The journey of capturing your family legacy can be fulfilling, healing, and life-giving.
Your family story is worth remembering.Â
DISCOVERÂ
Each family legacy project begins with a multi-day, in-person Family Legacy Discovery session.
PROCESS
Over the course of multiple days, we facilitate meaningful conversations with your family to uncover your unique legacy story—capturing the moments, values, and milestones that define your journey. These sessions take place in the comfort of your home or business, providing a warm and reflective environment.
RESULT
The goal of these sessions is to bring your family together around a shared vision for your legacy keepsake and to create a customized blueprint that outlines the next steps in preserving your history for generations to come.
CREATE
This is the rolling-up-the-shirtsleeves phase.
PROCESS
We begin by gathering and assessing your family legacy assets—documents, images, and interviews.
We simultaneously begin conducting interviews with the right people to tell the story. If your keepsake is a book, this is where the writing happens over an eight- to twelve-month period. If it’s a documentary, video anthology, or digital timeline, this is when scripts are written and interviews are recorded.
RESULT
At the end of this phase, your family will have a fully developed legacy keepsake ready for the final stage of publishing and/or production.
PRODUCE
This is where everything comes together. In this final phase, we focus on refining and producing your legacy keepsake.
PROCESS
For books, this means finalizing the manuscript through a rigorous editing process as well as designing the book for print.
For videos, it’s about post-production—editing footage, adding narration, and polishing the final product.
RESULT
Our goal is to ensure your keepsake is professional, polished, and ready to be shared with your family, business, or broader audience.
"Journey Sixty6 has been a great partner in this process, understanding our vision and helping us bring it to life. Now that we have the book, I feel better about preserving our family story."
Paul Neustadt, President, Neuco
VIDEO COLLECTION OF A FAMILY BUSINESS'SÂ HISTORY
The CEO of a century-old family business engaged Journey Sixty6 to create a documentary and family legacy book to preserve the family business’s history. After completion of these two projects, the CEO wanted to capture the unused stories from the documentary and share these stories with family members. Journey Sixty6 organized the remaining videos into a chronological anthology. The anthology is broken into 19 thematic stories that capture the business’s struggles, major transitions, and successes while also preserving the family's memories while they still exist in the minds of the living.
OUR LEGACY WORKS
Journey Sixty6 has a long and distinguished history working with families to produce their family legacy keepsakes. Over the years, we've had the privilege of creating keepsakes such as family memoirs and heirloom books.Â
Family Business Legacy Memoir
This project was initiated by the CEO, a third-generation family leader of a century-old family business, who wanted to preserve its family business history. Journey Sixty6 structured, ghostwrote, and published the family legacy book, drawing on in-depth interviews with family members, close friends, and key stakeholders. To ensure a comprehensive portrayal of the family's story, the book presents each chapter from a distinct first-person viewpoint. Journey Sixty6 also produced a complementary documentary. Together, these projects offer a multifaceted exploration of the family's heritage and its business triumphs.
Family Legacy Memoir
Most every successful family has a story arc that includes survival, risk, overcoming, and thriving. The year-long journey to write and publish this family legacy memoir included in-depth interviews with the author, his family, and his business partners. Journey Sixty6 mapped out the writing and publishing process and then implemented the entire project from start to finish, including ghostwriting and publishing the book through our Big Snowy Media imprint.
PODCAST: THE IMPORTANCE OF CAPTURING YOUR FAMILYÂ LEGACY
Melissa and Dave discuss the reasons why family businesses tell their stories, and the many forms that a family legacy keepsake can take. They also cover the time commitment and costs associated with a family legacy keepsake project.
PODCAST: THE POWER OF TELLING YOUR STORY THROUGH WRITING
Melissa and Dave chat about the power of storytelling in writing and what writers need to consider as they begin thinking about sharing their personal experiences.
