About Jean Joseph
“Don't start your day with the broke pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of your life.”
- Jean Joseph
Jean Joseph is a native New Orleanian. The eldest of 5 children and the mother of two. She graduated in 1973 at the age of 16. She worked as a telecommunications employee as she raised her son and daughter, Ron and MiJah.
Jean Joseph is the founder of Changing Focus Media, LLC as a venue for aspiring actors and playwrights to showcase their talents as well as renting computer and camera equipment. The company expanded to included creating content for film and television.
Before devoting her work full-time to Changing Focus Media, Jean was the proprietor of Ms. Jean’s Famous Corner Courtyard on the outskirts of the New Orleans French Quarter.
She produced T.O.B.A. ReOrganized a play centered the Wicks Pipe Organ she restored in 2010. She later presented Badizums-A Tribute to Erykah Badu in 2014 at the Joy Theatre.
Recently, Jean wrote and created “And Still I Rise” and a documentary entitled #brokenmirrors: I Am Not My Scars-The Jean Joseph Story.
- Jean Joseph before the accident