Nica Waters is a teacher and sailor, and started writing memoir through a class. She uses writing to work her way through issues that she is dealing with, but she used her memoir writing class to compile stories about her grandmother. Motivated

24. Illustrating Life

Jul 3rd, 2018 34m 30s

Keith Larson is a freelance cartoonist/illustrator. He started in school, and has been drawing ever since. Inspired by cartoons, he was also encouraged by his teacher to learn to draw. Being a cartoonist means Keith needed to be aware of the is

23 – The Only Way To Do Memoir Wrong Is To Not Do It At All

Jun 26th, 2018 43m 25s

As a writing coach, Patricia Charpentier has experience in helping people write their memoirs. She talks about goal-setting and timelines and historical timelines as a way to getting people to look at the span of their entire life to choose wri

22 – I want you to experience what happened: Guided Autobiography Part 3

Jun 19th, 2018 27m 5s

Part 3 is about what it was like for Kjathy Watson to be a participant in a Guided Autobiography class. She not only loved the class, and found the experience to be wonderful, but she has signed up for the 2nd and 3rd classes in the series with

21 – Life story doesn’t need to be written chronologically

Jun 17th, 2018 45m 12s

Episode 21 explores the hidden magic of storycatching with Guided Autobiographer instructor Heidi Thorsen. What happens when you don’t have a computer, have never written before, and join Heidi’s class on guided autobiography? A lot of joy, ref

20- Guided Autobiography: Transformational Group Story Writing

Jun 4th, 2018 47m 16s

Dr Cheryl Svensson introduces us to Guided Autobiography (GAB) a process of writing your life story that is built on life themes and group interaction. GAB was created by Dr James Birren (now deceased). Its not a how to write class. Nobody give

19 – Tips on Digitizing Photos

May 29th, 2018 26m 42s

Peta Roberts talks about digitizing photos, and tips on how to get the best image possible. The topics covered include 1. Analyzing photos 2. Organizing photos – assembling and a naming convention 3. Scanning – file types and quality and metada

18 - Personal Photo Pilgrimages: Organizing Our Digital World

May 22nd, 2018 28m 28s

Today we talk digitizing and organizing images, and why and how to share our special photos. Special guest Cathi Nelson is the founder and CEO of the Association of Personal Photo Organizers which has 1,000 members worldwide to help people with

17- Both a Personal Historian and a Self Published Author

May 14th, 2018 35m 41s

Libby Atwater started out as a journalist, although her childhood was full of memories listening to family stories. She started out as a Personal Historian when asked to record a friend’s life story. Her clients were people who were from all wa

16- A total stranger understands my life

May 8th, 2018 26m 20s

Marcia is in her nineties and honestly dishes on what it was like to tell her life story and have it set out in a book. A big beautiful book. She spent two days with Ellie Kahn Personal Historian, who was featured in Episode 15. Ellie videotape

15 - Life and Death: Decades of Stories and a Lifetime of Experiences

May 1st, 2018 34m 3s

Ellie Kahn has been an oral historian since 1988. She is from the Los Angeles area and has always been interested in life story. Ellie talks about interviewing people who are towards the end of their life, and the cathartic experience it can be

What Shall I Write When I Retire

Apr 23rd, 2018 19m 48s

Phyllis Edwards retired to Pacific Grove in California and looked forward to writing stories of her life. Little did she know that the free memory writing class she attended at the library would get her writing about her new town in a way she n

14- What Shall I Write When I Retire

Apr 23rd, 2018 19m 48s

13- How I Got My Town To Write A Book

Apr 17th, 2018 44m 38s

Patricia Hamilton is owner and CEO of Park Place Publication, and Keepers of our culture imprint. Patricia started writing about personal history when taking journalism in high school. She gravitated into publishing other people’s memoirs after

12- Keep Pushing

Apr 10th, 2018 25m 40s

Sabrena Leroy has faced a lot of adversity in her young life. These adversities included bad parents, violent home life, being a foster kid, plus cerebral palsy and other illnesses. Her twitter name is BlessedPoet and she attributes God as the

12- Keep Pushing

Apr 10th, 2018 25m 40s

11- Songfinch, Singing Your Life Stories

Apr 2nd, 2018 32m 26s

Visit us at Storyical.com to sign up for weekly news and advice delivered to your email. Or just come on over and say hi. We have treat for today’s episode. It in three parts, with three different people being interviewed. All of them are talki

10-Shake those family trees to life with story

Mar 27th, 2018 45m 10s

Linda Coffin is a Personal Historian who has had a long standing interest in family history and genealogy. She got hooked on family history the first time she explored Gettysburg with her mother. Today she talks about how animating our ancestor

9- A Memoirist will make it happen

Mar 19th, 2018 21m 41s

Anne K hired memoirist Nancy Shohet West to write her mother’s memoir. Anne talks about the process, and what it means to her to understand her mother’s chronology and see the pieces fall into place. The memoirist provided a solid structure to

8- Let's Talk about filming Life Story

Mar 12th, 2018 51m 47s

Episode 8 is dual interviews with husband and wife video team Paul English and Alison Crossley. They live in Austinmer near Sydney in Australia. They started out by recording personal life stories and have now branched out into recording busine

7 - Always Room for One More

Mar 6th, 2018 28m 50s

Linda Stambaugh engaged Personal Historian Nancy Shohet West to write the memoirs of her father. The project grew to include her mother, and required many more family interviews than planned. What else wasn’t planned was how Linda’s initial exp

6 - Stories of Stuff and StoryCatcher App Review

Feb 26th, 2018 36m 1s

Martie McNabb is a Personal Historian/ Visual Storyteller, and she takes us on an interesting journey through the story of “things”. Martie tells us how she moved from teaching in New York City to compiling traditional scrapbooks for busy overw

5 -Birthdays and Being Heard

Feb 18th, 2018 40m 17s

Brian Moore is the owner of Moore About You, based out of Syracuse, New York. He speaks about how putting together a video biodocumentary for his wife for her 50th birthday spurred him to his own business as a life story professional. Although

4- I've never forgotten to turn a refrigerator back on

Feb 17th, 2018 38m 29s

Gloria Nussbaum is the owner of Real-to-Reel recording personal stories. Armed with a tape recorder and being experienced in radio, Gloria became a personal historian, working in audio. Audio gives two of the most important things for recording

3- I am who I am

Feb 17th, 2018 51m 17s

This episode is a double interview of an aunt and her niece. I interview Nancy Shohet West, a Memoir Consultant, and Journalist from Connecticut. Nancy tells us all about how she interacts with people to record their stories. Typically her clie