Legacy Stories

Let your kids hear the stories that shaped your family.

Let your kids hear the stories that shaped your family.

Let your kids hear the stories that shaped your family.

We sit down with someone you love and record the stories only they can tell, in their own voice.

We sit down with someone you love and record the stories only they can tell, in their own voice.

Let’s preserve their story

“We don’t live forever,
but our stories can.”

“We don’t live forever,
but our stories can.”

“We don’t live forever,
but our stories can.”

For generations, families have gathered around a fire or a kitchen table to tell the stories that shaped them. A Legacy Story gives your family a reason to gather again, and the generations who come after you a chance to hear those stories in the voices of the people who lived them.

“One of GreenLight’s best-kept secrets.”

“One of GreenLight’s best-kept secrets.”

This is our most personal work.

This is our most personal work.

This is our most personal work.

My grandparents were the kind of storytellers who could make you stay at the kitchen table long after dinner was over. I didn’t know, while I was listening, how much of their lives would help me make sense of my own.

I thought there’d be time to record them. There wasn’t. Now I can tell my kids the stories I remember, but I wish they could see their faces, hear their voices, and know what it felt like to sit across the table from them. No one told a story like they did.

— Gavin, Dallas, Texas

An example of our interview style

Brian’s Story

Brian’s Story

Brian’s Story

From his workshop, Brian shares a story in his own words.

From his workshop, Brian shares a story in his own words.

How we preserve their story.

How we preserve their story.

How we preserve their story.

01

Choose someone

Choose someone

Choose someone

Tell us whose story you’d love to preserve. We’ll help you decide where to begin.

Tell us whose story you’d love to preserve. We’ll help you decide where to begin.

02

We sit down with them

We sit down with them

We sit down with them

We guide a relaxed conversation so they can share the memories and moments that shaped their life.

We guide a relaxed conversation so they can share the memories and moments that shaped their life.

03

Share it with your family

Share it with your family

Share it with your family

We turn that conversation into a story your family can watch and come back to for years.

We turn that conversation into a story your family can watch and come back to for years.

Give the gift of forever.

Give the gift of forever.

Give the gift of forever.

Give someone you love a way to keep sharing what life taught them. Imagine your child, years from now, facing something hard and hearing how one of your family’s heroes found a way through. With a Legacy Story, they can see their face and hear them tell it in their own voice.

Give someone you love a way to keep sharing what life taught them. Imagine your child, years from now, facing something hard and hearing how one of your family’s heroes found a way through. With a Legacy Story, they can see their face and hear them tell it in their own voice.

Give a Legacy Story

Tell us who it’s for and when you’d like to give it. We’ll help you arrange the rest.

Community partnerships

Do you work with
older adults?

Do you work with
older adults?

Sometimes you can see someone light up when you ask about a part of their life they haven’t talked about in years. There’s wisdom in those stories that only they can pass on.

Sometimes you can see someone light up when you ask about a part of their life they haven’t talked about in years. There’s wisdom in those stories that only they can pass on.

Partner with GreenLight to help the people you serve tell their stories. We guide the conversation and create a cinematic story they can share with family, or with the wider community if they choose.

Partner with GreenLight to help the people you serve tell their stories. We guide the conversation and create a cinematic story they can share with family, or with the wider community if they choose.

Talk about a partnership ↗

Whose story would you love to preserve?

Whose story would you love to preserve?

Let’s preserve their story

Whose story would you love to preserve?

Let’s preserve their story