About Us
About the Company
GoodStoryADay.com, Inc. was formed as a dot com company to produce a remarkable web site conceived by Joycebelle. It is the realization of a lifelong dream. "I have prepared all my life to give children good stories for their delight and enrichment,” she states.
Now, stories are being gathered from young writers up to age 20 through the Good Story A Day Young Writers Contest, 2008. www.goodstorycontest.com These wonderful stories will enrich the lives of children around the world each and every day.
Stories will also come from celebrities, the rich and famous, highly successful people, moms, dads, teachers and others interested in sharing a good story with children everywhere. www.goodstoryteller.com
Look for Grand Opening Announcements. www.goodstoryaday.com. When the GoodStoryADay.com site is open to readers around the world, each age group form tots through teens will enjoy good focused stories to enrich their lives each day at a time.
About Joycebelle, founder of Good Story A Day & creator of Good Story Gift Pack
"My Love of stories began as a very young child . . . I remember listening to my mother read stories to my sister and me every day. We lived those stories though her voice and through the words of the authors. Through those stories I visited all parts of the world and met all types of people who were just like me in some ways and very different from me in other ways.
"As a child I lived in a 150-year-old farmhouse. I used to sit on the floor before the window in my attic-like bedroom, and listen to the birds singing in the trees and the crickets chirping. I would wonder what they were saying. I loved nature then, and I love it still. Also, I used to wonder who all had lived in my room during the past 150 years. What did they think? What were their stories? I made up pretend conversations with these former residents of my room. It was fun. I lived several miles away from my friends whom I saw at school, but during the summers I spent most of my time with imaginary friends.
"My favorite magazine was National Geographic. Every time a new issue arrived, I read it from cover to cover. Again, I would pretend that I was visiting those strange and exotic places and meeting people very different from, and yet often very much like me.
”I guess these early years of listening to stories, imagining characters from the past, and reading about faraway places helped form a desire in me to tell stories and live a life where I could travel around the world and write about my adventures.
"As a kid I never dreamed of being an author, a teacher, a publisher, a model, a photographer, an artist, a scuba diver, or a naturalist, but I have become all of those. However, I did dream about adventure as a kid, and adventure has been a big part of my adult life. Pay attention to what you dream; it just might come true in ways you may never expect.
Opportunities come when you open your mind, heart, and soul to all the good around you and then share it with others!
"Do you know that you have a lot in common with Oprah, Tyra Banks, Abraham Lincoln, Michael Jordan, Mark Twain, and the Olsen twins? Yes, you do! They are all people who grew up with hardships and successes much as you have and who developed a desire to express themselves in their own individual ways.
"There is a story in each of us. There are creative talents that each of us were born to express. Go for it, and start using them today!
"To my astonishment, I have had a very diverse and exciting life and several careers." States Joycebelle.
Author: Love Your Beauty, Freedom Forever, Raefon in the Land of WOW! and numerous children’s E-books and activity E-products now packaged as the Good Story Gift Pack. She told imaginative stories for years to her children and their friends. Years later when she found an illustrator who captured the spirit and fun of her characters, she wrote them as illustrated stories. Recently she published them as e-books and recorded them as MP3 talking books. Also she published many of the illustrations as images for a variety of creative activities for families to enjoy. She states, “When I got the idea to bundle all the books, talking books and activities together with a course for young writers, a KidsTime journal for dad, a book for mom and a family book celebrating America, I was very excited.
However, when I added up the cost, I was dismayed that not too many people could afford it. Because I really treasured the stories and wanted as many kids to have them as possible, I decided to discount the package from $444.97 to $27 and also realized I could give 37% of it to charity. I was delighted at the prospects, the good it could bring about, and the number of gifts and happy hearts it could generate. It is indeed, my pleasure to share the Good Story Gift Pack with children and families everywhere.”
Publisher and Producer: Mastermind Your Way to Millions by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen, Infopreneuring materials by Robert G. Allen and over 500 information products by various industry leaders in banking, job search, incorporating, licensing, underwater photography and marketing. Joycebelle currently serves as the president of GoodStoryADay.com, Inc. which is preparing to launch GoodStoryaDay.com and deliver a good story each day to children around the world. It will also publish various children’s books, magazines, newspapers, educational materials, courses, newsletters and e-zines. GoodStoryADay.com, Inc. will also produce children's theater, videos, audios, CDs, DVDs, films and web sites in the near future.
Infopreneur and Educator: Joycebelle has taught hundreds of aspiring authors how to create and market information-based products through classes produced by EWI and BookWise and offered by New York Times' bestseller and millionaire-maker Robert G. Allen (author of the all-time best selling financial book, Nothing Down), Richard Paul Evens (best selling author of children’s books including the famed classic Christmas Box), and Mark Victor Hansen (co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series). She also served as a creative consultant during the writing of the bestsellers, The One Minute Millionaire and Cracking the Millionaire Code. She taught kindergarten through junior college in Michigan, Florida and California in public and private schools.
Artist: Joycebelle is an accomplished speaker, storyteller, poet, artist, musician and composer. Two of her stories were recently published in Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover's Soul, and numerous others have run in National Geographic, World, National and International Wildlife, Ranger Rick's, Oceans, Sea World Magazine, LA Times, Miami Herald, Saturday Evening Post, Smithsonian, and Skin Diver . . . plus countless more. Joycebelle has appeared on national prime time television and lectured throughout the world.
Naturalist: At an early age, Joycebelle was drawn to the ocean and all of its splendors. Today, she is an experienced underwater explorer, model and photographer. In fact, it is believed that the first woman's wetsuit in the US was created just for her! Joycebelle has dived with the greats of the underwater world, including Philippe and Jacques Cousteau, Lloyd, Beau and Jeff Bridges, Ron Church (her late husband) and many others. She has also created an information empire in the underwater photography market, giving seminars, film festivals, courses of instruction and much more. She created the first educational walking tour for the World Famous San Diego Zoo’s WildAnimalPark.
Education: From kindergarten through the 8th grade, Joycebelle attended a one-room country school in Clarkston, Michigan and graduated from Clarkston High School where she earned a full academic scholarship to Eastern Michigan University and completed her BS in Speech Communication in just three years time. Joycebelle continued her graduate work in oceanography and audio video production at San Diego State University and the University of California at San Diego.
Mother: Known by her readers, students, and children as the "Goodness-Maker," Joycebelle loves children and even claims to have thoroughly enjoyed her kids' teenage years! As she puts it, "Parenting children, your own and others, is the most important job in the world and is our greatest gift to humanity. And the easiest way to make the biggest impact is through telling good stories. That is why GoodStoryADay.com is so very much needed."
Joycebelle and her team of experts welcome you to GoodStoryADay.com and the GoodStory Gift Pack!
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“Joycebelle taught me how to refine, publish and market my books. I had the knowledge, but she taught me how to be an expert.” |