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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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The Power of Voice

11 May 2011

The voice screams of emotion, text only whimpers.
A biography is always more powerful when heard directly using the voice, rather than just the printed words when telling a story of your life. This is particularly important when it comes to events that are significant and poignant.

Maybe it is possible for a skilled author to …

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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 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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Start Your Story. Then Discover What You Know

14 April 2011

While producing the last podcast episode I again had a wondrous experience, but this time it was the strongest that I’ve ever had.

As you know the last episode is all about the importance of listening, a topic I’m quite passionate about and one that I think I have some natural ability with but not …

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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 the distractions of …

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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 your …

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Better Ways to Use a Mouse

11 February 2011

Doing the Obvious – Differently
We often do new things without thinking. If I throw you a ball, a shovel or a pillow you would instantly act with a catch or block as an automatic reaction depending on the situation.

If you were start a new task, especially something that you haven’t done before, how would …

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Episode 26 : Telling Your Story

30 November 2010
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It’s more than just a conversation when you tell a story

Have you ever noticed when you have those very casual conversations that sometimes there is a shift in the way things are mentioned. Instead of it just being a back and forth exchange of thoughts and experiences someone will capture the conversation with …

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Episode 25 : Prompting Your Conversation

24 November 2010
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The prompts of your Life Story are around you.

Prompts, ideas or any of the conversational topics are one of the first things that people seem to struggle with when it comes to recording their biography. What will I mention? I don’t have anything to say… Or maybe, I have so many things to say …

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Episode 24 : Zoom H1 a Perfect Personal Life Story Recorder

17 November 2010
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Add Giant Squid Lapel microphones and the Zoom H1 is just the recorder for all Your Life Story needs.

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The Zoom H1 Handy Portable Digital Recorder from Samson is the ideal recorder for our application of recording personal audio Life Stories. Recently I mentioned about the pending sale of the Zoom …

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6 Ways to Relate to Others

8 September 2010

Update – This was 5, but is now the 6 ways to relate to others due to a new understanding.
How we relate to others is paramount for us to achieve what we desire as an outcome especially as we are when we are recording a Life Story.

I avoid the term ‘Interview’, as it creates …

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Episode 12 : Recording Technique

3 August 2010
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Just before and after you press Record!

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In Episode Twelve of Create Your Life Story we look at what we are going to do in the actual recording process

We have everything ready and it’s time to actually start recording.  You have:

Prepared the person for the recording by telling them about it …

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Episode 11 : Choosing and Creating the Best Recording Location

27 July 2010
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Setting the Location for a Great Audio Recording

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Noise, noise, noise!

The number one bane of my existence in recording audio is finding environments that are suitably relaxing and quiet.  Pleasant environments like cafés are inevitable noisy with coffee grinders and espresso machines, crashing plates and ruckus conversations.  Often with music and …

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Episode 10 : Conversational Interview Technique – Let’s Have a Chat

21 July 2010
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Directed Conversations – What we do when we’re interested in others.

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It’s easy when we’re fascinated with what they have to say.
Are you prepared with all the questions that you’re going to ask and do you have a good expectation of what answers you’re going to get?  Are you there with …

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Samson Zoom H1 the Perfect Personal Recorder

12 July 2010

Back in Episode 5 we were talking about different audio recorders and ways of capturing audio to export to your editing software.  Since then Samson has released a new product to extend it’s range of audio recorders to include what I think is a perfect portable audio recorder for our needs.

Previously Samson have produced …

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