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Send us a textWelcome to another episode of Yappin N Shxt! In today's episode:  Out of Arizona, an AI rendering of a man who was killed in 2021 addressed the courtroom at his killer's sentencing. The AI version appeared in a video created by the victim's family, reading a forgiveness-heavy script that the victim's sister wrote from his POV.Startups like HereAfter AI, SeanceAI, and StoryFile have popped up in recent years to let people speak with deceased loved ones and have them respond to funeral attendees.Yappin N Shxt is a production of Lost Dawgs Media.Listen to us on all of your favorite podcasting apps!Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yappinnshxtpod/

AI tools like StoryFile and HereAfter create interactive avatars of people who've died. You can hear their voice, see their face, and ask them questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Have you ever wished you could capture a memory forever? Heather Maio-Smith and her team have made this reality through thousands of recorded interviews with Holocaust survivors. After working with them to create interactive testimony exhibits, Heather was inspired to develop new technology that not only captures a memory, but allows for the most unlikely of conversations to occur, crossing the boundaries of both time and consequence. Heather's natural curiosity and love of learning have led her and her team to work with the USC Shoah Foundation and Institute of Creative Technologies and thus, StoryFile launched in 2017 with the goal of bringing this technology to everyone with a device, some good lighting, and a story to tell. Heather has come a long way from growing up in a family-owned business to her own company being named the CES 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree. Likewise, StoryFile has evolved as quickly as technology itself has in the past decade, changing the way we communicate with businesses, future generations, and even our past selves! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New digital technologies including AI have started to find a place in the grieving process, sometimes alongside more traditional religious rituals. 'Grief tech' concepts are springing up across the world, aiming to mask the finality of death for those left behind. Nkem Ifejika, who lost his mother three years ago, samples some grief tech products. He meets Stephen Smith, creator of StoryFile, a system which enables him to interact with his late mother almost as if he was interviewing her on video in the here and now. He talks to Japanese media artist Etsuko Ichihara, who has developed a robot that mirrors the physical personality, speech and gestures of a person who has died. And Nkem hears from Justin Harrison, who has been working on recreating the essence of his late mother's personality.

Some of the Vatican's secrets have been revealed in a new book, ”Secretum”, by Massimo Franco. It's in the form of a series of conversations with Archbishop Sergio Pagano, who has worked in the Vatican archive for 45 years. From stories of Vatican intrigue to a letter written in 1530 by English nobles urging Pope Clement VII to grant Henry VIII an annulment so he could marry Anne Boleyn, Massimo Franco tells Edward about some of the gems in the Archive.The Inter Faith Network (IFN) is to close after the government withdrew funding because one of its trustees is associated with the Muslim Council of Britain. Since 1987 the IFN has worked to promote understanding and good relations between people of different faiths. Edward talks to IFN's executive director, Dr Harriet Crabtree and to Zara Mohammed, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain.Increasingly AI is being used to help people maintain a form of relationship after death, to help preserve a legacy or experiences worth remembering. We hear from the AI version of the actor Ed Asner who died in 2021, from Stephen Smith, CEO of StoryFile, who created it and from Dr Nathan Mladin from Theos whose latest report looks at the pros and cons of how AI is being used in the rapidly changing world of grief tech.Producers: Amanda Hancox and James Leesley

In today's episode, we delve into the delicate topics of death, loss, grief, and the emergence of technology aiming to alleviate the pain of losing a loved one. Companies like Replika, StoryFile, and Seance AI are introducing services that enable individuals to converse with AI avatars resembling their departed family members. Meanwhile in India, we explore a growing trend among the youth who are proactively drafting their wills in their late 30s and early 40s. Tune in for more details on this story. Additionally, we also talk about the economic challenges surrounding Indian GI tags in today's episode. Tune in! The Signal Daily is produced in association with IVM.The episode was researched and written by Anup Semwal and Dhruv SharmaEdited by Venkat Ananth Produced by ManaswiniMastered and mixed by Manas and NirvaanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Plus, I chat with Stephen Smith of StoryFile. His tech lets you talk to an AI version of someone you love, even after they're gone. I tell you why Google's new AI search tool is a website builder's worst fear. There's more: decoy numbers to fool scammers and apps listening in. 

Plus, I chat with Stephen Smith of StoryFile. His tech lets you talk to an AI version of someone you love, even after they're gone. I tell you why Google's new AI search tool is a website builder's worst fear. There's more: decoy numbers to fool scammers and apps listening in. 

In this special episode on the Million Dollar Mastermind podcast, we will review the highlights of the recent episode when host Larry Weidel speaks with Heather Smith, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile. They talk about how Heather came up with the concept of making audiovisuals for the next generation to see, and how difficult it was to raise money for the endeavor, given how costly it may be. Heather explains the value of creating audiovisual memorials while you're still living so that your descendants can directly learn about you and your life.

     In this episode of the Road to Growth podcast, we are pleased to introduce you to Heather Smith. As the Chief Visionary Officer, Heather is paving the way for a new generation of storytelling. Heather Smith's love for storytelling was born when she found herself creating Holocaust remembrance exhibits that traveled to Jewish Community Centers across the country and even to the United Nations. She believed the stories of Holocaust survivors were so important to capture for generations to come that she began to reimagine the storytelling experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI). She saw video as the new medium for human interaction long before we even had FaceTime. She knew the next wave of communication was going to be through video. With a passion for the project, Heather set out to create Conversa, the AI engine that drives the StoryFile platform where people can talk to a pre-recorded video as if the individual is there in front of them.   Learn more and connect with Heather Smith by visiting her on   Website : www.storyfile.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storyfile/     Be sure to follow us on Twitter: Twitter.com/to_growth on Facebook: facebook.com/Road2Growth   Subscribe to our podcast across the web: https://www.theenriquezgroup.com/blog Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2Cdmacc iTunes: https://apple.co/2F4zAcn Castbox: http://bit.ly/2F4NfQq Google Play: http://bit.ly/2TxUYQ2 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKnzMRkl-PurAb32mCLCMeA?view_as=subscriber   If you are looking to be a Guest on Podcasts please click below  https://kitcaster.com/rtg/  For any San Diego Real Estate Questions Please Follow Us at web: www.TheEnriquezGroup.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKnzMRkl-PurAb32mCLCMeA or Call : 858 -345 - 7829 Recently reduced properties in San Diego County * Click **** bit.ly/3cbT65C **** Here* ****************************************************************************

You just heard from Heather Smith as she describes the moment where her exhibit built a bridge between past and present. In a heartbreaking instant, she realized that her invention, Storyfile, could really work. But what is Storyfile? This company specializes in conversational video and preserving individual memories, posing fascinating hypotheticals for the future of education. Like…what if we could talk to a younger version of ourselves? What if high schoolers could talk face to face with a former president or revolutionary leader? This time travel might not be so far away due to Heather Smith's 2017 launch with the USC Shoah Foundation and Institute of Creative Technologies. But Heather's journey wasn't always grounded in the past. Before she built a bridge between history and modern day AI, Heather worked at her family's jewelry store, making connections the old fashioned way…

Do you want to revolutionize communication and engagement through immersive storytelling? Look no further! Heather Smith has the solution to help individuals interested in interactive storytelling learn from celebrities and experts, and achieve unparalleled levels of connection and engagement with their audiences. About Heather Smith:Heather Smith is the Co-Founder and CVO of Storyfile - an interactive Conversational Video AI Platform that uses advanced natural language processing and artificial intelligence to make video interaction feel just like a real conversation. StoryFile's technology will allow people to have conversations with video, removing the boundaries of time and space, so that we can experience all kinds of conversations and learn from individuals whenever and wherever we want. At the heart of Heather's work is the underlying need to share, preserve and learn from the human experience. Heather Smith has been featured on NBC's The Today Show, The New Yorker, The BBC, and on 60 Minutes. In this episode, Dean Newlund and Heather Smith discuss:Embracing the exciting possibilities of Story File's AI-facilitated conversational video platform across various scenariosGrasping the crucial importance of human interaction and nonverbal signals in enriching training and communication experiencesEvaluating the versatility of Story File for developing interactive memoirs, employee bios, and other captivating contentExamining the utility of Vigilant's cutting-edge AI voice analysis system in cultivating emotional intelligence and effective communication in professional environmentsRecognizing the role of voice analysis in gauging emotional states and nurturing stronger bonds "It's that curiosity that when you ask questions and you engage with an individual and you're able to have a conversation, you learn six times more effectively.” —  Heather Smith  Connect with Heather:Website: https://storyfile.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storyfile/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StoryFileAppLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/storyfile/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-maio-smithTwitter: https://twitter.com/storyfile Connect with Dean:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqRK8GC8jBIFYPmECUCMkwWebsite: https://www.mfileadership.com/The Mission Statement E-Newsletter: https://www.mfileadership.com/blog/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deannewlund/Twitter: https://twitter.com/deannewlundFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/MissionFacilitators/Email: dean.newlund@mfileadership.comPhone: 1-800-926-7370Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel AlvarezAudio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

There is power and potential in reimagining the use of audio and visual technology. It's proven that we learn almost 91% better when we have the ability to interact and ask questions of the expert we are learning from. This week, episode 142 of the Tech Intersect™ Podcast with Heather Maio-Smith is about making knowledge more accessible through video! POWERED BY ADVANTAGE EVANS™ ACADEMY Globally, crypto investors realized total crypto gains of $162.7 billion in 2021, compared to just $32.5 billion in 2020. And in 2022, more than 200 million people worldwide have used crypto. Governments, including the US, are acknowledging the viability of this asset class and institutional investors are increasingly embracing digital currencies in their portfolios, even–and especially–in crypto winter's bear market.Even with all the price volatility, clearly digital currencies are increasing in popularity, acceptance and adoption. In fact, the only thing more popular than crypto right now (sadly) are crypto scams. Crypto scammers took a record $14 billion in 2021. And the trend continues. So you need to arm yourself with strategies and the latest best practices to help you identify scams and protect against self-custody losses due to user error.You need a S.E.C.U.R.E. Advantage! I've got the keys.Register now for this free opportunity to embrace the new digital economy and future of wealth, and do so safely, legally and confidently. Register now at https://advantageevans.com/masterclass. Heather Smith is an experiential exhibit designer who has exhibited in Los Angeles, Cuba, and The United Nations. Heather partnered with USC Shoah Foundation on New Dimensions in Testimony to develop a new interview methodology. Heather now serves as the CVO of StoryFile. Heather's work has been featured on NBC's The Today Show, The New Yorker, The BBC and on 60 Minutes.Some of the talking points Heather Maio-Smith and I go over in this episode include:Why we learn better and retain more information when we can ask questions.The power of having access to knowledge in a real human-to-human way.How StoryFile is different than a simple live video.Whether the pandemic helped catapult this experience The future of conversational video technology.CONNECT WITH HEATHER MAIO SMITH:LinkedInStoryFileCONNECT WITH TONYA EVANS:Questions and requests: hello@techintersectpodcast.com Follow: Twitter @AtTechIntersect | Instagram @TechIntersect Web: Tech Intersect Podcast  Connect for exclusive content: http://eepurl.com/gKqDyP Produced by Galati Media, LLC.Support the showRegulate & The Rabbit Hole by Notty Prod licensed via Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Produced by Tonya M. Evans for Advantage Evans, LLC

What would you do if you could have a conversation with your great grandmother, or a deceased historical figure or celebrity? What started for Stephen Smith, founder of StoryFile, as an interest in the oral history of holocaust survivors has become a revolution in AI – technology that captures the beauty and wonder of the human spirit.In the hospitality industry, where your culture is your difference, and maintaining a connection with guests creates brand loyalty. A virtual host that welcomes guests into a space can help bridge the gap in those connections. An employee can learn the company's culture and be trained directly by the founder of their company. The opportunities are as endless as the imagination of what is possible, visualizing how technologies can be used to create a direct connection between operator/customer and employee/employer that has not have existed before.Join IFBTA CEO, Rob Grimes and Chairman/CEO Stephen Smith of StoryFile in the conversation, as they navigate artificial intelligence and explore how to maintain the hospitality-human connection enabled by technology and innovation

Welcome to season five. For centuries, mankind has been obsessed with the possibility of immortality. After Walt Disney's death, reports of his body being frozen in liquid nitrogen spread like wildfire. The thought was that he could be brought back to life by future, more advanced civilizations. These reports turned out to be false, but they didn't stop people from thinking about the concept of living forever. While immortality is still science-fiction, Storyfile has created the next best thing. By having subjects answer upwards of 1,600 questions, a subject's memories are preserved and created into an artificial intelligence so that future generations can hold a conversation in real-time with the deceased. From helping teach social skills to kids with autism to leveling up corporate training modules, the applications of this technology extend way beyond just immortality. In today's episode, we speak with Heather Maio-Smith, the founder of Storyfile. She explains: How Storyfile is preserving history by interviewing holocaust survivors The applications for interactive adult videos, if you know what I mean And The importance of keeping the human element in AI interactions

This week on Conversations with Kenyatta, Kenyatta D. Berry, host of PBS' Genealogy Roadshow, and author of The Family Tree Toolkit features Heather Smith, who is the Co-Founder and Chief Visionary Officer for StoryFile.Heather's company is on a mission to record over 100 million stories - to help preserve our history in a new way. It's a fascinating conversation.Heather and StoryFile were also gracious enough to offer my listeners a coupon code for StoryFile - if you use the code KENYATTA you will receive 20% off their product. .......#enslavedancestors #enslavedancestry #genealogy #genealogytrauma #ancestralhealing #familyhistory #familyhistoryresearch #familyhistoryresearcher #podcastersofinstagram #podcast #historypodcast #genealogypodcast #genealogyrecords #findingmyfamily #kenyattaberry

Big, wild dreams are the stuff of entrepreneurial home runs but – as our guest on this episode of Teacher Turned Entrepreneur explains – dreams alone are not enough. Heather Smith, an interactive storytelling pioneer, could never have gotten her transformational video platform off the ground without a clear focus on exactly the need she was filling and the tenacity to make her idea a reality. Based on her experience curating immersive storytelling exhibits, Heather deeply understood the power of multidimensional interviews to capture the historic experience of Holocaust survivors. Convinced that in fact everyone has a worthwhile story to tell and share, she got to work on StoryFile, a cutting-edge technology that enables us to record our personal histories via custom formats in a cloud-based environment that makes memories accessible to friends, family and colleagues now and in perpetuity. Heather walks Host Dori Stewart through her evolution into the role of tech entrepreneur, a journey she is not sugar-coating. Purpose, passion, financial resources and lots of emotional support were essential when it came to taking this long, iterative odyssey. Says Heather: Innovation take times, patience, stamina – and a team to keep you motivated and moving forward even on the toughest days. StoryFile's technology wasn't an obvious slam-dunk out of the gate, but Heather never lost sight of the mission. As a result, we now have a platform that removes the boundaries of time and space, leveraging video as a gateway to all kinds of conversations with all kinds of individuals, whenever and wherever we want. Heather has literally brought a vision to life! If you enjoyed this episode of Teacher Turned Entrepreneur, click here to hear past shows and leave comments! Here are key takeaways from the conversation:· From “wild idea” to thriving business: People sometimes need time to catch up with your creative vision. Build that expectation into your timeline! · It's okay to iterate! You don't have to wait for perfection to launch your platform. · Never underestimate the importance of having a supportive team in it with you for the long haul!· Excitement and a “wow” idea will take you only so far. Does what you have to offer fill an actual need?· Launching a big thing: It's stressful and tiring – but so exhilarating! Prepare yourself for a crazy, but deeply gratifying, ride!Are you ready to find your true calling and walk away from your teaching job once and for all?It is your time to get a solid grasp on the potential opportunities available to you so you can get started on your entrepreneurial journey and change your life!Download your copy of this free, valuable PDF resource and access 20 different descriptive business ideas that are perfect for a teacher turning entrepreneur.The Teacher's Guide to Finding Your Perfect Business Idea (without going back to college)

New Mexico's GOP re-ups with Steve Pearce as Chair. Also, Paul offers a few more thoughts on voter turnout during the last election.  The PRC picks 9 candidates for Gov. MLG to pick from. RGF adjunct Kenneth Costello was NOT among the finalists. Paul and Wally discuss.  Wal Mart joins RGF in their innovative use of "StoryFile" technology. New Mexico is following the "Voices" playbook, but to what end?  A new study tallies up the cost of COVID learning loss to $900 billion in lost income. It's back to the office on January 1 for state employees. NM's workforce participation rate has not only NOT recovered from before COVID, it has actually dropped since June.  

