Interviewing Others to Create Storytelling

How to engage others to tell great stories of techniques to be able to tell stories in your own style.

Questions, Answers and Topics Discussed on Live WebCast

31 August 2011

Coming soon to an internet connection near you 17/18 September 2011 In the latest podcast episode, Storyboard to See Your Whole Life Story, I mentioned that we’ll be having our first opportunity to get together live, to answer questions and discuss aspects of creating a Life Story. Too often we just wonder about things and never consider specific topics. [...]

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Episode 57 : Storyboard to See Your Whole Life Story

29 August 2011
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A simple tool to discover the topics of your Life Story and a different way to share the whole of your life in one view! Today’s episode of Create Your Life Story is full of listener feedback about how their individual projects are developing including a conversation with Paul Harbath about his personal Life Story project and [...]

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Your Grandmother the Nazi Killing War Hero.

19 August 2011

Contradiction creates the interest in a great story. The Australian heroine and most decorated servicewomen of WWII, Nancy Wake, recently  died at he age of 98 in London. This diminutive old lady, once a beautiful young woman, was the Gestapo’s most wanted person with a 5-million-franc price on her head and thought nothing of killing Nazis to aid [...]

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Episode 56 : The Secret – They’ll Telling You Everything

15 August 2011
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Your infatuation will cause them to open up Great storytellers can draw you into their world of interests but most people need someone to be a provocateur to help them express themselves. That’s your role! It’s never an interview but a directed conversation where you keep the conversation on track through engagement. But how to [...]

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Ian’s Podcasting Interview

4 August 2011

Some of Ian’s back story on Podcast² Podcast review site Podcast² is all about letting you know what is out there in the world of podcasting and winnowing out the wheat from the charf. Recently I was interviewed but Andrew about how I got started in podcasting and a bit of the back end story [...]

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5 Ways to Listen Better

4 August 2011

Your number 1 skill to hone – Listening! Sitting and recording someone’s Life Story in a directed conversation has never been an interrogation, that’s more akin to an interview where you question and collect data. To really get to know someone and to connect, the most important thing, is to Listen. Listening is where it [...]

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Episode 55 : 3 Steps to the Stories of Your Philosophy on Life

3 August 2011
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One sentence to sum up your philosophy on life Push, pull… Fight, kick and scratch or just let it be and do as you like, or not! How do you do this thing called your life? If you’ve had the good fortune to raise children you’ll sometimes find yourself sharing your beliefs on life. What [...]

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Life Stories for Genealogists.

30 July 2011

Interview on GeneaBloggers Blog Talk Radio Today I had the opportunity to share with some of the genealogy community on GeneaBloggers BlogTalk Radio the advantages of recording a life story and how that will become part of the history for future generation. If you want to listen to the show I’m on from about 5:00 [...]

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Home Movies Show Your Life

19 July 2011

Home movies from back in the day. For many years one of our uncles would pull out a video camera, hoist it onto his shoulder to video the new baby, bride or birthday. Nowadays we all have a camera in the bag, our pocket or in our phone but once, having film of our lives [...]

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Episode 53 : Silence – Nothing Helps Your Story

13 July 2011
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What is a vase? The container or the space within? Silence is like empty space, it doesn’t seem to be anything. But in actual fact, without the silence, the void, or the margins, the space around things is needed to make sense of the thing. Imagine for a moment walking up to your home, putting [...]

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70 Year Journey Back in Time

7 July 2011

Your own personal Time Machine Imagine for a moment stepping through a door, back in time to the dark days of WWII. What would you see if you could travel in that time machine? How many little things would be the same and how many would have changed? Recently a woman who owned a flat [...]

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Episode 52 : LifeStory Designing Your Life Story

5 July 2011
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LifeStory Designing your life in all the different ways. Once you’ve recorded the audio of the conversations and it’s time to Create Your Life Story, what do you do with all the other wonderful things from you life? Just have a look at what you’ve managed to collect to help you with remembering and flushing [...]

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What Would a Young Mother Teresa Say

2 July 2011

What would the young and old You say about your life? The younger generations are often shocked to find that You, their older relative, was once young. Even those who were there with you, who were also young with you, may have forgotten what you were like. When you were vibrant, strong and beautiful, when [...]

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Ghosts of the Past are Here

27 June 2011

Use the images of the past and put them in modern context. With nearly a hundred years of popular photography and photojournalism we now have some amazing historical images from the past that we can compare with today. And I’ve recently found this photo manipulation method of explaining how things have changed over the years.

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Episode 50 : 5 Historical Timelines of Your Life Story

20 June 2011
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No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.→ You don’t live alone. You live with people in your family, community, culture, country and world. From each of these groups you’ve been impacted by all the events that occur in them. Obviously family occasions [...]

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Episode 49 : Discover the Missing People of Your Autobiography

9 June 2011
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Don’t forget the important insignificant people Too often we look to the things of our life to talk about. The places, adventures, heartache, career even the family but we don’t take the time to consider all the people of our Life Story. A story is not just cold information. As we look into the themes [...]

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