Ep 95: How The Farm Babe Built a Speaking Brand That Can’t Be Ignored

October 28, 2025

95: How The Farm Babe Built a Speaking Brand That Can’t Be Ignored

Jacqueline unpacks how Michelle Miller turned myth-busting on the farm into a thriving international speaking and media brand.

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When your message meets meaning, magic happens — and no one embodies that more than Michelle Miller, known globally as The Farm Babe. 

In this episode, Jacqueline unpacks how Michelle turned myth-busting on the farm into a thriving international speaking and media brand.

From viral posts to keynote stages across continents, Michelle breaks down the real talk behind building visibility, credibility, and momentum as a modern speaker. You’ll learn how to turn a story into a movement, why controversy can catapult your career (if you handle it right), and how to stay rooted in authenticity while scaling fast.

This episode is a must-listen if you’re ready to evolve from “just a speaker” into a true media brand — one that’s booked solid, trusted deeply, and impossible to ignore.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

  • How owning your story can position you as the go-to voice in your niche and turn your expertise into a message that connects, educates, and inspires audiences everywhere (01:08.423)
  • Turning confusion and criticism into the fuel for your message (13:37.55)
  • Turning a viral moment into a speaking career (17:31.308)
  • Why you can’t afford to stay invisible, and how consistent, authentic storytelling online builds trust (27:51.835)
  • How to build trust in a noisy media world through evidence-based, relatable content (41:55.678)
  • What it really means to run a media-driven speaking business (50:35.243)

This conversation is your reminder that success in speaking doesn’t come from being the loudest voice. It comes from being the most real one. Michelle’s story is proof that clarity, courage, and consistency can turn any message into a movement. 

So if you’ve been waiting for the “right moment” to get visible, this is it. Hit play, take notes, and start speaking your business into being.

QUOTES

“I started ‘The Farm Babe’ because I got banned by ‘The Food Babe.’ If she wasn’t going to let farmers talk about farming, I was going to.”  Michelle Miller

“I realized everything I thought I knew about food was wrong. And if I could be that misinformed, imagine how many others were too.” Michelle Miller

“My first viral post reached 18 million people. All I did was tell the truth about how we farm — and it launched my career.”  Michelle Miller

“AI is not going to change how we speak, but it will change how people are listening and what they’re listening for. ” – Jacqueline Brooker

RESOURCES

ABOUT MICHELLE MILLER

Michelle Miller, better known as the Farm Babe, is an internationally recognized speaker, published writer & columnist, podcaster, and an online influencer as a full time advocate for agriculture.She started her social media outreach over nine years ago as a way to better bridge the gap between farmers and consumers, making a name for herself as a dedicated“mythbuster”in food and farming.Farm Babe has hundreds of thousands of followers and an average social media reach of 5+ million monthly. She’s been featured in Forbes & has caught the attention of theToday Show, Inside Edition, CNN, People magazine, and more …a guest on Dr Drew, has influenced corporations as powerful as Burger King, and has proudly spoken alongside some of the biggest names in food and farming today.

WHERE TO FIND MICHELLE MILLER

 

WHERE TO FIND JACQUELINE BROOKER

To connect and learn more about creating a Speaker Driven Business connect with Jacqueline on LinkedIn. You can also follow Jacqueline on Instagram or join the private Facebook group

Join the Speak More Collective.