Story Telling

Your Story Tips – Helping You Tell Your Story

20 March 2012

Quick tips for helping you with you storytelling. Now that we have so much content here at Create Your Life Story it’s easy to be overwhelmed when really it should be simple and easy. I’ve started a series of short form tips to help you record your life, one small story at a time using [...]

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Episode 67 : Audio Snapshots of Your Life Story

25 February 2012

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Enhance your skill & confidence while recording your LifeStory. Getting started is often the hardest part of recording a life story and getting started isn’t all the preparation. It’s starting to record audio. Your Audio! A good place to get some motivation is with the free Quick Start Mini-Guide PDF. This useful information will help your overview [...]

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How to Tell Your Story – It doesn’t have to be a Book

18 December 2011

Tell your Life Story in any way you choose. Biographies are normally thought of as being books but that’s wrong. Biographies are stories nothing else and the technology of telling those stories is your decision, maybe a book, maybe something else. Look at all the digital systems that are now available to you and choose [...]

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Interviewing and Story Telling with Ira Glass and Richard Fidler

10 November 2011

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What we can learn from the professionals. I was listening to this episode of Richard Fidler’s wonderful Conversations, interview programme on the ABC and thinking how much of it is relevant to what we’re doing with Life Stories. From Richard’s recent trip to the US we have this interview with Ira Glass, host of the [...]

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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 [...]

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Stunning Memorial to a Fragile Life

8 September 2011

You just have to listen to this! Sometimes it’s not about someone telling their story – but of us telling the story, of what they meant to us. Sometimes we just need to get our thoughts out there and in doing so we manage to capture an essence of who they are/were. Kevin Farkas from the Social [...]

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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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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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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 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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Tell a Story as a Marketing Tool

18 April 2011

We all have something to sell, even if it’s only our opinion on a topic or attention from someone in our life. Maybe we have some product or concept that we need to get across. Here is a radically new product and if you look at the video of the new home brewing technology product [...]

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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 [...]