Cosmos: 

Welcome back to the show, my fellow extraordinary Americans. For today’s guest, we have Jim Gebhardt. Jim is the CEO of myarchid.com, an online digital archival company that preserves the legacy of loved ones and friends. Myarchid.com is a pioneering online platform dedicated to addressing a critical issue in our increasingly digital world: digital dementia. 

In today’s digital age, we capture and store our lives through digital content. However, these precious moments are often left without context or meaning, buried within devices, clouds, or social media platforms. Unfortunately, these storage solutions are prone to risks such as data loss, censorship, or accidental deletion, which can result in our most cherished memories being erased or forgotten. 

I am never lost, deleted, or censored with my architect accounts. Jim has been a part owner of an LLC electrical company for the past 20 years and has also been an auto mechanic, commercial photographer, journeyman, and residential electrician before that. He’s an extra American, and I’m glad to have him on the show. Jim, are you there?

Jim:

Hi, I’m here. Thank you for having me on.

Cosmos: 

Jim, thank you so much for taking the time to do this podcast. Can you tell me a little bit more about yourself, your story, your background. Can you tell me the audience a little bit more about yourself, your story, your background, and how you got started?

Jim:

My background is that I grew up in middle America. You know, I had a great childhood and was kind of going to try to be a commercial photographer. So I kind of got off on that field of chasing that dream, I should say. 

And, eventually ended up in Washington State because there are no mountains in Iowa. We’ve been lived here for, gosh, the last 40 years, and circumstances happened to where we wanted to do this business because we noticed how, kind of coining the phrase digital dementia, it was starting to grip everything we were doing now because we were losing so many memories.

Cosmos: 

Photography has taken quite the form, right? First, there were just photographs. I remember, when I was growing up, you only had these pictures through these cars. Then, the digital age came into being, and it was like a whole other technological transformation. So, yeah, I found it fascinating how advanced technology is in the 21st century.

Jim:

Oh, it’s incredible. I grew up when my dad gave me what was called a Voigtlander single—a single-lens reflex, not an SLR. It was a rangefinder. I’m sorry, rangefinder, camera, 35 millimeter. I started to learn photography from that. 

So he had to learn about film, and then he had to get your prints. Then he had to put them in, you know, photo albums. Then, he had family photo albums. Then you tried to put that down from generation to generation. And who’s got the albums? And after a while, it’s like, who did have the albums, who had the memories, who had the stories? And we, we can do so much more nowadays with, with the technology we have, we can be. Do so much better.

Cosmos: 

I mean, now, in the last few years, you have AI and all of that stuff, which is a whole other level of eliminating digital content altogether. And it’s funny because I was born in the 1990s, and technology rapidly evolved. And then my parents, before that, went to a whole other era. 

So it’s just very interesting and fascinating.

Jim:

Oh, gosh, yes. Yeah, we were. I don’t want to date myself, but I remember the first computers. The 386 is the Nintendo. Then, you know, we first had the Pong on TV, where you had the thing going back and forth, like bonk, bonk, bonk. I can remember seeing those very first things, the first digital MTV, you know, release. I’ve lived through all that. I’ve lived through all those. 

As technology grows faster, we’ve come to a point where we want to choose what we want to do with our technology. We’re not outgoing, you know, buying a computer every two or three years because our computers have caught up to what we want to do with them. And the Internet speeds and stuff like that are actually getting really great to what we want to do with them. Now, we get to choose what we want to do with this great technology.

Cosmos: 

So, Jim, one question I had was, what is your life’s strategic goal and vision? From the beginning when you were an auto mechanic to owning an LL that is part of an LLC to right now with my architect, what is the evolution of your vision regarding where you are today?

Jim:

Oh, regarding my arcade entire career, you.

Cosmos: 

Know, like from the beginning right now.

Jim:

The reason why I went from point A to point B to point C was that life happens. When I was always an auto, it was kind of a backup career as I was trying to do my commercial photography. And then I got to a point where I couldn’t do auto cannon because it Was just too much on my back and, you know, kind of a physical thing. And then, you get the starving artist point with commercial photography to where, you know, you have a growing family. 