 “As human beings our identity is made up of all the people that lived before us. The ability to have continued conversations with people either living or not in an interactive platform, is a blessing, “ Says my next guest Heather Smith.  She drives a deeper connection with family, business, and people through conversational video services. Heather Smith is an experiential exhibit designer who has exhibited in Los Angeles, Cuba, and The United Nations. Heather was the concept creator and producer of New Dimensions in Testimony, the technology behind future generations being able to have a conversation with a Holocaust survivor. Heather partnered with USC Shoah Foundation on New Dimensions in Testimony to develop a new interview methodology. Heather now serves as the CVO of StoryFile, an interactive Conversational Video AI Platform that uses advanced natural language processing and artificial intelligence to make video interaction feel just like a real conversation. StoryFile's technology will allow people to have conversations with video, removing the boundaries of time and space, so that we can experience all kinds of conversations and learn from individuals whenever and wherever we want. At the heart of Heather's work is the underlying need to share, preserve and learn from the human experience. Heather's work has been featured on NBC's The Today Show, The New Yorker, The BBC and on 60 Minutes.Heather had always intended to use the interactive concept she had created to preserve the stories of humanity for future generations.  In 2017, she launched StoryFile to create a cloud-based, no-code, automatic platform that would bring the power of conversational video into everyone's hands.StoryFile is revolutionizing the way we connect with each other by introducing conversational video with Audio Visual technology at the forefront of this generation. StoryFile magically turns video into a conversation through the click of a button. This next generation of technology uses artificial intelligence to support video conversations on any device. StoryFile transforms traditional one-way video into a two-way conversation. This is the biggest audio-visual evolution since video was first created.Let us welcome Health Maio Smith to The Follow the Brand Podcast, where we are building a 5 STAR Brand that you Can Follow!

