A Podcast to Show you How to Record Edit and Share Your Life Story

Create Your Life Story is a podcast to show you how to record edit and share your personal life story as an audio biography using text, video and images over the internet so your story lives forever.

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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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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Hindenburg Audio Editor Overview for Your Life Story

30 June 2011
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This is how to edit your Life Story audio in Hindenburg. Your Life Story biography should be all about getting the wonderful stories recorded and shared with family and the world. Everything else should get out the way of that result. For that reason I suggest you use the Zoom H1 Handy Recorder with Giant [...]

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Episode 51 : The Simplest & Best Audio Editor for Your Life Story

29 June 2011
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The best, easiest and simplest audio editor for conversations. Life Stories need little technology to edit but until recently there hasn’t been anything available that did the job to make the spoken word more interesting and engaging. What do you need? Most editing systems aren’t designed for the simplicity that we need for editing Life [...]

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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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Episode 48 : Cost of a Life – Story

30 May 2011
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What is the cost and the benefit of recording a Life Story Value, cost and worth are all interesting terms. Most of the time we associate them with the financial cost of something but when we’re talking of a Life Story it’s important to consider the emotional and physical effort along with any financial cost. [...]

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Episode 47 : Overcoming the Underwhelm

24 May 2011
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The excuses driven by underwhelmed motivation You know that capturing a Life Story in some form is a great idea and maybe even occasionally at 2:30am you have had a little panic attack knowing that you need to get underway, NOW! …But then the moment passes and, well, you just feel a little underwhelmed again. [...]

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Episode 46 : Why You Can’t Afford to Not Use a Blog

16 May 2011
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A life story for your family and the world So you want to produce a life story of someone… Maybe your own story, maybe someone else. And you want to record this life story because there is some information that you feel is worth capturing for posterity. Maybe they were involved in some interesting events [...]

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Episode 45 : A Biography is not a Book

10 May 2011
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Your Life Story can be anything you want. Your auto/biography is only relevant if it’s captured and if it’s consumed by others. So the best system is the one that people are most comfortable with using to create and share your Life Story. A biography is an account of someones life written by someone else. [...]

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Episode 44 : Say More with Nothing

4 May 2011
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Pause to create the space and rhythm of a conversation One of the things that always comes up when you decide to Create Your Life Story is how to deal with the breaks in conversation or the pauses. Sometimes pauses get in the way but often they can scream loud. Do you wait or interrupt, [...]

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Episode 43 : Professional Storytelling Tips for a Real Life Story

29 April 2011
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Get the attention you want with some storytelling skills For all of our lives we tell stories. Stories to get our message across, to help others and to share some entertaining information. We share stories in all parts of our life, the most common being during the most mundane of conversations. But importantly for us [...]

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Episode 42 : Unexpected Surprises from Creating a Life Story

26 April 2011
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You’ll never know what surprises there are until you Create Your Life Story! Here on Create Your Life Story I’m constantly wanting to motivate you to start on your personal Life Story project but I know that there can be several issues with getting underway and we’re all working to resolves those points. What you [...]

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Episode 41 : Listen and They’ll Tell You Everything

13 April 2011
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Genuine listening is the key to their confidence It’s not what they say but the way you listen, that helps people to share the deepest parts of themselves. We often think we listen… but do we? Are we really listening or are we just taking turns to speak? In a recorded conversation we’re away from [...]

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Episode 40 : Saving Your Life – Story

5 April 2011
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Loose it and your story ceases to exist What if you were to loose all those recordings that you’ve worked so hard to produce? All those hours of conversation… gone! As far as future generations are concerned you’d cease to exist. Maybe it’s best to have systems in place so that it doesn’t happen. Recording [...]

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

31 March 2011
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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 is from others rather than make the same mistakes in life as [...]

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