So then you had to do something like maybe make money for the family and stuff like that. And eventually, it kind of folded into being a residential electrician for the last 20 years. And then, as I was doing that, I came up with the idea for my art because I started to look back on your life, and you know, you have great memories. You know, everybody’s got memories from point A to point B. 

And you know, I started looking at what I would do with these memories. What am I going to do with these great times? How do I pass them on, you know, and, you know, sitting in my work van one day eating a ham sandwich? I remember that. And I just kind of came up with the idea that we got to do something better. And I started to research. And this was, you know, 15 years ago, and technology is now catching up to where what we can do with it is really starting to take hold.

Cosmos: 

Yeah, I mean.

So what do you say like the most, the motivational factor driving you? Like, because obviously, you were working as an auto mechanic, then you became a photographer, and then you evolved. You finally started with your business idea. 

So, other than what you’re telling me about preserving memories and everything, what would you consider your motivational drive? Most people just continue doing what they’re doing, but you’re constantly evolving.

Jim:

Yeah, I constantly evolved because I always like to have. I’ve always been a dreamer. Always looking for something that big or bad or better, but just better. You always want to keep pushing forward to something. And like I said, I came up with this idea because back in about ’97, I sat my dad down. We went back on a road trip with family to Iowa. And he was a little cabin out in the countryside. And I sat him down with a little VC VGA, the old video cameras. 

And I started asking questions about his life. You know, a kid growing up, how much was a gallon of milk? You know, a gallon of gas? He was in the Korean War. He was a mechanic then over in Japan. And yeah, he started asking all these questions and had funny, funny stories. It was a great story. But then, after that, it was like he passed away. A couple of years after that. And then it was like, I did a DVD, you know, doing all the things you should do. And then it’s like, okay, so many years after that, where’s the DVD? Now, my kids are growing up and having kids. Okay, how do I kind of have this to that child, to that grandchild? 

So, it becomes an evolution. And it’s something that doesn’t. You don’t stop thinking about it because then you run into people. I worked with an old guy once at a gas station in the 80s when I was a mechanic. 

And it was; he was a great old guy. he was tooling around, his oxygen bottle hooked up to his oxygen bottle, being the cashier. Frank. And I asked him if we had ever been in the military. And he said, yeah, yeah. And he’s just kind of a quiet guy. And they said, well, what’d you do? You know, he kind of. People sometimes don’t like to talk about their service. And he said, well, I was. I was in World War II, so what did you do? And he said I was a B17 pilot, the B17 bomber pilot back in World War II. Fantastic stories, fantastic life memories. And then, you know, you know, passed away. I never know when he passed away. He’s probably passed away now, but it was like remembering if we could have some of those stories and pass them on. And then I ran into a lady that I explained what we did, and she kind of was kind of teared up a little bit because she has daughters, two young daughters, but they had lost their father. 

Now, if their father had saved some of these memories, you know, maybe throughout his childhood and growing up, and some of these memories that he could then hand down to his growing daughters, but he didn’t, you know, a lot of those memories, a lot of what they could see, what their father was really like, were lost.

Cosmos: 

Wow. It’s. It’s kind of deep when I think about it because. Yeah. Like a picture in camp, it just tells a story in itself. And, you know, during World War II and World War I, you see these black and white pictures, and then you. 

Slowly, it goes into the colored pictures. And then we’re just seeing the transition of a century in the process. And there’s just something mesmerizing about it, if you think about it because you can see, you can see like an entire generation encapsulated in pictures. What do you think about it?

Jim:

Oh, yeah, yeah. It’s just. I can’t remember. There was a movie they did not too long ago where they did an AI interpretation of, I think, a World War I situation. They made a lot of old pictures and movies. I think it was the same guy that did Lord of the Rings. 

