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BUZZ Watch Party stars Renovation Alliance 900 506 Michael Hemphill

BUZZ Watch Party stars Renovation Alliance

Join us at the historic Grandin Theatre on October 27 at 6:00 pm ET to celebrate our newest BUZZ starring Renovation Alliance! Event is free. Doors open 5:30 pm.

BUZZ Preview Party starring Renovation Alliance

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About the show:

Food, clothing and shelter may be our three basic needs, but in the modern world, shelter is the trickiest to provide. Even if you have a house, it can be expensive to maintain, especially if you’re disabled or, like seniors and veterans, living on a fixed income.

Thankfully in Roanoke, Virginia, homeowners have help and hope for costly repairs and renovations, and on today’s episode of BUZZ, we feature a nonprofit that has created what’s needed in this critical renovation work … an alliance. New to this alliance – and our show! – is Hello Roanoke’s Genya Kalinina, who provides the nonprofit with some much needed social media marketing buzz!

We thank Dayna Patrick of Patrick Team Homes for underwriting, and Roanoke Valley Television for co-producing, this episode that airs October 28 on Blue Ridge PBS.

Contact Michael Hemphill for more information by email or 540.556.2879.

BUZZ Watch Party starring Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center 900 506 Michael Hemphill

BUZZ Watch Party starring Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center

Join us June 24 at Big Lick Brewery to preview and celebrate our newest BUZZ starring Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center! Meet some of the center’s feathered, furry and scaly ambassadors starting 5:30 pm. The show starts at 6:00 and will end by 6:30. It airs at 7:00 on Blue Ridge PBS.

About the show:

There is a 3-acre nonprofit in Roanoke County, Virginia, that may be the most bio-diverse in the world. On any given day animals belonging to nearly 300 species call this place home. They arrive abandoned, neglected, injured, near dead. They leave either rehabilitated to return to nature or as ambassadors to teach that most troublesome species of all — us humans — how to better live with them.

On this BUZZ, not only do we feature this amazing nonprofit, we provide it with some marketing assets courtesy of animal lover Carrie Cousins of LeadPoint Digital that, like the creatures it cares for, are absolutely wild.

We thank the Robertson Family Foundation for underwriting our production costs for this episode!

Buzz4Good! voted Gold for Best Local Podcast in RoanokeR Magazine 819 1024 Michael Hemphill

Buzz4Good! voted Gold for Best Local Podcast in RoanokeR Magazine

I am buzzing by the news that The Roanoker Magazine has awarded Gold to Buzz4Good! for Best Local Podcast in its Best of Roanoke 2026!

Thank you to all who took the time to vote for our show! I’m grateful to my friends at WFIR who first invited me in 2022 to start the show, which you can listen to each Saturday 4p ET or at buzz4good.com/podcast.

In each episode I chat with the inspiring people who lead nonprofits not only in Southwest Virginia but around the U.S. who work tirelessly each day to make our communities even better places to live. You are all gold to me!

BUZZ Watch Party stars On Our Own 900 506 Michael Hemphill

BUZZ Watch Party stars On Our Own

Join us at the historic Grandin Theatre on April 28 at 6:00 pm ET to celebrate our newest BUZZ starring On Our Own of the Roanoke Valley! Event is free. Doors open 5:30 pm.

Seven days a week, 365 days a year, On Our Own of Roanoke Valley offers helps and hope through its drop-in center for people struggling with addiction and mental health. Led by Robin Hubert – herself a survivor of mental health trauma and abuse – On Our Own ensures its members aren’t just on their own when facing bipolar disorder, military service PTSD, substance abuse, sexual assault and other life trials. Wheeler Digital returns to the show to provide On Our Own with the marketing “buzz” it needs so more people know about the nonprofit … and financially support it.
We thank the James A. Meador Foundation for underwriting this episode, which airs April 29 on Blue Ridge PBS.

Contact Michael Hemphill for more information by email or 540.556.2879.

Listen to BUZZ origin story from creator Michael Hemphill 900 879 Michael Hemphill

Listen to BUZZ origin story from creator Michael Hemphill

Listen to Michael Hemphill’s origin story about how and why he created Buzz4Good on the all new public radio show Naturally Curious, hosted by Bruce C. Bryan.

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About the episode:

Imagine being able to combine all of your professional passions into one work. When you hear Michael Hemphill’s story, you quickly realize that if the pieces can fit together so nicely for him, they can for you as well. Michael is a former award-winning newspaper reporter and when he chose to switch to nonprofit work, after years of helping individual nonprofit organizations, he had a bigger idea. 

Michael wanted to match an organization doing good work with a marketing firm, which could help him get more…buzz. This is a story of a passion filled man who had a wild idea. He didn’t just dream it.

But found a way to make it happen. In turn, he has helped hundreds of nonprofits and tens of thousands of people. I’ve long believed that interviewing interviewers makes for an incredible show. Above is the FULL UNEDITED version.  BUZZ4GOOD’s Michael Hemphill.