Event Planning Tip: How to have a great invocation!

Great tips from our pal Jon Petz, author of Boring Meeting Suck, on making an positive impact with an invocation (if you choose to have one) at your next meeting. Jon Petz is an engagement expert. He ensures your meeting or event attendees are engaged into the meeting objectives, team, environment, work effort and passion…

Woo Hoo at WWHEL Conference!

Attendees at the Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership Conference greeted heart attack survivor speaker Eliz Greene with a Woo Hoo as she gave the closing keynote on October 21!  The hour flew by as participants danced, woo hooed, and laughed as they learned about stress management in Women Have Balls. Were you there?  Leave…

Do Good Get Good on October 20th!

The Wisconsin Chapter of the National Speakers Association and Gateway Technical college have teamed up to present an unique event where you can do good while you get good! Get tips to improve your management style, employee retention, memory, attitude and your health. Your attendance supports the Wisconsin Operation Home Front (the families of our…

The Skinny On Obesity

Tonight I’m honored to help Young Farmers and Ranchers prepare for the American Farm Bureau Federation‘s Discussion Meet.  Their discussion question is: What role, if any, should agriculture play in addressing health and obesity issues? Your comments are welcome below – here is the information I provided: According to the Gallup and Healthways poll released…

Can You Guess What This Is?

Did you guess soft serve ice cream? You’d be wrong… It’s chicken… well sort of… It’s actually mechanically separated chicken made though a process called AMR – Advanced Meat Recovery and is lurking in your hot dog, bologna, chicken nuggets, pepperoni, salami, jerky etc… Using even more than the squeek, to get every ounce of…

Juggling Lessons at South Carolina Farm Bureau Women’s Conference

Farm women from across South Carolina learned about stress management in Eliz’s program Juggling Lessons for Life at the South Carolina Farm Bureau Federation’s Women’ s Leadership Conference held at Clemson University. The conference was themed around apples – check out this article about apples reducing your risk of stroke! After lunch, some of the…

An Apple A Day Keeps the Stroke Away!

Your grandma was right! Eating that apple is good for you! A Dutch study published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association shows people who eat white fleshed fruits and veggies can cut their risk of stroke in half! Great news! So load up on apples, pears, bananas chicory, cucumber, and cauliflower – or…

Go Ahead. Drink That Coffee!

Your morning cup of coffee may do more than perk you up! Worried coffee might damage your health? It turns out a cup or two per day can have some health benefits including reducing your risk of stroke and cavities! EveryDayHealth.com published an article outlining 9 ways coffee can improve your health including reducing your…

“Super-spaghetti” on it’s way!

Now you can have your spaghetti, and eat it too! Barley, the grain we love in beer, packs fiber and antioxidants into your favorite pasta according to a report in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.  Barley is finding it’s way into bakery items and other foods in an effort to create “functional foods”…