What is StoryBonds?

Fun, Inspirational Bonding Platform

It systematically prompts you to recall wonderful memories and deeply bond with your loved ones by sharing your stories with them.

Wisdom Wizard™

Curate hard-earned life lessons and insights from a lifetime of experiences that have shaped you into being uniquely you.

Gain clarity and a greater sense of meaning, value, purpose and direction in your own life.

What wisdom is waiting to be discovered?

Guides You

StoryBonds prompts and guides you to easily remember and tell all of your meaningful stories that you've never thought to tell!

Values Revealer™

Use the StoryBonds Values Revealer™ guided process to reveal your and your family's values and ensure that they are passed on to future generations.

Articulate your values and hopes for the future.

What are your important core values?

Incredible Insights

StoryBonds reveals insightful nuggets embedded in each story and lets you privately share those stories and insights with the people you choose.

Generosity Generator™

Instead of just "giving for the sake of giving", align your passions and values for the most rewarding personal gratification.

Give your time, talents and resources in ways in which you are personally and emotionally invested.

How can you give with intense gratification?

What is StoryBonds?

StoryBonds is a fun and inspirational platform

that prompts you to recall wonderful memories

StoryBonds guides you to easily remember and tell

all of your truly meaningful stories

that you've never thought to tell

StoryBonds reveals insights embedded in each story

and lets you privately share those stories and insights

with the people you choose

What is StoryBonds?

Inspirational App

Storytelling

Story Sharing

What is StoryBonds?

StoryBonds is a fun and inspirational platform

that prompts you to recall wonderful memories

StoryBonds guides you to easily remember and tell

all of your truly meaningful stories

that you've never thought to tell

StoryBonds reveals insights embedded in each story

and lets you privately share those stories and insights

with the people you choose

It's like Ancestry.com meets Facebook
for private family storytelling!

Ashley J.

How does StoryBonds work?

Get a
Prompt

You will get personalized StoryStarter™ prompts from our library of hundreds of meaningful story topics and questions you've never thought to ask delivered to you when and how (via email, text, and/or postal mail) you want them.
Each prompt is carefully curated to trigger a meaningful memory.
A treasure trove of meaningful memories will come flooding back to you!

Tell a
Story

You are guided to easily record well-crafted video, audio or text stories with expert guidance and coaching. Choose from suggested words, phrases and even scripted templates for entire stories.
You will tell wonderful stories you would never think to tell.
You will discover embedded meaningful insights like life lessons, wisdom, values and generosity.

Share the
Story

Privately share your saved story with chosen loved ones. Choose whether to share it immediately, at a scheduled future time, or on an unknown future milestone date like a wedding, child-birth or after your death.
Easily control who can see each of your private stories.
Have tons of priceless fun reminiscing with your loved ones!

INTER-GENERATIONAL CONNECTION CREATES RESILIENCY

Children who have an inter-generational connection and know family stories and values are 6 times more resilient and much better prepared to handle life's ups and downs. They know they belong to something bigger than themselves.

Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL)

MORAL DECLINE?

80% of Americans see moral decline. Conservatives = 77% Moderates = 86% Liberals = 71%

Gallup Poll

FAMILIES ARE DISCONNECTED NOW

75 years ago, grandparents and grandkids lived down the street from each other. In our modern, global economy families are now splintered and living farther and farther apart from each other.

INTER-GENERATIONAL CONNECTION & MORALS

There is a connection between loss of our 'inter-generational self' and moral decline.

WE MUST INTERNALIZE VALUES

To live successful lives, as human beings we must internalize certain values, such as integrity, work ethic, respect for others and faith.

STORIES & VALUES AREN’T SHARED ANYMORE

Since World War II, children went to college, got jobs with large companies and moved away. Now children don't see grandparents often and meaningful stories and values aren't shared.

FAMILY IS YOUR TRUE LEGACY

The truest, purest and most sustainable type of legacy we each have is our family. So building a strong family tree is critically important.

STORYTELLING IS A GENERATIONAL GATEKEEPER

Storytelling is how culture, values and life lessons were passed on for most of human history. Stories help us connect with our unrealized potential for greatness.

HEIRLOOMS ARE POWERFUL VALUE TRANSMITTERS

Throughout history, telling the stories of what heirlooms and artifacts represent to us has been used as a powerful tool to reinforce important values and traditions.

