Greys & Greens

How many of their stories have you actually heard?

We run ten guided video conversations with them, then keep every story in a private family portal with their photos, voice recordings & sealed messages. It all starts with a 30-minute call with Jack.

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Free · 30 minutes · Phone call with Jack · No obligation

What families told us

What stops families recording their stories

We asked families what had stopped them so far. Three answers came up again & again.

We never really thought of it
The stories are always there at Christmas, so it feels like they always will be. The conversations give them a time & a place.
It feels awkward inside the family
Sitting your own mum or dad down for an interview feels strange. We ask the questions, so you get to just listen.
Time & distance
The conversations happen by video, so nobody needs to be in the same room, or the same state.

The three answers chosen most by 149 families in our July 2026 survey.

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The call is the first step

What you’ll leave the call with

  1. 01

    The stories worth keeping first

    Get clear on which stories, people & places matter most to your family, instead of “we should record them one day”.

  2. 02

    How it would work for them

    The ten conversations, the questions, the recordings, the family portal & sealed messages, for your family specifically.

  3. 03

    A clearer next step

    Whether Greys & Greens is right for your family. If it isn’t, that’s a fine answer too.

One from each conversation

The questions nobody asks at the dinner table.

Drawn from the deeper questions in our conversation guide. Ask them one this week, then stop talking & listen. If the answer surprises you, imagine ten conversations of it.

01 · Roots & the first home

Which belief from your childhood did you keep, & which did you have to let go of?

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Rather we asked the questions?

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What your family gets from Greys & Greens

A call with Jack we talk consent through with them ten guided conversations everything kept in your private family portal.

#1: Ten guided video conversations

Someone to ask the next question.

We prepare the questions, listen for the details & ask the follow-ups. What to share is always their call, any question can be skipped & any conversation can pause. Every family’s conversations go their own way. This is the shape we start from.

  1. 01Roots & the first home
  2. 02Childhood, school & friends
  3. 03Independence & first choices
  4. 04Love, friendship & belonging
  5. 05Work, caring & skills
  6. 06Family, through their eyes
  7. 07Turning points & hard seasons
  8. 08Pleasures, recipes & humour
  9. 09Later life & life today
  10. 10Missing stories & messages

#2: A private family portal

Their story, in their own voice.

Every conversation is recorded on video & kept in your private family portal, alongside the family’s photos, videos & voice recordings. What goes in, & who can see it, is agreed with the storyteller.

The family portal · example family, sample data

Mum’s conversations

Ten guided conversations, recorded on video. Choose one to watch it.

218 min

4 of 10 conversations recorded so far.

    Bar height shows minutes recorded. Outlines are still to come.

    #3: Private sealed messages

    Words for the days that matter.

    Private messages they can leave for a family member or a future milestone, kept sealed in the portal’s Milestone messages. Who each one is for is agreed with them.

    Milestone messages

    Sealed
    • For LilyFor her 21st birthdaySealed
    • For the grandkidsFor when they’re olderSealed
    • For my sonFor his wedding daySealed

    Example family, sample data.

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    Why Greys & Greens exists

    It started with our Pop.

    Last year I sat Pop down in front of a camera & started asking him questions. Where he grew up. How he met Nan. The things nobody ever thinks to ask.

    I thought I knew him. I’m his grandson. I also run Blues & Greens, where we match teenage boys with young mentors, & hundreds of Australian families trust us with their kids every week. If anyone knew what a good conversation could do, I figured it was me.

    But those sessions with Pop caught me completely off guard. Eighty years came pouring out, & most of it I’d never heard. His own grandson.

    My brother Jack & I kept coming back to the same thought. It isn’t just grandparents. Every family has someone like Pop: a mum or a dad, an aunty or an uncle, the one everyone goes to for the old stories. Each of them is sitting on a lifetime nobody has asked about yet. One day those stories go quiet, & the family is left wishing they’d pressed record.

    So we started Greys & Greens together. It gives anyone with a lifetime of stories a way to leave a legacy in their own words: ten guided conversations, kept on video in their own voice, for the family to come back to for years.

    The stories were always there. Someone just had to ask.

    Harry & JackCo-founders, Greys & Greens

    Booking calls with Jack now

    Book your Family Story Call

    A free 30-minute phone call with Jack. Two quick steps: tell us who to call, then pick a time. No pressure to go ahead, just a useful next step for your family.

    Step 1 of 2

    Who should Jack call?

    Whose stories are we keeping?

    Next: pick a time that suits you from Jack’s calendar.

    We’ll only ever use your details to talk to you about Greys & Greens.

    Questions families ask

    Is this just a sales call?

    It’s a conversation about your family first. We’ll talk about the stories you’d love to keep & explain how it works. If Greys & Greens is a good fit we’ll tell you how to go ahead. If it isn’t, we’ll say so.

    Who will I speak to on the call?

    Jack Quayle from Greys & Greens, by phone, for 30 minutes.

    Who asks the questions in the ten conversations?

    A trained Greys & Greens interviewer, the same person for all ten conversations, so there’s time to settle in & get comfortable.

    What if Mum or Dad isn’t good with technology?

    We send a simple video link that opens with one tap, & family are welcome to sit in for the first conversation. The only job left is answering the questions.

    Does Mum or Dad need to be on the call?

    No. The call is with you. If you go ahead, we’ll talk through consent & how the conversations work with them before anything is recorded.

    What if they say they have nothing worth telling?

    Most people feel that way at the start. We open with the easy years, like the house they grew up in & the walk to school, & let the stories come at their pace.

    Do they have to share everything?

    No. They choose what to share. Questions can be skipped & conversations can pause. What goes in the portal, & who can see it, is agreed with the storyteller.

    Could we record them ourselves?

    You could, & family recordings are worth having. Greys & Greens helps with the parts that usually stall: making the time, knowing what to ask, the follow-up questions, the recording & bringing it all together.

    Is a printed book included?

    No. Their story is kept the way they tell it: recorded on video in ten guided conversations, in a private family portal with private sealed messages. There’s no printed book or written memoir.

    Is the call free?

    Yes. The Family Story Call is free & there’s nothing to pay on it. We’ll go through the package & price once we know what your family wants to keep, so you can decide in your own time.

    Start with one 30-minute call

    Tell Jack about them. He’ll show you how the ten conversations would work for your family, & you decide from there.

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