Speaking

Most conversations about economic change stay at the policy level, disconnected from the people those policies actually impact. Most personal transformation talks ignore the systems shaping outcomes in the first place. Malorie bridges both.

With a background in applied economic research and lived experience navigating health and resource challenges, she brings a perspective that connects individual outcomes to broader economic realities. Her talks have reached local government chambers, national conference stages, and audiences at institutions including the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic.

Her talks don’t just inspire. They change how people think about responsibility, investment, and impact.

The Chef’s Special

We often talk about success as if it is only a matter of discipline or effort. But both scripture and economics reveal the same truth: people flourish when they are properly invested in, physically, mentally, spiritually, and economically.

This is Malorie’s signature talk. It opens with her personal testimony, including overcoming divorce, poverty, ADHD, anxiety and depression, exhaustion, and an autoimmune disease that left a softball-sized bald spot on the top of her head. Her hook is disarming and true: for years she thought something was wrong with her. What she eventually learned was that many of the struggles we call personal failures are often the result of neglected investment.

From there she builds the case. Economists discovered through Human Capital Theory what scripture already understood: invest in people, and people flourish. Societies flourish as a result. She weaves together health, education, nutrition, stability, and encouragement, not as rapid-fire citations but rooted in lived experience. The practices scripture teaches, including gratitude, discipline, service, guarding the mind, and caring for the poor and vulnerable, turn out to be the same things economists have advocated for decades and the same things science shows improve stress regulation, focus, and long-term health.

She then zooms out to the bigger system: access, instability, overlooked barriers, and what policy investment in people actually looks like. She keeps it human and non-partisan.

The talk closes on servant leadership. Investing in people, especially those on the margins, is not charity. It is stewardship. And the greatest return we can create is helping other people flourish.

The closing question she leaves with every audience: the question is not whether people have value. The question is whether we are willing to invest in that value, in ourselves and in others.

What audiences walk away with

• A clearer understanding of why investing in people is not a cost, it is a driver of economic growth
• A new lens on how overlooked barriers like health, access, and instability directly limit productivity and opportunity
• Practical reframing of what meaningful, sustainable change actually requires at both the individual and system level

Other Topics

• Food policy, rural economies, and the people they leave behind
• Health, well-being, and economic participation
• Data, decision-making, and what the numbers are not telling you
• From policy to people: translating systems into human outcomes

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