SOCIETY NEEDS MEMORIES

"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future."

Elie Wiesel

IMPORTANCE OF TRADITIONS HAS BEEN DIMINISHED

Modern American culture has diminished the importance and value of traditions, rituals and ceremonies. These shared experiences reinforce important values at the deepest emotional level.

TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF GENEROSITY

Instilling a mindset of helping others and away from self-focused thought and action has a transformative power fostering growth of positive values and virtues.

OSCILLATING FAMILY NARRATIVE CREATES HAPPINESS

If you want a happier family that will thrive for many generations to come, create, refine and retell the story of your family’s positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones.

Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL)

STORIES PROVIDE SENSE OF IDENTITY

Family stories provide a sense of identity through time and help children understand who they are in the world.

Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL)

PROFOUND BENEFITS OF STORIES

Those age 50+ have a new appreciation for the courage, strength, wisdom and hope found in family stories.

American Legacies Pulse Study

IMPORTANCE OF STORIES TO LEGACIES

86% of baby boomers rated family stories as the most important aspect of their legacy. Only 9% rated financial inheritance as most important.

American Legacies Pulse Study

WHAT DOES SUCCESS MEAN

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting, in the trying, not the triumph."

Zig Ziglar

WE MUST EXAMINE LIFE

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Socrates

GREATEST LESSONS COME FROM EVERYDAY LIFE

“We often learn the greatest lessons in simple and everyday ways.”

Pearl S. Buck

WISDOM IS THE FOOD FOR OLD AGE

“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.”

Leonardo Da Vinci

WISDOM FROM CHILDHOOD

“Anybody who has survived their childhood has enough information about life to last them the rest of their days.”

Flannery O’Connor

HOPE FROM REFLECTION & STORYTELLING

Engaging in life reflection and storytelling during difficult times results in greater resiliency and hope.

STORIES GUIDE A PURPOSEFUL AND INTENTIONAL LIFE

Understanding our stories, values and passions helps us live our lives with greater purpose and intent.

KNOW THAT YOUR LIFE MATTERS

We all wish to feel that our lives mattered, that we made a difference while we were here, that we leave this world with few or no regrets, and that we will be remembered favorably.

STORYTELLING IS STRONGEST CONNECTION

We're all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn't a stronger connection between people than storytelling.

Jimmy Neil Smith

HUMANS ARE A STORY

Human beings are a story; they are living a story and anyone open to this story is living a part - perhaps all - of themselves.

P.L. Travers

WE ALL HAVE A STORY TO TELL

To be a person is to have a story to tell...Within each of us there is a tribe with a complete cycle of legends and dances, songs to be sung.

Sam Keen

STORY IS A UNIQUE COMMUNICATOR

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way.

Flannery O'Connor

STORIES GIVE LIFE MEANING

The stories that people tell are the container that holds their world together and gives meaning to their lives.

Andrew Ramer

NO SUBSTITUTE FOR STORIES

There is no substitute...for the story told aloud..for the living gesture that interprets human understanding.

D.M. Dooling

YOU STORIES WILL ENDURE YOU

Tell your tales; make them true. If they endure, so will you.

James Keller

STORYTELLING IS ESSENTIAL TO HUMANITY

The sine qua non of storytelling is human mutuality, human connection, and the wish for that. When people lose those things, they lose themselves.

Robert Coles

GOOD STORIES PUT NEW LIFE IN US

A good story has the same effect on me that I suppose a good drink of whiskey has on an old toper - it puts new life in me.

Abraham Lincoln

STORIES EMPOWER US, RENEW US AND INSPIRE CHANGE

Whenever stories are told, stillness falls. We cease our restless frittering. During these times of concentrated devotion to alternative realms we may reconnect with the power of creation. Through such resting we are renewed. Renewal inspires the courage to change.

Alida Gersie

TALES ARE TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING OUR JOURNEY

The tales we cherish...are tools for making sense of our journey.

Dan Yashinsky

STORIES SOW REWARDS FOR LISTENERS

To speak is to sow; to listen is to reap.

Turkish Proverb

STORY MAKES LIFE MEANINGFUL

A life becomes meaningful when one sees himself or herself as an actor within the context of a story.

