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_outlineMaureen Taylor talks about helping people solve the mysteries of their unidentified photos, a skill we as life story professionals can use to help our clients.
Maureen Taylor's early career as a curator exposed her to lots of photos. But it wasn't until she opened shop as a photo historian that she discovered just how many unidentified photos people have.
Frequent questions she hears:
- Who is in the photo?
- What is happening in the photo?
- Where was the photo taken?
Rachel Rifkin's photo experiment
Rachel Rifkin, a fellow personal historian, posted photos of herself alongside images of her relatives. Donning similar clothing and mimicking the subject in the old photos, she bore a strong resemblance to her relatives—including a bearded man from yesteryear.
Patterns
Change perspective to see the unseen in photos. That's where the big reveals come in.
Not everyone can see faces; not everyone can see details.
Some people suffer from "face-blindness," the inability to differentiate the faces they see. Go here and scroll down to find the quiz, "Are you a super-recognizer?"
Maureen does her detective work on my family photos
Links & Stuff
Visit Maureen's website
View Maureen's photo detective courses