Heather Maio-Smith is the Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile, bringing global audiences an interactive ecosystem that records and preserves human conversations in a way that removes the traditional boundaries of time and space. Victoria talks to Heather about why this product needed to exist in the world, supporting human connection and storytelling, and the journey to get funding, expand, and plan what's next for StoryFile. StoryFile (https://storyfile.com/) Follow StoryFile on Twitter (https://twitter.com/storyfile), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/storyfile/), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/StoryFileApp), or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/storyfile/), or TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@storyfile). Follow Heather on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-maio-smith/). Follow thoughtbot on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/). Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of Giant Robots! Transcript: VICTORIA: This is The Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Victoria Guido. And with us today is Heather Maio-Smith, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile, bringing global audiences an interactive ecosystem that records and preserves human conversations in a way that removes the traditional boundaries of time and space. Heather, thank you for joining us. HEATHER: Thank you for having me, Victoria. I'm excited to have a conversation with you. VICTORIA: Yes, I am really excited to learn about StoryFile and your product Conversa. Tell me a little bit about it. HEATHER: You did a great job on the introduction; thank you. The one thing that I would add is that it's very important that people know that this is video. And this is the differentiator between us and maybe a traditional chatbot, for example. We are video-based. That could mean an actual human being creates the content. The video content is always preferable. [laughs] But you can also do it in some sneaky other ways too [laughs], so it's very interesting. VICTORIA: Right. So as I understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong, you can record a video of a conversation and then use Conversa to turn that into an interactive video where a user has the freedom to ask their own questions. HEATHER: Correct. Essentially, what you do is you answer whatever questions that you like. You're in charge of the storyline script. You create all the questions. The interviewee answers all of the questions via video record, and then all of those video clips are put into a database. Anyone can ask you basically any conversation. Most of them are open-ended conversations. If there are shorter, like, let's say you've only [inaudible 02:03] questions, and it's kind of a focus, you have a point, and it's a focused line of questioning, then that's obviously going to be you can't ask anything. But we usually have the individual introduce it and say, "For example, this is my bio. I've answered a few questions about my life and my career and me personally, so feel free to ask me anything about my career or my life." Then the individuals will know what the parameters are for that conversation. And you could just ask anything, learn anything anytime you want. So it's in real-time for you. No going on Google and searching through 20 pages to get an answer anymore. You should be able to talk the ideas. You should be able to talk to someone who's lived that experience or has that knowledge, ask them a question, and find out the information that you want to find out, or get to know somebody that you would never have the opportunity to talk to. VICTORIA: What an interesting idea. And what led you to think that this was a product that needed to exist in the world? HEATHER: Well, they say that necessity is the mother of invention. I happened to be in Holocaust education back in the early 2000s. And one of the main things that the entire field was concerned about is what are we going to do when the Holocaust survivors are no longer alive? They had spent over 60 years in the public telling their story, talking to students, for example the public. They've done documentaries; they've done books; they've done interviews. The Shoah Foundation at USC has 55,000 narrative interviews. So it's very well-documented. But the one thing that we weren't able to replicate yet, and this is what we were worried about, was they couldn't make that personal connection. And how do they make that personal connection? It's through people asking their own questions and actually engaging with those individuals that that's when the real magic happened. I mean, that's when people felt connected to these individuals and that story, that history. That was what I didn't want to lose after they had passed away. And so I thought to myself, there's got to be a way to replicate the Q&A, you know, the question and answer conversation where I can ask my own question, which leads me to learn deeper than if I was passively watching a video or even listening to a lecture. So I went to the Shoah Foundation, and I said, "There's got to be a way to do this." They said after many conversations, "Okay. You might not be crazy. [laughs] or as crazy as we thought you were at the beginning. But we still don't know how you're going to do it. So go away and figure out how you're going to do it, and then come back to us when you've figured it out." That was my challenge. And luckily, I found an amazing team to help us all figure out how to do it. And we got to the part where we had to take these individuals, like, the video recordings, and we had to have people actually ask them questions and have these conversations so that we could populate the database for a more accurate conversation. And so I was in the public for a couple of years all over the world. And the one question I kept getting the most was, "This is amazing. Can I do this myself? And can I do this with my parents? Can I do this with my grandparents? Can I do this with the founder of our company?" And people came to me, and they had so many ideas. "This would be great for this. Oh my gosh, could you imagine doing this?" And after a while, you say to yourself, okay, what would it look like if we did this for everyone? What would it look like if we made it ubiquitous, allow everybody to replace their FAQs? Every leader in this country, every CEO, every influencer, or any individual who's got something to say that we can all learn from, which, by the way, is pretty much everyone on the planet. They can tell their story, and they can talk about their experiences, and we can learn from that. Even saving time on interviewing future candidates in person. You narrow it down to 10 people. You have them do StoryFiles. You actually engage with their StoryFile, and then you just choose two that you want to meet in person, possibly saving you hours and hours of time. It's just about asking questions and getting an answer in the moment when you need it, not waiting for an email, not going through 20 pages of Google. And it's also about connecting with a real person instead of these chatbots that everybody's trying to move away from. And I think they're trying to move towards avatars because they're more visual, but it's still not a human being. So it's still kind of an automated voice, and they're not real. And there's no emotion, and you don't have any body language. So what if you could just ask a person? You probably get asked some of the same questions. And in the next 2 minutes, you could probably think of 10 questions that you get asked almost daily. So what if you did a StoryFile? You answered all those ten questions and maybe more, and then you never had to have that conversation again. Think of all the time that those people now, if they get in front of you, they don't have to waste time asking any of those typical, basic questions. They can just get right into a deeper conversation with you. VICTORIA: I love it. Yeah, I'm already thinking in the back of my mind, like, oh, I could use these for what if you're trying to show what it's like to work at thoughtbot? And you just want to ask someone at thoughtbot a question, and you could play with StoryFile. Yeah, I think it's enormously useful. And I love the story starts with a hugely impactful mission of capturing those stories. And I wonder how that experience of the importance of storytelling has had on your ability to get funding and get this project through as a founder. HEATHER: It's been a journey. [laughter] First of all, let me say that I think it has been slightly more complex than most startups because, from the onset or the get-go, or whatever you want to call it, this technology has been meant for consumers and businesses alike. So you've got a B2C play, and you've got a B2B play, which is very complicated for investors to understand maybe and really get the vision in its totality. So it's been a struggle to communicate it in a way that people really understand this can be done. You're creating a whole new medium. This is not an I'm creating a new rocking chair type of thing that's better than the other chair that you had. I'm creating a chair. It's a new kind of chair. And you have to take these people on a journey to understanding how much better their lives can be and how much time they can save if they just invest a little bit of time, which they kind of have to do anyway. I mean, look at it, you spend so much time writing FAQs for a website and finding all the answers, and then putting them all together and putting them in the website. You could spend the same amount of time actually getting all those questions, recording yourself answering them. In fact, it probably would take less time. Record the answer, and then, bam, you have it. Everybody can actually talk to you, ask you those questions, and you can guide them. And they get the benefit of actually feeling as though they've talked to a human being. They've connected with you emotionally, and everyone's better off for it. The investors have been...they either absolutely get behind you 100% and love what you're doing and want to be on the journey with you, or they are a bit we'll wait and see. There hasn't been one investor, though, that has said, "You're not onto something. I don't believe in what you're doing, and your idea is not going to work," not one. So we know it has legs. And we just have to build the body and get it from the walking stage, walk to run. VICTORIA: Right. And I see you have quite an impressive client list already. And you recently won an award for best software as a service product for education and nonprofits in the learning and CSR category, so that's impressive. And I want to hear more about how that process has been scaling from you had one initial customer who was the Holocaust Museum, and now you've expanded, and what kind of lessons you might have about that experience, getting to the walking stage, and what you have planned coming ahead. HEATHER: I don't know if I have much advice, actually. [laughter] I could probably use more advice than I can give. Every day, you know, you take it one day at a time, and you move forward. We haven't forgotten where we started, which was in enabling audiences through museums and public spaces to enable them to have these conversations with people that they would not normally get to talk to. There's this studio professional services side of this as well. Then you have, all right, we had to have a back end. We had to have a platform in order to run our business. What if we made that platform available to other companies? Okay, what does that mean? And how does one build that? Then is it built intuitively and easily enough for people to actually do what they want to do with it, which is create these interactive conversational video AI modules (We call them StoryFiles.) for a variety of different cases? I mean, think about every kid can talk to one of the best teachers in the world and learn from them. Every possible person that wants to go on a date could actually talk to potential people. And those people don't even know that they're having these first-date conversations with them, so it saves you that first meeting, that awkward first date. But it also allows you to make a better choice for that first date or, like I said, screening or even onboarding and corporate training. All those manuals that people have written everything and all the information that's in there, nobody wants to go to a manual and look up an answer. No, you're going to go to someone that you think knows the answer, and you're going to ask them. So why not just pull out your phone and do that on your phone, you know? Like, Walmart has this amazing thing that they call financial mentor. They did StoryFiles for new store managers. It's all around answering those questions that you would get as a new manager that you would have running the day-to-day of a Walmart store. So they can literally pull out their phone. They've got their own Walmart learning management system on the phone, and they can talk to a financial mentor and ask them questions. So, what do I do if I have a register that's this? Or I forgot what the form is that you use for this. Or what do I do if my endcaps aren't really churning enough buzz and businesses I think it should be? All those questions that you're going to ask in the first couple of years of taking on a new position. So it's basically anywhere that you have questions and people normally give you answers, you can do a StoryFile. VICTORIA: Yeah, it sounds like a real change to the way people do business and how you can automate some of those conversations and provide a more human touch too. HEATHER: Yeah, it's all about that human touch, isn't it? The one reason I think that people now, you know, for the last three years, everybody's been obsessed with these avatar chatbots, but they're not really solving the problem. The problem is the chatbots don't seem real. You don't feel as if you're having a conversation with an actual person, and that's what frustrates you the most because they don't understand. They don't seem like they're being empathetic. They don't seem like you're relatable. And there's also the uncanny valley, and then the automated voices, and the cadence, and all of that. So this solves all that. VICTORIA: 80% of communication is non-verbal, right? HEATHER: Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly, but nobody really thinks about that. [laughter] We do digital recreations; notice I'm not calling it an avatar because we do an authentic version of an individual. And most of the time, 99% of the time, the person's not alive anymore. But we work with the archives; we work with the foundations; we work with the families. Nothing that we have that digital recreation say is anything that we've made up. It's always based on what they've actually said and the way that they've said it. So we review, like, we did one digital recreation that we reviewed over 1,700 hours of video. The key thing was getting an actor that physically looked like the individual, and it has to be a method actor. The method actor also reviews some of those videos and really gets a sense of who that individual was. Then they form the basis for the digital recreation for the body language, for the facial expressions, for the cadence of the voice. And then, you do the face mapping and other special effects that you might have to do to the body. Then you do the voice cloning so that you get the person's actual voice. So it's a really detailed process. And what you end up with is probably the most authentic version of an individual that can be created. MID-ROLL AD: Are you an entrepreneur or start-up founder looking to gain confidence in the way forward for your idea? At thoughtbot, we know you're tight on time and investment, which is why we've created targeted 1-hour remote workshops to help you develop a concrete plan for your product's next steps. Over four interactive sessions, we work with you on research, product design sprint, critical path, and presentation prep so that you and your team are better equipped with the skills and knowledge for success. Find out how we can help you move the needle at: tbot.io/entrepreneurs. VICTORIA: You mentioned avatars. But that process also sounds different than what I've heard about deepfakes as well. Do you want to -- HEATHER: Yeah. Well, our digital recreations are based on more authentic...they're probably as authentic as you can get to the actual individual. It's not based on, you know, avatars still; even if you do one that's based on 10 minutes of video of yourself, you will still have the uncanny valley. You will still have the broken cadence. You'll still have an automated voice where it sounds automated. They are getting better, and they'll continue to get better. But there's no avatar that you can honestly tell me is going to accurately convey emotion and those non-verbal cues. They can't do it. A computer cannot intuit it. You have to have the individual. You have to have something based from the actual person in order to get the most accurate you can get. An avatar who you're basically treating as a visual chatbot you're just typing in the answers. So there's no emotional connection. There's no body language or cadence that you can connect with in that. VICTORIA: That makes sense. And I can clearly see the...we've talked about the business use cases a little bit. But on the individual consumer side, I'm thinking about making a StoryFile of my grandpa from Pasadena and the value what that would be like to have that family member have a realistic portrayal of them for future generations to interact with. HEATHER: It's priceless. And he's still alive, right? VICTORIA: Yeah. HEATHER: So it's not a realistic portrait. It is him. You could do a StoryFile life. You'd go to StoryFile life. You'd pick out all the questions you wanted to ask him, add your own questions. Every family has got those five stories that individuals always tell at the dinner table during Thanksgiving or something. So you want to make sure you capture all of those. Let's say that he responds to a question that you've asked. And the beauty of it, by the way, is these are questions that you probably would not normally ask somebody in daily conversation. So you really get a sense of who they are from day one, you know, from their childhood all the way through their life today. If they say something that you're like, wait a minute, stop, [laughs] you've got to explain that, you can add a question, add a follow-up question and just say, "Can you tell me more about that?" or "Explain yourself. Like, how did you come to that? How did you make that decision? What went into this move and this shift?" or whatever you want to know more about. "Or how did that affect your family?" you know, so many questions. So it allows you to ask all of those questions. You record your grandfather, which, by the way, is an amazing experience for you; forget him, [laughter], but it's an amazing experience for you. And I guarantee you; you will learn something. To date, I have not had one family say that they haven't learned something or heard a story that they never heard before. So it's a really interesting process. And you feel bonded to that individual after you're done talking and doing this interview in a way that you didn't before. Then you have that recording of this individual that your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren will be able to get a sense of who this individual was, and what their life was like, and who they were to you even. That's priceless to be able to give, you know, we hang on, you go into ancestry.com; you pull up a ship's manifest. And you see your relative's signature. Okay, fine. But what do you really know about that person? Nothing. You know they came over on a ship. [laughs] And you see maybe how their signature looked, but that doesn't really tell you anything. So we want to change all that. We want to flip it all out. We want you to know all of your ancestors. We want your kids to know everybody and learn from them. VICTORIA: I love that. And it's an interesting intersection of this very core human emotion to AI technology or this leading-edge technology. And I wonder, what has surprised you in the technology building side about what ways it easily supports making this human connection and other ways where it's still a challenge to make everything connect? HEATHER: I would have loved to have gotten at least three PhDs [laughs], and then I can think over the last 12 years. Okay, so I started this in 2009. So you got to remember there was no Skype, really. I mean, Skype came into its own...it existed in 2008, but it didn't really come into its own until 2012. Speech recognition wasn't really a thing. We knew it was going to happen, but it wasn't there yet. That was one of the big things that people had to really take a leap of faith with me that we could even get this to work. We didn't know if it would do what we thought it would do. And we were doing this completely...it was a passion play. It was; let's see if we can do this type of thing. We actually did. It did fulfill what I envisioned it being and doing. It did finally fulfill, and I realized that in 2016, so it took that long. And in order to make it ubiquitous for everyone, and you know this because you build software, and you help people with products: to do something for the general public and to make it ubiquitous, and make it scalable, that's a whole nother ballgame. We're taking a process that was incredibly manual...everyone says, "Oh, AI is going to take over the world." No, it's not. No, it's not. It's not even close. It's still so manual. It's based on data. And whatever you manually put in is what you get out. In order to take that and make it automated in whatever ways you can and then keep dreaming about a day where, for example, the follow-up questions that I talked to you about. One day on our roadmap, God willing, next year, you will be able to get that follow-up question actually suggested to you because the computer will know what that individual has said. And the computer will figure out here's a question that you might want to ask, which has never been done before. And there are several things that we have on our roadmap that haven't been done before, but we've been in this zone where you know, other companies have tried. One of our advisors was president of Google Americas. And when she came on board with us, she said, "Google tried to do something similar to this in the early 2000s." But it was just a little too early, and they couldn't figure it out. So they scrapped the whole thing. And with software, timing has a lot to do with it. Your expectations and what you think you can do and when you can do it have to be constantly monitored and constantly re-evaluated. And do the best you can with what is technically available at the moment, and then plan to see how you might make that evolve or improve that or add to that. For example, the field of natural language processing it's at one stage right now, but we have things that we want to do with it and advances that we'd like to see happen. And we're going to have to make those happen if we want to see those happen. VICTORIA: You had both the timing and the need and just enough technology progression to make something happen when you did, and you were able to grow it. It sounds like your family is also involved in helping you along the journey. And I was curious to hear about how that has been for you and -- HEATHER: Okay, so it's not really fair because I grew up in a family-owned business. I'm totally used to it. Everybody asked me, "What's it like working with your husband, and what's it like?" You know, along this journey, we've had various family members working for us, and honestly, that's mostly been a necessity. They happened to be the most skilled and the most talented people to do the job at the moment that I had access to. They got it, you know, it's sort of like the game, okay, tag, you're it. [laughs] Some of them have gone on to do other things; one started her own app called Camber. The other started a PR agency and is doing very well. The other went on to do structural engineering, and the other one is still working for us. And Stephen's my husband's oldest, and I have told her many times even though she does want to go to law school at some point, I said, "No, I'm never letting you leave. [laughter] You're never leaving me." Yeah, it's kind of not fair because we happen to have the ideal situation where Stephen and I are both passionate and have a very clear vision of what we want to do and how to get there, which I think you do need. We respect each other tremendously. I'm in awe of him almost every day. I can see where in a lot of families, it would be problematic but somehow not for us. It worked really well. With investors, it is kind of tricky because you don't want to seem like you're a mom-and-pop shop, either. That's definitely not what we are. We're very focused, and we're very intentional. To some investors, it might seem like we're all over the place because of the B2C and the B2B thing, but it's really not. We explained to them that we're actually building one thing, and that's conversational video. That's what we're doing. It's a big vision, that's all, and it's a massive market. VICTORIA: Yeah, I believe it. I mean, having people in your corner who believe in your vision and you have respect for working for each other, whether they're your blood family or your chosen family, that's what really you need to be successful. And I think it's a common theme we see across people who are able to create these products is that they have a team around them. [laughs] It's never just one person. HEATHER: Yeah, no, it's never just one person. And I've been really, really fortunate. You talk about family that you've chosen. I've been really fortunate to have a lot of the team members who were on this journey with me back in 2010. So that's how far we all go with this and trying to evolve this technology and build this medium and this way of communicating. We're in it. We're all in it for better or worse. VICTORIA: Yeah, I agree. And I assume that that amount of loyalty from your team over that long time is a pro point for investors as well. And I'm curious, so if you could record a StoryFile for yourself now to send back in time to when you were first starting this up, I wonder what questions you would ask yourself [laughs] to be able to give you the advice you needed when you were just starting. HEATHER: To give me advice now? VICTORIA: If you were going to create a StoryFile for when you were starting out if you could be able to ask yourself questions from the future. [laughs] HEATHER: I think it would probably be very interesting to see where I was at, and what I was thinking, what we were dealing with at the time because I think it's some of the things you forget, you know, how you were feeling. We did a lot of video recording back in the early days, especially around different milestones and then different lows and highs. But if I could give myself some advice now, knowing what I know now, it would be your typical don't give up. There are days when you feel like that's it; I can't go any longer. It's not sustainable. You just don't know how it's going to turn out. And you have customers that you're really, really...we're very customer-oriented, so we work really closely with them to make them successful. And there have been times when what they've wanted to do hasn't been something that we were able to achieve entirely. So I would say just keep your head down, keep doing the work every day. Keep moving forward, and just believe in how you're ultimately going to change the world with this. So I think that I believed that 100% ten years ago as well. [laughs] I probably would have said the same thing, actually. There was a woman that had told me she wanted to do a StoryFile with her 10-year-old. And then she wanted to do the same script every five years, but especially do the same thing right before they go to college and then when they come back when they've finished college and do the same interview. I said, "It's a brilliant idea, but why specifically before they go to college and when they get back?" She says, "I want them to see how much they've changed." That makes me cry every time. It's so true. I don't know if you have kids; between Stephen and I, we have five, and they're all 20 to 31. And that time in their lives, from 17 to 22 to 24, you change so radically. I mean, it's almost like you go back, and it's almost like you've got a one-year-old to see how much they changed by the time they're six. It's that radical. I thought that was just a beautiful thing on her part to think of, you know, think of doing. VICTORIA: Yeah, that sounds great. I don't have any kids myself. I do have a two-year-old and a one-year-old niece and nephew. Maybe we'll create one for them when they get a little bit older. HEATHER: Well, then you have to do...is your grandfather their great-grandfather? VICTORIA: No, he's my husband's grandpa, actually. HEATHER: Because when you do your grandfather, then they'll get to know them. You know, there's something about our identity, and it's made up of our parents, you know, our lives, our influences on our lives, and everybody that lived before us. So our point is, why not get to know those people the best way you can? And is that by reading their story? Is it listening to a voicemail that they left you before they passed away in order to get a sense of who they are? Or is it a video of them on a vacation, you know, a video clip? Or is it a story? Or would you want a StoryFile where you can actually have a conversation? You can feel as if you're sitting down at a kitchen table, talking and asking them questions about their life. We want you to do it with everybody, [laughs] even your boss. [laughter] VICTORIA: Right? I think it's a hugely powerful way to connect with people. And if I can get my grandpa to stop watching tennis for long enough to do it, I'll do it. [laughs] HEATHER: I definitely guarantee you can do that. [laughs] VICTORIA: Right? I think we can. I think we can do it. I think you'll enjoy it as much as I will. So I really appreciate you sharing this capability with us. And is there a way you want to shout out how people can connect with the tool? HEATHER: Go to storyfile.com. If it's for your family, for you personally, go to StoryFile Life from that website. And if you're a business, you can go to Conversa also from that website and ask for a free demo. VICTORIA: Excellent. And is there anything you want to give as a final takeaway to our listeners today? HEATHER: It's easy to do. And it's always better to personally connect with someone if you can. Give them the opportunity to really see you, and listen to you, and hear you, the real you. And it doesn't take a lot of time. Everyone has a story to tell or knowledge to impart, experiences to talk about. There's no one on the planet that doesn't, honestly. But you probably doing these podcasts every one you talk to you learn from. It's sharing our knowledge. It's sharing humanity's experiences and knowledge so that we absorb that and we have that. It influences us, hopefully, in a good way. VICTORIA: I think that's beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing with us and being with us here today. HEATHER: Thank you for having me. Keep up the great work, you guys. VICTORIA: Oh, thank you. You can subscribe to the show and find notes along with a complete transcript for this episode at giantrobots.fm. If you have questions or comments, email us at hosts@giantrobots.fm. And you can find me on Twitter @victori_ousg. This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot and produced and edited by Mandy Moore. Thanks for listening. See you next time. ANNOUNCER: This podcast was brought to you by thoughtbot. thoughtbot is your expert design and development partner. Let's make your product and team a success. Special Guest: Heather Maio-Smith.

Thanks for checking out the latest episode! This time, Nora Young talks about a range of technologies (discussed in this excellent article) that aim to create a virtual presence of people after they die, some based on interviews with people while they're still alive, some based on taking their writing to construct a 'presence'.  Cathi Bond has long raved about the 'tiny house' movement; however having spent part of her summer holiday in a (surprisingly) tiny house, now she's not so sure. She looks at this very cool example of a 20 foot long home.