And it was a fantastic movie. It’s really interesting how he did it, but it was, you know, just as. As a. As a note where, like when my brother passed away. He passed away probably about, about six years ago now. And the only thing I had of him was just some. Some pictures. I never got to be able to sit him down and get a life story from him. And, that’s all I had was this picture. I never had any memories of him. So now, when my kids look at those pictures, that’s all they have.

Cosmos: 

So, Jim, from your point of view, what is the most important thing we should cherish about life? Let’s say you’re like, people are living out their lives, and they’re so focused on all these different things. But what do you think should be the ultimate priority in life from your?

Jim:

Perspective, knowing what, you know, priority of life? Now you’re hitting some really deep questions.

Cosmos: 

I like to get deep.

Jim:

I think a priority of life is, at least, you guess you can always say, finding oneself. And I found myself. I would become a Christian. 

So, you know, I’m a very, you know, I find myself in that. I surround myself with that. But then you also surround yourself with family, where sometimes people don’t have family, but then they have friends and things like that within life. You have to live life. I always tell people life is an attitude. Things happen to you, good, bad, whatever. But there’s an attitude. And if you don’t have a good attitude every time, you will have a bad day, no matter what happens to you. Sometimes I could run into somebody. Sometimes I see people on Instagram, other things like that they’ve had cancer, they’ve had surgeries, they have had that burn, just terrible. But they have a fantastic attitude. 

So, what must make life go forward is that you have a good attitude. The next person you meet, you might be able to put your attitude towards them. And now, boom, they have a good day, you know, and a good attitude towards everybody. And that gets back down to memories and stuff like that. If you have. I don’t want people putting a Whole bunch of bad memories. I like people putting in fun memories and, you know, fun stories. It makes life worth, worth remembering, worth going back and, you know, sharing them again.

Cosmos: 

And Jim, you hit the nail on the head regarding attitude. Yes, it’s true, right? When you have a good attitude, you can; it’s all about your mindset, and you can choose to control how you see the world. Like there’s, you can’t always control your environment. You cannot control the people around you. 

But you can control your thoughts and the way you look at the world. You can see the same thing through a red, blue, or black lens, or you can see the same thing through a white lens, but you better see it for what it is and just have a nonattached perspective but still havsae a positive attitude to it, you know.

Jim:

Oh yeah, those are the grumpy people. And then I like being around the happy people. It comes. I guess it comes from the old times when I came from. A generation that didn’t have all the cell phones and everything. Sometimes you see people, that’s how they’re communicating. Why? It came from the generation where you kind of group together and basically just had a great time conversing back and forth and telling stories. 

And it was just fun to do. It was; it was just naturally sitting back. Oh yeah, I can remember doing that. And suddenly, you’re off on another story, and we’re laughing about something. Somebody tells another story. That’s how we used to, you know, sit down, and sometimes now you sit down, and somebody’s checking their messages, and this other person over here is checking their messages. It’s like.

Cosmos:

Now you have the Facebook and Instagram stories. People don’t sit down together. They said they go online and look at the stories.

Jim:

Oh yeah, I still do that. I scroll through my Instagram account a lot because you scroll through 90% of, you know, and then you get the 10% of stuff that’s real funny, you know, you still have to find the funny stuff. I’m still looking for the funny stuff. I like to, you know, I enjoy it. It’s the same thing with TV. You’re kind of looking for something, you know, something to entertain you.

Cosmos: 

Jim, if you had to advise somebody, like, let’s say somebody is like, they’re doing a job, but they want, they have come up with a business idea, and they want to go ahead and do the business idea, but they’re really scared to do so because it’s just too risky. But at the same time, they feel conflicted about staying at their job and everything else. How would you go about advising such a person?

Jim:

Oh, it’s. I think everybody should have a dream about anything. It could be a business idea. It could be that I just started trying to play the guitar. I can’t even tune a fish. And I inherited some guitars from my brother. I might as well try to play a song. It’s something, it’s a pathway. It’s another stepping stone in life.

