To embark on the journey of creating your family legacy keepsake is akin to a cross-country road trip. Let us be your trip advisors.
DISCOVER YOUR
FAMILY LEGACY
This is a short consultative project that can be done as part of a family weekend retreat or as a stand-alone consultative engagement. We facilitate a legacy or history conversation with your family. These early conversations include identifying the purpose of the project and preparing the family leader who will oversee the project.
In addition, we assist the family in evaluating who the project is for and what creative forms the project might take. At the end of this phase you'll have a clear idea of which format (or combination of formats) your family legacy keepsake should take, whether a documentary, memoir, anthology of first-person stories, podcast, or audio/video archive.
CREATE YOUR
FAMILY LEGACY KEEPSAKE
This is the rolling-up-the-old-shirtsleeves phase. Often family archives are scattered among family members in different locations. A first step in this phase is identifying what family legacy assets are actually available and who has what. A second step is identifying who should be interviewed for the project.
Often family members worry that the older generation may pass before their stories get told. We assist your family in conducting the research to identify which story or stories to tell. Ultimately the project's form (a book, a documentary, or an anthology, for example) will shape how the stories are told.
At the end of this phase, your family will have a roadmap for moving forward. If the family decides to write a book, they will end this stage with a provisional outline. If the family decides to produce a documentary, they will end this stage with a provisional script that identifies the key interviews to conduct in the production phase.
"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'S 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, custom documentaries, and heirloom books.
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.
Founder Legacy Memoir
This was the second of three book projects we guided the author on. The author, a founder and CEO of a successful marketing agency, wanted to capture the values that motivated his career and life. Publishing this book was of particular urgency, because he was battling stage-4 cancer. The author enlisted Journey Sixty6 to jumpstart the book, identifying a thesis and structure. And then Journey Sixty6 was hired to ghostwrite and publish the book under the Big Snowy imprint. The entire process was completed within a four-month period. The legacy memoir was offered as a final gift to his friends, families, and colleagues.
PODCAST: THE IMPORTANCE OF CAPTURING YOUR FAMILY 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: WHICH FORM SHOULD YOUR CONTENT TAKE?
Dave and Melissa offer advice on how leaders can best reach their audience, exploring a variety of content formats beyond traditional books. They offer a framework for thought leaders in any field to effectively publish and share their ideas.
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.
