Founder’s Vision
Preserving real experience before it disappears.
Successful individuals carry invaluable experiences, judgments, lessons, and perspectives that often remain unshared with families, communities, and future generations. At Word of Mouth Stories, we believe in the importance of capturing these narratives to ensure that the wisdom gained through a lifetime of work is not lost. Our mission is to facilitate a process where your unique career story can be articulated and preserved, allowing future generations to understand the journey that shaped you.
Why This Exists
Most people see the outcome. The story behind it is often lost.
Behind every success story lies a tapestry of choices, risks, sacrifices, and relationships that shape our journeys. Families may witness the achievements, but the emotional depth and human experiences that led to those milestones often remain unspoken. This project aims to illuminate those hidden narratives, allowing individuals to reflect on their paths and share their wisdom with future generations. By understanding the turning points and lessons learned, families can appreciate the true essence of success and the sacrifices made along the way.
Capture Your Legacy
How Your Private Story Is Handled
Your Journey, Your Story
Engage in a private AI-guided interview that helps you articulate the story behind your career success.
Step 2: The AI helps organize your story
Your answers are used to help create a private career legacy story that reflects the experience behind your success.
The goal is to help capture not just what you did, but what it took.
Step 3: You review and decide what happens next
After your private story is created, you decide what to do with it.
You may keep it private, revise it, share it with family or people who matter most, remove details, add your name, or choose not to share it at all..
Step 4: Nothing moves forward without your approval
Your private story is not sent to a sponsor, employer, inviting organization, or public website.
If future opportunities arise to share selected stories, lessons, advice, or recommendations, that would be optional and only with your approval.
Your private story remains yours.h.
Building the AI-Guided Process
This first invitation helps refine a more thoughtful way to capture and preserve career experience. The current phase focuses on enhancing the interview process and improving the quality of the career legacy document before we expand our reach.
Why Sponsors Matter
A practical model for inviting successful people, strengthening relationships, and building a trusted collection of real-world wisdom. By collaborating with businesses, organizations, and community sponsors, we can create a scalable platform that invites and involves successful individuals. This collaboration not only enriches the wisdom shared but also fosters a community of support and growth.
About Greg Petras
Built by an experienced founder with a history of creating products that improve performance and relationships.
Greg Petras is a seasoned entrepreneur whose journey is marked by significant achievements. As the founder of NHES, he transformed a modest $20,000 investment into a Nasdaq-listed public company over 13 years, culminating in a successful sale to HBOC for $100 million. His extensive background in entrepreneurship and product development underscores his commitment to creating impactful solutions that foster growth and enhance relationships. With a proven track record, Greg brings invaluable insights and expertise to Word of Mouth Stories, ensuring that every personal career story is crafted with care and precision.
His company was recognized in BusinessWeek’s “Hot Growth Companies” issue, featuring “The 100 Best Small Corporations” among small growth companies with revenues between $10 million and $100 million. Greg served as Chairman of The Enterprise Network, an the largest Arizona business networking group in Arizona, at the time, that reflected a core belief behind Word of Mouth Success: trusted relationships can create opportunity, strengthen communities, and help valuable knowledge move from one person to another.