George Howard

STORIES TEACH US HOW WE PERCEIVE AND WHY WE WONDER

Stories knit together the realities of past and future, of dreamed and intended moments. They teach us how we perceive and why we wonder.

Joan Halifax

WE HAVE AN INBUILT NEED TO COMMUNICATE VIA STORIES

Storytelling has been called the oldest and newest of arts. Human beings seem to have an inbuilt need to structure their world and to communicate their feelings and experiences through storying.

Ellin Greene and George Shannon

WE LIVE AND DIE FOR OUR STORIES

Man is the storytelling animal par excellence. We live for, and die for, our stories.

George Gerbner

DEEPEST TRUTHS ARE IN SIMPLE STORIES

The deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

Anthony de Mello

STORY MAKES SOUL SPEAK

In a constant process of creation and recreation, one transforms the other: story makes soul, and soul speaks in story.

Deena Metzger

STORIES HEAL US

Stories heal because we become whole through them. In the process of...discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden.

Deena Metzger

WE MUST TELL AND HEAR STORIES

The present is only a moment and the past is one long story. Those who don't tell stories and don't hear stories live only for the moment, and that isn't enough.

I.B. Singer

TELLING STORIES OF EXPERIENCES BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO THEM

Telling someone about your experience breathes new life into it, moving it out of the inchoate swirl of unconsciousness into reality. It takes on form, and allows us to examine it from all sides.

Mandy Aftel

WE’RE MADE OF STORIES

Some people think we're made of flesh and blood and bones. Scientists say we're made of atoms. But I think we're made of stories. When we die, that's what people remember, the stories of our lives and the stories that we told.

Ruth Stotter

WE ARE NATURAL BORN STORYTELLERS

Inside each of us is a natural-born storyteller, waiting to be released.

Robin Moore

3 ESSENTIALS TO A GOOD STORY

There are just three essentials to a good story: humanity, a point, and the storyteller.

J. Frank Dobie

ALL OF US HAVE DISCOVERED LIFE SECRETS

Storytelling is where we share what we've discovered, all of us have discovered a little secret about life.

Michael Cotter

STORIES HAVE BEEN TRUE SOURCE OF EDUCATION

In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education. They have taught me humor, compassion, and courage.

Holly Near

STORIES BOND PEOPLE

[F]amilies are united more by mutual stories - of love and pain and adventure - than by biology. "Do you remember when..." bonds people together far more than shared chromosomes. Stories are thicker than blood.

Daniel Taylor

STORIES HELP KIDS FIGURE OUT HOW THEY FIT IN

Hearing and telling stories about their own family and heritage helps kids figure out how they fit in - at home and in the world.

Holly George-Warren

YOU KIDS WILL SENSE THEIR WORTHINESS FROM YOUR LOVING STORIES

By hearing the emblematic tales that spring from your heart and your love, your child will sense his or her own worthy being in your eyes, and perhaps sense a worthiness in the broader sweep of the human race.

Chase Collins

STORIES SUM UP OUR BELIEFS AND PRINCIPLES

Without preaching or moralizing, stories sum up our beliefs and principles. And there's no better way to communicate your family's values - whatever they may be - than to create and tell tales to your children.

Chase Collins

LEGACY WOVEN INTO OTHERS LIVES

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others"

Pericles, General of Athens

LEGACY OF HEROES

"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."

Benjamin Disraeli

LEGACY OF REMEMBRANCES

"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of other and the stories they share about you."

Shannon L. Alder

STORIES TELL US WHO WE ARE

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.”

Sue Monk Kidd, Author of The Secret Life of Bees

THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD

“Our most treasured family heirlooms are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.”

William Faulkner

RITUAL NURTURES

“We not only nurture our sacred relationships through ritual, but we are nurtured by them as well. In ritual, we move, and we are moved.”

Alison Leigh Lilly

STORYTELLING GIVES US SO MUCH

“Storytelling gives us love and courage for life ... storytelling puts us in touch with strengths we may have forgotten, with wisdom that has failed or disappeared, and with hopes that have fallen into darkness.”

Nancy Mellon, author of Storytelling & the Art of Imagination

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Are Your Loved Ones Disconnected?