So when you have a business idea, it’s the same thing. It’s just like, where do you start? I have no idea. It’s your business idea. I don’t know if it will be a service or a product. But now you have this big elephant. You have to take the first bite, and then you try to. Sometimes, people say you get a mentor. There are different ways people will do business. There was a great History Channel with a great show called Foods, How the Food Empires, and stuff like that. And they had a great story on there, like the Hershey chocolate guy who made Hershey’s Chocolate. 

He built his whole plant, bringing all these people in to do this huge Hershey chocolate empire. And he didn’t even have a formula yet for his chocolate, except he had that much of a dream, that much of a vision, what he was going to do. He was like an early Elon Musk. Like, Elon’s got vision. That’s one thing you got. You have to have a vision, but at the same time, you have to stick to it. You’re going to have speed bumps, road bumps, blocks. And sometimes you got to step back and say, okay, that didn’t work. Let’s try something else. It could be timing, or it could be several things. But the big thing is don’t quit.

Cosmos: 

Yeah, that’s something that I noticed during my interviews with other guests as well. I just see these common parents who have a certain winning attitude. They have a vision and goals regarding what they want to do. And they’re all. They also have perseverance, and it’s a common theme amongst a lot of successful people.

Jim:

Oh yeah. They just don’t quit. Have something that, you know, hit something. Elon was, what, weeks or days away from going bankrupt and, you know, years, a couple of so many years later, now he’s the richest person, and I think one of the richest persons in the world. Yeah, it’s. Yeah, yeah. 

So it’s like he didn’t quit and quit. You know, you have. Suddenly, you find out, oh, I can’t do it that way; somebody’s got this, the same thing as me, or something like that, and we’ll change it. Do something a little bit different or change your dream. That’s something simple to do, too.

Cosmos: 

So, Jim, from your perspective, what’s the one challenge that people who want to start a business will face? And, like, how do you think they should overcome that?

Jim:

They put, I think, self-doubt right in front of their face—self-doubt. And, a lot of times, it’s where to start. Sometimes, you just don’t know where to start on a journey. You continue to, you know, go around not knowing where you’re going, but at least you’re searching. Some people never search. They have an idea and talk about it, but they never go that one extra step. 

And sometimes, just go to that one extra step. Sometimes you go to business meetings or, you know, you have. There are tons of virtual venture capitalist meetings and this and that and this and that. You kind of start getting that information on how to do it. This person’s done it this way; this person’s done it this way. Well, maybe I could do it this way. I met this person. You’ll never do that unless you step out of your comfort zone and start doing it.

Cosmos:

That’s true. But it’s easier said than done, right? Because it’s always easier said than done. I think part of my motivation for starting this podcast was a lot of people want to do business and be financially free, but they don’t dare to do it, or they think it’s too financially risky, and there are just too many risks involved. 

They are always conflicted because they have to go to their jobs. But they don’t want to do that. You know, they want to live their own lives, but they end up usually living somebody else’s lives in the process.

Jim:

Yeah, I always tell people it’s got to have a job and pay the bills. That’s fine, but your time is your time. You know, use it how you want to use it. Sometimes, I like to relax, sit back, have a beer, and watch football. Other times, I’ll sit here in front of the computer. I’m just putting up stuff for social media for Veterans Day, which is coming up. 

So, you know, it’s just like the little things. The little things that, you know, that tweak yours. Tweak your vision. You know, you want to go forward. Don’t stop.

Cosmos: 

So, Jim, what are the successful character traits if I had to ask you just to summarize? If you had to look, see, and be like a successful person, that’s great. That goes from doing a job to doing business successfully; what character traits should they have? Other than perseverance, having a good attitude, and having a vision. Suppose you had to, like, name something else.

Jim:

Oh, that’s a hard one. Because it’s. Sometimes people don’t have. I always say that sometimes, be a listener because you learn a lot. Sometimes, listeners attach themselves to a talker because they can communicate better. Sometimes, those people will attach themselves to a thinker who can assemble certain things. 

You know, there. Their vision, their, you know, their computer type of thing. You know, look at the people that. Like Steve Jobs and Wozniak and things like that. Those guys are computer geniuses. One guy was a great speaker. Jobs was. But I think Wozniak was a lot of the brains. You know, same thing, I think. Well, Paul Allen and Microsoft types thing. 

