Are you looking to add energy to your farm, ranch, or agribusiness conference? Need a dynamic speaker with a firsthand ag perspective who stand ready to challenge your audience? Looking for solid, practical tools that your people can take home to have a conversation about food and farming? Michele Payn founded Cause Matters Corp. to grow conversations around the food plate. She is a speaker known for her energy, fire, and motivating stubborn farmers to change the way they look at… Show more Are you looking to add energy to your farm, ranch, or agribusiness conference? Need a dynamic speaker with a firsthand ag perspective who stand ready to challenge your audience? Looking for solid, practical tools that your people can take home to have a conversation about food and farming? Michele Payn founded Cause Matters Corp. to grow conversations around the food plate. She is a speaker known for her energy, fire, and motivating stubborn farmers to change the way they look at communicating about agriculture. KEYNOTES AND WORKSHOPS➢ Celebrating Ag: Motivational keynote about the people, promise, and passion of agriculture.➢ Agriculture & AI: New program to help you what artificial intelligence is telling people about agriculture and why you should be concerned. ➢ Championing Ag: Interactive workshop giving attendees 6 step action plan to connect with people around the food plate.➢ Resiliency for Agriculture: Bring hope, humor, and healing to the discussion around mental health challenges in agriculture. Michele has been a pioneer in helping farmers speak out and food folks better understand where their food comes from. When you’re ready for changing conversation around food, farming, agribusiness and nutrition, send Michele a message or go to http://www.causematters.com. Show less

Michele is known for her unique ability to connect food, health, and agriculture. You'll find her energy, humor, and candid style refreshing in virtual training. She's a speaker who encourages attendees to engage, even in the age of Zoom fatigue. She sheds light on nutrition, mental health, and agricultural issues - and what they mean during and after COVID-19. A high energy trainer who leaves people thinking, Michele works with you to develop a recipe for a program that will hit the hot… Show more Michele is known for her unique ability to connect food, health, and agriculture. You'll find her energy, humor, and candid style refreshing in virtual training. She's a speaker who encourages attendees to engage, even in the age of Zoom fatigue. She sheds light on nutrition, mental health, and agricultural issues - and what they mean during and after COVID-19. A high energy trainer who leaves people thinking, Michele works with you to develop a recipe for a program that will hit the hot buttons of attendees, motivate them, and give them tools to implement. She uses polls, questions, videos, and a variety of techniques to add zest to her online trainings. Michele can present on Zoom, Webex, Microsoft Teams, GoToWebinar, or the platform of your choice to deliver meaningful training that connects with people's hearts to move minds through these customized programs. Show less

Your food is poisoning the earth. You feed your kids that?!? Do not eat anything you cannot pronounce. Your way of eating is wrong.Are others making you feel guilty about your food choices? Food Bullying, released November 5, 2019, reveals the $5.75 trillion secret that food marketers and celebrity spokespeople don’t want you to know. What if the food you’ve been led to believe is superior is actually B.S. (bull speak)?

There's too much fear in food today. International award-winning author Michele Payn upends the way we've been led to think about food and takes a lively look at the way misinformation, marketing half-truths, and label claims are messing with your brain. She reveals how food is big business, with profits fed by fear-based marketing. This fear hurts your health as stress increases about eating the "right food."What is food bullying? The need to position one food as superior to another… Show more There's too much fear in food today. International award-winning author Michele Payn upends the way we've been led to think about food and takes a lively look at the way misinformation, marketing half-truths, and label claims are messing with your brain. She reveals how food is big business, with profits fed by fear-based marketing. This fear hurts your health as stress increases about eating the "right food."What is food bullying? The need to position one food as superior to another lies at the heart of food bullying, which literally takes food out of someone's hand – by removing choice, creating emotion, or forcing an individual into groupthink mentality. As choices are removed, stress increases around eating the "right food." Michele Payn is a high-energy speaker who illustrates how this also gives power to fear and impacts our wellness. You will:➢ Learn the motives and methods of food bullying.➢ Identify where the implied power of platform, position, and product will most likely impact you.➢ Establish your own health, ethical, environmental, and social standards to measure all food claims against.➢ Grow awareness of psychological and neuromarketing tactics used in food.➢ Understand what matters on food labels and what's B.S. Show less