Welcome to The Art of Memorialising - an audio newsletter by Peter Billingham from Death Goes Digital and Memorable Words Eulogy Writing services bringing you the latest news on digital immortality, digital legacy, digital life curation and all things #Deathtech. Thanks for reading. You'd have thought I would have learnt by now...I'm in my 60s. I've been around the block a few times. There are a lot of things I know - I know.Now, I'm not saying I know it all - far from it! And that's the problem.I want to know more. I never want to stop learning. Never want to stop growing my skills and knowledge. Oh, and I never want to stop travelling! What about you? Are your learning days done?My curiosity quotient is expanding, not contracting as the years pass. Einstein famously suggested I should never stop questioning. My curiosity cannot help but be in awe when I …‘Consider the mysteries of eternity, the marvellous structure of reality' ... and how websites, and apps about life curation, memorials and planning your life legacy are growing at speeds faster than Einstein's speed of light!Ok, exaggeration. But even so, faster than I imaged back in 2016 when I started writing about those subjects. Take, for instance, how Artificial Intelligence is becoming a tool in afterlife memorials and creating your digital twin. Someone who a family can communicate with even after a person has died.I've even written about how AI will become part of funerals. Even I didn't realise how quick it would actually happen!Marina Smith MBE, through the power of holograms and artificial intelligence seems to have a ‘conversation' with mourners at her funeral using Storyfile. (via BBC). That's incredible! Just as fascinating as how you can create amazing images with Artificial Intelligence with a few words … But that's not what I am talking about here. I've learned there is something I haven't yet learned.There is still an important truth I don't get. I know it's not it's not possible, but I still keep on trying. There are lots of things I love to do (walking for miles, playing the guitar, owning a dog, Friday night steak and chips) - Oh, and writing is one of them. I love to write. I write books, like - Gathering Rosebuds In Kerala. But what I do, mainly, is write eulogy speeches for people across the world. Or when working in my local area writing and leading funerals as a celebrant.I write eulogies. That's what I do. It's what takes most of my time. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to combine something I love with helping others.I spend most of my days writing about people I have never met. About the way they lived their one and only ‘wild and precious life.' But sadly life ended. I try to put into words what heartbroken people are feeling, but cannot verbalise. Yes, maybe it's a rare vocation, but an immensely rewarding writing niche I find. My curiosity itch wants to to learn how to write eulogies even better. I keep scratching that one too.I also want to share my learning as a eulogy speechwriter with others so I'm writing a new book.‘I Just Want To Say A Few Words: The Ultimate Eulogy Toolbox - A Simple and Easy Step-by-Step Guide How To Write A Eulogy for A Loved One, Friend or Colleague.' Almost 90% of my first draft is completed. It's going to be around 100 or so pages of the best ideas, methods and ways anyone can use to write a few words of a eulogy. Published, hopefully, before the end of the year.But here I go again. You see ... I haven't learned what I haven't learned. Yet. I haven't learned …. … I just can't do it all! There is a limit to the amount of work you can do! So I just try to do as much as I can, and then when I've done that, I try to do some more. But it leaves me, like last month, not being able to do some things I want to do like write The Art of Memorialising Newsletter. And I'm very sorry about that.I find these subjects piquing my curiosity, so I search the web and share the latest news with you - a subscriber to The Art of Memorialising. If you missed last months newsletter, please email me and tell me. I'd be over the moon if you did. What is the greatest benefit you get from reading the Newsletter or Podcast? Can you email me and let me know please? It's a great feeling to know that you are doing something you love to do, but you can't do it all. Sometimes, you need to decide what is important to you and what is not.I'm not afraid to admit I can't do everything. I just haven't learned it. Yet.I'm experimenting with the format of the newsletter to change to briefer bullet points like this month? What do you think?The most important thing I need to learn is I can't do it all - but I'm betting some of you do too? What good things do you need to stop working on so you can focus on the best things? I'd be interested to hear that too!Let's see what's been happening in the fascinating world of The Art of Memorialising. Interested in sharing your new product or service with readers of The Art of Memorialising? (check here)We highlight your product, service, or idea sponsoring an edition. We give you the space; you get to tell the world about what you are doing or have created.You and your business can become part of the adventure now. Secure your month in 2022/23 now. MM's (Memorialisation Morsels)* MindBank Ai Creates a SOUL for your Personal Digital Twin Using AI Generated Music. You can combine your voice with music to create ‘SOUL music.' 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The present and future of funerals is cremation and buying online it seems. (via fox10phoenix.com)* Will Digital Avatars of Films Stars make new films even after they have died? It's not as far fetched as it sounds. (Via Nationalpost.com)* A Podcast With AI‑Generated Steve Jobs Raises Ethical Concerns. Who controls your voice and digital avatar after you have died? Is using an artificial intelligence version of someone going to be commonplace? (via the swaddle.com) * It's You … only digital and dead. ‘An avatar that looks like you, talks like you, has your memories, and can speak to your great great great grandchildren. You will live forever digitally.' Top futurist Dr Michio Kuku shares his vision at Dubai Future Forum (via gulf news.com) * Can we elongate human life using bio longevity, bionic continuity, and digital immortality? Transhumanists want to replace God with the Machine, tapping into a deep religious impulse of the human race. (via mindmatters.ai)* And Finally - a new tour de force? - The cycle of life: France welcomes its first bicycle-hearse (via euronews.com) An unusual-looking cargo bike is attempting to shake up the funeral business in France.Who do you know who would find this information interesting?Please, can you forward the email to them? I'd be very grateful. Let's start a conversation - info@deathgoesdigital.comUntil next month, (hopefully) keep safe, and keep going. Pete This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theartofmemorialising.substack.com

In this episode of the Million Dollar Mastermind podcast, host Larry Weidel speaks with Heather Smith, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile. They discuss the business' challenges and how asking questions is a good way to improve procedures. One of the most important things you can do to make your business successful is to learn from the mistakes of others.

In this episode of the Million Dollar Mastermind podcast, host Larry Weidel is joined by Heather Smith, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile. They talk about believing in one's instincts as a vital factor in building a lasting business.

In this episode of the Million Dollar Mastermind podcast, host Larry Weidel is joined by Heather Smith, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile.

In this episode of Million Dollar Mastermind podcast, Host Larry Weidel is joined by Heather Smith, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile. They discuss what Heather has done with Story File and a little bit about the concept - how you go out and get started with something people have never even heard.

Do you want to authentically connect with potential customers online? Do you want to leave a legacy for future generations to interact with you, ask questions, and hear your stories, even after you are gone? Tune in to this episode of Tech With Heart with Heather Smith to learn how to use the power of smart video storytelling with Storyfile.StoryFile.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/storyfile https://www.instagram.com/storyfile/ https://www.tiktok.com/@storyfile?lang=en revealio.com

This episode is brought to you by Sendlane.   Nate says, "that's where the Scandinavian companies just shine. They are so focused on the utility of the garment. There is a saying, there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. And that is as close to a motto for Norway, Sweden, and Denmark as you can get."   Today we interview Nate Axvig, Co-founder of Aktiv. Aktiv represents clothing that is built to endure and last. It is your view of the durable, functional designs of Scandinavia. Timeless Classics.   We discuss:   * His gratefulness for starting the business with his wife and the support his friends and family gave him * Overview of the brand * Origin of the brand: what led up to starting the brand * Starting the brand and testing the concept over the web * Focusing on well made, classic clothing * Why there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing * How they fared during the pandemic * Why they opened a physical store * Their primary material: Wool * Plans for Aktiv   Join Ramon Vela and Nate Axvig as we break down the inside story of StoryFile on The Story of a Brand.   For more on Aktiv, visit: https://aktivstyle.com/    Subscribe and listen to the podcast on all major apps. Simply search for “The Story of a Brand,” or click here to listen on your favorite podcast player: Listen now.   *   This episode is brought to you by Sendlane.   Alright, guys, here's the deal: I have a gift for you from our primary Sponsor — Sendlane. They're giving away their online course eCommerce Academy - Email & SMS Marketing!   This course gives you the step-by-step playbook to drive more revenue and retention with email & SMS. This is typically a $500 package, but for our listeners, it's entirely FREE when you get started with your FREE 14-day trial of Sendlane.   When you do, chat with their support team and let them know you're one of our listeners to get full access to hours of course content that will help you make email marketing your #1 growth engine.   Visit https://storybrandgift.com to get the details, sign up for a free trial and get your gift!

“Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.”Today's episode is about a one-of-a-kind way of storytelling and our special guest is Heather Smith, an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile. Heather discussed her humble beginnings and how she transformed her passion for storytelling into the development of the first 3D interactive conversation app.The future of storytelling is here. Make your stories last forever.

This episode is brought to you by Sendlane.   Heather says, “the difference with StoryFile is you're not just leaving a video message. You can actually ask questions and the image can have a conversation with you. It's something you just have to see for yourself.”   Today we interview Heather Maio-Smith, Co-founder and Chief Visionary Officer for StoryFile. StoryFile is truly a unique platform. It will sound like it came straight out of a Star Trek or Watchmen movie like.   StoryFile records an immersive interactive video interview for yourself or a loved one so that future generations can ask questions, converse, and interact with the person being recorded. There is also a tremendous opportunity for businesses as well.   We discuss:   * How she is highly grateful to her husband, who left his established career to support her in her dream. * Overview of a video that talks back * Why capture the story of a loved one? * Giving people the ability to leave their legacy * Asking questions you didn't have time to ask * The difference between StoryFile and regular video * How to choose the right questions to ask * Why Everyone has a story to tell * The opportunities for business * Letting the CEO answer questions from dozens, hundreds, or thousands of employees * How can a StoryFile can help the athletes with their coaching in sports? * The mechanics for using StoryFile?   Join Ramon Vela and Heather Maio-Smith as we break down the inside story of StoryFile on The Story of a Brand.   For more on StoryFile, visit: https://storyfile.com/    Subscribe and listen to the podcast on all major apps. Simply search for “The Story of a Brand,” or click here to listen on your favorite podcast player: Listen now.   *   This episode is brought to you by Sendlane.   Alright, guys, here's the deal: I have a gift for you from our primary Sponsor — Sendlane. They're giving away their online course eCommerce Academy - Email & SMS Marketing!   This course gives you the step-by-step playbook to drive more revenue and retention with email & SMS. This is typically a $500 package, but for our listeners, it's entirely FREE when you get started with your FREE 14-day trial of Sendlane.   When you do, chat with their support team and let them know you're one of our listeners to get full access to hours of course content that will help you make email marketing your #1 growth engine.   Visit https://storybrandgift.com to get the details, sign up for a free trial and get your gift!

Val Jones joined Storyfile as CTO in January 2021 after a leadership role at Raxium and 16 years at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. The institute has been at the forefront of synthetic media research and innovation for more than a decade.  Storyfile has products that might be thought of by some as virtual humans or digital twins, but the company characterizes its solution as conversational video. After capturing robust video recordings of people discussing a particular set of topics, Storyfile creates an interactive lifelike avatar that you can talk to through a website, app, or kiosk. The most famous Storyfile user is the actor William Shatner though the project first gained widespread attention by capturing the experiences of holocaust survivors.  Today, the technology is used for everything from entertainment, training, and answering product questions to preserving the memories of loved ones before they pass away. Jones discusses the use cases, technology evolution, and trade-offs in this rapidly growing market segment.  Jones earned PhD, master's, and undergraduate degrees in computer science from USC. 

What if your grandchildren could have a video chat with your grandmother, even if they didn't live at the same time?That is the vision behind StoryFile, a way to preserve and share personal experiences and stories in an interactive platform.Heather Smith, co-founder and Chief Visionary Officer of StoryFile, shares why it was important to her to create a new way to have conversations and make connections across generations and experiences and how you can, and should, make a StoryFile for yourself and other family members.StoryFile is revolutionizing the way we connect with each other by introducing conversational video with Audio Visual technology at the forefront of this generation. Through the click of a button, StoryFile magically turns video into a conversation. This next generation of technology uses artificial intelligence to support video conversations on any device. StoryFile transforms traditional one-way video into a two-way conversation. This is the biggest audio-visual evolution since video was first created.Go to StoryFile.com to create an account and use the code STORIESINOURROOTS for 20% off (valid through November 26, 2022).You can also follow StoryFile at:Instagram @storyfileFacebook @StoryFileAppTwitter @storyfileLinkedIn  StoryFile

Heather Maio-Smith is a visionary who had this beautiful goal of letting the children and adults of tomorrow be able to interact with and learn from those who came before them. She is the Chief Visionary Officer, Co-Founder, and President of StoryFile, which uses incredible video technology combined with artificial intelligence to support a 2- way conversation.  Instead of traditional one-way video, where you are just the listener, Heather helped bring technology to life that allows for video to respond and talk back! It mimics having a real conversation, because you can have an interactive conversation about an individual's experience. Heather thought of this idea, which turned into StoryFile, in 2010 when Siri didn't exist and right when Skype arrived on the scene. Technology had to catch up with her vision. About the Company: StoryFile is revolutionizing the way we connect with each other by introducing conversational video with audio visual technology. Through the click of a button, StoryFile magically turns video into a conversation. This next generation of technology uses artificial intelligence to support video conversations on any device. It's the biggest audio-visual evolution since video was first created. Contact Info:Heather Maio-Smith - GuestHeather's LinkedIn Profile@storyfile (Instagram)www.storyfile.com Julie Berman - Hostwww.womenwithcooljobs.com@womencooljobs (Instagram)

durée : 00:03:11 - Bientôt chez vous - Pour quelques dizaine de dollars, une start-up de Los Angeles, StoryFile, propose un service un peu hors normes : la possibilité de poser des questions à une personne décédée... qui vous répond.

Heather Maio-Smith This week Ivy Slater, host of Her Success Story, chats with her guest, Heather Maio-Smith. The two talk about the interesting path that led Heather to create StoryFile, which is drastically changing the way that we communicate, learn, and interview. In this episode, we discuss: How the idea of StoryFile began with intergenerational Holocaust memories The challenges and wins Heather has faced along the way What questions prompted the evolution of the company's vision How StoryFile is different from a typical recording Whose stories are being made available with this technology StoryFile is revolutionizing the way we connect with each other by introducing conversational video with Audio Visual technology at the forefront of this generation. StoryFile magically turns a video into a conversation through the click of a button. This next generation of technology uses artificial intelligence to support video conversations on any device. StoryFile transforms traditional one-way video into a two-way conversation. This is the biggest audio-visual evolution since the video was first created.  To receive a 20% discount on Storyfile, use code HERSUCCESSSTORY.  Expires 10/29/2022. Website: www.storyfile.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/StoryFileApp Instagram: ​​https://www.instagram.com/storyfile/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/storyfile

In this episode of the Visual Storytelling Today podcast, I chat with Stephen Smith, Cofounder & CEO of StoryFile - a fascinating AI-driven conversation storytelling platform. We talked about his impressive journey among which heading USC Shoah Foundation Institute, what is conversational video? Key benefits, project examples, typical business objectives brands are after, the process, web3 predictions, his top 3 tips for brands that are looking to develop their own conversational video project - and much more. For more information and to watch illustrative examples, watch the video recording of this episode.    This podcast is brought to you by the Visual Storytelling Institute (VSI) from Miami, FL. Learn more at VisualStorytell.com

Mike Agerbo of the App Show describes a recent security flaw that allowed hackers access to Apple devices. He also describes a new AI tool called “StoryFile.” From the August 24, 2022 episode.

Join Allie as she talks to Heather Maio-Smith, an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile.

As the Chief Visionary Officer and co-founder of StoryFile, Heather Smith is paving the way for a new generation of storytelling. Heather Smith's love for storytelling was born when she found herself creating Holocaust remembrance exhibits that traveled to Jewish Community Centers across the country and even to the United Nations. She believed the stories of Holocaust survivors were so important to capture for generations to come that she began to reimagine the storytelling experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI). She saw video as the new medium for human interaction long before we even had FaceTime. She knew the next wave of communication was going to be through video. With a passion for the project, Heather set out to create Conversa, the AI engine that drives the StoryFile platform where people can talk to a pre-recorded video as if the individual is there in front of them. More from Heather and StoryFile: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storyfile/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StoryFileApp Twitter: https://twitter.com/storyfile LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/storyfile/ Website: https://storyfile.com/ Click here to enter the giveaway!

Stai ascoltando un estratto gratuito di Ninja PRO, la selezione quotidiana di notizie per i professionisti del digital business. Con Ninja PRO puoi avere ogni giorno marketing insight, social media update, tech news, business events e una selezione di articoli di approfondimento dagli esperti della Redazione Ninja. Vai su www.ninja.it/ninjapro per abbonarti al servizio.Nintendo ha acquisito la società di produzione CG Dynamo Picture. La nuova sussidiaria verrà rinominata "Nintendo Picture" e si concentrerà sullo sviluppo, sulla pianificazione e produzione di contenuti visivi. L'acquisizione arriva mentre il brand si sta preparando per l'uscita cinematografica più significativa degli ultimi anni: un film d'animazione basato sul franchise di Super Mario Bros. Meta presenta Make-A-Scene, un'avanzata AI generativa. Il sistema crea immagini attraverso una combinazione di descrizioni testuali e schizzi liberi. Il più ampio progetto di ricerca nel quale rientra è volto a esplorare come l'intelligenza artificiale possa potenziare la creatività. Nuovi strumenti di intelligenza artificiale permettono di chattare con i parenti defunti. Mettendo insieme filmati e conversazioni registrate, diverse piattaforme sono in grado di ricreare virtualmente le persone decedute. Siamo ancora lontani dalla decodifica di una "copia" della coscienza di una persona cara, ma l'AI potrebbe essere un fattore chiave per far "risorgere nel metaverso". Axios fa il punto, ricordando i nomi delle principali risorse già attive in questo ambito: Storyfile, Amazon, HereAfter e Microsoft.

