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TSL Certified Story Advisor™ opportunity
Become an Independent Certified Story Advisor
Help families preserve memories, personal stories, and memorials through a guided service. Explore the training, responsibilities, costs, and approval process before applying.
$1,250 founding startup fee, paid once. No monthly system-maintenance fee. Training and headquarters approval required; this is not employment or guaranteed income.
Territory availability confirmed after review
Work with lasting meaning
Every family has a story worth protecting.
Families often have photographs, memories, and voices scattered across generations. They need more than technology. They need a compassionate person who can listen, organize, and help them create something lasting.
As a TSL Certified Story Advisor, you become that trusted guide. You help families organize memories in Family Vault, record their own story with My Story, My Wishes, or create a memorial and keepsakes for a loved one.
See the work before you apply
Walk through Timmy’s story and see what you can create for a family.
Experience the finished remembrance first. Then see how an advisor helps a family move from scattered memories to something they can visit, watch, hold, and share.
One life. Three ways to serve the family.
Choose one of Timmy’s stories to walk through. Each one ends with its own video.
Additional service opportunity · Coming January 30, 2027
Memorial Live Streaming
Help families include loved ones who cannot attend in person through an optional Memorial Package add-on. Two-day Arizona training is January 15–16, 2027, with equipment, workbooks, meals and hotel included for 12 qualified students.
Training location: 3133 W Frye Road, Suite 101, #2064, Chandler, Arizona 85226. Speak with Rodney Epps for qualification; a deposit is required to confirm an approved seat.
Your role with each family
You are the trusted guide from first conversation to finished tribute.
This is personal, relationship based service. The technology supports the work, but your listening, organization, and care are what help a family move forward.
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Listen with care
Meet with the family and gather the memories, photographs, voices, and important details they want preserved.
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Shape their story
Guide the family through thoughtful questions, organize what they share, and help their loved one’s voice come through clearly.
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Review every keepsake
Walk with the family through the memorial website, film, program, remembrance cards, and sharing tools.
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Deliver with confidence
Coordinate changes, approval, and delivery while remaining the family’s trusted point of contact.
A meaningful opportunity
Build a Business That Makes a Difference
Create meaningful income while helping families preserve the stories that matter most.
Meaningful service can become meaningful business.
As a Certified Story Advisor, you'll help individuals and families preserve their stories, protect precious memories, and create meaningful ways for their lives to be remembered.
You'll have the opportunity to build an independent business while making a positive difference in the lives of the families you serve.
Compensation is based on the services and packages selected by each family you serve.
This is an independent business opportunity, not employment or a guarantee of income. Individual results vary based on effort, skill, relationships, market conditions, and other factors.
Grow through relationships
Build a trusted network in your community.
You can develop referral partnerships with professionals who already serve families during life’s most important moments. You can become the local resource they trust for preserving a life story.
Ministers and faith leaders
Become a trusted resource for leaders who comfort families and help them honor a life.
Probate attorneys
Connect with professionals who guide families through important decisions after a loss.
Funeral homes
Support funeral professionals with a complete remembrance experience they can confidently introduce to families.
Funeral expense insurance agents
Partner with agents who help families plan ahead and want to offer lasting value beyond the policy.
Grief counselors and bereavement support
Work alongside counselors and support organizations who walk with families through loss and healing.
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Partnerships and referrals are developed by each advisor and are not guaranteed or exclusive.
A business with heart and structure
You bring the human connection. We help provide the system.
12 hours of onboarding
Build a confident foundation through guided training, then keep developing with weekly support.
Your professional platform
Work from one secure back office designed to keep families, projects, relationships, and business activity organized.
Tools to grow relationships
Use practical marketing and follow through resources to build trust with families and community professionals.
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Territory consideration
Share where you live. We review local availability and community fit before any territory is confirmed.
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Your path forward
A clear way to begin.
You will always know the next step. Application, conversation, approval, and training happen in a simple order before you begin serving families.
Apply
Share your background, location, and what draws you to this work.
Schedule an interview
If your application may be a fit, we will contact you to set an appointment for an interview call.
Complete approval
We review mutual fit and territory availability before extending an invitation to join.
Onboard and certify
Complete 12 hours of onboarding training, then continue with weekly training as you serve families.
Who thrives in this work
A caring listener with an entrepreneurial spirit.
You do not need prior funeral industry experience. You do need compassion, consistent follow through, comfort speaking with people, and the desire to build professional relationships in your community.
Compassionate communicators and natural listeners
Community connectors and ministry leaders
Funeral service and senior care professionals
Sales professionals ready to build something of their own
People committed to training, service, and responsible business ownership
Founding beta opportunity
Join the first 25 TSL Certified Story Advisors.
Become a Founding Partner with introductory business pricing, personal support, and a voice in shaping the advisor experience. Acceptance is based on the application and interview. We keep a limited number of advisors in each region so no one is crowded out.
Founding Partner pricing
First 25$1,250
Startup fee paid once
Current availability is confirmed by headquarters after review.
$0 monthly maintenance
Founding Partners have no monthly system-maintenance fee.
Headquarters approval is required before advisor access is activated.
$1,250 once. No monthly maintenance fee. Headquarters approval remains required.
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Standard pricing after beta
$6,997
Startup fee paid once
$397 per month
This pricing begins only after all 25 Founding Partner positions have been filled.
Your Founding Partner package
More than introductory pricing.
Exclusive recognition
Receive a Founding Partner badge and lapel pin recognizing your place among the first 25 advisors.
600 monthly credits
Use 600 included credits each month to produce content for your advisor business.
A live virtual assistant
You will be trained on the system and supported by a personal virtual assistant who helps you build it out.
Training and approval
After your interview and approval, you will complete 12 hours of onboarding training. Weekly training continues after launch to support your growth and service to families.
This is an independent business opportunity, not a job or a promise of income. Individual results vary based on effort, market conditions, skill, relationships, and other factors.
Take the first step
Tell us about you and your community.
An application starts the conversation. It does not create an account or reserve a territory.
Your information is reviewed by the Their Story Lives team and used only to contact you about this opportunity.