Three businesses, one operator.

Hello. I’m Joey Childs. I run three things at once. Joey’s Toy Drive, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit I founded and serve as Executive Director, which puts toys in the hands of Bay Area families every holiday season and operates out of the Silicon Valley Moving & Storage warehouse in San Jose with a seven-plus-person team. Silicon Valley Moving & Storage itself, my family’s thirty-six-year-old moving company, where I run marketing, website, and print collateral. And JC Media (legally Joey Childs Media), the studio you’re on now, which handles photography and marketing for businesses around the Bay Area.

Why three.

The three things aren’t a coincidence. Running a real business, running a real nonprofit, and shooting clients on weekends teach you different parts of the same skill: how owner-operators actually think, what they need from a website that they can’t quite articulate, what kinds of phone-rings and form-fills translate into real revenue versus vanity metrics. Most agency designers have never had to answer the phone at six on a Tuesday because a quote form broke. I have.

The work.

Six production websites shipped on Next.js and Vercel, every one of them embedded live in the portfolio you can click into. Photography on a Sony A6700 plus a DJI drone, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop, delivered as high-resolution files. SEO that actually moves rankings because the technical foundation underneath is right. Project management out of Notion.

How I work.

Systems thinker, think out loud, iterate hard toward precision. I hold very high standards for what ships, including for me. I prefer comma-separated lists to bullet points, specific numbers to vague qualifiers, and plain prose to filler. If something I’m building doesn’t actually solve the problem you brought me, I’ll tell you.