Story Telling

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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Say Hello via Audio

5 April 2011

Don’t be shy… Say G’Day I know, you feel a little shy and you may not be totally comfortable on the microphone yet but what better way to move forward than to tell your story to someone who understands. I’ve recently installed a SoundCloud easy audio uploader so you can drop me a comment or [...]

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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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Episode 36 : Secret Interview Techniques the Professionals Don’t Even Know

9 March 2011
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Forget what you learnt at school! It’s time to record an interview. But first we need to prepare, know the personality and everything about them – Correct? This is what we’re told. All the professional interviewers say this. University courses say, in order to be able to engage with the interviewee we need to know [...]

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Ask for Help to Record Your Life Story

20 February 2011

Help! Can someone talk to me? So you want to get your Life Story down. You’ve had a good look over Create Your Life Story and understand the rewards of doing this. You have an audio recorder and maybe written a few notes about what you intend to talk about. As yet, you don’t know [...]

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Episode 33 : Don’t have an Amazing Life and Not Tell Us!

15 February 2011
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Don’t you dare take your stories with you! Don’t you dare, not at least consider the importance of someone’s or your own story before you start procrastinating about creating a Life Story project. Our Life Story is something that we take for granted. Maybe we don’t think that we have anything to say and even [...]

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

14 February 2011

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, has [...]

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How to Get Your Life Story Blog at WordPress.com

9 January 2011
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Get your WordPress.com blog with this helpful video The greatest thing about WordPress.com is how easy it is to sign up for an account and have your own Internet publishing tool (similar to a site like this one) in just a few minutes. You will be able to publish and start developing the skills that [...]

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Episode 29 : Stories of Celebrations in Your Life

22 December 2010
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How do you celebrate those special events in your life? End of the year celebrations are the time when we often assemble with family and carry on family and famular traditions that we take for granted but what are the stories of those traditions that we take for granted? There are many events in our [...]

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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 a [...]

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The power of silence.

26 November 2010

Have you ever stopped what you’re doing and waited in silence? We all have those busy lives of things to do, things to say and things to think, never stopping, always onto the next thing almost before we’ve finished the last. No pause, no relief and no silence. Sometimes we even forget what true silence [...]

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A Life Story is about experiences – Nothing else

19 November 2010

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 ways [...]

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Episode 22 : How Do Others Perceive Your Story

16 October 2010
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Your life means something to me, can I record you? Click to share on Twitter The way we perceive ourselves and others has a huge affect on what can come from producing a Life Story. It will be reflected in everything from the initial approach through the recording and the questions asked, eventuating in the [...]

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Episode 21 : Ghost Writing Your Biography

5 October 2010
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Ghost Writing an autobiography – The easy way to write your book. Click to share on Twitter Your Life Story project need not only be about the audio that you’ve taken the time to record and edit, it could also include using that content in writing a book. But do you have the determination and [...]

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Sharing Personal Stories Across Generations.

13 September 2010

Stories that transition multiple generation. I remember clearly talking to my Grandfather before his death in 1981 about the soon returning astronomical event that is Halley’s Comet due in 1986. He remembered it’s last visit to our part of the solar system in 1910 when he was just a boy of 11. He described to [...]

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Episode 15 : Personalised Life Story Web Site

25 August 2010
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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 Episode 15 of Create Your Life Story we’ll look at how simple [...]

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