to hear from you!
For an interview please contact us directly. All of our contact info is here. If you are a member of the press, please visit our press box.
BREAKING NEWS!!! Thanks to one of our Facebook fans who read this blog post, it was suggested to us to look up a Sirius/XM station called KidsPlace LIVE. I checked out their Facebook page and sent off an email. Turns out their music director really loves what we are doing and he invited us to come in THIS SATURDAY (Jan 29) to their studios in Washington DC for a LIVE interview!!! So right after we finish our own show we are headed down to DC. So, if you are one of their 700,000 listeners, please tune in to “Robbie Schaefer’s Bandwagon” show from 10AM-2PM EST on Channel 116! Thanks Danica!!
Update 2/1/11: Our interview with Robbie was a lot of fun and brought awareness to a whole new audience. We put another message out on our Facebook page and landed yet another interview this time with an up and coming radio host named Christopher Gabriel out of Fargo, North Dakota. Our appearance on his show is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb 8 at 2PM EST. Go to wday.com to listen live!!
We are so thankful for the people that are helping us land these interviews. The more people that know about us the more we can have a positive influence on.
Posted by Gabe on January 10, 2011 under Kids are Heroes |
If you have been following our exploits you will know that we have been very active as of late getting the word out about what our kids are doing. Thanks to Brian Dempsey of Vermont, our newest ambassador, we now have a new avenue with which to distribute our information, and that is our weekly radio show on Recognition Radio. All along we have stated our role as mouthpieces for what these kids are doing and the wondrous things that happen when they get together. We have also stated that our wish is to stand on a proverbial mountain top and shout out to everyone about how amazing these children are and yet how “normal” they are. The secret we tell parents is that their kids can be heroes too, all along increasing their confidence and boosting their leadership skills. With the influx of new ambassadors and new commitment of old ones, things look very bright as far as getting the word out goes. We ask not that the ambassadors “help” MaryMargaret or myself as it has nothing to do with that. We ask that they take ownership of the Kids Are Heroes concept and run with it as passionately as we do.
We currently have ambassadors spread all over the country and even overseas. I would love it if they got the chance to experience what I have since the genesis of Kids Are Heroes. Hopefully we can get to the point soon where we host events in locations near to them.
Until that time we are hoping some of our readers do take ownership of this concept and feel what we feel when we do it. If you are interested, you may sign up to be a Kids Are Heroes ambassador here!
Posted by Gabe on January 1, 2011 under Kids are Heroes |
Help Us Tip it Over!
You may have heard me speak about our cart. It is something we continue to fill up with the hopes that it will tip over soon. When it tips over, that means that Kids Are Heroes will go viral and we will be able to affect millions of families instead of just hundreds and maybe thousands. This is one of our most important goals. Here are some things that are in our cart right now:
- MaryMargaret was featured as a role model by Discovery Girls Magazine for their 10th anniversary issue which will be out in June.
- Just completed a letter writing campaign to 153 celebrities in hopes of having one or two of them take up our cause.
- Local production company just finished filming two of our heroes so they can shop an ongoing documentary to various TV networks.
- Scheduled an upcoming video conferencing session which will provide a venue for 7 heroes and one kindergarten teacher to talk about Kids Are Heroes to various classrooms around the US and Canada. (This will happen on February 2.)
- MaryMargaret will be featured in new online magazine called “Luella Girl” in February 2011.
- We are promoting our availability for speaking engagements and radio interviews both in person and remotely. Our first radio interview of 2011 will air on WBTN-AM radio in Vermont on January 8.
Update 01/08/11: Due to the success of the interview on WBTN, we were asked to co-host the Recognition Radio show every Saturday morning through the end of March! This is a HUGE thing to add to our cart. To listen to our premiere episode, and stay tuned each week, visit our Radio Page.
We have recently been told of a periodical geared towards producers of TV and radio shows. It is a magazine that provides great stories and people to interview. We feel that this is a very efficient way of telling radio and TV producers about us. We are looking to raise $1800 to place three half-page ads in this magazine in early 2011. This could do wonders for our cart and who knows, in the end might be just enough to tip it over. (To donate to this cause, please click here.)
A Call to Action
When I was doing research on some of the celebrities we wanted to target I came across an interview with Don Shula, former coach of the Miami Dolphins. He said, “When you have a charity you can only do so much on your own. In order to survive you have to have support.” Truer words have not been said. If you believe in what we are doing, I am asking for your support right now. The radio interview mentioned above goes into details about some of the things we are working on that require support from you and others just like you.
Please help us tip the cart over by getting more radio and TV interviews. If you cannot support us financially, become an ambassador and help us with fund raising and awareness. This organization gives back exponentially as every single day I am inspired by what these kids are doing. One of our ambassadors recently told me, “You have six-year-olds that have already done more than some adults have in their lifetime.” These kids are inspiring children from all over the world to get involved. By getting the word out to more (and more, and more) families, we all can have a great impact and feel wonderful doing it.
