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Family Story Club
Family Story Club is for parents who are never in the photos. Get in the picture with a monthly phone challenge.
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- Pricing
- Not publishedThe price is only shown after clicking through, which is itself a choice.
- Size
- 332 membersBigger than 48% of the hobbies & crafts communities indexed here.
- Format
- 2 paid tiers
- Platform
- Skool
- Category
- Hobbies & Crafts
- Last verified
- 28 October 2026
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- 2 paid tiers: one price for access, another for proximity. Worth copying once you know which members want more of you.
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About Family Story Club
Family Story Club is for parents who are never in the photos. Get in the picture with a monthly phone challenge.
Why you should join: A themed monthly photo challenge built for your child's age, seasonal photo ideas and community discussion, with coaching calls, photo plans and editing kits on the paid tiers, from a family photographer of 23 years. Free to join, with paid tiers for deeper support.
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The one-liner
A Skool photo challenge club that gets parents into the family pictures, one project a month.
What they actually sell
Family Story Club, run by Jess McDaniel, lives on Skool. Its public pitch: "A monthly photo challenge for parents who love photos but are never in them." A free tier sits at the front door, with Premium and VIP upgrades above it. Jess has spent 23 years photographing families. The free tier gives a monthly photo challenge tailored to a child's age, seasonal ideas, gift guides and discussion. Premium adds a monthly coaching call, step-by-step photo guidance, baby and toddler photo plans, a searchable class vault and an editing kit. VIP adds hotseat calls for personal photo feedback, a grandparent legacy project, a holiday card edition, a posing guide and a summer challenge. Upcoming dates for each call are listed on the page. Inside sit 16 courses and a dense module library. A formal money-back promise is not spelled out on the about page.
Who pays and why
Parents who take thousands of photos of their children but appear in almost none. The quiet pain is realising their kids will have few pictures of them together. They join for a monthly themed photo challenge with coaching, photo plans and personal feedback at higher tiers.
Where the members come from
The Skool lander and Jess McDaniel's own teaching appear to be the main acquisition path. Public social links are thin on the about page, so growth reads as community-led rather than a giant media brand. Exact follower counts stay off the about page.
What's holding it back
Three tiers and many bonuses make the page busy, and the core idea of one photo a month risks getting lost in the extras.
Steal this
Build the whole community around one small monthly action that members can finish with a phone.
Would this work in another niche?
Yes for any habit people mean to do but never do, such as family recipes or letter writing. Weak where the action needs specialist kit.
Written 28 October 2026
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