Where did you come from?
Who were your relatives?
What experiences defined your life?
What stories of your past taught you valuable lessons, warmed your heart, or pushed you forward?
What about your business or career? How did it start?
What milestones did you achieve?
Your experiences are part of your family’s history. LifeLessons® helps you preserve those memories and personal stories in your own words.
A lifetime is filled with stories, experiences, lessons, triumphs, challenges, and wisdom. LifeLessons® helps preserve those personal memories and family stories so they can be shared with the people you love today and with future generations.
Family stories can disappear in just a few generations if no one takes the time to preserve them. LifeLessons® gives you a meaningful way to capture the memories, experiences, values, and wisdom that have shaped your life.
Imagine your children, grandchildren, and future generations being able to hear your stories, understand where they came from, and learn the lessons you want them to carry forward.
LifeLessons® is for anyone who wants to preserve their life story, family memories, personal history, and wisdom for the people they love.
It can also be a meaningful gift for a parent, grandparent, spouse, or loved one whose stories deserve to be remembered.
The LifeLessons Program® includes: a preparation journal to inspire your thoughts and prime your memories; a structured video interview to capture your stories and make it easy to speak into your memories; a high-quality professionally shot and edited, documentary-style video file of the interview with your favorite images and video clips if desired. It can also include multiple locations you want to highlight and capture. In addition to the video, we offer a bound personal book with your photographs and annotations.
All you need to bring is your time and your memories. We’ll guide you through the process with thoughtful questions and preparation materials designed to help your stories come naturally.
• You will be coached by an experienced, professional interviewer who knows what to ask and how to ask it for best answers and stories.
• An award-winning professional filmmaker will shoot and edit for high-quality production value.
• You will have the ability to incorporate memorable locations into the presentation.
• Your history is captured in a digital video and hard copy book.
• You will receive special, personal attention and care to your unique needs and requests.
Imagine that you are toward the end of your life looking back. You have secured your will and other estate planning documents, but you realize that the most important things about who you are, what your life was about, and what wisdom you acquired, have never been given to the most important people in your life. This oversight happens every day.
Our founder, Denice Gierach, has been an estate planning attorney for more than 30 years. She has prepared thousands of legal documents while working with many individuals and couples.Yet she always felt there was something missing … capturing the memories and essence of those people. She knew she wanted to help clients and their loved ones keep a deeper connection that could be passed on for generations, so she started the LifeLessons® program.
“Whether you are 30, 45, 60, or 100 years old, you have stories, lessons, and knowledge to share. But these memories and wisdom are usually lost when a person passes on simply because they have never been captured. I have seen the devastation the loss of a loved one creates, and I’ve seen the joy created when their memories are shared and can live on. Now you too can utilize the LifeLessons® program to capture and share the most important wealth that you own: your wisdom and life story.”
Denice Gierach, Founder, LifeLessons® Program
