Me & My Old Man presents
You’ll remember that this year happened.
You won’t remember
what it felt like.
Snapshot keeps it, for you and for the kids who’ll one day ask.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours listening to people in their seventies and eighties talk about their lives.
And hundreds more with their children. People my age, in their forties and fifties, telling me what they wish they knew. The first dog. The trip to Paris at thirteen. Why she chose him.
Somewhere in all those hours, a slightly uncomfortable thought turned up.
Maybe this is all a bit late.
Because by the time I’m sitting down with someone at seventy-five, the school run is forty years ago. The summer they’d tell you was the best of their life has gone soft round the edges. They remember that it happened. They’ve lost what it felt like.
My dad died in 2021. I know roughly what he did in his forties. I have no idea what it felt like to be him. What was on his mind. What he was looking forward to.
So here’s the thought. What if we didn’t wait?
And we captured the best afternoon of your summer, the thing you noticed in your seven year old last week. Their fifteenth birthday. How it actually felt dropping them at the gate on their first day and driving off.
Right now that’s just Tuesday. In thirty years it’s the bit you’d give anything to get back.
The experience
What you get.
Before
A reflection guide, so you arrive with more than ‘erm, work’s been busy’.
Together
A 1h30 recorded interview, online. I ask, you talk, nobody interrupts.
Within 7 days
An edited recording of around 60 minutes.
To keep
5x video highlights. Just you, talking to camera. Yours to watch back, to share with your partner, for your kids one day.
The video highlights are included for the waiting list and the Founding Five. Once Snapshot opens for booking, the video becomes an add-on.
Your hour and a half
What we might talk about.
This year, exactly as it is. The school run, the work, the tiredness, the good bits.
The day that changed things. A birth, a move, a first day, a last one.
What’s been hard, what you’ve learnt, what your highlights have been.
What you’re noticing in the people you love right now.
Anything, really. It’s your story. I just ask good questions.
What it isn’t.
Not coaching. Not therapy. Nothing to fix and no homework afterwards. Just space, and your stories.
Who I am.
I’m Neil. Since 2024 I’ve recorded 400+ hours of interviews with 38 families, mostly parents in their seventies and eighties telling their life story in their own voice. They get to hear their own life handed back to them. Their children and grandchildren get to keep it.
Snapshot is what those hours taught me: don’t wait until you’re seventy-five.
What are we, if not a collection of stories?
And what a shame it would be to let them slip by.
Stories That Matter. With People You Love.