More Than a Mug: Memories Over Followers

You posted it. Good reach, good numbers.

And a week later, nobody remembers it was yours.

Because here's the truth. Being seen and being felt are two completely different outcomes. Only one of them builds trust.

So when an influencer popped up on Sammy's feed and she said what most of us think ("they just do everything for show"), we put the phone away. We made tea. And I pulled out a pineapple mug.

This is a four-minute conversation with my Cal Poly student Sammy about a mug, a restaurant in Lahaina that no longer exists, and why the things we never post are often the things that hold us.

In this episode:

→ The two requirements I gave a coffee mug, and why "big" was only one of them

→ A pineapple cup a five-year-old talked her parents into, and what it became after the Lahaina fire

→ Why your brain works like a jukebox when you look at certain objects

→ The Inside Out memory ball, and why you may not need the photo

→ The one question to ask instead of "how do I get more people to see me?"

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