Work with Jo Franco
Jo Franco is a host, filmmaker, multilingual creator, and producer who tells stories across travel, language, culture, and the specific chaos of being human in more than one place.
Brands, networks, and event teams bring her in when a story needs to feel warm, curious, and alive.
She hosts the show. Shapes the conversation. Makes introverts comfortable on camera. And somehow makes the whole thing feel less like content and more like something people actually want to watch.
Branded series, host casting, sponsorships, speaking, or a brand partner with a real point of view: there are a few ways to work together.
A partner for stories that need a real person at the center.
Jo’s work lives at the intersection of travel, language, culture, identity, learning, and creative entrepreneurship.
She has hosted global television, built an audience of over a million people, produced original documentary work, created long-term brand campaigns, and spoken to audiences about what it means to build a life across countries, languages, and versions of yourself.
People often come to Jo because they need a host or creator. They keep coming back because she understands audience and their connection to story.
She knows how to ask the better questions. How to find the human moment in the middle of the production plans. How to make a brand feel present without making the audience feel like they accidentally walked into a pitch meeting.
That’s the sweet spot.
Ways To Work With Jo
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Build a branded series with Jo
For brands that want people to spend real time with their story.
Kontrast Media is Jo’s boutique production studio for brands that want premium digital-native series. This is for the brand team that is tired of making posts that disappear in 24 hours and wants to build something with a longer life: a series people click on by choice, with a story that gives the audience a reason to stay.
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Hire Jo as a Host
For shows that need warmth, curiosity, and someone who can hold the room in person or online.
Jo brings the ease of a creator, the discipline of a filmmaker, and the lived experience of someone who has hosted real shows in real places with real humans who do not always behave according to the call sheet.
She has hosted travel, culture, language, and lifestyle stories for major platforms and production teams, including Netflix’s The World’s Most Amazing Vacation Rentals and National Geographic’s Big Little Italy.
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Partner with Jo on brand campaigns
For brands that naturally fit into Jo’s world.
Jo partners with brands when the product genuinely connects to what she already talks about: language, travel, creativity, learning, storytelling, journaling, productivity, culture, and building a life that feels more intentional. The fit matters.
Brand partnerships can include integrated YouTube segments, dedicated videos, custom ads, paid social creative, newsletter features, community integrations, digital events and workshops, long-term ambassadorships, launch campaigns, creator-led storytelling, and usage rights for paid media.
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Sponsor an original Jo Franco series
For brands that want to support a story with depth.
Jo also creates original series, including Translated, her self-produced docuseries chasing untranslatable words around the world. Travel, language, culture, a little existential spiraling, all in beautiful places.
The right sponsor doesn’t get an ad read. They get written into a story world people already care about.
Think: presented-by billing, episode sponsorship, travel and production support, custom brand segments, BTS and newsletter content, community rollout, paid media cutdowns, shaped around what actually resonates.
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Invite Jo to speak, Host, or Lead a Workshop
For events that want people to leave feeling awake, seen, and ready to do something with their lives.
Jo speaks on language, identity, creativity, and building a life across cultures, in six languages. Her keynotes blend story, practical insight, and an honesty about how hard that path actually is, which is what audiences remember.
She’s a fit for universities, corporate teams, conferences, and retreats looking for a speaker who brings both energy and depth. Formats include keynotes, panels, workshops, and private sessions, shaped to the room.
The goal isn’t to sound impressive. It’s to give people something they can actually use.
Featured Work
The World’s Most Amazing Vacation Rentals
Jo hosted two seasons of the travel series, bringing warmth, humor, and cultural curiosity to homes and stories around the world.
Best proof for: hosting, travel, lifestyle, entertainment
Big Little Italy
Jo hosted culture and travel storytelling for National Geographic, bringing her documentary instinct and on-camera presence to stories shaped around place, heritage, and identity.
Best proof for: hosting, travel, culture, production companies
Translated
Jo’s original travel docuseries about untranslatable words and the people, places, and emotional worlds behind them. Jo funded, produced, hosted, and edited the project herself.
Best proof for: original series, sponsorship, multilingual storytelling
Pimsleur
A long-term brand relationship built around language learning, paid creative, and Jo’s natural authority in the language space.
Best proof for: brand deals, paid creative, language brands
Skyscanner
Travel-led brand storytelling shaped around place, curiosity, and useful discovery.
Best proof for: branded series, travel brands, destination content
Adobe
A natural fit around creative work, content production, and the tools that support modern storytelling.
Best proof for: brand partnerships, creator integrations, creative tools
Preply
A natural fit around language learning, global communication, and Jo’s long-standing relationship with multilingual content.
Best proof for: brand partnerships, language learning, education
Why Partners Work With Jo
She knows how to hold and nurture attention.
Jo has spent over a decade making videos people choose to watch. She understands pacing, emotion, rhythm, and the tiny difference between “technically good” and “I forgot I was watching a branded piece.”
She brings production experience, not only presence.
Jo has worked across television, documentary, creator-led video, and brand production. She understands what has to happen before the camera rolls, while everyone is tired on shoot day, and after the edit starts fighting back.
She can move across cultures and languages.
Language and culture are not a side quest in Jo’s work — they are the foundation. That makes her especially valuable for stories that need nuance, warmth, and a global point of view.
She makes people feel comfortable.
Whether interviewing a stranger, hosting a show, speaking to a room, or carrying a brand message, Jo knows how to make people open up without making the moment feel forced. The best stuff usually happens when people forget they are supposed to be “on.”
She finds and protects the heart of the story.
Jo cares about fit — the brand, the audience, the platform, and the story all need to make sense together. If the partnership is right, the work feels better for everyone.
Who Should Reach Out
Brand teams
Reach out if you want a branded series, sponsored content, custom campaign, product integration, paid social creative, or a longer-term creative partnership.
Production companies and networks
Reach out if you are casting a host for a travel, culture, lifestyle, language, food, education, or human-interest format.
Event organizers
Reach out if you are booking speakers for a conference, company event, school, retreat, panel, or cultural program.
Sponsors and media partners
Reach out if you want to support an original Jo Franco project or explore a deeper storytelling partnership around travel, language, culture, or human connection.
Let’s make global goodness together.
Tell us what you are building, who you want to reach, and why Jo feels like the right person for the story. We will point you toward the best way to work together.