Listen on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms. Heather gives an overview of what StoryFile is [02:21] How did Heather find herself in the tech field? How did she come up with the business idea for StoryFile? [03:15] Heather talks about the journey to making her business idea happen [07:13] How did Heather find the right people to work with for her business?[11:55] Heather talks about the tech side of her business and how things worked out from a technology ownership perspective [13:58] Heather shares the uses of their services and technology [17:08] Heather talks about their latest technologies, including having their own natural language processing system [22:03] Heather talks about finding talents and how StoryFile can ba be an avenue in doing so [24:33] Heather explains what StorFile's living albums is [27:02] Why did Heather give up her role as CEO to become CVO? [28:56] Heather shares her favorite taco spots, El Coyote and Escuela Taqueria [31:50] Follow Heather online LinkedIn   StoryFile Website | LinkedIn

Welcome to Episode #458 with Heather Smith, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile.   During this episode, Heather and I will be talking about how using conversational video can shape the way we do business. Here are some highlights: Necessity is the mother of invention. The primary driving force of most new inventions is a need. Studying history helps us understand how events in the past made things the way they are today. With lessons from the past, we not only learn about ourselves and how we came to be, but also develop the ability to avoid mistakes and create better paths for our societies. We can learn something from everybody. It doesn't matter who they are. Everything has a story. Every single person on this planet has a story to tell.   Learn more about the contents discussed in this episode: Connect with Heather via LinkedIn, Instagram, StoryFile Website

Welcome to the trailer for Episode #458 with Heather Smith, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile.   In this Wednesday's episode, Heather and I will be talking about how using conversational video can shape the way we do business. Here are some highlights: Necessity is the mother of invention. The primary driving force of most new inventions is a need. Studying history helps us understand how events in the past made things the way they are today. With lessons from the past, we not only learn about ourselves and how we came to be, but also develop the ability to avoid mistakes and create better paths for our societies. We can learn something from everybody. It doesn't matter who they are. Everything has a story. Every single person on this planet has a story to tell.   Join us on Wednesday for the full episode.

Heather Smith is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile. StoryFile is revolutionizing the way we connect with each other by introducing conversational video with Audio Visual technology at the forefront of this generation. Through the click of a button, StoryFile magically turns video into a conversation. This next generation of technology uses artificial intelligence to support video conversations on any device. StoryFile transforms traditional one-way video into a two-way conversation. This is the biggest audio-visual evolution since the video was first created. Highlights Who Heather Smith is How StoryFile started As a person with a non-technical background, how did Does Heather share the development of her vision for StoryFile? What questions to ask someone who's experiencing the same thing as you What kept Heather and StoryFile going How StoryFile can be used in different horizons Where are they focusing more: Business use or consumer use? Where to learn more about Heather and StoryFile Episode Resources Connect with Raul Hernandez Ochoa https://www.linkedin.com/in/dogoodwork https://dogoodwork.io/work-with-raul https://dogoodwork.io/podcast Connect with Heather Smith https://www.storyfile.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-maio-smith 

Interview with Stephen Smith of StoryFile. Lisa drops in for a visit.

