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The Legacy Interview Toolkit

One day, you'll want to hear their voice again.

This is how you make sure you still can.

A step-by-step toolkit for recording your parent's stories, voice and face — the way a documentary filmmaker would. In about four weeks, on the phone in your pocket.

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150+ questionsWorks on any phoneNothing held back for a higher tier

You already know the clock is ticking. That's why you're here.

Maybe it was small. Your mom told a story at dinner you'd never heard, and you realized you don't actually know how she and your dad met. Not the real version. Not in her words.

Or maybe it wasn't small at all. A diagnosis. A fall. A word she reached for and couldn't find.

Either way, something went quiet in you and said: I need to do this before it's too late.

Because there are things only they know. Not the dates and the names — those you can look up. The reason your grandmother left, what your father was actually afraid of, why the family does that odd thing every Christmas. When they go, those go.

So you looked — and here's what you found

Three reasons it hasn't happened yet.

The subscription journal stayed blank.

Tools that mail your parent a weekly question turn memory into homework. So they put it off, the pages stay empty, and the year runs out.

Text throws away the part that matters.

You don't miss your grandmother's words. You miss her voice — the laugh before the punchline, the pause before she said something true.

And underneath it all: you don't know what to ask.

You want a real conversation, not a stiff Q&A. But the moment the phone is recording, everyone freezes.

So you turn it off and promise yourself you'll try again soon.

“Soon” is the most expensive word in this whole thing.

Why we built this

The magic was never the camera. It was the method.

We're Guiding Forward. With roots in documentary filmmaking, we built a platform that helps families capture and preserve their loved one's precious stories.

Years of sitting across from nervous people taught us one thing: a good interviewer can make someone forget they're being recorded, and simply remember out loud, like they're talking to an old friend.

That's a teachable skill. Most families will never hire a film crew — nor should they need to. They already have the important part: a phone in their pocket and love in the room.

So we put everything we know about interviewing into a toolkit any adult child can use. In about four weeks. At the kitchen table.

What you get

Before You Forget — the Legacy Interview Toolkit

Not a course you binge and forget. A guided, week-by-week system that walks you through actually doing it.

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Inside the workbook

Six modules, in the order you'll need them.

Module 1

Start before it's too late

The exact words to bring it up so your parent says yes — instead of “oh, nobody wants to hear about me.”

Module 2

Know exactly what to ask

The six story territories, the follow-up that cracks a memory open, and the full 150+ question bank.

Module 3

Capture it simply

Warm, clear video and audio using the phone you already own. Light, sound, framing, backup.

Module 4

Draw out the real story

How to interview like a filmmaker — listening, silence, and handling tears and tangents with grace.

Module 5

Keep it forever

Label, transcribe, back up and organize it so your family can still find it in thirty years.

Module 6

The practical layer

The warm one-pager that spares your family a scramble. Organizational, not legal advice.

Included — not an upsell

Racing the Clock

For families facing a terminal or dementia diagnosis. What to capture first, and the ten questions to ask if you only get one sitting. We'd never put this behind a higher price.

“My parent will never do it.”

This is the most common thing we hear, and it's exactly why the toolkit exists.

“Turns out my parents can't do their homework either. Bought them a year of prompts. They didn't answer a single question.”

Journals fail because they hand your parent a blank page and leave them alone with it. You run this — in conversation, in the room. Module 1 gets you an enthusiastic yes, and Module 4 is devoted entirely to the guarded, modest, “I'm not interesting” parent.

It works because it's a conversation with someone who loves them, not an assignment.

What it actually looks like

Nothing here is vague.

You're not buying a promise to “tell your story.” You're buying 40 pages across six documents: the core workbook, the 150-question bank, a printable card deck, a fillable companion, and word-for-word scripts for the moments that are hard to say. Here are real pages from it.

The opening page of the Before You Forget core workbook
The Core Workbook — six modules plus the Racing the Clock fast-track.
A workbook page of word-for-word scripts for asking a parent
Word-for-word scripts, including the reluctant-parent playbook.
A spread from the master question bank
The Master Question Bank — 150+ questions across six territories.
A print-and-cut sheet from the 35-question card deck
The card deck, ready to print and cut.

“Isn't this a bit morbid?”