So it’s. It’s me. There’s never a one thing. You know, it’s. I always, like, you see so many examples of everything. You know, the perseverance. What’s the one thing? The one thing is just doing, Doing. Just go out there and do something; it doesn’t matter what it is. What did you do today? I read an article. That’s something. I learned a little bit about this. That’s something. All of a sudden, the little. Little things in your brain. The brain will start going, boom, boom, boom, boom. Things will start coming together. You get better ideas on how to go. Maybe go this way. How do you go that way? But when you’re doing nothing, you don’t get anywhere.

Cosmos: 

I mean, I couldn’t agree more. You’re right. You have to keep going forward. You know, you got to keep moving forward. You have to keep doing something. Like doing nothing is not the answer. Wishful thinking is not the answer. If you want to go out there and live your dream, you must go for it because you’ll never get Another moment. 

And that’s what I want to like. Take home to the listeners that you must go for your dream like you have to for financial freedom because, eventually, everybody dies. If you’re not going down, when will you go?

Jim:

Yeah, and sometimes a dream isn’t even the financial freedom. Sometimes, a dream is. It should be a good dream because when you’re financially free, it frees up a lot of you. You know, we’re shackled to the financials we have. You know, we must pay the bills, eat, and care for the family. The car breaks down, the dog’s got fleas, and all that stuff. But some people have dreams of maybe just being a writer that gets stuff published or a photographer; they get some pictures published, or a singer that maybe somebody wants to use on their album or something like that. And maybe they don’t make a lot of money but are so proud of what they did.

You know, and it’s just something, it’s nice to have the money. At a certain point, I look at being financially free, but at the same time, it happens, and it’s like, yay. And then you just forget about it. You’re still doing your thing.

Cosmos:

Speaking of which, Jim, since we’re talking about following our dreams, the national identity that we have as Americans is about the American dream. However, the American dream is different for different people. 

So my question to you is, what is your personal idea of the American dream, and how should Americans go about following it?

Jim:

My American dream, oh gosh, was sitting in the summertime; I call it my happy place. Summertime. Having your own house, drinking a beer, barbecuing, and talking with friends. That, to me, is the American dream. It’s freedom. Go where you want to drive, what you want to drink, what you want to eat, what you want to. You know, you just, you know, build a house. We got a house. We build out in the countryside. You know, you are just a dream, and everybody’s dream is different. You know, some people want to do this or that. Fine, you know, I don’t want to step on anybody else’s dream. Please don’t step on mine.

Cosmos: 

No, I mean. That sounds beautiful. I was with my roommate just yesterday, and we were just by the barbecue pit. We just had a fire pit and were chilling there and having a very good conversation. And for me, that was a very serene, peaceful experience. 

Just, you know, looking at the fire, just cackling, and then just having a sense of peace and serenity. Yeah, it’s beautiful.

Jim:

Oh, yeah, yeah. Some people want the—the limelight, you know, the 15 minutes of fame. Well, 15 minutes, fame goes by. Some people want to stay in that limelight, and I don’t see why they would ever want to do that. But it’s just being able to make friends and listen to their stories. 

One thing about my arc that I love is listening to people’s life stories. It’s just like, we went there, we went this, we did that, we did that. It’s so fun to hear people’s stories, and that’s what life is about.

Cosmos: 

Totally.

Jim’s American identity is also about pursuing happiness. So, how do you go about pursuing happiness in your own life? And how do you think people should go about it? Americans should go about pursuing, pursuing happiness and finding fulfillment in their life.

Jim:

Oh, perceiving happiness. Happiness. Remember, that’s the attitude part. Happiness comes within. Happiness does not come without it. No matter what’s happening to you, you can determine your happiness. They don’t determine how you perceive yourself or your happiness in life. You know, I’m.

