Jordan the Producer

Jordan the Producer

Jordan Roberts is a Content Creator, Executive Producer, Actor, Director and the CEO at Jordan Roberts and Friends (JRF), a studio that partners with brands, non-profits and top talent to produce socially impactful mainstream movies, media and TV, while generating innovative funding streams and increased awareness for their causes.

Jordan Roberts and Friends’ global mission is to develop compelling entertainment and expand collaborative action with government, business, non-profits and the entertainment industry by forming strategic partnerships and joint initiatives in solving our world’s most urgent challenges, such as: advancing climate change solutions and environmental justice, improving global health and wellness, expanding education innovation and mobility, achieving greater gender and racial equality, promoting financial literacy and incentivizing social responsibility. Jordan Roberts comes from a lineage of Jeanette McDonald and Queen Elizabeth, so it was only a matter of time before she’d take the global stage for creating greater community and harmony!

In 2024 and beyond, Jordan Roberts and Donna Smith will serve as producing partners on an exciting slate of groundbreaking film and television projects. Donna Smith served as President of Production and Post Production at Universal Studios for almost a decade, delivering close to 100 films, including: “Schindler’s List,” “Casino,” “Far and Away,” “Cape Fear,” “Apollo 13,” “Scent of a Woman,” “Liar Liar,” “Babe,” “Jurassic Park,” “Casper,” “Daylight,” “How to Make an American Quilt,” “Fried Green Tomatoes,” “Death Becomes Her,” “The River Wild,” “True Lies,” “The Flintstones,” “In the Name of the Father,” “Back to the Future” trilogy, “Lethal Weapon” and “Born on the Fourth of July.”

“Jordan Roberts has a God-given talent to make people stop and care! Her work with partners Arianna Huffington, Keith Ferrazzi and Peter Guber to create joint initiatives between government, non-profits and large corporations to improve global health and wellness, racial and gender equality, education and social responsibility is truly outstanding.” – Jim Schroer, EP, “In Our Own Backyards” Global Podcast Series & Annual Summit, former CEO/Carlson Marketing, EVP Global Sales & Marketing/Chrysler, CMO Ford & RJRNabisco, Partner/ Booz Allen & author, “Fatal Arrogance.”

Jordan Roberts was the Executive Producer of “White Rabbit,” a feature film exposing how the devastating effects of bullying, parental neglect, mental illness and access to guns leads to the horrific outcome of a high school mass shooting. JRF and its brand partners hosted successful “White Rabbit” release party fundraiser screenings across the U.S., benefiting Variety the Children’s Charity, Bully Busters and Peace Now.

Jordan Roberts is a thought leader who believes in the transformational power of relationships. After spending time as a respected brand advisor to best selling authors, entertainment executives, celebrities, politicians, and company leaders from the Fortune 100, Jordan has created a global community of friends who serve on JRF’s Board of Advisors and/or are subject matter authorities and contributors to the upcoming, “Before I…” series of books, television shows and video podcasts. The mission of the “Before I…” brand is to provide a roadmap for living the greatest version of our lives. Some of the titles at various stages of production include: “Before I Marry You,” “Before I Have a Baby,” “Before I Hire You,” “Before I Go to College,” “Before I Retire,” “Before I Buy a Home,” “Before I Cook for You,” “Before I Take a Photo,” “Before I Travel” and “Before I Have a Party.”

“Jordan’s tenacious spirit and drive brought our business to great new heights, including our management of GM’s cultural transformation. Jordan’s ability to create instant intimacy with others is off the charts, and allowed her to maintain deep and trusted relationships with our Fortune 100 C-Suite clients.” – Keith Ferrazzi, CEO, Ferrazzi Greenlight; former CMO of Starwood Hotels and Deloitte, Producer, “Before I Hire You,” #1 NY Times-Best Selling Author of “Leading Without Authority,” “Who’s Got Your Back” and “Never Eat Alone”

Jordan Roberts and Friends (JRF) is a hub for content, with a broad slate of film, television and media projects at various stage of production, such as:

“Before I Marry You” is a half -hour sitcom about love, commitment, obsession, insecurity and “pre-buyers marital remorse.” We follow JONATHAN and ELIZABETH, who are hopelessly in love, until Elizabeth responds to Jonathan’s proposal with a detailed list of the things he needs to change before she’ll marry him. “Before I Marry You” is a cross between “Mad About You, “Friends” and “I Love Lucy.”

