Podcasts · Notes from the Edge

What Stories Are You Waiting Too Long to Ask For? Preserving Family Stories with Brad Koch

3 Oct 2026 · 32 min · Episode 118

What stories disappear when the people we love are no longer here to tell them?

In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with entrepreneur, business coach, former United States Marine, and founder of The Story Project, Brad Koch, for a deeply human conversation about family stories, grief, memory, legacy, and the things we often wait too long to ask.

Brad shares how the loss of his father-in-law, and the realization that his wife wished she had more recordings of his voice, face, mannerisms, and stories, helped inspire The Story Project. Lisa and Brad explore why knowing someone’s story can completely change the way we understand our family, our childhood, our trauma, and even ourselves.

This is a conversation about remembering where we came from while the people who came before us are still here to tell us.

In this episode:

• Why preserving someone’s voice, mannerisms, memories, and stories can become an irreplaceable part of their legacy

• How learning our family’s stories can deepen connection and change the way we understand our own past

• Why waiting until time feels limited can leave us scrambling to ask questions we could be asking now

• How The Story Project helps families capture and preserve stories across generations

• Brad’s experience entering the Marine Corps at seventeen, the role he performed to survive, and why asking for help is not weakness

Connect with Brad:

https://storyproject.app

Connect with Lisa:

https://www.lisalacy.com

What did you perform in order to survive?

Welcome to the Edge.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Links in the notes 4

• https://storyproject.app/
• https://www.lisalacy.com/
• https://art19.com/privacy
• https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info