Tell Your Story
Your personal experience may help others. Tell us about your experience (one incident or a longer story). We may use it in a future post, podcast, or resource.
Don’t worry about getting everything perfect. If necessary, we’ll edit the content for length or clarity and correct spelling and grammar.
We encourage original audio, especially when submitting a question, but it is not required. Below, we’ve included helpful instructions for submitting audio files.
Tell Your Story
How To Make & Send a Recording
Step 1: Record Your Message
Use your phone’s built-in voice memo or recording app. (iPhone users can use Voice Memos; Android users can try Voice Recorder or Samsung Voice Recorder.)
Tips for a good recording:
Find a quiet place. Avoid wind, background chatter, barking dogs, or laundry machines on spin cycle.
Hold the phone 6–8 inches from your mouth. Too close and you’ll sound like a horror movie villain. Too far and you’ll sound like you’re calling from the moon.
Speak clearly and naturally. Don’t worry about being perfect—we're real people here. And if it needs a little touch-up, we can do that, too.
Keep it under 60 seconds, if possible. Short and sweet is good.
Step 2: Attach the File To the Form
If it’s easier, open this page on your phone’s browser. Find the file you recorded and attach it using the “Add A File” section in the form above.
Another Option: Voicemail
We usually get much clearer audio from a memo recording, but if you’re having trouble doing that and you’d like to submit a question, leave a message on Tim Tedder’s business voicemail: (317) 324-8843.
Leave your question on the voicemail and be sure to include:
Your first name (or say you'd like to remain anonymous)
A sentence like: “You have my permission to use this recording in your resources.”