“Last Call for Hope: The Donna Learmont Story,”(a screenplay based on a true story) was written by Jordan Roberts. Last Call for Hope is a journey of genuine human sacrifice and finding home as a Michigan teacher, and mother of three, attempts to rescue ten kids from war-torn Bosnia and Croatia, risking her job, her marriage and her life. To read one page synopsis of Last Call for Hope > [Click Here]

Video of Real-life National News Coverage of Donna Learmont’s rescue mission is on the right side of this page. To view, click on Last Call for Hope.

“My Family Voted for Trump” (MFVT) is a documentary series that will explore how our wedge political issues and broken systems are hijacking the American family. It seems being at vicious political odds with someone you love is an epidemic. MFVT’s goal is to bring our nation and divided families back together during this historic era of discord. MFVT will help answer these important, but complex questions:

• Why is the nation and many of its families so severely divided?
• How do we heal these divisions so we can move forward together in protecting our democracy and solving its common challenges?
• How do we stop arguing identity politics and unify around our common human and cultural values to heal our nation and keep our democracy?

Prominent psychologists, therapists and relationship coaches will work with our conflicted families, providing the framework and tools to begin reconciliation. MFVT’s creator and co-host is Jordan Roberts, a Democrat voter, whose family voted for Trump in both elections. While showing the personal toll of political infighting and divisiveness, MFVT will give viewers, and our families who voted for Trump, an actionable template to begin healing and reconnection, and move towards a brighter future. [A companion MFVT podcast series, funded by brands, is in preparation.]

“In Our Own Backyards” (BACKYARDS) is a hybrid TV/digital series that promises to deliver the greatest dilemma of all-time to a TV audience. Funded by brands, BACKYARDS is an audacious roadmap to community, moving viewers from apathy to action, allowing them to become heroes in their own backyards! Think “American Idol” meets philanthropy on steroids. BACKYARDS is a seven-night television event combined with three live streaming entertainment extravaganzas, pulling together human interest, social outrage, social media, celebrity and philanthropy for an urgent, time- sensitive competition / elimination series. Viewers will be taken on an emotional roller coaster; by the end of each viewing experience, they will be empowered to take an immediate action that will make a difference in America.

The live streaming digital entertainment extravaganza fundraiser will serve as a community builder, showcasing our brand sponsors, the missions of our charity partners and the greatest in entertainment. This live streaming component will act as a giant PSA and commercial for our charity and brand partners, as well as increase the network’s digital subscribers. BACKYARDS’ goal is to bring those in need to the forefront and promote the spirit of giving, ultimately building a deeper, kinder and more trusted community in America. This is a show where viewers will experience the individual heroism that exists in each of us if we only hear the call. [An In Our Own Backyards podcast series is in development.]

INTO SOCIETY is a gripping, hopeful, and emotionally riveting TV coaching series for incarcerated individuals who are soon to be released into society.  Our mission is to change collective consciousness about the incarcerated and the need for prison reform by putting a weekly spotlight on the power of redemption, while providing them a free educational curriculum and a potential pathway to the workplace through our brand and charity partner.  INTO SOCIETY’s goal is to reduce recidivism by providing a full spectrum of customized coaching, beginning four weeks before an inmate’s release and continuing for another six weeks following their re-entry into society.  Participants will learn valuable mindsets and skillsets while engaging in forums geared toward reshaping belief systems, building self-reliance and self-empowerment, and creating relationship action plans for achievement. Through courage, hard work, peer to peer support, and personal triumph, participants will develop vital skills necessary for their successful reentry into society.

“I came up with the concept for “Into Society” after falling asleep to cable news and waking up in the middle of the night to MSNBC’s “Lock Up.” This unfortunate show made the incarcerated look unredeemable, sensationalizing the idea that inmates are unfit to live in society. We have a choice – we can give up on an entire generation of people because they broke the law and continue to build more prisons; OR we can believe in the power of redemption, and demand that prisons become a place where the incarcerated are given a foundation that empowers them to live up to their greatest potential.”  – Jordan Roberts, Creator/EP

“Before I Marry You” (sizzle reel) is a non-scripted television series whose mission is to provide couples considering “getting engaged” with customized coaching and pre-marriage education, so they can make informed choices and conscious decisions as they evaluate the compatibility and strength of their relationship, before deciding whether they should get married. [A companion BIMY podcast series, funded by brands, is in preparation.] 

“Before I Have a Baby” (sizzle reel/ in post-production) is a non-scripted television series whose mission is to provide couples considering parenthood with customized coaching and pre-baby education, so they can make informed choices and conscious decisions as they evaluate the compatibility and strength of their relationship, before making the commitment to have a baby.

[A companion podcast series, funded by brands, is in preparation.] 

Jordan Roberts and Friends will soon be announcing its impressive Board of Advisors! Stay Tuned!