The Love Story Media, Inc.

The Love Story inspires those who have loved and lost to transform their broken hearts into creative expression. Studies show that vulnerability and authenticity shared in a safe community can create connections and new perspectives for overcoming the challenges in life. Storytelling and journaling can also provide validation, community, and cathartic release.

Our mission is to shift the narrative in our scripts from:
“Nobody Understands Me” into “I Am Not Alone”
“There’s something wrong with me” into “Pain is a catalyst for self-realization”
“What’s the point of ____(pain, living, working, loving, etc.)?” into “The point is to discover who I truly am”

We seek to create three new narratives associated with heartbreak:

You are Not Alone: Through the process of both reading, watching, and producing these stories, they will discover their experiences in the narratives of others. Their compassion for another individual's story generates hope, especially when the pain is acknowledged as an opportunity for personal transformation and growth. This will relieve isolation, inspiring them to create new possibilities for themselves.

There is Nothing Wrong with You: Furthermore, they enjoy the context of healing as a "Journal-Artist" or “Love Story Creative” rather than a "victim," or a "patient suffering with mental health issues.” They can create a new context for themselves as empowered, creative, and compassionate storytellers rather than broken, depressed, “mentally ill” patients.

There is a Point to Heartbreak: The Love Story is about Breaking Our Heart Open until we discover our inner beauty and inner artist. The Love Story Journal shows people that breaking our hearts open is possible and is a beautiful transformational process. We provide a multimedia platform for audiences to engage with kindred spirits, interact with kindred journal-artists who are also journaling so that they may feel encouraged and inspired to transform their tragedy and a love story.

Our Purpose
The Love Story Media, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)3 grounded upon 1 Corinthians 13, that fuses journaling, journalism, and the personal journey, designed to inspire the broken hearted to transform pain into passion, self-destruction into creative expression, and our love loss into the love story. We exist to shift the perception of what pain is–not as something to be ashamed, dismissed, or avoided, but as an opportunity to grow emotionally, spiritually, and creatively.

The Love Story stands to arc the hero’s character through the principles and mastery of love as defined in 1 Corinthians 13, verse 4-7 (1 Corinthians 13 in the Holy Bible KJV).

We believe that social isolation comes from depression, and depression comes from suppressed expression. We welcome all nationalities, cultures, and creeds on the mission to inspire the broken hearted to transform our life tragedy into The Love Story.Through creative expression, we are able to create a love story through our adversities.

The Program: The Producer’s Playbook
Will reveal the mystery of love in 1 Corinthians 13:12—
People who are experiencing trauma, loss, and disaster journal their pain into a three-act tragedy, fiction, based on a true story, one journal entry at a time, artist-inspired, by fusing journaling, journalism, and the personal journey.

Our organization believes that for us to transform our tragedies, we must first understand the fullness of it. We offer a unique program that, when acted upon, will reveal the mystery of love as described in 1 Corinthians 13, Verse 12: For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. (NIV)

Act One: Acting in Faith (over Fear)
This will help the Journal-Artist discover the source of the tragedy—the Shadow, or the Absence of love. This is the Shadow work that must be done to discover the duality of our passions and to discern the true passion from the false one. Act One focuses on the Journal-Artist’s inner world—the person’s pent up emotions, suppressed expressions, what’s been hidden that we are ashamed of, afraid of, wounds unaddressed.

Act Two: Acting in Compassion (over Apathy)
Act Two focuses on the Journal-Artist’ outerworld—the person’s surrounding, connections, interactions, experiences with the world outside. Journaling in the second person perspective is designed for the Journal-Artist to discover signs, synchronicities, and supernatural moments that can offer us a clue, like breadcrumbs, to our true pursuit. It is an exercise in discerning our true pursuit from our false one.

Act Three: Acting in Love (over Judgement)
Act Three focuses on Journaling in the Third Person Perspective. This is fusing the craft of journaling in the first and the second to produce a third person voice in honor of the Third Eye Opening. The third “I” way of seeing is the fusion of both compassion and faith, while integrating the inner and outer worlds of the characters in the story.
This is where the silver lining of the tragedy reveals itself. At the end of Journaling experience, the Journal-Artist will know the fullness of the hero’s tragedy in the story while simultaneously experiencing the hope of setting the silver lining as a foundation to build the story arc through the character arc towards The Love Story.

