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Episode 65 : Talking to Family and Really Hearing their Stories

24 December 2011
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Christmas and a time to connect with family

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Christmas and the holiday time that we have at this time of year, is often about family, catching up and talking about what has been happening over the past year. In this episode of Create Your Life Story I want to urge you …

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WRONG – You’ll Never Guess the Surprises from a Life Story

9 December 2011

Go try and guess, I’ll bet you’ll be wrong!
There are many things that you can prepare for a Life Story. The questions, location, additional information like photos but one thing you can be guaranteed of is, there will be surprises that will astound you.

These surprises could be in just hearing the stories that you …

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Episode 62 : Fear of Your Life Story

2 November 2011
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Are you fearful of telling your story, or just a little shy?

In this episode of Create Your Life Story I want to open a conversation about the reasons for people not wanting to tell their stories, particularly when they say that they are interested.

In recording conversations for Your Story, I’ve noticed several, sometimes contradictory reasons why people avoid wanting …

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Episode 60 : Remember the Stories of Community

5 October 2011
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Remember the groups of people and the stories of shared lives.

We all live in different communities that change over time. Some we leave some change but all are filled with the people who we share our lives with, forming the stories of our lives. What are the stories of your communities through your life?

Look …

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Live Question & Answer Show

17 September 2011

Come and join us on our first live Q&A on Ustream.
 

Everyone is welcome to join the First live broadcast of Create Your Life Story with host Ian Kath.

Live broadcast by Ustream
I mentioned the graphic with links on the images that could be used to generate a linkable PDF. This is the Linkable PDF that …

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Episode 58 : Oral History View of Life Stories

6 September 2011
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Oral History shows the professional methods to a Life Story

Creating your own personal family history, Life Story will utilise some the methods of various different techniques of human communication. In the past we talked about the skills of Storytelling and how to get across the story with the emotional impact that we want. The other discipline …

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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. This is …

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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 the …

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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 engage …

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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 starts, …

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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 minutes …

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Episode 54 : You’ll Never Guess the Surprises from a Life Story

28 July 2011
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What I got from creating a Life Story for my family!

In 2010 I originally record the Life Story of my uncle for entirely selfish reasons only to discover that I could do so much more for others and myself than I could have every imagined.

In 2007 when I started Your Story I decided that I …

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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 near …

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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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