About the GoodStoryADay
       Founder, Joycebelle

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.

Author:Love Your Beauty, Freedom Forever, Raefon in the Land of WOW! and numerous children’s E-books and fun E-activity products now packaged as the GoodStory Gift Pack on www.goodstorygiftpack.com.

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 to publish various children’s books, magazines, newspapers, educational materials, courses, newsletters and e-zines. GoodStoryADay, 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 offered by New York Times' bestseller and millionaire-maker Robert G. Allen (author of the all-time best selling financial book, Nothing Down) and Mark Victor Hansen (co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series). She also served as a creative consultant to them during the writing of their most recent bestsellers, The One Minute Millionaire and Cracking the Millionaire Code. She is the director of Information marketing eductional programs for WriteWise, a division of BookWise, headed up by bestselling authors, Richard Paul Evans and Robert G. Allen. 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, course of instruction and much more. She created the first educational walking tour for the World Famous San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park.

Education: Until the age of 14, 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!

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