March 2011

Episode 39 : The Reason They Don’t Listen to Your Life Lessons

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:07 — 51.3MB) Tweet History is philosophy taught by example. How many things have you done and lessons learnt that you could share with others. The challenge is in helping them understand the lesson without them having the same experiences. A wiser way for them to learn [...]

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Interviewing as if they were Your Lover

Tweet Hanging on every word… Remember when you first meet that special person? When everything was bliss and you couldn’t bare to be apart? It didn’t matter what you did, as long as you were together, talking, laughing and loving each other. You would talk for hours wouldn’t you? And listen so intently, hanging on [...]

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Episode 38 : The Wonders of Editing

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:56 — 42.8MB) Tweet Audio editing is easier than you think! Unfortunately there is some fear of editing, especially when you first see editing software but it needn’t be so. In this episode of Create Your Life Story we’ll look at some of simple things that you [...]

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Create Your Life Story Presentation for Local Rotary Club

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Podcast (additional): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:57 — 30.5MB) Tweet What is Create Your Life Story? Occasionally I get a chance to share what Create Your Life Story is all about within my community. Community here refers to the real flesh and blood community rather than my online community through this site [...]

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Episode 37 : Two Systems to Help You Unravel Your Life Story

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:23 — 29.7MB) Tweet Chase a Theme or Flow with the Times We know a Life Story is about an individual’s life and we want to include certain key points but how do we go about tying all the other elements together, to flush out this life, [...]

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The Selfish Reason You’re Recording a Life Story

Tweet Kick Your Motivation to Record Your Life Story If I was to ask you why you want to recording a Life Story, what would be your response? That response is the motivation that helps you to get on with completing a biography but it’s worth taking the time to really consider it and not [...]

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Episode 36 : Secret Interview Techniques the Professionals Don’t Even Know

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:49 — 52.3MB) Tweet Forget what you learnt at school! It’s time to record an interview. But first we need to prepare, know the personality and everything about them – Correct? This is what we’re told. All the professional interviewers say this. University courses say, in order [...]

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Episode 35 : Why You Won’t Record Your Life Story

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (23.2MB) Tweet A Life Story – For most it’s only, a Great Idea! Everyone I tell about Create Your Life Story say what a great idea it is, then something like, ” I wish I had have recorded my Gran, she had so many wonderful experiences in her [...]

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Genealogy is Dead

Tweet There is no future in Genealogy – It’s all about the past There you are poking through the archives. Looking at old documents trying to discover the secret that is the final number to the code to reveal the next layer of your family history. If only you can find this one last piece [...]