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Your Story

Your story needs to be told. You need to be heard. We help you build a legacy for your children and grandchildren. While your children may have heard some of your stories, it is so much more meaningful for their children to hear the stories in your voice—first hand.

Your Children and Grandchildren want to hear your stories. Let us help you tell those stories.

Let us help you TODAY!

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We believe in working with you to create a family keepsake

We work with your pictures and your stories to create a beautiful book. When there are no pictures to illustrate some of the content, we will purchase images to exemplify the story you tell. And, we always include you in the process. You sign off on the entire project before your book is printed.

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What we believe tells a good story

Note that images are predominately non-professional photos.

Also, please note that we have received expressed permission from our clients to display their stories on our site.

Changes

The right image tells a good story. This image tells a story of a family emigrating from Mexico in 1920. There were 13 people in that car all looking for a new life.

Success

Why is this picture any more important than any other graduation picture? Because it tells the story of the emphasis placed on education in Nellie’s family. As the oldest of ten, it set the tone for her younger siblings.

Looking at the bright side.

Ernesto blew his knee out playing rugby. Not a good thing…but, he met his future wife.

He has a unique way of looking at life’s challenges.

Siblings Acting Spunky

Here we have a brother and sister photo taken by their father at the family vacation cabin.

The sister is feeling sophisticated while her younger brother is playful and adding a bit of humor to the picture. Great combination.

A bygone era

When Gloria arrived in China at 3 years of age, she was given a ride in a rickshaw. Imagine her grandchildren’s surprise when they saw this picture of her.

Options — Something for every budget

Books are hard cover, full color, coffee table style. They come with an audio recording in its organic state. Audio recordings are done in the comfort of your home or location of choice.

5 Days that Changed your Life with Audio

 ‘… You’ll have some good days, you’ll have some bad days. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.’

With this option we delve into significant life changing days. Even the bad days are life changing–-and sometimes for the better. A wonderful way to share with your family how those days changed you.

It includes the following:

  • A meeting is conducted to determine the five life changing days to include in the book.
  • A time is set for a recorded conversational interview. The interview is normally completed within a 1 – 2 hour block of time.
  • From the recording, a transcript is developed.
  • A story is developed from the transcript.
  • The client has the opportunity to review and approve the story content.
  • All images that are print will be digitized. If content needs an image, one will be acquired online.
  • Content will be uploaded to the publisher site.
  • Client will have the opportunity to review the book layout online before submitting for final print.

Your story is recorded
You have a printed book
You have a copy of your recording on a thumb drive

Life Story with Audio

This package is intended for the individual who wants to tell their life story. It includes the following:

  • A meeting is conducted to determine the stories the client wants to share. During this initial meeting a discussion takes place regarding the images that are available for their storybook.
  • A time is set for a recorded conversational interview. The interview is normally completed within a 3 hour block of time.
  • From the recording, a transcript is developed.
  • A story is developed from the transcript.
  • The client has the opportunity to review and approve the story content.
  • All images that are print will be digitized. If content needs an image, one will be acquired online.
  • Content will be uploaded to the publisher site.
  • Client will have the opportunity to review the book online before submitting for final print.

Your story is recorded
You have a printed book
You have a copy of your recording on a thumb drive

Videos are filmed in your home or your location of choice. All videos are fully edited.

Life Story with video

Video placed on thumb drive

Two Options:

  1. Finished product is a 30 minute video. Includes 2 hours of recording and up to 40 images and 3 thumb drive copies.
    Additional cost for book
  2. Finished product is a 60 minute video. Includes 4 hours of recording and up to 80 images and 5 thumb drive copies.

DIY Option

Interested in creating your memory book yourself? An option we offer is to interview your family member, (we find it is sometimes easier for them to tell their story to a stranger), record the interview using audio, and provide you with a transcript. You will receive the audio on a DVD.

If you’d like we can even develop their story for you. All you do is take the content and your pictures and create the book yourself.

Need a speaker for your organization?

I’ll be speaking at the following events:

  • Thursday, April 4: Huntington Beach Lions
  • Tuesday, April 9: CalRTA Los Angeles – Division 12 Area VII
  • Wednesday, May 1, Wilshire Rotary Club of Los Angeles
  • Tuesday, May 21: Tustin Lions

Places I’ve spoken:

  • Paramount Rotary
  • Century City Rotary
  • South Bay Rotary
  • Bellflower Rotary
  • Sherman Oaks Rotary
  • Lakewood Rotary
  • Whittier Lions
  • Downtown Los Angeles Rotary
  • Redondo Beach Rotary
  • Arcadia Lions

Come and join the list!

Simple email me at Judith@StoriWhisperer.com to speak at any venue in the Southern California area.

Testimonials

“Judith Norton has a gift! The level of care & sophistication that is required to compile a person’s story is overwhelming…but Judith has proven her ability to rise and meet the challenge.  I would hope that every person takes the opportunity in their life to capture their story to live on for ever.”

Paul White, Funeral Director, White Emerson Mortuary
 

“Judith came to our Rotary Club of Paramount last summer. We so enjoyed her presentation and the great insight that she gave us in sharing our stories for our children and grandchildren.  Nice to make sure your story is passed on for generations.

Invite her to your club and she’ll do the same for you!”

 

“Judith’s presentation was entertaining and got our club members thinking about how they wanted to be remembered by future generations of their families. She showed how we might do it by linking together several “stories” of important moments or events that changed or shaped our lives. She shared several wonderful examples from clients she had worked with and was able to get several people in the audience to share their own formative moments with the group. We left feeling that creating a mini-biography was a doable project, one that could be both fun and rewarding.”

Robert Hackberger, Program Chair, Redondo Beach Rotary Club

 
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Why it is important to tell your story!

Let us share with your group this simple fact…Why it is important to tell your story!

The first baby boomers are now in their early 70s and should their parents be living they are in the 90s. Once an individual is gone, their story is gone! It’s like losing a family library of information. We delve into what makes an interesting story and why.

Want to develop your own project?

Perhaps you are a DIY type person. You want to do this project on your own. We can help you in a variety of ways to understand how to develop your story.

Designing memory books and video stories is
our thing — we’d love to create one for you!