It isn't about death. It's about a life — captured while they're here to enjoy telling it. Families tell us these become the warmest, funniest hours they've spent together in years.

“I'm not techy, and I don't own a camera.”

If you can make a phone call and press record, you're qualified. Module 3 is built entirely around the phone in your pocket. No software to learn, no editing required, nothing to buy.

“I don't have four free weeks.”

The four weeks are gentle — about one relaxed conversation a week. Many families do it over three Sundays. And if you're truly out of runway, Racing the Clock captures what matters most in a single afternoon.

The offer

Everything, for less than a nice dinner out.

There's no higher tier and nothing held back. One price, the whole method.

CA$89
CA$69
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Lifetime access · all future updates included

Our “no regrets” guarantee

Use the whole toolkit for 30 days. Watch the modules, use the question bank, have your first conversation. If it isn't the clearest path you've found to preserving your parent's story, email us and we'll refund every cent — and you keep the free bonuses.

The only thing we can't give back is lost time. Which is exactly why we made this easy to say yes to.

After the toolkit

The toolkit teaches you how. The platform is where it lives.

You don't need it. Module 5 teaches you to store and organize everything yourself, properly, and plenty of families do exactly that.

But if you'd rather not manage an archive for the next thirty years, this is what Guiding Forward does: guided interviews by life chapter, transcripts generated automatically, and the Family Guidance Vault — contacts, documents, final wishes, executor controls, release-after-death instructions, and a section called “things only I know” — kept with the recordings in one private, encrypted place your family can actually reach.

Essential
CA$99/year
  • Basic Family Guidance Vault — contacts, documents, final wishes
  • Up to 5 hours of guided video & audio
  • Thoughtfully guided interview questions
  • Searchable transcripts
  • Beautifully written digital legacy book
  • Share with up to 3 family members
  • AI-powered story highlights
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Complete
CA$199/year
  • Everything in Essential
  • Full Family Guidance Vault — digital access instructions, insurance & financial, executor controls, release-after-death, medical & care, and “things only I know”
  • Unlimited video & audio recordings
  • Unlimited guided questions
  • Premium digital legacy book
  • Unlimited family members
  • Interactive family tree & timeline
  • Future message delivery
  • Scheduled recording reminders

Founding pricing — a limited-time discount for our first families.

Your CA$69 comes off any Lifetime. Buy the toolkit today and it's credited against a one-off plan whenever you're ready — so nothing you spend here is spent twice.

7-day free trial, no credit card required · all prices in Canadian dollars · See full plan details →

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35 questions that get your parent talking.

The warm-up questions we use to get someone past “it was nice, we were happy” and into the real stories. Free, printable, yours to keep — no purchase, no catch.

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While you wait: don't try to use all 35. Pick one, ask it this weekend, then stay quiet and count to five. The real story arrives in the silence.

Questions people ask

What format is it in?

PDFs you download instantly, plus one editable Word document. Read them on any device, or print them. Nothing to install, no login to remember.

Do you use AI to recreate my parent's voice?

Never, and we never will. This is the real person, really speaking. We help you preserve authentic voice and face — we do not simulate, clone or generate a human being. That line is not negotiable for us.

Is my recording private?

Completely — whichever way you keep it. The toolkit is yours to use on your own devices: you record, you keep the files, and nothing passes through us. If you later choose to keep those recordings in the Guiding Forward platform instead, they're encrypted and stored in your own private vault, visible to you and only the people you explicitly share them with. Either way, we never sell your memories, never train anything on them, and never simulate a voice or a face.

Is any of this legal or financial advice?

No. It's a storytelling and memory-keeping toolkit. The “Everything My Family Needs” page is an organizational helper, not legal, financial or medical guidance — for those, please speak to a qualified professional.

Can I give it as a gift?

Yes, and many people do. It may be the most meaningful thing you give anyone this year.

What if my parent has dementia, or we're short on time?

Go straight to Racing the Clock. It's included in the base toolkit — condensed for families who don't have four weeks, with the ten questions to ask if you may only get one sitting.

There will be a day you'd give anything to hear one more story.

You can't stop that day coming. But you can decide, today, that when it does — you'll have their voice.

Not “someday.” This weekend. One conversation.

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