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The journey of capturing your family legacy can be fulfilling, healing, and life-giving.

Your family story is worth remembering. 

 

DISCOVER 

Each family legacy project begins with a multi-day, in-person Family Legacy Discovery facilitation process.

PROCESS

Over the course of a couple days, we guide meaningful conversations with your family to uncover your unique legacy story—capturing key moments, values, and milestones.

These sessions may take place in the comfort of your home or at your business. We prepare a set of questions for each 90-minute session—and listen intently to draw out the stories that transformed the family.

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—and doing the work to create the keepsake.

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 capture the story. If the 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 refine and produce your legacy keepsake.

PROCESS

For books, this means finalizing the manuscript through a rigorous editing, design, and proofing process. We also work with your family to identify the right, high quality paper for the finished product.

For videos, it’s all about the post-production process—editing footage, adding narration, and polishing the final product to deliver a lasting legacy keepsake.

RESULT

Our goal is to ensure your keepsake is professional, polished, and ready to be shared with your family, business, or broader audience.

 

DISCOVER 

Each family legacy project begins with a multi-day, in-person Family Legacy Discovery facilitation process.

PROCESS

Over the course of a couple days, we guide meaningful conversations with your family to uncover your unique legacy story—capturing key moments, values, and milestones.

These sessions may take place in the comfort of your home or at your business. We prepare a set of questions for each 90-minute session—and listen intently to draw out the stories that transformed the family.

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—and doing the work to create the keepsake.

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 capture the story. If the 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 refine and produce your legacy keepsake.

PROCESS

For books, this means finalizing the manuscript through a rigorous editing, design, and proofing process. We also work with your family to identify the right, high quality paper for the finished product.

For videos, it’s all about the post-production process—editing footage, adding narration, and polishing the final product to deliver a lasting legacy keepsake.

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, Chairman of the Board, Neuco, Inc.

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.

 

"Journey Sixty6 creates a space where you feel completely at ease to share your story, even the parts you think might not matter. They ask thoughtful, deeply insightful questions that transport you back to key moments in your life—helping you rediscover the emotions, decisions, and perspectives that shaped those events."

Dick and Darlene Muth, Founders, Muth Electric

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. 

You can check out more of our published works here.

FAMILY BUSINESS LEGACY MEMOIR

The founders of Muth Electric, a 55-year-old electrical construction company located in Mitchell, South Dakota, recently transitioned their family business to the second generation. That transition inspired the couple to capture their story. They approached Journey Sixty6 with a simple wish: for future generations to know how exactly Muth Electric got its start—and the values that carried them forward. What came out of the Discovery Phase was the Legacy Blueprint for the final Legacy Keepsake: a 10-chapter book, later titled Wired to Figure It Out. Journey Sixty6 conducted the interviews—three generations of family members, plus business partners and friends—ghostwrote, designed, and published the book. 

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.

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FAMILY BUSINESS STORIES BUILD A LEGACY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

In this interview, Journey Sixty6 co-founders Melissa Parks and Dave Goetz chat about the power of storytelling in building strong family enterprises. They offer a framework for founders and family businesses that will help you capture your family's legacy, shape your company's future, and inspire future generations.

"HOW DO WE TELL OUR FAMILY STORY HONESTLY WHEN PARTS OF IT ARE PAINFUL OR CONTROVERSIAL?"

In this episode of One Generation to Another, Dave and Melissa explore how families can acknowledge conflict honestly without allowing it to define the family’s legacy.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts here.

Listen to the episode on Spotify here.

"WHY IS IT SO HARD TO RELEASE OUR LEGACY KEEPSAKE INTO THE WORLD?"

On this episode of One Generation to Another, Melissa and Dave explore why families struggle to let go of their Keepsake.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts here.

Listen to the episode on Spotify here.

"WHO IS OUR LEGACY KEEPSAKE FOR?"

In this episode of One Generation to Another, Melissa and Dave explore the different audiences a Legacy Keepsake can serve.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts here.

Listen to the episode on Spotify here.

 

CONTACT US

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Phone: 630.248.9129

 

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