Daniel Sieberg Co-Founder, Chief Content Officer: GoodTrust Director, Innovation Marketing, Moody's Author: The Digital Diet (2011); Digital Legacy (2020, w/ Rikard Steiber) https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielsieberg/ ------------------     Katty Welcome to the artisan podcast as we welcome Daniel Seiberg as our next guest. Daniel is the Co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Good Trust and the Director of Innovation Marketing at Moody's. But above all, Daniel is a storyteller. Throughout his career he has told stories of brands and stories of people as a journalist, as an author, as an entrepreneur. He has traveled to over 70 countries and has worked in marketing, communications, product, and partnerships at many well known companies including Google as well as many news outlets. I'm so excited to have Daniel here so that we can talk about storytelling and how that impacts interviewing and how we can show up as our authentic selves, not only to an interview but any role that we start. So, with that, let's welcome Daniel.   Daniel Hi, Katty. It's wonderful to be with you and dwell in possibilities as the sign over your shoulder reads and talk about storytelling. Probably one of my favorite subjects.   Katty Yeah, thank you. I was fascinated when we had met a few weeks ago just to talk about the concept of storytelling and wanted to bring that to the audience here. Obviously, the audience who listens here are all storytellers… whether they're visual storytellers, or writers, or marketers. But this concept of storytelling is so important, and as we are recording this, the gardeners have come. So for the audience, just giving you a little warning if you're hearing noise, it's out of my control.   Daniel This is all part of our story right now.    Katty This is the story of working from home.    Daniel Yes, exactly.   Katty It is what it is.    Daniel Yep, life in 2022.    Katty Yep, we will speak loudly to overcome that. So, Daniel, how did you get started on this path? Let's go there first.   Daniel Yeah, absolutely and I will keep my origin story relatively tight. I would just say that my father spent his career as an engineering electronics technician working with oceanographers who went to the North Pole to study climate change. So I was exposed to the “how does anything work” kinds of questions from an early age. My family believes in service and my sister is a nurse practitioner. So that's a little bit of my orientation in the world.    And then coupled with that, my maternal grandmother died of complications from Alzheimer's and I can distinctly remember what it was like to see her at her 75th birthday party, and as an awkward 14-year-old walk up to her with a present and for her to say, “Oh, this is lovely, dear, thank you, and who are you?” And for the two of us to sort of die in front of each other in that moment. So what struck me is the value of our stories and how we pass them on. How we convey them. They're sort of the storytelling or how we do that. There's the tools that we use to tell those stories, there's the subject matter, that people, and everything wrapped up in what it means to tell a story and of course to listen,  to receive,  or to watch. So that, I think, is what ultimately pushed me into a career of being a journalist. In my case, it was science and technology. I did a master's degree in journalism with a focus of technology at The University of British Columbia…. a long time ago.    The arc of my career went through working at CNN, covering those subjects including space and environment, and on to CBS News, and ABC and then I pivoted away from being a practicing journalist, if you will, to focusing on technology and I would say helping others use technology to tell stories. So I spent several years at Google and helped to create a couple of teams in service of empowering newsrooms to use technology to tell stories in new ways with data through different tools, training journalists, helping to identify new markets and thinking about success metrics and a lot of stuff that newsrooms are thinking about back then integrating that into their workflow.    And then left all of that about four and a half years ago and went into entrepreneurship. I continued to stay close to the idea of storytelling and I co-founded a blockchain startup at one point. I've been an advisor to many startups, started my own company that was about an immersive kind of AR augmented reality, virtual reality kind of an experience to communicate with people and hear stories of the past. A couple of years ago, I connected with a former fellow Googler who I didn't know and we embarked on this journey of co-writing a book together. And in parallel, building a company called Good Trust, which is all about this idea of digital legacy. So now that we have the first book I wrote was called Digital Diet, which was all about living with technology. And now here we are ten years later, and we're all sort of dying with it in sort of a morbid way. But this is the way that we've evolved through technology and how it captures our stories. And so, this is where I find myself, somewhere at that intersection of technology, storytelling, and all of us mere humans.   Katty It speaks to me and it resonates with me, because I wrote a book about grief and that whole journey through loss and certainly, memories and stories of our loved ones are particularly near and dear to my heart. And making sure that we're preserving them and being able to share that legacy. But you bring up a digital legacy, and that's pretty interesting. And I think what I gathered from what I learned from that you had shared with me about your book, and correct me if I'm wrong, it's really kind of just being mindful and being aware of the digital legacy and the footprint that we're leaving behind. Right?   Daniel Exactly, and I mean, to the degree to which if we look back or up into our family tree, if you will, and the creative output that became the sum total of someone's identity. So for example, we hope, maybe we're not all of us, many of us have an Ancestry or My Heritage profile, right? Particularly as we age, we start to think about how to capture all of that with just one or two generations earlier.    Maybe the artifacts that we have with those people are a postcard or to a letter, a handful of photos. You know, if the person lives into the 60s and 70s, maybe there's some video,  but it's in a format is hard to share and hard to preserve. But now as we get into the 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, the output of each of us has grown exponentially that reflection of who we are. We create 10x of what we have on somebody's ancestry profile every day in our email, the photos that are found and you know, the accounts we have and social media posts and on and on. And if somebody had access to all of that, you know if I could see what my grandfather actually created or thought or did or said.    I would personally be fascinated by it. Now for somebody else to come across that maybe that starts to feel a little creepy, or there are privacy issues and ethics and all the rest of it. But I do think that awareness, part of it that you referenced, is something that we've thought a lot about with Good Trust, because if somebody passes away whether you're in your immediate family, or even a friend and you don't know that they have, you know, a Facebook, a LinkedIn, still have a MySpace, like all these places where they've got all this stuff, that's sort of an early challenge. And then on another level, is there some crypto somewhere that you don't know about? Is there a retirement account that somebody forgot to tell you about its password? And all of a sudden there were these pragmatic reasons to be aware of all of this too. So there's like the emotional and the pragmatic side to know all this.   Katty And for sure, and I imagine now with creatives, and NFTs, that's a whole nother piece to keep track of.   Daniel Exactly. You know, we've tried to create ways for people to do that through something we've called a digital vault, with kind of this notion that you can assign a trusted contact to help you to do this on your behalf after you pass away or to help somebody who is already a family of somebody who's already passed away to take care of all of this, because the reality is that the average person spends about, the exact number is, six hours and fifty-two minutes a day online. I think through the pandemic, that's probably gone up. Let's just say, most of your waking hours during the day are spent somehow connected to the internet.    How much of that time you actually are creating something you want to save and remember and pass on to people? Maybe it's like 10 to 20%, but still on a daily basis, that's a lot. I mean, just today, you know, if I go back to get those notifications of a memory and remember back on this day, right? And those are photos and like I do not want those photos to get lost. These are photos and it doesn't even have to be some huge occasion when anniversary or birthday. Sometimes it's those every day, I'm using air quotes for people who can't see us because “every day” moments where you know, your kids do something and you want to remember.  When you were building a tree fort, and you know, those are the kinds of photos you want to pass on to people. So how to identify those, how do you pass them on in a way that feels tangible to someone else to do something on your behalf? This is really what we're talking about with digital legacy. It's the story of you, just in a digital capacity.   Daniel And who gets to see it and who gets to access it. And these days, we have some AI ways to think about this. For example, you can animate a photo through our site where you can sort of bring it to life, if you will. So if you have a picture for let's say, you know, from 60 or 70 years ago, you can animate it in a way that the person now has some expressions and nice to feel like so you can kind of capture their essence a little bit more and share all of that.    There are other companies, there's one called HereAfter that allows you to have a conversation with somebody who has passed away. If you ask them some questions, so for example, if I asked you a series of 100 questions about your life, what Hereafter will do is take that data or you can do it on your own behalf and create a conversational AI experience so that you could learn about your history and you know, even after the person passed away, you have these memories and you can use your smartphone device. You know, be with the family and ask them questions. There's a video one called StoryFile, which you can do with video you can do as an app on your phone and it's now sort of talking to you, you know. And it could be somebody who's already passed away. They did this at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and at a certain point with Holocaust survivors, you could ask them questions. So this is the direction that we're going with the stories. They are being created in a digital way, preserved in a digital way, and now sort of passed on in this digital way.   Katty Yeah, I was talking to someone yesterday actually on another podcast about augmented reality, And how cool would it be if we could create something where a hologram of a person passed could be a conversation that we're having.   Daniel Absolutely. And, you know, today it's possible in a limited way for people who either have the money or the means to do that. So for example, Kanye West gave his wife at the time Kim Kardashian, a hologram of her deceased father, Robert Kardashian for her birthday and she could actually see it and interact with it and he was sort of speaking to her you know, if you will from the afterlife. There's an example of a mother in Korea, who her daughter had died at a young age seven or eight, horribly tragic event as tragic as anybody could imagine. And what this company offered her was a virtual reality experience to interact with her daughter. They created kind of a digital version of her daughter, and then the mom got to sort of say hi, and kind of, you know, bring her back to life if you will. The mom was so emotional and watching it is difficult, and there's some part of you that, or at least for me, that's conflicted, or you think, is this what she should be doing to deal with her grief or not. On the other hand, this is how she feels she wanted to do it. And maybe it's cathartic in some ways for her to experience all of this in that way. So,fascinating discussions about all that.   Katty Yeah, for sure. I could talk to you about this for a long time, but for this podcast lets bring it back to creatives. And actually I think mostly sharing just in terms of the story we're telling about ourselves online. That's an important piece and we always on the recruitment side of our business, we're always talking to candidates about, what does your online presence depict? Is there a through line between what you say you want to do and how you've created your LinkedIn profile, for example. And then you have all these other assets that you're creating. So what could you share with us in terms of our online story? When it comes to branding, our personal brand and how that represents online? Is there something that we can tie that back into what is my story as a candidate, what's my story as a job seeker?   Daniel Here's what I would say. First of all, for me personally, I'm going to call myself a digital immigrant insofar as you know, I didn't grow up with the Internet. And, you know, it became part of my life at a certain point. But for of course, a whole other generation that we're talking about, you know, millennials Gen Z, this is just what they know. And so their life is captured in this digital way from the beginning, if you will, right? Their parents are sharing photos of them and then they have a digital presence. So they have a digital self from day one to think about.    And I think what I wish I could tell my younger self was be authentic you in every case, whether it's something you're talking about in a broader public context, like social media, or something you're sharing a little more privately or whatever it is, just be the authentic you.  Kind of imagine that somebody could either look over your shoulder or look at your account or see what you were posting, just be the same person, accept who you are. I've gotten better at doing as I've aged, I wish I sort of figured all this out much younger,because I think what can happen is that social media of course triggers our ego, this sense of projecting, and, you know, I think pulls out a lot of our insecurities. We may not be that person in our entirety.    When I worked at Google, we used to say that social media was a reflection of of someone's ego and search was more of your id, what are you really thinking? Right? So if you could see what people search history is versus what they posted on Facebook could be quite different. Right? And I think that prospective employers can now start to sense that if not detected  you know, whether it's within your resume, does that line up with what you're saying you did or how you conduct yourself, all of those kinds of sensitivities to think about.    I think that the earlier on in your life that you can just be that one person no matter what the medium is. Just have that reflected out into the world. I just feel like the more confident you'll be, the more successful you'll be. But this is again, I wish I could tell my younger self all this in this sort of sense. It's easier to say than to do.   Katty Yeah. Why do you think storytelling is so important? Why stories?   Daniel You know, somebody told me once that there are six words that if you say that it's anybody, they will trigger a part of the brain and their words are, “let me tell you a story.” And there's something that's universal about stories and the way that it captures our attention, and our engagement and our curiosity. Some of the best sort of human traits are fired up when we know there's a story coming. What can we learn? What does this mean? What happened? Tell me more, right? And I think for anybody who has kids, when you stop reading this story, like halfway through they're like no, no, no, no…. you have to keep going. And it's kind of wonderful in a way to see that because but it does require, it asks of us to be this listener and somebody who is  paying attention, if you will. And I think that, to me, stories are the way that knowledge is passed on, yes, but perhaps more importantly, experience and wisdom.    For a time I had this idea of a product that was like a wisdom engine. These days, we think about the search for knowledge and understanding the facts and all of that, but what about all this tremendous wisdom that we all possess and how do we find that from other people? We can read about it and books and learn philosophy and all that. It used to be that we would sign up as human beings in a philosophy house that was what we sort of ascribed to a particular philosophy and that was our way of looking at the world, and we were a stoic and that's kind of what we thought and we talked about that and discussed it with people. These days of course, there's some of that with faith or with religion, but philosophically, I feel like stories contain so much of that philosophy and so much we can learn from them. And they manifest in different ways, movie, TV show, a commercial, an ad can be a little bit of a story, a website, an email.    I just think that they are universal and there's a finite number of universal truths that appear in an infinite number of stories. It's when people would say there are really only 16 original stories in the world and they're a million different ways to tell the same story throughout history, but I think it's one of the best ways for people to learn, and to capture something that feels fundamentally important as human beings.  We started by trying to tell people things through cave drawings…look, just pay attention to this thing. I don't know how to, speak your language or get you to listen to me, but I'm going to draw it here and just look at this thing, right?   And now people are scrolling through TikTok, and we start to lose people's attention spans. This is my great concern with stories. Is that they're going to be lost, because people can't pay attention for more than a few seconds. When I watch films now, I'm like, can we hold a shot for longer than two seconds before we have to go to the next thing and the next thing. Let's read the person's expression, let's sit for a second in this moment. I get that the world's moving at a faster pace, and I don't want to be the fuddy duddy who's like can we go back to fax machines and slow things down? I'm on the cutting edge, I like being out on the frontier,but there's something about a linear understanding of something that requires the story to capture people's attention and to learn. And if you weren't able to do that or don't have that opportunity, I feel like we're losing something as a species as a society. I'll get off my soapbox now.   Katty I agree because I think stories pull you in. As you said, “let me tell you a story”, and that naturally just makes people lean in and ask, ”what's coming next?”  Question for you, kind of going back to candidates and interviewing. How can one tell their story in a short way? Are there any tips in terms of how a candidate in an interview can just authentically show who they are whether it's through their resume or in the interview process that is concise? They can't start the interview with like, let me tell you a story. But you know, a traditional question is like, “tell me about yourself?” “How did you get started?” So are there any recommendations that you can leave our audience with in terms of how to be able to weave their story into the facts of what it is that they do?   Daniel I love when people can tell a story. I'm going to see if I can just wrap this in the right way but like, a humbly confident manner. So in other words, they're aware, they're self aware enough in their place in their own story, such that they can tell it in a sort of an articulate way. They can describe what they learned, maybe throughout their life and  in their career. But they're not saying it in a way that's sort of like well, “I've figured it all out and just like everybody out of my way, obviously you should hire me!”  It's more of a journey and kind of giving you a sense of how they got here. And I love being pulled into those stories and people talking about you know, I I went through this health scare, but I what I discovered about myself was this, and then I went on to create this thing, and I thought I had figured it all out but then this happened, and then I joined up with this person and we built this thing. I love hearing those stories.  I remember when I was in journalism, early journalism classes, I had a writing professor who said, anytime you write a biography about somebody, you've got to include a nose picker. Like a something about the person that isn't this lofty, they were this great, whatever, right? We all have our nose pickers about ourselves. Nobody's a perfect person.    I think when we go into an interview, the sense is to project, I'm perfect, not only am I perfect, but I'm perfect for the job, and clearly you should hire me and let's get to it. Sometimes I think younger people are unsure of where the balance is, they don't want to seem like they're not confident, on the other hand, if you're overconfident people tend to sort of lean back a little bit. They're like, alright, well, sorry the room isn't big enough for your ego. So I think there's some amount that needs to come into how you convey yourself and just admit that you have your own failings, right?  We all have our nose picker kind of things that we can highlight.   The classic kind of thing when people say “what's a negative attribute you would say about yourself?” The one that people have been told not to say it's like, I'm too much of a perfectionist. I just wanted to write “Oh, are you Oh, you're too much of a perfectionist?” Versus If someone were to ask me what is my nose picker? I would say I've done lots of different personality tests, so it's sort of a scary and exciting to kind of learn these things about yourself. But I feel like one of the things for me that can be a nose picker is that I consider myself a leader with passion, somebody who wants to move forward as solutions oriented. “Hey, everybody, like let's go this way. We'll figure it out. Like come on, like how can you do this? Great, awesome idea. Let's do it.” Right? And then the flip side of that, in terms of the optics of it is that it can be seen a little too intense. So people are like, Okay, well Daniel, slow down and let's pause for a minute and talk about all this and do more measures. So,  I can get caught up in my head overthinking that too. So I love when I can observe somebody else who's great at all of this, this kind of being humbly confident or whoever you sort of think about it, and observing them and saying like, I want to be like that. That's how I want to be getting out of my own way sometimes because I think also I can be able to be Canadian.I'm from Canada originally I feel like I'm an honorary New Yorker after 16 years, but I can be a little too Canadian and think, I need to defer to others or not be as you know, little forthright in what I think are my opinions.    And Canadian are terrible at apologizing all the time and wanting to be liked because we're just just like America's hat, up there and you know, “Gosh, darn it, I hope people will think we're all right in the world.” And, so rather than being this kind of like bold, American I know it's we can do this and, might so often they're in there like just wrestling way and I tried to smooth those waters to some degree and be a little more of like the calm like the duck, with the feet under the water paddling and I'm just the duck. I don't wanna say Swan, I don't quite put myself in that category.   Katty But they're paddling really, really fast!   Daniel  They are paddling really fast. There's definitely that side of me, beneath the surface. But I know people don't like to see that because it makes them anxious.   Katty Yeah, exactly. That's so funny. It brings it back to authenticity, right like if you're in that interview, and you can't show up as who you are then.   Daniel Yeah. And if for whatever reason, it doesn't work out and oh my gosh, we've all had those moments. Then you sort of say okay, just wasn't meant to be. And I think that this is something else I've needed to learn over the course of my career is that the more you can be your authentic self and live in the moment and whatever's going on and accept that you know, there will be an outcome from that.  It may not be exactly what you'd imagine. If it isn't, then okay, but maybe sort of no expectations, I think is another thing. I think we all sometimes put high expectations and put it on ourselves or in a situation where we want to stay and we push ourselves and that can come across too or it's like just wow, okay, whoa…iit goes back to the intensity. And so I think I've needed to regulate that and modulate that in some ways. And just, you know, a little bit the, you know, Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers has asked children to, or ask parents to say to their children, I love you just the way you are.    And I think if you can do that with yourself in a little bit of a self affirming sort of way, which I know that this can all sound a little too out there for some people, but if you can have these kinds of conversations with yourself, and really like who you are, and when you go into a job interview, or to have a discussion with somebody, allow that authentic self to come out. Ideally, it connects with that person. And if it doesn't, then it wasn't meant to be and rather than sort of regretting it, or trying to force it, think okay, on to the next. See that there's always another adventure or opportunity out there.   Katty Yeah, good point. If we don't show up as our authentic self, and we put on airs during the interview, certainly, that's something that when we show up to the job, day after day, day after day, it has to be our authentic self.  There's no way that we would want to or even can hold up a pretense.  It's just not going to work. It's not going to be the right job.   Daniel Exactly, it's not and that's when you drift into, I don't know if people have read Catcher in the Rye recently but you start to become Holden Caufield and you just feel like a phony, and I have had jobs where I felt like phony, because I sort of got my way in the door, if you will and then by the end, then a month or two months later, you know, it started to feel awful. And then it just goes down. And it's really hard to recover from that. And so, rather than trying to come up with this fake story.    When I interviewed younger people now I would rather they told me that they don't have a ton of experience, but they really want to learn, or that they haven't done this thing yet, but they did this thing and here's what they discovered.   At Google, when we would hire people, and I was involved in a lot of different interviews and hiring people at Google. I think you could actually get a badge internally,  I think, mine got up to 75 or whatever it was six years. So anyway, enough people that I loved just that experience. And there were different quadrants to assess as people would come in: role related knowledge and, what was their experience and just all this stuff, and Googliness was one that people still probably have a hard time kind of figuring out.  The one that to me that was most important was categorized as GCA, so general cognitive ability.  The way that was expressed to me was not is the person smart or not, or what was the SAT… that doesn't matter.  It's could that person, if you brought them in under one particular job description, and let's say that product went away, for whatever reason, sunsetted, wasn't renewed or funded again..could that person be moved over to a completely different job, different team, different product and perform and excel in that environment, because they have that general cognitive ability to adapt to a whole different thing? If the answer is yes, that you think that that person scores high there, that to me was the  most valuable aspect of evaluating somebody. Because that's what we're all asked to do, is to adapt, be solutions oriented, have the growth mindset, all of these attributes we look for people. When I came across somebody who I felt possessed that, and there are people who I hired at Google who are still there, and I love seeing the arc of their career, and in my head, I'm like, I knew that they would be that person. I'm like, I told you, Google people, I don't work there anymore. You know what I mean, I'm in the background cheering them on, because I think this is exactly what companies need,are these people who can who have that neuroplasticity, and growth mindset and can adapt because companies change even big companies that think they're never going to change?   Katty Yeah, one of our core values at Artisan is agility of thought and action, because at least in the 27 years we've had Artisan our clients have changed drastically from exacto knives and paste up boards to where we are today. And they will probably continue changing and evolving like we were just talking about AR and VR and where the world is going. So, agility fits into GCA, general cognitive abilities. I'll ask you this as a final question, did you have a favorite interview question that you always asked? I always hear Google questions are pretty unique but what was your favorite question to ask?   Daniel I know some of the Google questions, I'm mean, there are even like sites dedicated to like trend questions. And for a long time they were like, the question is, like, why is a manhole cover round, you know just these kinds of random things, right. I don't know, because the equipment anyway, people would obsess over these things, right?    I gave a talk about this recently about failure, and what it means to fail and I always loved hearing people share their stories of failure. And to me, if people have that failure story, they know what that failure moment was and they can identify it and they can express it and talk about it in a way that you can see that they've clearly evolved through it and taken what they can from it.     I read recently about the concept of failure compost that even though you may have failed, the project, failed idea whatever it was, you can sort of take some of that and turn it into fertilizer for your next project.   Katty Yeah, like that.   Daniel I'm gonna give full credit to the Google X team. It was part of a moonshot email, but they were describing this whole concept of failure compost. I just think there's something wonderfully sort of like a virtuous cycle of, of life almost in a way because people can put so much of themselves into something that fails and if, if you can go through that and see how it refined you, and then come out the other side, and remember to not identify yourself as a failure, and to be able to say, Yes, I failed,but here's what I learned and I'm ready for the next thing.    I mean, you know, someone like Michael Jordan is famous for his success, of course. But one of his quotes that I think people love to follow up on is the number of times he missed shots, was was given the ball at the last second to win the game and missed and he says, you know, I failed over and over and over again, and that's why I succeeded. It's such a powerful way to think about success.    I mean, there's a tremendous book by Srikumar Rao, who is at Columbia Business School Professor has this whole framework around how to approach your life and business and really the book is called Are you ready to succeed? And to me the flip of that, of course, is in your head like, are you ready to fail? No, I don't want to fail. But so how do you kind of think about that and cope with it and, and ideally thrive out of those kinds of situations. So anyway, that was my favorite question,and I always loved hearing about it. There's never any judgment. I mean, it's not. So I just loved having those conversations with people.    Katty Well, it brings us back to being authentic. Right? You can not be authentic if you've never failed before, because we all have at some point, we've all fallen down and then gotten up, dusted ourselves off and said, Oh, right now what now? Where do I go?   Daniel I think it gets to a path of trust much faster. Especially in an interview or when you're meeting somebody for the first time, if you can acknowledge that place. Because you know that to me is what helps to build and broker trust is, and ideally when you get the job, and you go through that together, and you fail, you succeed, that brings people together. It's like connective tissue being in the trenches you're figuring it out together. But if you can kind of get that in the early moments with somebody and kind of understand it and be a bit vulnerable. I just think they're on a great path.   Katty Beautiful, beautiful words, and I think a great lesson, just the authenticity. I see it so much when we interview hundreds of candidates in a given time period and I cannot tell you how many people have told me, that when I've asked them so what happened at the previous job? Why did you leave? Like hardly anyone's ever says that I was fired. And then you do a reference check and it comes back but they were fired. We'll just say it just, just say and share why and not have these surprises in the little box that's going pop up like a little Jack in the Box.   So this goes back to what you were saying just being authentic. What's the lesson learned, what happened, what were the circumstances, what did you do, what did you not do, and what have you learned from that?   Daniel Exactly. Well, I think the gardeners must have stopped to listen in on our conversation or something.   Katty Yeah, it's nice and quite. They're done. They were buzzing away at the height of our conversation so I'll listen and see what they said but you know what.. we're being authentic here, so.    Daniel We persevered through it.   

Rachael Cerrotti sits down in Los Angeles with oral historian Stephen D. Smith who co-created The Memory Generation for a conversation about testimony and the retelling of war-torn memories. For 12 years, Stephen served as the Finci-Viterbi Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation, the archive founded by Steven Spielberg to document the Holocaust and genocide. He recently left  that role to be the Executive Chairman and co-founder of StoryFile, the world's first AI conversational video platform that brings video alive. In addition, Stephen founded the UK Holocaust Centre in England, cofounded the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide and was the project director responsible for the creation of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda. He is a theologian by training, has authored several books, produced several documentary films and was the inaugural UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education. 

