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"JoClub is an acronym that stands for Journaling Club, but also is a suitable name." Jo Franco begins. "When I first started writing I was aware of those emotions, and was conscious that my family members were not happy hearing about them. Therefore, I started writing."

"I was born without a passport living in a secluded area, speaking Portuguese and trying to learn English but stumbled across" she recalls. "I gained a wide range of different languages and felt awed at being understood. At the same time I didn't get a lot of attention due to the fact that I was regarded as an unusually small group of youngsters. My look was distinctive from everyone other kids. I was the least tall kid so I had this soft voice, and had a calm personality.

"Of of course, if I look back and see what happened, but for the time being there was just a feeling of not being understood"Are you sure? and so many of us struggle with this."

It was a blessing that Jo had the privilege to write: "I had a more than pity-based relation to myself, and was able to look at things without judgment. I've written quite a bit of negative things, yet I'm conscious of the positive things that have happened within my own existence. When I was able to modify my writing. But I began trying to change my perspective of things as I began to search for positive experiences. It was necessary to see positive aspects to come up with positive stories to share. I transformed into an positive person. This tool saved me."

Understanding the context

While she was a student at the college within Manhattan, Jo was overwhelmed by the volume of voices she had to compete with. However, she was able to find a space within her diary. "It was not a question of whether I resided somewhere in the States or had journeys and I was able to make use of the device that allowed me to return to me.

"My "why" will give anyone who is around me with the belief that "You've accomplished the ability to do it" regardless of how challenging things can be. Furthermore it will improve your emotional wellbeing as well, it's also a beautiful thing to record the experience by writing it down. This is a gesture of gratitude to the fact that the event happened in the first place. It's always a part of the world of your own and have your own thoughts."

"There's research-based evidence that supports this claim," she says. "There have been studies that are conducted about how to use writing for medical treatments. People who record their gratitude and appreciation, they will feel more content."

"Give your brain some time to rest. Release the tension from your brain and then write it down on paper. If you write about events that are negative, you build the space to take it all in with compassion. Emotions can drive us crazy. They're the source of all things. They're the foundation of self-confidence, and at the root of charisma. That's why people go to an area and being able to attract the positive vibes."

"Maybe this is an opportunity to join"

Jo had certainly attached many good events to her calendar until 2020. Through her YouTube channel with more than one million subscribers she earned money to travel. "I was living a thrilling private life. Yet, in the meanwhile I was writing. That was what I wanted to do with me. All I did was writing."

In the month of January, 2020, she was awarded a Netflix assignment as host of The World's Most Amazing Vacation Rentals. "It got me off YouTube and back to the traditional method of broadcasting. If you've been to a studio and witnessed how long it can take, the time is lengthy. Workdays can be up to extended to 16 hours, with a lot of 'hurry up and sit'. You're ready to go: makeup, hair and makeup are all done. There are lines appearing on your head and are contemplating "No Oh, no! I'm laughing! We have to get our speed down for a minute""

When there were breaks that could last many hours, Jo would write. "Writing was a love for me and I was compelled to make it into a career." When covid came in the air and the show was off, the main source of income diminished.

"I was anxious, like everyone else. I began posting pictures of journal entries. On the next day I reached 100 days old, and I started sharing my journal on Instagram Stories. I began to think "Hey it could be an opportunity for me to join an organization where members be able to pay in a virtual room to write and share their thoughts. This is how JoClub came into existence. The birth of JoClub was nearly four years ago. That is insane!"

While watching the Netflix program, Jo realized that journaling was the best way she could observe the world around her. "It is much more than just simply a hobby. When you're travelling for 2 days, you're exhausted. There's nothing you're doing that has absolutely nothing to do with the work you're paid for.

"You know, this is how I make sense of my own life. It's how I live. I realized that it was important for me to distinguish myself from any other thing. One thing that can be taken off of my work is writing. I felt it was essential to me to incorporate that in my next chapter in my professional career."

Her achievements are more than she can imagine.

Jo got inspired to get involved with her work. "I was posting three videos every week, in three different languages. I was required to hire individuals, and then fire them. I was able to understand what it meant to build the machine to create content."

There was a need for something to be changed. "I didn't want to always be working. If you're tired or depleted like most creators, and you're tired then it's difficult to make income. It was my realization that this was a task I'm gonna maintain throughout my life, I'll need to think of ways of taking my thoughts from the many possibilities to earn money."

Jo was looking to make something more substantial than her. Groups for journaling were created in the early days of Zoom: "The membership started at $29 a month and also included a live monthly chat and daily journal prompts for everyone's inbox."

The idea was to create an experience as similar to yoga classes. The program consisted of two questions. led to a discussion. Then an additional question and break-out rooms. "It involved IP (intellectual property)," she recalls. "After the period of six months I asked how I could help educate people in these seminars? Facilitators could actually assist in enriching JoClub by ways that I wouldn't have considered? They wanted to "extract the best" and work with facilitators, whom were former JoClub members, to develop the style of art journaling as well as a "bring your own music" contest for musicians of children and other activities similar to it.

"Now there are six meetings each month. I'm able to create as many as I'd like," she continues. "Beautiful elements that I'd have never imagined would happen The retreats I organize are: and also ran the pilot program at an institution, and are currently tackling different problems. This would be impossible to accomplish this in the same way if I'd been in Jo Franco's group that had me at the top of my game."

Community and culture

"An intriguing aspect of membership is the fact that you can design an atmosphere," she adds. "If you are paying for membership, it's as if you walk into your home, which implies that you are able to decorate your home in any way you want." Jo together with her team have analyzed ways to make discussions more engaging so that "people can talk about topics which are a part of their communities and feel they're getting their money's worth."

"It's the difference between the audience from a member," she adds. "An audience is likely to interact with what you're making however it's not necessarily a dialogue. If I publish something, and someone comment but I respond via the group I'm curating I'm a component of what happens - from the moment that they join until the group members."

Jo is thinking about the steps of onboarding and how we manage new members. "How do we mitigate the possibility of someone walking into the room feeling like they're not part of the group? It's the best time to start the art of curating culture, which is why the members remain for an extended duration."

The woman is well aware that it isn't easy. "It's something that has to be something you are passionate about for you to continue improving as a member's status is constantly changing. If you're not attentive to the way things are progressing, you'll be losing every member you have."

It's obvious that Jo has incorporated the empathy and self-awareness that she's accumulated in journals into how she acts within her circle. Actually, she believes journals assist us in becoming more conscious of our self. The process is not taught at an early age: "We're not given tools to process emotion. You can use these tools to keep your equilibrium. I was unable to grasp these benefits. It was a simple recreation activity. As I grew older I began to realize "Damn! I've been hiding my secrets""

If people inquire "Jo You're only 30 years old, how have you accomplished everything? I wrote it down and everything went well," she laughs.

More details

To learn more concerning Jo Franco and to become an active JoClub members, go to www.joclub.world. JoClub is welcoming new members. To join, go over on joclub.world.

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