We recently connected with Jupiter F. Stone and have shared our conversation below.

Jupiter F., appreciate you joining us today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

When you’re from the most isolated populated location on the planet it’s hard not to feel like you’re the center of the world. Especially when it’s landscape is a paradise reminiscent of the depictions we perceive as heaven.

Alas – Hawai’i is not all it’s advertised to be.

I was born on the island of Oahu in 1990 and was raised on the Leeward Coast in a town called Wai’anae.

This location has one of the highest populations of Native Hawaiians in the world and is also one of the most impoverished in the united states.

Growing up was a mixture of exposure to endless love rooted in a deep and beautiful culture while the sounds of domestic abuse and consistent public violence casually acted the baseline of the soundtrack to my life.

When I was 17 and a new media producer at my highschool news media program they asked us for help with a community event.

It was a pop up event with local business owners from the entire coastline gathering at one beach for one weekend a year and unfortunately in years prior gang violence and riots were breaking out once it started to get dark and it was beginning to be a big problem.

It was change the behavior of the crowd or cancel the festival.

That summer myself and a few other teenage and young adults took on the challenge.

We hiked with our gear up lush green mountains and protected our cameras best we could from the salty water as we rode on boats at sea. We interviewed bankers and farmers and everyone in between. We made a piece to play right at sunset before it got dark to connect our community together.

To remind everyone that we were more similar than we were different.

And with four minutes and six seconds – we saved the festival.
There were no riots that night. Or the next. And the event went on for many years to follow.

We stopped physical violence with intentional media.

We overcame hate with love.

I strongly believe in the power of authentic, enthusiastic storytelling. I do believe it already has, can and will continue to change the world – for the better if I have anything to say about it.

So the mission of my business Aloha Media Projects is to amplify muted voices, share media that motivates movements and diversify the feed through new media projects that support a safe and sustainable world for all species on planet earth and beyond.

I do not think this mission is too audacious. On the contrary I feel honored to not only have been called for such a project here during my human experience but also to be resourced, experienced and supported enough to actually do it.

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.

My name is Jupiter F. Stone, my pronouns are they/them and I identify as a international islander with an intergalactic mission.

The industry that I serve through is media and entertainment. I have a business called Aloha Media Projects where we produce sustainable, evergreen & interactive media for clients.

We produce URL and IRL events that result in hybrid media experiences for audiences who are intentionally and consciously consuming content in order to develop and grow themselves as well as a better world.

This can look like panel coverage at a convention, designing new graphic templates, writing scripts, developing podcasts, producing live interview streams, strategy for socials. If it’s new media, we do it or our partners do.

A lot of times my clients have a desire to tell deeper stories online to connect with their true audience and simply don’t he capacity to produce it themselves. I come in as a strategic parter and together we take a look at their entire digital ecosystem to see what media pillars we can build there together to help support their story and build those content funnels out to their offerings, products and services.

What sets us apart is our team. And for two reasons.

One – I have never seen anywhere else what we have in regards to the agency being made up of high performing, well trained experts in traditional media as well as incredibly experienced and influential content creators who literally helped build the landscape of new media.

Two – our founding members are queer, non-binary islanders. Our team is almost entirely queer and very much diverse. We provide a different kind of experience for our clients, our communities and for one another because we are different and that difference is appreciated in a very synergetic way by those who are in our orbit.

I am most proud of the kind of media we have been able to produce. I’ve never felt like we’ve put out anything that I’m ashamed of and wouldn’t stand by. It’s the opposite and that’s really special and important to carry throughout the voyage.

We’re here to #DiversifyTheFeed and what I’d want potential clients / followers / fans who are in alignment with us to know is that we are them. We are them and we built this for us. It’s not just a business or a brand it’s a mindset. It’s a movement.

Yes we provide end-to-end media production services through our network of islanders and island based creatives from all over the world for all over the world but our mission is not only to tell stories sustainably. It’s also to built out sustainable lives and to have our factual stories heard and highlighted on a global scale.

So if you’re an islander or an ally, we’d love to talk story with you.

Have any books or other resources had a big impact on you?

In 2022 I met Heather Lawson-Bradfield who is the founder of The Clover Collective. She has a digital program called The Agency Blueprint and it essentially is my entrepreneurial philosophy! Not only has it been monumental in regards to helping me develop my people, processes, tech and marketing within my agency but it’s also provided me a structure that allows me to scale my business in a matriarchal manner. Which is if anyone is confused astronomically better than the way of the patriarchy.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

This may sound super weird but lately what’s been super rewarding to me as an aspect of my artistry is the genuine knowing that I as a creative been am connected to the creator of all things. Whoever/Whatever that is. So when I write a song or a poem or a script for a story and the absurdness that comes out actually manifests in real life some days, weeks or years later is – so delicious. Nothing and no one can take away my knowing that I am of source and am able to act as a conduit to communicate messages from one plain to another. It’s better than money, views, followers, it’s a connection with source. Artists/creatives are so fortunate to have this.

The only close second is actually drinking a Piña Colada and getting caught in the rain… in Puerto Rico.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://jupiterfstone.com
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/jupiterfstone
• Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/jupiterfstone
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/jupiterstone
• Other: https://instagram.com/alohamediaprojects
  https://alohamediaprojects.com

Image Credits

Valeria Talavera