Are their heads buried in their phones?
Are their lives too busy?
Are some relationships strained or broken?
Are you slowly becoming strangers to each other?
Are there things you'd like to say to a loved one that you don't want to say face-to-face?

Do you rarely see all of your loved ones?
Do you have too much clutter in your life?
Would you like more peace and harmony in your family?
Are your parents, grandparents or relatives a bit of a mystery to you?
Are you physically apart from your loved ones?

Stop losing treasured stories. Deeply bond with loved ones!

Do you want your family to stop losing treasured stories and deeply bond with each other?

#BeTheFamilyHero

StoryBonds will help you

Tell Stories

The Power of Storytelling

Telling stories of your unique experiences, life lessons, and nuggets of wisdom will give you life affirmation and a greater sense of meaning, purpose, value and direction in your own life. It will also deepen your bonds with your loved ones in dramatic ways!

Share Stories

The Power of Story Sharing

Sharing your stories with loved ones will create deep, lasting bonds with them. And passing all of it on to future generations will have a profound impact on them too. Family stories help all of us connect with our sense of our "multi-generational self" to better understand who we are and where we came from.

Transmit Family Narrative

The Power of an Oscillating Family Narrative

Studies have proven that you will dramatically improve your children's and their children's chances of succeeding in life by exposing them to your family's oscillating family narrative of struggles and successes. Our story prompts are specifically designed to guide you through reminiscing about all of the seven different types of family stories that have been proven to be so important to share.

Model Behavior

The Power of Behavior Modeling

You will model the behavior of your children and future generations by helping shape their values and beliefs. Your curated stories will connect your loved ones to their important family history, traditions and culture, give them guidance to navigate the ups and downs of their journey through life, inspire them to do good, and bring greater meaning and purpose to their lives.

Get Life Affirmation • Discover Purpose • Gain Direction

StoryBonds helps in so many ways

Pass On
Stories

Pass On Stories

Securely preserve your treasured stories and legends and privately share them with the loved ones that you want to see them.

Transmit Values & Beliefs

Glean wisdom and effectively teach it experientially from the memorable, teachable moments that shape your values and belief system.

Instill Family Harmony

Resolve conflicts. Foster peace. Bond family closely for generations.

Remember Loved Ones Well

Be remembered well. Connect the generations. Meaningful stories, experiences, wisdom, values and generosity to enlighten and guide generations.

Discover Insightful Wisdom

Vividly recount moments that shaped your life, discover insightful pearls of wisdom from them and share them to positively shape the lives of loved ones.

Reveal Family Values

Your values aren't chosen, they're revealed in your stories.

Simplify Life

Stories from loved ones provide insights that help us understand life's complexities with guidance and direction from relatable experience and wisdom.

Teach Life Lessons

Don't let your hard-earned life lessons be lost forever. Help loved ones avoid making the same mistakes you made.

Continue Family Traditions

Ensure that meaningful traditions and rituals that impart important family values and beliefs are carried on and aren't lost forever.

Preserve Treasured Memories

Curate and preserve meaningful photos, videos, audios, and writings for life's moments that matter most.

Understand Each Other

Be understood by loved ones...and understand them. Gain deep, insightful understandings of why everyone is the way they are and why they do the things they do.

Resolve Conflict / Mend Relationships

Resolve conflicts and mend relationships for long-term harmony with proven communication strategies.

Make Conversations Easier

ConvoStarters give you quick and easy ideas to conversation topics when things get quiet and awkward or you just want to find a good, new topic to talk about.

Cultivate Generosity

Align your passions and values with your generosity. Make a difference with an action plan that engages and deeply bonds loved ones.

Unify Family

Fun, transformative ways to brand your family by collaboratively curating your core values. Create a family mission statement, purpose poster, belief board, family crest and taglines to transmit values and create a strong family identity, purpose and unity.

We don't just care about storytelling.

We care about you and your loved ones.

StoryBonds is great for organizations too

Communities

Businesses

If you work with people, your organization needs StoryBonds

Make a transformative impact on loved ones and humanity

What makes StoryBonds so worthwhile?

Systematic Process

StoryBonds' purposeful design, wealth of content, guided process, and expert coaching empower you and your loved ones to systematically curate, share and preserve meaningful, well-written stories that create deep bonds and positively impact loved ones for generations.