Heather Smith is the co-founder and CEO of StoryFile, an interactive storytelling platform that uses artificial intelligence and language processing to “make video interaction feel just like a real conversation.” Heather has brought science into storytelling, as Dave says. Though she considers herself a non-techie, she also considers it an advantage. She says “when you think anything is possible, then you can imagine something.” Links StoryFile: https://storyfile.com/

How many of you wish you could talk to a loved one who's passed on? What would it mean to you to be able to introduce your kids to a favourite relative who they never had a chance to meet? It makes me so sad to have lost my dad only 8 years ago and I wish I could pick up the phone and talk to him. My guest, Heather Smith is the mastermind behind StoryFile which can capture the stories of your loved ones for generations to come! I first saw Heather on 60 minutes when she shared her work with Holocaust survivors in order to capture their stories so they don't die with them. The link to the full interview is below. She has also interviewed astronauts, business leaders, actors, veterans, and people who are making a difference in the world today. Her innovative AI technology allows you to interview your loved ones with curated questions, and from there, the AI takes over which allows you to ask questions and they'll answer just as if they were sitting across from you. It's amazing! You can try it out yourself on their site and ask William Shatner any question you like! With Mother's Day coming up, I can't think of a better gift to give her than to capture her stories for future generations. 60 Minutes Interview: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/holocaust-stories-artificial-intelligence-60-minutes-2020-04-05/ Heather has a VALUABLE, some may say priceless gift for our listeners! In the toolbox you will find a coupon code for one free story pack and 33 extra questions. If you aren't a part of the Parent Toolbox, join here: www.parent-toolbox.com About Heather Smith Heather Maio-Smith is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile. In 2010, Heather developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display. At the time, she was creating physical video installations at the United Nations, USC, and in Havana, Cuba, but she understood that the future of storytelling lay at the intersection of digital media and ‘natural conversation' and decided to create it. Heather developed a strategic partnership with two global entities with competencies in visual media and technology - USC Shoah Foundation and the Institute for Creative Technologies. The partnership she led has resulted in the development of a new medium - natural conversation video. Through Heather's leadership, immersive interactive natural conversation video has gone from being a concept to a reality, combining hi-fidelity multi-scopic video with voice commands to deliver commercial grade natural conversation with an individual, whether it's a life-sized video or on your mobile device, replicating the emotional experience of having a conversation with a person. She developed and pioneered Dimensions in Testimony, a program to interview Holocaust Survivors in volumetric interactive video without that survivor actually being present. Dimensions in Testimony won both the People's Choice Award and the Jury Prize at Sheffield Doc Fest in 2016. She produced and led the project before moving on to found and lead StoryFile. Contact information: Email: storyfile@storyfile.com Social Media: Website: https://storyfile.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/storyfile/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StoryFileApp/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/storyfile?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storyfile/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoki3E4CCSc0xko53isO0Jw Thanks for listening! It means so much to me that you listened to my podcast! If you resonate with my message and would like my personal help in your parenting journey, I'd love to talk to you. Please visit my website to book a call with me where we can talk about your parenting frustrations and I'll share how I can help you. www.parentingforconnection.com My intention with my show is to build a...

Episode Highlights: Heather explains what StoryFile does and how she got into it (Even without any tech experience), How using conversational video can shape the way we do business, Difference between deep fakes, avatars, and what StoryFile does, How Heather's want to provide the ability for future generations to have conversations with Holocaust survivors sparked this new technology and the creation of StoryFile Life, How Heather balances running StoryFile with her husband and many other family members (As a family business)... The post Conversational Videos – The intersection of storytelling & artificial intelligence with Heather Maio-Smith appeared first on Eventual Millionaire.

Episode Highlights: Heather explains what StoryFile does and how she got into it (Even without any tech experience), How using conversational video can shape the way we do business, Difference between deep fakes, avatars, and what StoryFile does, How Heather's want to provide the ability for future generations to have conversations with Holocaust survivors sparked this new technology and the creation of StoryFile Life, How Heather balances running StoryFile with her husband and many other family members (As a family business)... https://eventualmillionaire.com/conversational-videos-the-intersection-of-storytelling-artificial-intelligence-with-heather-maio-smith Thank you so much for watching!

Episode Highlights: Heather explains what StoryFile does and how she got into it (Even without any tech experience), How using conversational video can shape the way we do business, Difference between deep fakes, avatars, and what StoryFile does, How Heather's want to provide the ability for future generations to have conversations with Holocaust survivors sparked this new technology and the creation of StoryFile Life, How Heather balances running StoryFile with her husband and many other family members (As a family business)... The post Conversational Videos – The intersection of storytelling & artificial intelligence with Heather Maio-Smith appeared first on Eventual Millionaire.

Heather Maio-Smith is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile. In 2010, Heather developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display. At the time, she was creating physical video installations at the United Nations, USC, and in Havana, Cuba, but she understood that the future of storytelling lay at the intersection of digital media and ‘natural conversation' and decided to create it.Heather developed a strategic partnership with two global entities with competencies in visual media and technology – USC Shoah Foundation and the Institute for Creative Technologies. The partnership she led has resulted in the development of a new medium – natural conversation video.Through Heather's leadership, immersive interactive natural conversation video has gone from being a concept to a reality, combining hi-fidelity multi-scopic video with voice commands to deliver commercial grade natural conversation with an individual, whether it's a life-sized video or on your mobile device, replicating the emotional experience of having a conversation with a person. She developed and pioneered Dimensions in Testimony, a program to interview Holocaust Survivors in volumetric interactive video without that survivor actually being present. Dimensions in Testimony won both the People's Choice Award and the Jury Prize at Sheffield Doc Fest in 2016. She produced and led the project before moving on to found and lead StoryFile.As a leader in content based technology, she has spoken about Natural Conversation at Microsoft (2017), US Holocaust Museum (2017), Dartmouth College (2018), FoST (2018), SXSW (2019), SXSW (2019), The LA Times Festival of Books (2019), M.I.T. (2020), and AI Summit (2020). Heather's work has been featured in Fast Company, NBC's The Today Show, The New Yorker, Reuters and BBC. She was also featured on 60 Minutes in 2020.www.storyfile.com https://www.instagram.com/storyfile/?hl=enSource: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/heather-maio-smith-award-winning-interactive-storytelling-pioneer-brilliance-business

Many of us long for the opportunity to have a conversation with a loved one that has left us.   The ability to ask questions about experiences, past events and relationships.  To truly understand who someone was like through the tone of a voice, facial expressions and body language.  Enter in the revolutionary technology and platform, Storyfile.  After working many years with the Steven Spielberg USC Shoah Foundation to document Holocaust survivor stories, Heather Maio-Smith collected the brightest minds to take the video testimonials a huge leap forward.  Storyfile enables individuals to video record prompted questions that enable a friend, colleague or family member to asks questions that feel as though they are having a natural and real conversation with the individual on the other side of the screen.   Through cutting edge technology and artificial intelligence, Storyfile creates an experience that helps capture the moments, personalities and memories we all want to have with our loved ones. 

Heather Smith setup Storyfile turning videos into conversations, enabling you to share your story with your descendants.  

Ep 50. The Hybrid Heart; When Human Emotion Meets Tech  Listen in as we talk to Heather Maio-Smith* about the intersection of human emotion with technology for future generations to come and how it can help share what really matters; stories that are the foundation of a family.   In this episode, you'll learn:  How businesses can utilize next gen tech to support the next gen in the family  The history of StoryFile; how Heather wants to provide the ability for future generations to have conversations with Holocaust survivors  How Heather balances running StoryFile with her husband - and many other members of her family - as a family business  OUR GUEST  Heather Maio-Smith*  Heather is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile.   In 2010, Heather developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display. At the time, she was creating physical video installations at the United Nations, USC, and in Havana, Cuba, but she understood that the future of storytelling lay at the intersection of digital media and ‘natural conversation' and decided to create it.    Heather developed a strategic partnership with two global entities with competencies in visual media and technology - USC Shoah Foundation and the Institute for Creative Technologies.  The partnership she led has resulted in the development of a new medium - natural conversation video.    Through Heather's leadership, immersive interactive natural conversation video has gone from being a concept to a reality, combining hi-fidelity multi-scopic video with voice commands to deliver commercial grade natural conversation with an individual, whether it's  a life-sized video or on your mobile device, replicating the emotional experience of having a conversation with a person. She developed and pioneered Dimensions in Testimony, a program to interview Holocaust Survivors in volumetric interactive video without that survivor actually being present. Dimensions in Testimony won both the People's Choice Award and the Jury Prize at Sheffield Doc Fest in 2016. She produced and led the project before moving on to found and lead StoryFile.  ----------------  *Not affiliated  with Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp.  Michael Palumbos is a registered representative of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp.   Securities and investment advisory services offered through Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp., a broker/dealer (member SIPC) and registered investment advisor. Insurance offered through Lincoln affiliates and other fine companies.   Family Wealth and Legacy LLC is not an affiliate of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp.  CRN-4210729-012022

Welcome to Episode 200 of Building My Legacy.Heather Smith's goal is to revolutionize the way we connect with others. Through a unique conversational video technique, her company StoryFile makes it possible for you to tell your story and allow others to interact with you just as if you were having a conversation. Using AI, StoryFile lets a family member or anyone view your video interview, ask you questions and receive answers in your own voice. So children, grandchildren and others can interact with someone's StoryFile no matter where they are or even if they've passed on. It's a unique way to communicate with future generations and a new tool to help you build your legacy.So if you want to know:Why your story mattersThe importance of connecting with others across generationsHow to enable future generations to hear your story and learn from your experienceAbout Heather SmithHeather Smith, co-founder and CEO of StoryFile, has more than a decade of immersive storytelling leadership. In 2010, she developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display. Heather then discovered that the future of storytelling lay at the intersection of digital media and natural conversation. Her work has been featured in NBC's The Today Show, The New Yorker and on “60 Minutes.” More information is available at www.storyfile.com About Lois Sonstegard, PhDWorking with business leaders for more than 30 years, Lois has learned that successful leaders have a passion to leave a meaningful legacy. Leaders often ask: When does one begin to think about legacy? Is there a “best” approach? Is there a process or steps one should follow?Lois is dedicated not only to developing leaders but to helping them build a meaningful legacy. Learn more about how Lois can help your organization with Leadership Consulting and Executive Coaching:https://build2morrow.com/Thanks for Tuning In!Thanks so much for being with us this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Please leave a note in the comments section below!If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with your friends by using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates.And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the ranking of the show, and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get.Please leave a review right now. Thanks for listening!Building My Legacyhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/building-my-legacy/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/episode-200-heather-smith-with-a-new-way-to-tell-your-story-now-and-in-the-future-building-my-legacy-w-lois-sonstegard-phd

Welcome to Episode 200 of Building My Legacy.Heather Smith's goal is to revolutionize the way we connect with others. Through a unique conversational video technique, her company StoryFile makes it possible for you to tell your story and allow others to interact with you just as if you were having a conversation. Using AI, StoryFile lets a family member or anyone view your video interview, ask you questions and receive answers in your own voice. So children, grandchildren and others can interact with someone's StoryFile no matter where they are or even if they've passed on. It's a unique way to communicate with future generations and a new tool to help you build your legacy.So if you want to know:Why your story mattersThe importance of connecting with others across generationsHow to enable future generations to hear your story and learn from your experienceAbout Heather SmithHeather Smith, co-founder and CEO of StoryFile, has more than a decade of immersive storytelling leadership. In 2010, she developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display. Heather then discovered that the future of storytelling lay at the intersection of digital media and natural conversation. Her work has been featured in NBC's The Today Show, The New Yorker and on “60 Minutes.” More information is available at www.storyfile.com About Lois Sonstegard, PhDWorking with business leaders for more than 30 years, Lois has learned that successful leaders have a passion to leave a meaningful legacy. Leaders often ask: When does one begin to think about legacy? Is there a “best” approach? Is there a process or steps one should follow?Lois is dedicated not only to developing leaders but to helping them build a meaningful legacy. Learn more about how Lois can help your organization with Leadership Consulting and Executive Coaching:https://build2morrow.com/Thanks for Tuning In!Thanks so much for being with us this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Please leave a note in the comments section below!If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with your friends by using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates.And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the ranking of the show, and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get.Please leave a review right now. Thanks for listening!Building My Legacyhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/building-my-legacy/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/episode-200-heather-smith-with-a-new-way-to-tell-your-story-now-and-in-the-future-building-my-legacy-w-lois-sonstegard-phd

Imagine being able to share your story with the world in a way that will be available forever or getting the chance to ask an ancestor or any remarkable person a question. All of that and more is now possible with StoryFile, a startup that launched its first consumer product in October. Something that started as a way to hear Holocaust survivors is now available to anyone who wants to share their life story or listen to the wisdom of others. StoryFile co-founder and CEO Heather Maio-Smith spoke with startup coach Roland Siebelink on the latest episode of the Midstage Startup Momentum Podcast. They discussed the roots of StoryFile, its recent launch, and the journey ahead. How to know when your product is ready to launch. The difference between seeing other people launch a product and doing it yourself. How startup leaders know the type of people to put around them. Why StoryFile tried to avoid pivoting in the time leading up to its product launch. How to handle having a massive vision without having to narrow that vision. The future uses of StoryFile's technology that go beyond its initial market.

Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Heather Maio-Smith, CEO and co-founder, StoryFile, about using AI-driven video conversations to preserve family history.In 2010, Maio-Smith developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display. At the time, she was creating physical video installations at the United Nations, USC, and in Havana, Cuba. As a leader in content-based technology, she has spoken about Natural Conversation at Microsoft (2017), US Holocaust Museum (2017), Dartmouth College (2018), FoST (2018), SXSW (2019), SXSW (2019), The LA Times Festival of Books (2019), M.I.T. (2020), and AI Summit (2020).StoryFile is a company that turns video into a conversation. This next generation of technology uses artificial intelligence to support video conversations on any device. The company offers a consumer service called StoryFile Life and a business-to-business service offering called Conversa.  Free trial offerFor a 33-question free trial, follow these instructions:1.       Go to https://life.storyfile.com/free-trial-form2.       Fill out the free trial sign-up form.3.       Enter the promo code DEADPIXELS and click "Apply".4.       Click "Try StoryFile Life for Free" to create your account.5.       Your account is created with a Story Pack discount. Go to the Pricing page by clicking "Pricing" at the top and you can see that the price for Story Pack has been discounted.6.       To purchase a Story Pack, click "Get Started" for Story Pack, click either "For Myself" to purchase for yourself or "Gift to Another" to purchase for someone else. For the latter, you will need to enter the email for the person you are purchasing for. You will be taken to the Stripe checkout page where you can make a payment to complete the purchase.Visual 1st Visual 1st is the premier global conference focused on the photo and video ecosystem. Mediaclip Mediaclip strives to continuously enhance the user experience while dramatically increasing revenue.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

My guest this week is Heather Maio-Smith, an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings more than a decade of storytelling leadership to her brand new company, StoryFile. In 2010 Heather was creating an exhibit on intergenerational testimony with Holocaust survivors. She created a 3D prototype and formed a partnership to secure in-depth interviews interactively. Heather had always intended that once the survivors were filmed, that anyone should be able to tell their story and save it for future generations. In 2017, StoryFile was created as an automatic, cloud-based platform that would bring the power of conversational video into everyone's hands. 3:03 – Heather 101 She became an expert in intergenerational testimony and had great conversations with older people. She wanted everyone to be able to tell their story so future generations could actually talk to them and have a conversation. 6:46 – How does StoryFile work? She didn't know if her idea would work. They built a system that was completely automated and online. You record yourself answering a bunch of questions about your life. You can choose from 1,600 questions. 13:02 – Answers for future generations There's no reason nowadays that you can't have in-depth conversations with people you love. Do a StoryFile for a future generation you'll never meet. Some people think it's a bit egotistic to do, but it's not. It's a gift to future generations. 19:05 – Tell your story It's one thing to write down your story or do an audio recording of yourself, but you miss the non-verbal communication. The video element allows you to see the essence of the person. Every generation has gone through really difficult things, but it's what you learn from it and can pass along. 27:27 – How to start StoryFile Go to StoryFile.com and pick how many questions you want to do. You can pick individual questions or by topic and start recording. 28:27 – Get to know you Best concert she ever attended? Madonna in a small venue FEATURED QUOTES We wanted everyone to be able to tell their story this way so future generations could actually talk to them and have a conversation. If my kids could have the ability to talk to my grandfather, that would be amazing. Because then they would understand me and maybe understand themselves a little more. It's one thing to write down your story or do an audio recording of yourself, but you miss the non-verbal communication. CONNECT: https://storyfile.com/ ABOUT HEATHER MAIO-SMITH: Heather Maio-Smith is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile.  In 2010, Heather developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display. At the time, she was creating physical video installations at the United Nations, USC, and in Havana, Cuba, but she understood that the future of storytelling lay at the intersection of digital media and ‘natural conversation' and decided to create it. Heather developed a strategic partnership with two global entities with competencies in visual media and technology - USC Shoah Foundation and the Institute for Creative Technologies.  The partnership she led has resulted in the development of a new medium - natural conversation video. Through Heather's leadership, immersive interactive natural conversation video has gone from being a concept to a reality, combining hi-fidelity multi-scopic video with voice commands to deliver commercial grade natural conversation with an individual, whether it's  a life-sized video or on your mobile device, replicating the emotional experience of having a conversation with a person. She developed and pioneered Dimensions in Testimony, a program to interview Holocaust Survivors in volumetric interactive video without that survivor actually being present. Dimensions in Testimony won both the People's Choice Award and the Jury Prize at Sheffield Doc Fest in 2016. She produced and led the project before moving on to found and lead StoryFile. As a leader in content based technology, she has spoken about Natural Conversation at Microsoft (2017), US Holocaust Museum (2017), Dartmouth College (2018), FoST (2018),  SXSW (2019), SXSW (2019), The LA Times Festival of Books (2019), M.I.T. (2020), and AI Summit (2020). Heather's work has been featured in Fast Company, NBC's The Today Show, The New Yorker, Reuters and BBC. She was also featured on 60 Minutes in 2020. Instagram: @storyfile Website:  www.storyfile.com

Heather Smith is the co-founder and CEO of StoryFile, a technology company which enables future generations to connect and interact with their loved ones through their story-telling app. In this episode, she shares more about the mission and foundation of StoryFile. We discuss the biggest challenges and wins of the StoryFile journey, then talk more generally about the importance of genuine human connections and what role technology can play in facilitating them. This is something that's become all the more relevant during the crisis, as people have at the same time gotten used to relying on technology, while having a greater appreciation for genuine interactions.Links & mentions:life.storyfile.comstoryfile.comstoryfile@storyfile.comheather@storyfile.com

Jagan GM from AI Time Journal interviews StoryFile CEO Heather Smith and PORTL CEO David Nussbaum on their launch of the world's first AI + Hologram Machine. Read the article from AI Time Journal Learn more about StoryFile and PORTL Jagan GM, Editorial Associate, AI Time Journal Heather Smith, CEO of StoryFile David Nussbaum, CEO of PORTL

Prøv at forestille dig at kunne spørge din afdøde tipoldefar, hvilke tv-serier han så som barn? Eller hvad din tipoldemor ønskede at være dengang hun var barn? Det lyder måske som noget fra en science fiction-film, men det kan blive til virkelighed. I midten af oktober blev tjenesten Storyfile præsenteret, som er verdens første samtale videoplatform. En platform, hvor man kan uploade svar på en masse forskellige spørgsmål, der efterfølgende kan besvare de spørgsmål, som vedkommendes efterkommere kan have. Er det her fremtiden i forhold til hvordan man holder liv i afdøde slægtninge og hvilke etiske overvejelser medfører denne teknologi? Daniel Cesar taler med Thomas Ploug, som er professor i data-etik ved Institut for Kommunikation og Psykologi på Aalborg Universitet, om denne nye teknologi.

Today I'm joined by Heather Smith, co-founder and CEO of StoryFile, a storytelling app that will preserve the future ability to interact with your loved ones! StoryFile is generational preservation of familial interaction and legacy through technology is the future of storytelling. It allows the next generation to know the ones that came before them. Through the click of a button, StoryFile magically turns video into conversation transforming the traditional one-way video into a two-way conversation. This is the biggest audio-visual evolution since video was first created. And StoryFile Life is placing this technology into the hands of us all so that we can preserve our loved ones for generations to come. In this episode we talked about: - What is StoryFile and what made her wanna start this app - How all families can record their loved ones through StoryFile Life so that your little ones can talk to their great or great-great grandma one day! - The intersection of humanity & human emotion with technology for future generations to come. - How Heather's want to provide the ability for future generations to have conversations with Holocaust survivors sparked this new technology and the creation of StoryFile Life - How she balances running StoryFile with her husband - and many other members of her family! - as a family business - What excited her the most about her career today? Hope you enjoy! StoryFile: https://storyfile.com/ My Point Of View on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mypointofview.podcast/ Music: Lukrembo https://soundcloud.com/lukrembo/

Episode 95, and I am talking with Heather Smith, the Founder of StoryFile. StoryFile is revolutionizing the way we connect with each other by introducing conversational video with Audio Visual technology at the forefront of this generation. Through the click of a button, StoryFile magically turns video into a conversation. This next generation of technology uses artificial intelligence to support video conversations on any device. StoryFile transforms traditional one-way video into a two-way conversation. This is the biggest audio-visual evolution since video was first created. You will love listening to Heather share with us how many people are using StoryFile today. Some are saving memories of people who have made history, and some are saving their own stories, or the stories of the people they love. You can find find Heather on: Instagram @StoryFile Website www.storyfile.com You got this. Be Brave! You can find me at: www.bitchesbebrave.com - @bitchesbebrave on Instagram - Email me at bitchesbebrave@bitchesbebrave.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bitchesbebrave/message

In a world that is continuously updating and creating new technology some are quick to point out the negative impact that it has had on society since its inception. However, a lot of what has kept us connected (and sometimes even sane) throughout this pandemic period has been some sort of technology. Heather Smith, is the Founder of StoryFile, a revolutionary AI technology, that will allow us to connect with those who aren't there. Join Dr. Katehakis and Heather Smith in this conversation and find out how you can preserve your legacy for future generations to come. Stay updated on New Events and Videos by subscribing and following us on: Instagram: https://instagram.com/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/CenterForHealthySex Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexKatehakis Learn more about StoryFile below: https://life.storyfile.com/ https://storyfile.com/

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org.  David begins with a plug for his upcoming appearance in the WikiTree Challenge, where WikiTree researchers will go to town to try to find new breakthroughs for David. Family Histoire News begins with the identification of another Pearl Harbor victim from the USS Oklahoma through DNA. Hear the family's reaction. Then, St. James Gardens in London, the site of thousands of old burials, is getting a database. Hear what has prompted the effort. Next, could DNA tests have changed peoples' perceptions of their ethnicity? The 2020 census definitely suggests this is so. Catch the remarkable statistics. A lost human lineage has been found due to the discovery of an 18-year-old woman who lived over 7,200 years ago. David explains. And finally… who gets a golden tongue in death? Naturally, it's Egyptian. Find out what it meant. Next, Fisher visits with Heather Maio Smith of Storyfile.com, a company that any family historian will want to know about. Heather has appeared on 60 Minutes for her artificial intelligence software that allows people to interview Holocaust survivors by speaking to their hologram recordings. Now this technology is allowing anyone to do a similar thing from their home computer or phone. You will now be able to record your stories for your descendants to literally ask you about decades from now! You can try it for free at Storyfile.com/live. Then, Fisher visits with Glen Ringuette, an adoptee who found his birth parents and then later learned about the remarkable (and chilling) past of his birth father. You never know what you're gonna get! David returns for two segments of Ask Us Anything. That's all this week on Extreme Genes, America's Family History Show!

Heather Maio-Smith is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile. StoryFile has created the medium of conversational video, which transforms traditional one-way video into a two-way conversation. Heather's work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Today Show, and 60 Minutes, among others. In this episode of How Do You Do? Podcast, Ben asks Heather how a project earlier in her career where she preserved the legacies of Holocaust survivors inspired her storytelling journey; how she sees Storyfile as a content company rather than a tech company; how conversational video can enhance different fields, including education and dating; and more. Follow us!Heather Maio-Smith: @storyfileHow Do You Do? Podcast: @hdydpodBen Hannani: @benhannaniWebsite: www.hdydpod.comOur Spotify playlist featuring our guests' jams can be found on "HDYD Jams"

Sumner welcomes one of the hardest-working humans he knows, celebrity agent par excellence Barry Greenberg, to Hard Agree. If you've ever attended a comic convention and stood in line for a signature or photograph (or both), you have Barry to thank for making that happen. Barry's led an incident-packed life that's taken him from serving with the US Air Force in Panama, to building a client base like no other, to working on his latest interactive AI venture, Storyfile – all of which he discusses in this episode. Check out Celebrity Connection here: https://www.celebconn.com/ Check out Storyfile here: https://storyfile.com/ Follow Sumner on Social Media: http://twitter.com/sumnarr “Golden – The Hard Agree Theme” written and recorded for the podcast by DENIO Follow DENIO on Social Media: http://facebook.com/denioband/ http://soundcloud.com/denioband/ http://twitter.com/denioband/ http://instagram.com/denioband/ Follow the Spoilerverse on Social Media: http://facebook.com/spoilercountry/ http://twitter.com/spoiler_country http://instagram.com/spoilercountry/ Kenric Regan: http://twitter.com/XKenricX John Horsley: http://twitter.com/y2cl http://instagram.com/y2cl/ http://y2cl.net http://eynesanthology.com Did you know the Spoilerverse has a YouTube channel? https://youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ Support the Spoilerverse on Patreon: http://patreon.com/spoilercountry

This episode was recorded on April 23, 2021 from a live panel discussion and Q&A on Clubhouse called: To "Hustle" or To "Work-Life Balance"? The event was moderated by How Do You Do? Podcast host Ben Hannani and the panelists included: * *RAHAF HARFOUSH* - Strategist, Digital Anthropologist, and The New York Times bestselling author of Hustle & Float ( https://www.amazon.com/Hustle-Float-Reclaim-Creativity-Obsessed/dp/1635765781 ) : Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work. * *MADY MAIO* - Co-host of Okay Sis Podcast ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/okay-sis/id1434353917 ) , co-founder of the upcoming travel recommendations app Camber ( camberapp.com ) , and she leads Business Development at StoryFile ( http://storyfile.com/ ). * *SCOUT SOBEL* - Co-host of Okay Sis Podcast, host of Scout podcast ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scout/id1505252696 ) , and founder of the boutique PR firm, Scout's Agency ( https://app.redcircle.com/shows/808bdae1-4d16-41bb-98a2-9307a1efc396/ep/SCOUTSAgency.com ). How Do You Do? Pod LIVE convenes on Clubhouse. Follow the club to be notified of future events: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/how-do-you-do-pod-live

It's not every day you get to speak with someone that has influenced hundreds of millions of people on a planet, but it happened a few days ago when I spoke with William Shatner for our latest episode of Collider Connected. During the extended interview, Shatner shared some amazing stories about his entire career ranging from his time on Broadway in the 50's, to being on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958, to his recent partnership with Storyfile which will allow future generations to have conversations with him (he recorded with Storyfile for five days to make this happen).In addition, Shatner talked about his life long love affair with animals and horses, why he owes Star Trek: Discovery's Sonequa Martin-Green an apology, how David E. Kelley cast him as "Denny Crane" after seeing him in a Priceline commercial, what it was like winning two Emmy's for the role, what it was like being Christopher Plummer's understudy on Henry V, directing T.J. Hooker, Star Trek, his fantastic album with Ben Folds, and all the various projects he's been working on during the pandemic.However, before going any further, the reason Shatner was doing interviews was to promote his new movie opening this weekend, Senior Moment. In the film, he plays a retired NASA test pilot living in Palm Springs whose life changes when he loses his license. Forced to take public transportation, he meets his polar opposite Caroline (Jean Smart) and learns to navigate love and life again. Senior Moment also stars Christopher Lloyd, Esai Morales, Katrina Bowden and Carlos Miranda.Check out what Shatner had to say in the player above and below is everything we talked about. If you're a fan of Shatner's, or just want to hear some great stories, you're going to really enjoy this conversation.William Shatner:• Has he been vaccinated yet?• What has he been during the past year while he's been trapped at home?• Talks about Storyfile and how future generations will be able to have a conversation with him. Took him 5 days to record his answers.• His album with Ben Folds has a song called “It hasn't happened yet.” I asked him if its happened.• In the song there is a line “at my age I need serenity. I need peace.” Has he gotten it yet?• For the young viewers that have never seen your work, what is the first thing or things that he'd like them to watch?• What does it mean to have influenced so many people on our planet?• When did he realize he wanted to act?• What did his parents say when he told them he wanted to act for a living?• Did his family come see him on Broadway after telling him not to act for a living?• How he was Christopher Plummer's understudy on Henry V and shares a great story about what happened the night he had to go on.• What it was like getting roles in the 50s and 60s (he did a lot of television episodes).• What was it like being on an episode of The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958.• Shares a story about the night he opened his one man show on Broadway and what happened because of food poisoning.• What was it about Senior Moment that made him want to get involved?• I jokingly ask if he did the movie because the production said they would give him the classic Porsche he drove in the movie.• What was it like working with Christopher Lloyd?• Did he have flashbacks to playing Denny Crane in the courtroom scene?• Did he improvise on the film?• Did he take home and props or costumes from the things he's worked on?• What was it like directing episodes of T.J. Hooker and shooting episodic television?• What did he think of Galaxy Quest?• How he's ever watched Star Trek.• Why he owes Star Trek: Discovery's Sonequa Martin-Green an apology.• Is it true David E. Kelley cast him as Denny Crane after seeing him in a Priceline commercial?• What did it mean winning two Emmy's for playing Denny Crane and did he think he was going to win?• His support for animals.• When did he fall in love with horses? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.