Cosmos: 

I’m glad you mentioned that because many people look to material things for happiness. Okay, okay, and it’s connected to the American people. If I get the mansion, I become a celebrity. If I get so much X amount of dollars and I get the cars, I’ll be happy. But from your perspective, it’s about having the right attitude.

Jim:

Oh, gosh, yes. You can have somebody broken sitting on their front porch, and they’re happy. You can have somebody sitting on the hill in their castle. You know, I’m not happy. It depends on your attitude. Oh, this guy’s got everything. He doesn’t have happiness. He couldn’t buy it. You know, so it’s, you know, you’ve been. Wherever you’re at, be happy. I think that was a song.

Cosmos: 

I agree. Having the right attitude is important. Happiness is more of an inner thing and your perception of the world. I talk about it with other guests, but how you look at the world is very important because you can control how you look at it. 

Happiness and unhappiness are ultimately Choices, like the environment. What’s happening around you might be terrible, but if you have the right perspective and can calm your emotions, things get better. You know, it’s a state of mind, ultimately.

Jim:

Oh, that’s state of mind. It is a state of mind. Things that happen around us, we’re going to have stuff good, bad, ugly, happen in government and, you know, around us in the family, health, and the whole works. But you still have to have a good attitude about it. You know, it’s. You can’t control 99% of what happens to you anyway, so why worry about it?

Cosmos: 

No, totally.

Jim, can you tell the audience and me a little bit more about my arcade.com and what it does so they can better understand what it is?

Jim:

Let’s return to my dad, where I have video memories of him. And that correlates to what everybody nowadays has. Our lives are lived digitally, and everything on your phone, laptop, or tablet is memories. And you have to first realize what will happen to those memories. If they’re put into a cloud somewhere, most clouds that I know of, if you don’t touch them, they will delete you because they don’t think you’re around anymore. 

So they just don’t stay there. Plus, if you have something on your phone, like a picture or something that, you know, a fun picture that happened, you don’t put any emotion or memory to it until you upload it, put a memory to it. And then now that’s, that’s, that’s a good emotional memory to have and also to pass down, you know, to share. 

So what my art does is we, they, have a lifetime account. We’ll just, we’ll. Well, we have a whole bunch of different things we can do. Events.com at my arc, you know, that works with the whole other stuff. But this is just with over a lifetime account where you have 10 gigabytes of memory we work with, arc one memory at a time. We call arkit. Put a picture in there. You can put an audio story to this picture. I talked for 10 minutes about my first car. I had to do it. I had to get the junk out of it. I had to redo the head, the blah, blah, blah. It was a good, fun memory for me. 

So, you can put a video, you can put a picture, you can put audio, you can just put writings to it if you want to. And then you are it, boom, it’s up into your 10-gigabyte account. And then that’s their forever. You only pay for the service one time. And have a person, if they pass away, basically the executor comes in that you, you choose the executor, and they close out your account and become a memorial account. And everything you put in there is locked. Nothing can be deleted. You can add stuff to it, such as condolences and stuff like that. But everything you put into your life is there for others to share. We have it very simple: people go to myarket.com and try it. They can try it for 30 days. We don’t take any bank information. Just try it and see if you like it. You know, we like feedback. 

You know we used to have this, you should have that, and well, you know we can always program something in. But you have to remember everything we live in nowadays is digital. What’s going to happen to this? The first thing you have to think about is your mind. What’s after my digital legacy? That’s what we call digital dementia, which is where we have everything digitally. We all to it. What happened to that one phone three phones back? Had all those memories been deleted, or was something that wasn’t transferred over? What happened to my hard drive? You know I got a backup drive. Well, that was. We moved three days three houses ago, and that happened to that hard drive. 

So we have a place where people can put their memories. We first work with Amazon Web Services, which has a place where we can store those memories. As we grow, we will also have a separate company called Iron Mountain, which the banks use as backups. Now we have a backup upon backup and have it to where we are, C. corporation, so we can live in perpetuity and have this all come together. It’s a big soup. You know, this is my vision that comes together here. We have the principal investment group, the pig, where we work with JP Morgan Chase. We’re going to have a big investment group. People don’t invest in it. That’s just the money that goes into it and just the interest, just the money, the returns on that amount of money in there pays for data storage. 