Story Curation

StoryBonds' prompts, guidance and curation process helps you stop losing your treasured stories, hard-earned life lessons, wisdom, values, generosity, beliefs and traditions with proven processes.

The Transformative Impact

how can you measure success?

How can you know if you and your family are doing a great job of bonding with loved ones in ways that will have a positive impact now and for generations? StoryBonds will show you how.

impact of passing on treasures

Innovative research has proven how important and impactful it is to pass on our treasured stories, life lessons, wisdom, values, generosity, beliefs and traditions.

families are transformed

Following a well-designed, systematic process of curating, preserving and sharing your treasured stories with loved ones can truly transform lives and families in incredible new ways.

A rich life is not measured by monetary or material wealth

What StoryBonders are saying

The introspective questions along with the coaching make it easy to deeply bond with your family in transformative ways that you would never know how to do without StoryBonds!

Mandy J.

Granddaughter

We don't go to school to learn how to be a parent. StoryBonds easily guides and teaches me to say and do the truly meaningful things for my kids to equip them for life in ways that I never knew how to do!

Stacy M.

Mom

I'm learning so many things about my grandparents that I never knew. I have so much more to talk to them about now. I love it!

Quintin A.

Grandson

I am gaining so much clarity about myself and about my parents, brothers and sisters. It's truly inspirational and amazing how StoryBonds is bringing our family so close together!

John T.

Son

There's value in what you've earned,
but priceless value in what you've learned

Frequently asked questions

How did the idea for StoryBonds come about?

As a tax and estate planning lawyer, our founder Teddy had an epiphany that we have no systematic means of nurturing, growing, preserving, and passing on our human wealth like we do for our financial wealth. So Teddy set out on a mission to change that. After years of passionate research and development, the concept and framework for StoryBonds was born.

Are my personal stories private and secure?

Yes! All of your stories are secure and only accessible by you until you choose to share them with others. You can choose each person who can read each story on a person-by-person and story-by-story basis. And you can revoke anyone’s rights to read any story at any time. You’re in complete control of who can read each and every one of your stories.

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THE INTERCONNECTION OF
VALUES, WISDOM & GENEROSITY

StoryBonds will guide you to clarify these three interconnected pathways.

Discover
Wisdom

Discover insightful nuggets of wisdom and life lessons embedded in your stories.

Wisdom Wizard™

Curate hard-earned life lessons and insights from a lifetime of experiences that have shaped you into being uniquely you.

Gain clarity and a greater sense of meaning, value, purpose and direction in your own life.
What wisdom is waiting to be discovered?

Reveal
Values

Your values aren’t selected from a list. You don’t choose your values. Your values are instilled in you and they are revealed in your stories.

Values Revealer™

Use the StoryBonds Values Revealer™ guided process to reveal your and your family's values and ensure that they are passed on to future generations.

Articulate your values and hopes for the future.
What are your important core values?

Generate
Generosity

Align your generosity with your passions, values and wisdom. Discover how to give with intense gratification.

Generosity Generator™

Instead of just "giving for the sake of giving", align your passions and values for the most rewarding personal gratification.

Give your time, talents and resources in ways in which you are personally and emotionally invested.
How can you give with intense gratification?

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gift storybonds

Empower your loved ones to reach their most wonderful, loving potential

Reminisce ∙ Discover ∙ Bond

What is StoryBonds?

Fun, Inspirational Bonding Platform

Wisdom Wizard™

Guides You

Values Revealer™

Incredible Insights

Generosity Generator™

What is StoryBonds?

What is StoryBonds?

Inspirational App

Storytelling

Story Sharing

What is StoryBonds?

How does StoryBonds work?

Get a Prompt

Tell a Story

Share the Story

publish keepsake books!

Do you want to be remembered well forever by generations of family?

#BeRememberedWell

Are Your Loved Ones Disconnected?

Stop losing treasured stories. Deeply bond with loved ones!

Do you want your family to stop losing treasured stories and deeply bond with each other?

#BeTheFamilyHero

StoryBonds will help you

Tell Stories

The Power of Storytelling

Share Stories

The Power of Story Sharing

Transmit Family Narrative

The Power of an Oscillating Family Narrative

Model Behavior

The Power of Behavior Modeling

Get Life Affirmation • Discover Purpose • Gain Direction