Agriculture and nutrition. Answers to your questions about how food is grown and why. Insight on ways dietitians and consumers may have been food bullied. All are delivered on the new Food Bullying podcast (relaunched April 22)No farmers, no food. No food, no need for nutrition experts. While that may be an oversimplification, Michele and RDN Nicole Rodriguez have heard one message clearly: RDNs are hungry for connection with those who grow, raise, and produce food. In this Food… Show more Agriculture and nutrition. Answers to your questions about how food is grown and why. Insight on ways dietitians and consumers may have been food bullied. All are delivered on the new Food Bullying podcast (relaunched April 22)No farmers, no food. No food, no need for nutrition experts. While that may be an oversimplification, Michele and RDN Nicole Rodriguez have heard one message clearly: RDNs are hungry for connection with those who grow, raise, and produce food. In this Food Bullying podcast, Michele and Nicole bring together voices from the agrifood sector to help you better understand the food you're so passionate about. The dietitian community will be armed with the REAL stories of agriculture, the truth in food, and most importantly – empowered to help others feel more confident in their food choices.Look for new episodes the first and third Monday every month. Show less

What is the only “food” on your dinner table that does not contain hormones? Why do the vast majority of Americans believe any food with DNA should be labeled? How can animals raised for food also be treated with dignity? Is it true that a typical serving of broccoli has more estrogen than a serving of steak? Why is more than 40 percent of food wasted in the United States?Food Truths from Farm to Table, an IPPY bronze medal winner in medicine/health/nutrition, answers all of these… Show more What is the only “food” on your dinner table that does not contain hormones? Why do the vast majority of Americans believe any food with DNA should be labeled? How can animals raised for food also be treated with dignity? Is it true that a typical serving of broccoli has more estrogen than a serving of steak? Why is more than 40 percent of food wasted in the United States?Food Truths from Farm to Table, an IPPY bronze medal winner in medicine/health/nutrition, answers all of these questions and many more, bringing an unheard voice in the highly emotional food debate. This intriguing book helps readers understand how food is really produced, answers food critics and points out how food marketing and labels are often half-truths or even “less-than-half truths.” Show less

Food fights might seem entertaining, but there’s nothing funny about the fights taking place over food production. Resource limitations, animal welfare and biotechnology are just a few issues cropping up to create confusion in the grocery store. Ultimately, both farmers and food buyers are making a personal choice, and author Michele Payn-Knoper calls for decorum instead of mayhem in the conversation around farm and food.In an effort to break stereotypes, the book describes farmers who… Show more Food fights might seem entertaining, but there’s nothing funny about the fights taking place over food production. Resource limitations, animal welfare and biotechnology are just a few issues cropping up to create confusion in the grocery store. Ultimately, both farmers and food buyers are making a personal choice, and author Michele Payn-Knoper calls for decorum instead of mayhem in the conversation around farm and food.In an effort to break stereotypes, the book describes farmers who don’t wear overalls but who do use technology in producing food and preserving the environment, dairy farmers who work on “cow comfort,” and how hard farmers work on sustainability. On the other side, the book reminds farmers that only a tiny percentage of the population lives on a farm and urges farmers to tell their stories through social media and every day conversation to correct mistaken beliefs about food production perpetuated by traditional media. Show less

Michele is collaborating with Amy Hays to create the Science Story Speak process. This helps people find art of speaking science into a modern global community in a more meaningful way, to grow understanding and credibility. Workbooks and training are designed to helpagribusinesses and related organizations find the power of the science story thought more meaningful connections. - Communicate science: restore the sense of wonder about scientific discoveries and trust in science.-… Show more Michele is collaborating with Amy Hays to create the Science Story Speak process. This helps people find art of speaking science into a modern global community in a more meaningful way, to grow understanding and credibility. Workbooks and training are designed to helpagribusinesses and related organizations find the power of the science story thought more meaningful connections. - Communicate science: restore the sense of wonder about scientific discoveries and trust in science.- Create emotional connections: understand the necessity – and science – of connecting on a heart level.- Engage in meaningful action: move forward with a personalized plan and tools that allow you to relate to diverse mindsets. Show less