So it could be in there for generations and generations. It costs a little bit of money. You take it off the top and pay for data storage. We have data storage in all the different places; it just keeps living and living for a long time.

Cosmos: 

Wow, that’s amazing. I would definitely recommend anybody listening to this take a look at this website if they want to store their memories of themselves, their families, and their loved ones. And so Jim, are there any of the projects you’re doing right now that you’d want the audience to get a glimpse into other than this?

Jim:

We also have events, my dot com, which deals really with. Good with, like, yearbooks, weddings, things like that they can go to and then go to my arcade and go with the different things we have and just cruise around it. Cruise around and see what you like and learn. 

We have to teach people what we’re doing. And then, the other thing we’re doing right now is hitting hard on some venture capitalists and people who can invest in what we’re doing because we want to anchor everything. All of what we’re doing so we can step back from it and just grow itself. We want it to be something that won’t go away, something that will be there for, you know, 100 years.

Cosmos: 

That, I see. That’s. That’s great.

Jim, how can the audience connect with you and learn more about you, your work, and everything else that you do?

Jim:

They go to my arc, AR K I T, and Arkit. And the market’s a little play on words from Noah’s Ark. That’s what we call ARKit, like archiving Noah’s Ark. You know, we’re collecting people. That’s why. That’s why my nickname’s Noah. And just go to myart.com and cruise around there. You can search all over the different pages and stuff like that. You can also catch us on Facebook X or Instagram at my Architect and see stuff we’ve posted. If you have any questions, just contact us and ask a question. You know, sometimes a person doesn’t want to get a, maybe, a lifetime account. 

Like I have another account we did where it was on the events account. Part of it is where we have the family photo album. So that has all the family photo albums. Now everybody that goes on to that becomes a participant. So, I have family members who participated in that family photo album, and it didn’t cost them anything. They’re like a free participant. I just bought it, and now everybody participates in it. It’s kind of like you can do the same thing with a wedding or a yearbook and things like that. 

It’s a great place to start learning how to do things. There’s more than one way to add this account: a memorial or a big-time account. You can always add extra memory if you want to. But if you have any questions, just ask, and we’ll see if we can accommodate your actions. We also want to try to get together with some retirement groups so that we can go into retirement communities. 

And we’re going to start, with a training up, what we call a lifesaver do. Let’s say you have a retirement community. A person takes our little at no charge and learns about what we have, but they become kind of like a certified lifesaver. And now they can teach people within their, you know, the retirement community, maybe within their church group or any kind of group they have, and teach them how to use my architect.com, how to do a little interview maybe, how to bring those memories maybe up and when they’re talking, you know, show them a picture, all of a sudden all the memories start flooding back.

 So we have much to offer, and people must start seeing what we’re doing.

Cosmos: 

That is great, Jim M. And that is amazing. I do hope that people take a look at this, you know, because, ultimately, what is life but a series of memories? And we should cherish those memories while we still can.

Jim:

Cherish the memories. The biggest thing I like to tell people is, don’t wait to get the memories now of some of your older loved ones. They have a mom, a grandma, things like that. Grandma, Grandpa. You know, the older folks set them down and just start getting some memories from them. You don’t have to choose us right now to save those memories but don’t wait to get them.

Cosmos: 

No, totally, Jim. And Jim, I’m so grateful that you took the time to come to this podcast and share your wisdom and your understanding of mindsets and everything else. I do hope that you take the time to come back to this podcast at a later date.

Jim:

Oh, when we get bigger, I’ll return and wear a different shirt.

Cosmos: 

No, I love your shirt. You know, it’s all about the attitude, right?

Jim:

So I figured today I’m just going to have some fun.

Cosmos: 

I want to conclude this episode by informing my fellow extraordinary Americans. Hey, look. There’s an extraordinary within every one of us. We must awaken it and unleash it. Until next time. Bye for now.