Our capabilities for meeting these goals come with a fusion between the mindset mentality of startup entrepreneurship by recruiting talent in communications, virtual operations, finances, writing, web development, branding, marketing, and curriculum design and a heart center that focuses on healing, transformation, tolerance, acceptance, and spiritual self-work for social-emotional growth.

We have a talented board with diverse skills that complement one another and a growing operational system that allows people from across the country to coordinate with one another in different time zones due to the latest technological innovations like Zoom.us, Google Apps, #Slack, and customized web development.

The Love Story Core Values:
Courage | Compassion | Connection | Contribution

Courage: The courage to be raw, authentic, and honest in our creative endeavors.
1. At www.thelovestory.org, we deliver authentic, heartfelt interviews, journal entries, and journaling resources to engage our audience to begin the journaling process.
2. We are training our core team of Journal-Artists to Journal their pain into purpose through the genre of Journal-Artism, that fuses narrative fiction storytelling with journaling.
3. We are publishing our fiction based on a true story diaries as a way of our personal catharsis.

Compassion: We believe that the first step in recovery is validation of where the person is at—wherever they are. The Love Story highly values compassion in all facets of our organization—for our volunteers and our employees, it is compassion for our diverse backgrounds and interests. For our clients, consumers, and community, it is an inclusive culture and a sensitivity to what they are going through.
1. We have developed a 3-Act program that allows Journal-Artists to journal in a safe space, in fiction, to resonate-edit for one another, to hold space for our pain to passion, pursuit, and purpose process.
2. We are creating a community culture of kindred spirits who may be dealing with similar circumstances or feelings to pair, group, interact together.

Connection: We believe that growth comes with our choice in how we connect with others. We believe that creativity is the key to how we connect with our audience. Through the diversity of who we interview (founders, poets, writers, musicians, mothers, etc.), we cultivate a connection of diverse creativity.
1. Through team projects —showcases, production, and journaling circles, we connect.

Contribution: The power of transformation lies in transforming the way we see the world and by becoming the change we want to create in this world. We believe that contribution comes in many forms. Some contribute with their time, some with their finances, and some with their stories.
1. We offer free DIY journaling resources, pop-up journaling workshops, and showcases.
2. We are in the works of creating college ambassadors, speakers, authors, and mentors to inspire the next generation.

Current Organizational Accomplishments
Founded a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that fuses media with mission. Our objective is to inspire the broken hearted to transform pain into creative expression through artist-inspired journaling. Interviewed over 60 artists about their pain to passion journey, produced 5 live showcases, with over 200 participants in the project, and 2 published journals, 2 published diaries, 2 foundational textbooks, and a growing online/offline community. Currently, building a Three-Act Program for Journal-Artists who will Act in faith, compassion, and love throughout the program as they are journaling their pain into purpose throughout the three acts, at their own pace, online at https://playbook.thelovestory.org. Partnered up with Masterclass and sponsored by LivePortrait, Everipedia, and Unita to execute on this mission of pain to purpose self-work for young adults in transforming mental health.

2018 Milestones
1) Enhance The Love Story website
2) Create a membership portal, where users can: Save, store, and share (ie. User Submission) their own journal entries
3). Pilot The Artist Interview program and published volume one The Love Story Journal.
4). Pilot the Journal-Artist Act One program by journaling in the first through artist-inspired journaling.


2019 Milestones
Piloted The Producer’s Program —act one, two, and three, and graduated two journal-artists who are in the middle of publishing.
Published The Love Story Journal volume 2.
Published The Producer’s Playbook Textbook.
Over 89,000 unique visitors came to www.thelovestory.org in 2019.
Began production on The Love Story Journal Volume 3.
Brokered Sponsorship from Everipedia.org to receive royalties on the Crypto Blockchain.
Come up with a sponsorship campaign.

2020 Milestones
Finish building The Producer’s Program online.
Setup budget for The Producer’s Program.
Publish The Love Story Playbook, leveraging 1 Corinthians 13:4-13:7
Finish Volume 3 The Love Story Journal
Pilot Online and In-Person journaling circles.
Onboard Journal-Artists to begin Act One.