An Interview with Your Family: The Complete Guide to Documenting Your Loved Ones' Life Stories

How well do you know your family? Do you know what your parents were passionate about when they were younger? What life lessons did your grandparents learn? Have you heard stories at a family member's funeral you wish you'd known while he or she was alive? Many of us don't know the full history or behind-the-scenes stories of our family members, and we have trouble getting the conversation started.

Author Brandon A. Mudd offers an easy-to-use guide that provides the perfect excuse to talk with your family and uncover their fascinating tales. The result of the hundreds of hours spent interviewing grandparents, parents, siblings, and business clients, An Interview with Your Family, makes asking questions simple. With step-by-step directions included, he covers both formal and informal interviewing, offering advice on the types of questions to ask, methods for recording the information, and tactics for piecing it all together.

Mudd believes everyone has a story worth telling, that laughter and love are the cure to all of life's issues and challenges, and that sharing these amazing tales is the greatest gift of all. The guidance offered in An Interview with Your Family can help you cultivate a deeper understanding of your parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and significant others. It may also help you spend more quality time with your family members and close friends, and learn about their biggest life lessons.

Brandon A. Mudd is an outgoing, fun-loving, glass-half-full motivational speaker, coach, mentor, and sales manager with a memorable laugh and a great love of his family and friends. Interviewing people has come naturally to him since the age of fifteen when he wrote, produced, and starred in a weekly news broadcast at his high school. His natural ability to engage people continued in college, where he had his own college radio program, an ongoing job as a wedding DJ, and a post-college stint as a stand-up comedian.

Mudd has spent over eleven years in TV and Internet advertising, seven years in radio advertising, and a year in print advertising. His happy-go-lucky attitude has allowed him to connect with thousands of people from all walks of life in countless situations. He has figured out that if you ask the right questions in a friendly, genuine, fun-filled way at the right time, people will be more than happy to open up and tell their story.

Mudd is close to his family and loves interviewing them. To him, the best way to honor family is to pass along their love, laughter, and support to everyone he comes into contact with. He believes that everyone has a story worth telling, that laughter and love are the cure to all of life's issues and challenges, and that sharing these amazing tales is the greatest gift of all.