Mitzi Perdue

Mitzi Perdue

Mitzi Perdue holds degrees from Harvard University and George Washington University, is a past president of the 35,000 member American Agri-Women and was one of the U.S. Delegates to the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi. She currently writes for the Academy of Women’s Health, and GEN, GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. She’s the Founder of Healthy U of Delmarva, a 9000-member organization which encourages healthy lifestyles through awards for outstanding workplace wellness programs.

Most recently, she’s authored an iPhone App, B Healthy U, designed to help people track the interactions of lifestyle factors that influence their energy, sleep, hunger, mood, and ability to handle stress. In addition to being a programmer and software developer, Mitzi is also an artist and designer of handcrafted miniature scenes in eggs such as those showcased at this website.

Mitzi is the author of the I Want to EggScape™ Book, A Quick Guide To Successful Media Appearances, a biography of her husband, Frank Perdue, called Tough Man, Tender Chicken: Business & Life Lessons From Frank Perdue, and six cookbooks, including The Farmers' Cookbook series and the Perdue Chicken Cookbook. She is also the author of more than 1600 newspaper and magazine articles on food, agriculture, the environment, philanthropy and politics. She was a syndicated columnist for 22 years, and her weekly environmental columns were distributed first by California’s Capitol News and later, by Scripps Howard News Service, to roughly 420 newspapers.

For two years she served as one of the commissioners for the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.

Mitzi also produced and hosted more than 400 half hour interview shows, Mitzi's Country Magazine on KXTV, the CBS affiliate in Sacramento, California. In addition, she hosted and produced more than 300 editions of Mitzi's Country Comments, which was syndicated to 76 stations. Her radio series, Tips from the Farmer to You, was broadcast weekly for two years on the Coast to Coast Radio Network.

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Mitzi Perdue joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the power that fear of rejection can have over you, how it may be holding you back, and how to deal with it.
Mitzi Perdue joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how one person’s abiding fear of failure prevented him from following his dream.
Mitzi Perdue joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the power that fear of rejection can have over you, how it may be holding you back, and how to deal with it.