Joline Godfrey

Joline Godfrey is an author, clinical social worker and founder and Chief Creative Officer for The Unexpected Table.

Education

Godfrey is a native of Bangor, Maine, and a graduate of the University of Maine and Boston University, where she received an MSW.

Career

Godfrey began her career as a clinical social worker. She then became an executive of the Polaroid Corporation, where she provided in-house family and therapeutic services to officers and employees. Around 1985, after leaving Polaroid, she launched Odysseum, a creativity training company, which she later sold.
In 1992, an article she wrote for Inc. led her to launch An Income of Her Own, a non-profit offering financial education for girls. Godfrey organized a seminar also titled An Income of Her Own to show girls that business ownership is an option to them as well as familiarize them with basic concepts and language and concepts and provide business role models. In 1994 she began Camp Start Up, a camp for girls ages 13-18 to learn skills needed for business from how to create a company and build a network to playing golf. She later founded Independent Means in 1996 based in Santa Barbara, CA.