Biography

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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1000′s of Images but What is Vivian Maier Story?

Tweet Vivian Maier, Street Photographer and Nanny Scratching around amongst people’s cast off junk at an auction house in 2007, John Maloof, a real estate agent in Chicago, discovered the boxes of unloved negatives repossessed from a storage unit. His initial stash of negatives from the life of Vivian Maier, that he paid $400 for, [...]

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This will Reveal Your Essence

Tweet Sum Up Your Life in Six Words A Life Story has a theme… All good stories do. Think of someone, anyone and think of the theme that sums them up. The Dalai Lama, Marilyn Monroe, Neil Armstrong, just a few famous people that you would probably have a general thematic opinion of, that you [...]

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Episode 30 : How do I Write My Story? – Get a Blog!

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:43 — 35.7MB) Tweet Get a Blog to Learn How to Creating a Life Story Biography It takes time to produce a Life Story. Along the way there are many distractions. Some are from outside influences of your life, while some are due to the issues with [...]

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Episode 28 : You Can’t Make Someone Tell Their Story

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:33 — 58.8MB) Tweet How to help someone talk about things they don’t want to It’s an oft asked question. How do I get someone to talk and reveal something that they just refuse to talk about? This is not just for us and our desire for [...]

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A Life Story is about experiences – Nothing else

Tweet Your Life is Experiences. “History is one damn thing after another” – Winston Churchill. The life of everyone is a continuous stream of experiences. Some exciting, some dull and many simply mundane. For the greater community it’s the exciting experiences that capture us. These events take us to new places and show us new [...]

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Episode 20 : Record a Life Story then Write a Biography

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (23.0MB) Tweet Recording your stories is the easiest start to writing your Life Story Click to share on Twitter You have an idea to write a biography, of yourself or someone else. You know there are many things to discover, share and get off your chest. Maybe you’ve [...]

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Episode 15 : Personalised Life Story Web Site

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:45 — 45.3MB) Tweet It’s easy to share a Life Story on a Personal Web Site Click to share on Twitter With the developing ease of blogging sites it’s now easy to build your own web site, to share with the world a Life Story, in this [...]

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Record a Life Story then make the Memoir into a Book

Tweet Another form of Life Story evolved simply from the audio you record. Most people today are literate and it’s easy to think that we can take pen to paper and start to create a Life Story but the skill of writing a well structured thought through memoir is something that doesn’t just happen to [...]

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Episode 2 : Why even Bother with an Audio Life Story?

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:53 — 20.4MB) Tweet The reasons you’ve never thought of to record a Life Story Biography Click to share on Twitter These are some of the reasons for using audio as a system for creating a biography in this episode of Create Your Life Story. Text is [...]