Productions

Preschool: Jill and Jam
In the last two decades, obesity rates for preschoolers have increased significantly and rapidly. Obesity in young children can track to adulthood, which puts our future leaders at increased risk for chronic diseases like heart disease and Type II diabetes. But by this same logic, if we can teach young children about the important of healthy habits at a young age, we can set them up for a lifetime of success.

The Live Show:
Jill & Jam gets preschoolers singing and dancing their way to healthier habits. Jill croons about the important of eating breakfast, drinking more water, trying new foods, and doing her favorite exercise—the jumping jack!—as well as other kid favorites. Jill ends the show with all the kids on kazoo.

The Live Show
Jump with Jill is a rock ‘n roll nutrition concert. With microphone in hand, Jill gets kids learning about nutrition by moving to her original music. The interactive experience not only makes eating breakfast and drinking water cool, but helps increase retention of these important health messages. Since Jump with Jill’s inception three years ago, Jill has performed nearly 500 shows for almost 70,000 kids all over the United States.

Middle/High School: I Will Not Be Bought
Those darn kids. They never listen, yet teenagers are considered the most valuable demographic to advertisers, spending over $200 billion per year on snack food, clothing and entertainment. With discretionary income to buy all things rad, today’s teen consumer is a prime target for brands. In fact, one loyal, lifelong consumer is valued as high as $100,000 for a single retailer. They are listening to someone. Let it be us!

The Live Show
I Will Not Be Bought is an interactive, music-based performance focusing on the influence of advertising on body image, nutrition, substance abuse and peer pressure that tours through middle and high schools nationwide. With her band Sunset West, Jill has sold over 10,000 CDs of her original music, appeared on national television and toured with many contemporary artists teens know and love. Using these credentials and lots of hairspray, Sunset West can catch a teenager’s ear to explain the intentions and tools of advertising. The first half of the show is performed as an interactive slide show and lecture. The remaining time is for rocking out to a live music performance from Sunset West, a hula hoop contest and a candid question-and-answer period. As an addendum to the usual school day routine, Jill serves as an educated, relevant source for reading between the lines of teen-targeted advertising to help teens make healthier and more informed choices.

Grownups: Keynote Speeches and Workshops
Nutrition Education through Entertainment for health professionals

**presented at the Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo sponsored by the American Dietetic Association 2008 and state affiliate dietetic associations of Wisconsin, Tennessee, Florida in 2009 and Texas, Louisiana, and Utah in 2010.

Come rock songs from the rock ‘n roll nutrition show and CD, Jump with Jill, with creator Jill Jayne. Learn about the science behind her translations of nutrition facts into rock operas. Learn to use compelling health statistics to sell nutrition and fitness, apply behavior change theory to enhance your teaching style, and expand the boundaries of nutrition and physical activity education by discovering new ways to educate through entertainment. Expect to leave with pointers on cross-curricular teaching, kinesthetic learning, and a celtic punk song about water stuck in your head.

Cut the Crap
age 18+
Want to have more energy? Cut the crap! Explore the main culprits on our current declining health trends, and how you can readjust what you ingest for a healthier, more energetic life.

How to Be a Rockstar Nutritionist
**presented at the Pennsylvania State University in 2009 for college students, young professionals

How did a starry-eyed bean pole from a working class town become The Rockstar Nutritionst? Learn how Jill built her empire out of a good idea and tip jar, explore how branding strategy applies to the choosing your profession, and gain tips for finding your own voice.

I Will Not Be Bought: The Influence of the Media on Body Image and Food Habits
for 18+
Advertising is an invasive and persuasive force on the way we think, eat, and learn, and on many levels completely unconscious. Learn the powerful tools advertisers use by analyzing recent copy, how advertising influences our health habits and what you can do to empower yourself and others to be a part of the counter movement.

That's So Mainstream: Your Blueprint to Mold Breaking Success, for professionals.
What does it take to make it in the big time? How can we see more credentialed health professionals in the media? Could it be you? Spend some time with The Rockstar Nutritonist, Jill Jayne, on the topic of branding and media creation, distribution, and promotion. Learn about the elements that our profession’s highest achieving leaders have exploited to make it to the top. Learn tips for finding your voice and shaping your brand.

Elementary/Middle/High School:
Surf School - a Guide to Navigating the ‘Net.
My Status is Freaked Out! Today’s generation of young people don’t know a world without the internet. They’re on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. And while we helpful for researching a term paper, the internet is also a web of weirdos waiting for our little social networkers to give TMI. One in five kids age 10-17 have been solicited to sexually online; three in four do not tell a parent. Most kids don’t report inappropriate internet content to their parents because they are afraid of losing internet privileges. The excess of exposure and the lack of communication and education on this topic calls for an engaging intervention.

The Live Show:
Surf School: A Guide to Safely Navigating the ‘Net uses music and an interactive discussion to address students on a peer level on how to enjoy the benefits of the internet while keeping safe. Creator Jill Jayne uses her academic and music credentials to deliver internet safety messages with a rock ‘n roll punch. Surf School acknowledges students as the leaders of the newest media, empowering them to take charge of communicating with their parents and trusted adults about their internet activities. The one hour presentation can be adapted for grades 5-12.