Charlotte Libov (8/01/2021)

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/SkgszAl4bZs Charlotte Libov refuses to be pigeonholed. She loved performing when she was a little girl, but she also was hooked on newspapers and decided to become a reporter, rising from small city dailies to the New York Times. She was writing for the Times when she learned she’d been born with a dangerous heart defect and underwent open-heart surgery at the world-famous Cleveland Clinic. Her experience dovetailed with a growing awareness of heart disease as a killer of women, and her first book, “The Woman’s Heart Book,” led to a groundbreaking PBS documentary and launched her career as a national speaker. She is still writing books and, in July, her sixth book, “Fight Back: Beat the Coronavirus,” was published.  She also founded “Sing Out,” a FB group with 6,600 members, devoted to supporting the live arts. Charlotte was poised to take over as a host at the Bleu Bar’s popular open mic night at the iconic National hotel in South Beach on March 25, 2020 but – you guessed it—the pandemic struck, shutting the hotel down. And so, Charlotte pivoted again, her virtual NYC debut on Aug. 6, when her first cabaret show “I Wrote the Book,” streamed live from MetropolitanZoom’s Studio A.