A private studio

Fewer clients. Finer work.

Grandchildren inherit your estate. But will they inherit you?

Here's how.

Over a series of unhurried telephone conversations, from your own home, I turn your life story into three things:

A privately printed memoir of your life.
Recordings of your voice. The way you tell stories.
An interactive memoir where descendants can ask anything, and hear you answer in your own voice.

Six to eight conversations. Four to six months, at your pace.

I take twelve commissions a year.

Write me directly

The Studio

You already know the alternative. A team of six on every call. A book with your name on it that reads like it was written by a stranger. I run the opposite practice.

Since 2009 I have served one kind of client: people with more to lose than money. The work has been books, broadcasts and private archives. I do not hand the work off. What you commission is what you get, in my hands throughout.

Books under my own name

125+

Authors guided to print

Account managers

One commission · Print, voice and interactive memoir · One pair of hands

The Commission

The Legacy Estate

A life, properly kept.

Leather-bound books in a private library

A series of recorded conversations, by telephone, from your own home, wherever in the world that is. No equipment. No setup. Nothing to learn. We simply talk, as long as it takes, and I capture every word.

From those conversations come three things. A memoir, privately printed to heirloom standard. Recordings of your voice: your laugh, the way you tell stories. And an interactive memoir, built on your recorded words, so the people you love most can sit across the table and ask you anything, long after you are gone. Every answer is drawn from your own words. Your granddaughter asks how you met your wife. The answer comes back in your voice. Everything is self-hosted, sealed under NDA, and deeded to you.

One commission, one figure, agreed on one page before we begin. Commissions begin at £75,000, and the number does not change.

Selected work

Commissions

Most of my work never appears here. Clients ask for discretion, and I keep it. What follows is a fraction, described without names. References are shared privately, with written permission.

Ongoing Broadcast & book series Impact Makers Radio: scores of attorneys and financial advisors interviewed; many became published authors

2022 Privately printed book A financial advisory practice, New York

2020 Memoir, privately printed A physician and author, Grand Cayman

Principles

The house rules

Discretion by default

Your name appears nowhere without written permission, including in my own marketing. The NDA is signed before the first call, not after it.

II.

Twelve engagements a year

When the diary is full, it is full, and I will tell you honestly when it opens. I would rather decline a commission than dilute one.

III.

Founder-led, always

You deal with me. I conceive the work and I deliver it. There is no account team to hand you to, because there is no account team.

IV.

Built to be kept

You own everything: the transcripts, the recordings, the files, the accounts. If we never spoke again after delivery, everything would still work.

Four steps · No theatre

The Engagement

The Conversation

Twenty minutes, unhurried. You talk, I listen. If I am not the right pair of hands, I will say so, and tell you whose are.

The Composition

One page, not thirty. The scope, the timeline, one fixed figure. It does not expire, and it is not negotiable.

The Craft

You watch the work mature in private viewings. No big reveal, no surprise invoice, no revision theatre.

The Keeping

Everything documented and deeded to you. The standard is set in writing first. If I miss it, the remedy is on the same page.

Studio portrait of Stewart Alexander, founder of Media Group 15

London · New York · Cayman Islands

The Founder

Stewart Alexander

Founder & Principal

In 2009, at a breakfast networking meeting in West Yorkshire, I watched a man give a forgettable ten-minute talk. Afterwards, a queue formed. People were waiting for a signed copy of his book. The talk had not moved them. The book had. I had been building businesses online for years by then; that queue told me what I would spend the rest of my career making.

Sixteen books since, most of them not written by me. I am the managing editor behind them: anthologies of ten to fifteen professionals, each taught to write a chapter, each published and placed on Amazon and in bookstores. My own first book, Credibility Breakthroughs, took me on a book tour through New York, Washington, DC, and Dallas.

The authors were attorneys, advisors, founders. For years I hosted a broadcast on which I interviewed the attorneys and advisors who serve wealthy families in divorce. Many of those conversations became their books.

For fifteen years I have coached women's football, in England, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Egypt and Ethiopia, including a season with a national team. Parents handed me their daughters for a decade and a half. Somewhere along the way, they began handing me their stories.

The right book changes how a room receives you. The right legacy changes how a family remembers you. Making both is my life's work.

Amazon author page Impact Makers Radio Stewart Alexander

Contact

Write me.

Tell me what you want kept. One sentence is enough. 'I want my grandchildren to know who I was.' I will take it from there. Commissions begin at £75,000.

Write

[email protected]

The Studio

London · New York · Cayman Islands

Replies within one business day,
from the founder personally.

That is the whole of it. No forms. No discovery-call theatre. I follow up once, gently. After that, the silence is yours to keep or break.