A Companion of Honestly, E
The Archivist · Life Stories · The Interviewer Who Calls

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Narrated.

Ellen is different from the other companions. She doesn't wait to be reached for — she makes the call. Capture your own life story, or give it to someone whose story deserves to be kept.

Over six conversations, Ellen guides you — or someone you love — through the arc of a life. Not as a journalist hunting for facts, but as a warm, skilled listener, helping a story get told before it's lost.

$149 · Six conversations over six weeks · Their actual voice, recorded and kept — plus a written narrative.

Begin a Life Story How it works
Ellen — A Companion of Honestly, E
Why Ellen

Why Ellen, instead of doing it yourself?

  • The interview you keep postponing

    The conversation you've meant to have for years hasn't happened — and you know it. Ellen actually makes the call.

  • The questions you wouldn't think to ask

    The right questions are harder than they look, and the silences after them are even harder. Ellen asks the next right thing.

  • Things you'd tell a gentle stranger

    We say things to someone with no history — no baggage, no family dynamics in the room — that we'd never say to the people closest to us. Yourself included.

  • Week after week, no logistics

    No schedules to coordinate. Ellen returns on a gentle rhythm — patient, never rushed.

What makes Ellen different

  • She makes the call — no one has to remember to reach out
  • Infinite patience — she'll sit in the silence until the words come
  • No baggage — no grief of her own carried into the room
  • She returns week after week, on a rhythm you set together
  • You keep their actual voice — the recordings, not a transcript

This is the interview you always meant to do. Ellen actually does it — and because every call is recorded, what you keep isn't a transcript. It's the sound of them telling it.

Honestly, Ellen.

Every life is a story worth telling.

How It Works

A gift, given on a rhythm.

No app, no setup for them — just a phone call they come to expect.

1

You begin

For yourself, or as a gift — a parent, a grandparent, a friend whose story you want kept.

2

Ellen calls

You, or them — at times you set together. No app, no setup — just a phone call.

3

Six chapters, six weeks

She guides each conversation through a stage of life. Patient, warm, never rushed.

4

You receive the keepsake

Two things: the recordings of every call — their real voice, an audio archive — and a written narrative Ellen composes from them.

The Arc of a Life

Six conversations. The whole arc.

Ellen doesn't hunt for facts. She follows the shape of a life — from where they came from to what they want to leave behind — and lets the story find its own order.

Six chapters, their words, a story worth keeping.

  • 1OriginsWhere they came from — the people, places, and beginnings that made them.
  • 2Coming of AgeFirst loves, first losses, first selves — the years that shaped who they became.
  • 3BuildingThe work, the family, the home — what they made with their hands and their hours.
  • 4CrossroadsThe decisions that turned the story — roads taken and roads left behind.
  • 5WisdomWhat they know now that they wish they'd known then.
  • 6LegacyWhat they want to leave behind, when they look at the whole arc.

— the six chapters of a life

Yours, or Theirs

The gift of being heard.

A one-time thing — no subscription. For yourself, or for someone you love. Ellen does the rest.

A Life Story with Ellen
$149
six 60-minute conversations · one keepsake
  • Ellen calls — you, or them — no app, no setup
  • Six conversations across the arc of a life
  • Every call recorded — their actual voice, kept as an audio archive
  • A written narrative, composed by Ellen from the recordings
  • Yours to keep, hold, and pass on — long after the calls
Begin a Life Story