Speaking Topics
Childhood Hunger: Melissa grew up poor and often without the food she needed every day. Melissa speaks about her personal experiences including those who helped her and how she and her family managed. She also sheds light on the childhood hunger statistics today in the United States and how we all can help end childhood hunger.
Faith & Religion: Melissa’s primary goal is to be on the path God wants her to be on, which affects her daily decisions as a woman, wife, mother and professional. She shares inspirational and motivational messages based on her personal journey of faith through family, work, challenges, and beyond.
Business & Leadership: As an MBA graduate and former corporate finance and strategy professional turned stay-at-home mom turned food television star, Melissa shares insights on Playing a Game You Can Win, Infusing Your Life Mission into Your Career, Emotional Intelligence, How an MBA Helped Her Win “The Next Food Network Star,” Work-Life Balance: The Realistic Modern Lifestyle, among other thought-provoking topics.
Women: Connecting with other women on their paths to success is Melissa’s personal life mission. She shares insights and strategies on how she ensures her life’s actions and choices support that mission and how others can do the same – no matter their life mission. She also shares thoughts on supporting other women, establishing meaningful relationships and positive role models.
Family & Kids: Straights from her own home bustling with four little women, Melissa shares ideas on everything from combatting picky eaters and great strategies for family travel to keeping the romance alive and how her own family life growing up affects her parenting today.
Food: A trusted resource for home cooks everywhere, Melissa enjoys sharing elegant and nutritious yet simple and affordable meal ideas as well as time- and money-saving strategies to ensure we are spending with purpose and managing our resources well.
Collegiate: Melissa connects with college students on topics of personal and professional growth, strategies for success, cooking on a college budget and with limited resources, as well as her personal experiences as a college student and how those experiences have shaped the person she is today.
Suicide: Melissa speaks from personal experience having lost her mother to suicide while in college. She shares messages of hope, suicide prevention, how to help those in need, and how to help those left behind.
Childhood Hunger: Melissa grew up poor and often without the food she needed every day. Melissa speaks about her personal experiences including those who helped her and how she and her family managed. She also sheds light on the childhood hunger statistics today in the United States and how we all can help end childhood hunger.
For booking inquiries, please contact Wade Lucas, Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau
(212)-572-6113 — walucas@penguinrandomhouse.com