Don’t Throw Tomatoes at My Field of Dreams
Webinar | Jul 9 | 2 p.m. Eastern
Track: Professional Development: Time/Personal Wellbeing Management
Speaker: Jane Jenkins Herlong
July 9, 2025
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Eastern
Session Info
Ever had a tomato thrown at you? OUCH! But you can make some ketchup, spice it up with a sense of humor, and make salsa.
Harvest a bumper crop of life lessons and laughter as Jane delivers stories of success and hard lessons learned while working in her father’s tomato fields as a young girl. Discover how to find your own SHINE and PLOW through when your basket breaks with a perspective only a farm girl can deliver. Jane will fill your bucket with down-home stories that will make you laugh. Still, there is an underlying lesson of how to increase peak performance and for your ultimate harvest to grow personally and professionally.
Your group will discover:
- How to Work with Over-ripened (difficult) Folks
- Techniques in Growing Only the Best Fruit
- How to Become a “keeper” to your customers (refilling buckets)
The Perfect Fit! This keynote presentation has been popular in the agriculture, education, and philanthropic industries. It is perfect for mixed audiences, conferences, associations, and customer service groups who need to out-think the competition.
Your Speaker
From farm fields to fame, Jane Jenkins Herlong is a Sirius XM Humorist and international best-selling author. Alongside Jeff Foxworthy, Ray Romano, and Jerry Seinfeld, her comedy is known far and wide.
Not just a funny lady, Jane is also an award-winning author. She’s churned out five award-winning books, each one more Southern-fried than the last. Her latest gem, “Sweet Tea Secrets from the Deep-Fried South,” is on the shelves of Cracker Barrel nationwide and is being optioned for an upcoming film.
In speaking, Jane holds a place in the Speaker Hall of Fame, next to Ronald Reagan and the late General Colin L. Powell. She also earned the title Certified Speaking Professional and was recently inducted into the Legends of Speaking in Washington D.C.
Jane faced her share of “You can’t do that” in her life, thanks to the dyslexic label stamped on her early on. But she laughed, probably snorted, and transformed every “NO” into a “NEXT.” Jane believes that humor is the WD-40 of life—it makes everything run more smoothly. Jane shows crowds how to wrestle stress to the ground and then high-five it out the door—all with a grin and a “watch me” attitude.
Her vocal and humor talents earned her features on Sirius XM, Pandora, Spotify, and Amazon. She speaks in four languages: English, Southern, Northern, and Lowcountry Gullah (gul-la).
Jane journeyed from the rows of her family’s Lowcountry tomato farm to the runway of the Miss America Pageant and then to Radio City Music Hall. She finished college with top honors and attended graduate school. Her message helps people change “NOs” into “NEXTs,” one laugh at a time.
Whether sharing wisdom or humor, Jane Jenkins Herlong is an act you won’t want to miss.
