69: Sex, Intimacy, and Life Story Books
The Life Story Coach
Karin Jones believes sex and intimacy are a big part of our lives, and she challenges personal historians to gently explore this topic with their storytelling clients.
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68: Audio Life Stories with Gloria Nussbaum of Real to Real, Part 2
The Life Story Coach
Gloria Nussbaum of Real to Real, a personal history company that produces audio projects, talks equipment, prices, and more.
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67: Audio Life Stories with Gloria Nussbaum of Real to Real, Part 1
The Life Story Coach
Personal historian Gloria Nussbaum captures clients' voices and stories on audio recordings. She tells us why it's important and how she does it.
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66: Lisa Kagan of Family Heirloom Arts, Part 2
The Life Story Coach
Lisa Kagan talks about creating illustrated heirloom books for clients, and how other personal historians help her produce her books
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65: Workshops with Lisa Kagan of Family Heirloom Arts
The Life Story Coach
Lisa Kagan's workshops and retreats help people find their creativity, and help them find her personal history services.
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64: Write a Local Column to Market Your Business, with Lisa Lombardi O'Reilly
The Life Story Coach
Lisa Lombard O'Reilly of Your Stories Written joins us for a conversation about personal history. Listen as we discuss:
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63: Lettice Stuart, Part 2
The Life Story Coach
Personal Historian Lettice Stuart on how much her life story books cost, why strangers make better interviewers, more.
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62: Lettice Stuart of Portraits in Words
The Life Story Coach
Long-time Personal Historian Lettice Stuart shares her advice and insight on growing a life story business
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61: Family Legacy Video Founder Steve Pender
The Life Story Coach
Steve Pender of Family Legacy Video talks to The Life Story Coach about helping people create the personal history projects he does best: video biographies.
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60: Starts at 60 Founder Rebecca Wilson
The Life Story Coach
In six short years, Starts at 60 has grown to a platform with a million and a half visitors per month.
info_outline"It's all about the questions you ask." This is advice given by Beth Kephart to memoir writers, but it's just as applicable for those who ghostwrite memoirs. Listen in as we discuss:
- How we can use escalating questions to guide our storytellers to deeper and deeper stories
- How Beth teaches her workshop participants "empathetic imagination" through one-on-one conversations with others
- The gap between a person's spoken voice and their written voice, and how to study the techniques of dialogue in published memoirs
Diction is the atmosphere you create with words."
- Why scenes and rich details are better than a bald recounting of life's events
- Why emotionally resonant themes like "Holidays" or "Food" can lead to rich veins of stories
Juncture Memoir Writing Retreats
Beth also gives us a detailed overview of her intensive 5-day long writing workshops. These aren't your yoga-and-writing-prompts-and wine workshops; at Juncture, participants receive a semester's worth of writing direction, critique, and publication guidance. Want to see for yourself? You can find them here.
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