We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jana Sullivan a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Jana thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. So let’s jump to your mission – what’s the backstory behind how you developed the mission that drives your brand?

My mission is to give underprivileged people a safe space to tell their stories without judgment. The story behind my mission statement is I dealt with a lot of depression , still do but once I started using my writing as a way to cope with my depression i started seeing a difference. My goal is to give other people just like me the same opportunity, a safe space to vent to help control mental health other then taking medicine or feeling like you can’t be honest with your self that you need help because your afraid of what people will say or think .

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I am THE Author Jana sullivan . Mother , wife, screen writer and author . I got into this business to help cope with my depression and it took off from their . What was just a idea to help me vent turned into a whole career that took off pretty fast . I went from being a author to being a publisher to now being a mentor and producer of a film company that we are launching this year . The one thing that I am proud of is seeing my kids light up and tell other people hey my mom is a author. My kids think that I am a celebrity and that’s all that matters to me . They see me as this big person but what they don’t really know is being a author saved me . I don’t write for fun , I write because if I didn’t I probably wouldn’t be here today to tell my stories . Depression is not a choice for some of us and some of us don’t have a outlet but writing is mine .

Can you open up about how you funded your business?

I actually have been funding my business my self for the last nine years . I am just now finding out about grants , business credit , loans ect I can use so hopefully I can utilize some of these options but everything has been funded off book royalties.

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

My audience on social media was built from the ground up . I started off posting snippets of my first book and people just got hooked . From their I had people post pictures with my books in their hands and then word of mouth just got peoples attention . My advice is to keep positing . Don’t work about who thinks your spamming Facebook or how many likes you have , trust me somebody sees it even if they don’t react to it . Keep posting and stay consistent .

Contact Info:

• Website: Payhip.com/Authorjanasullivan
• Instagram: Author_jana_sullivan
• Facebook: Author Jana sullivan