Today we’d like to introduce you to Erika & Scott Clark.
Hi Erika & Scott, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today.
Erika: For the last 16 years, I have owned and managed The Pod Photography, the premier family portrait studio in LA. A long-time client invited me on a women’s retreat to Sedona, an experience that changed my life – literally. I had an Aura reading that awakened the healer in me, I learned about Reiki, sound healing, and more. I immediately started my own Reiki Master certification, and soon after that, Biofield Tuning (vibrational healing using tuning forks). I began meditating every day and would receive insights and downloads of what my future had in store. As an entrepreneur, I had a vision for a fresh perspective to the healing industry that overlapped with my passion for serving families. As a mom, I saw the kind of place that could serve my family needs, schedules, desire for self-care, and just being together in Community. Those were the seeds for Club Joyful.
Scott: I spent 20+ years in advertising, digital media, and technology – working at various startups, co-founding my own, building teams, managing sales, and business development. I was between jobs when Covid hit, and like a lot of people, found myself reflecting, yearning for something new. I’m a songwriter, musician, artist at heart and dreamed of a way to make that my everyday reality – but I was blocked by fear, financial obligations, and other stories. Searching for my own answers, I started to join Erika on her energetic and spiritual journey when a series of inexplicable things happened to me – a story for another time – that led to my own Spiritual Awakening. At that point, it was clear that I needed to focus on music, art, events, and healing, and I would join together with Erika in manifesting and opening Club Joyful.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Scott: Once we had our general vision for Club Joyful, the physical space manifested itself super-fast. Almost too fast. We had to gut check very quickly and make a large financial commitment for the lease, renovations, furnishings, all of it. Aside from a little flooding here, a break-in theft there, and your classic over-budget over-time renovation, things are actually going pretty smoothly.
Erika: We have way more to go, but now that we are up and running, our challenges are just like any business – brand awareness, promoting events and classes, building community, finding the right partners and practitioners, designing the shop, curating experiences… It’s like a never-ending to-do list that you see expanding in front of your eyes every day. And it’s incredibly rewarding when we see our clients and future members enjoying what we’ve created.
Scott: Yes, and all this while also being parents of a 6 yr. old, and with Erika still co-running The Pod… it’s a lot!
Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Scott: Club Joyful is a new kind of Conscious Community club serving families, kids and adults. We call it a Family Social Club & Wellness Center. A place where parents get self-care, and kids get enrichment, where we come together in Community to feel good, positive, joyful energy. We offer age-appropriate kids enrichment classes such as music, art, and dance; we teach them about chakras, crystals, and meditation… For adults, we offer 1:1 energy healing sessions, sound baths, breathwork, yoga, and more. We have Feel Good Friday social hours and Family Fun Fest events on the weekends, and we run curated private events for Mom’s Night Out, women’s circles, men’s hang, family movie night, etc. The space is also available for private parties, with 3500 sq feet indoors and 1100 sq ft of outdoor space. Plus, on-site parking.
Erika: One thing I’m really passionate about is creating a safe space for parents to talk, bond, and heal. Whether it’s in the traditional ‘Mommy & Me’ class format, or a new age Cacao Ceremony, or just a Saturday hang in the sun – we built Club Joyful to help the modern family find and manifest more joy into their lives.
In terms of your work and the industry, what are some of the changes you are expecting to see over the next five to ten years?
Scott: We think the industry of energy and sound healing is in its infancy and is poised to flourish. What was once, for a long time, considered “woo-woo” and relegated to those who are “spiritual” now has widespread support and backing in the science of quantum theory. Healing through sound and vibrational therapy, the power of meditation, the ability to manifest and attract certain outcomes — these are all modalities and experiences that are becoming undeniably real and effective.
Erika: Our goal with Club Joyful is to help normalize and make these therapies and experiences more accessible, more fun, and more popular. We also see that much of the wellness industry is targeted to and focused on women and on healing trauma. We are all for that, trust me! But wellness is for kids and men, too… for couples together… for families together… And the more we can align within a community of like-minded peers, the more we will all get out of this crazy trip we call life 🙂
Pricing:
- $150-400 for 1:1 energy healing sessions
- $15-35 for classes & event tickets
- $111-222 for practitioner memberships
- Club Joyful Memberships coming soon
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.clubjoyful.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clubjoyful
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557644636539
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/club-joyful-los-angeles
Image Credits
The Pod Photography
