More Than a Mug: Memories Over Followers

[00:00:02] Intro (Dr. Christiane): You posted it, good reach, good numbers, and a week later, nobody remembers it was your post. Because here’s the truth: being seen and being felt are two completely different outcomes. Only one of them builds trust. This is the Happy Healthy Hustle podcast, and I’m your host, Dr. Christiane. Today, the pineapple mug story and the one question to ask instead of, “How do I get more people to see me?” If this one lands, follow the show and leave a comment telling me whose message has stayed with you. Visibility gets you in the room. Resonance is what makes people stay.

[00:00:50] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Sammy, what’s going on?

[00:00:51] Sammy: This influencer just came up on my feed, and I feel like they just do everything for show.

[00:00:56] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Oh, for sure. Let’s put your phone away.

[00:00:58] Sammy: Yeah.

[00:00:58] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Let’s grab some tea.

[00:01:00] Sammy: You know what? Sometimes I have a feeling that with an influencer, a lot of things are just for clicks and numbers, getting more followers. But the things they talk about, the items they show, are they actually things that they truly resonate with, or enjoy even?

[00:01:19] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: We don’t know. So take a look at this cute mug right here.

[00:01:24] Sammy: I love it. It’s a pineapple.

[00:01:26] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: And I have to actually tell you that when I needed a new mug, I had a couple of requirements. First, it had to be big, because I always drink a lot. And second, it had to be an item that I really feel brings joy to my life.

[00:01:42] Sammy: Totally.

[00:01:42] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Then when I look in it, I was like, all right, pineapples remind me of, well, first of all, the delicious fruit, which I love. But second, it reminds me of Maui. Have you been to Maui?

[00:01:55] Sammy: I have been to Maui, which is also a weird thing to bring up, because when I was five, I was sitting at this restaurant called Cheeseburgers in Paradise, and I was ordering a tropical smoothie, and they asked me if I wanted to upgrade to the pineapple cup. And of course, at five years old, I was trying to convince my parents, and eventually they gave in, as a little memento from the trip. Which is now even more special, because I was able to share it with my cousin, and we both still have it. It’s still sitting at home on my dresser, and I think I have a couple coins still left in it. I’ve used it as my piggy bank.

[00:02:26] Sammy: But it was even cooler now that I still have this, ’cause sadly, in the Lahaina fire, right, it’s right on the water, and that was one of the first things to go. So it’s nice that I still have a memento from that trip. And even when we keep going back, obviously now we can’t go to that restaurant, but I still have a reminder, and I don’t even need a photo of it, which is so nice, because I just can picture the memory. Which I think is special, and it proves how important it was in my life, and how that is literally my happy place.

[00:02:58] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: You know, I sometimes think of these moments when you look at an item. It’s nearly like your brain is like a jukebox, to where you look at the item and it’s playing the memory.

[00:03:10] Sammy: Playing something, yeah.

[00:03:11] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Or if you watch the movie Inside Out, it’s like when one of those little balls rolls, and it’s creating a memory and then putting it in your memory bank. So your piggy bank is your memory bank of a beautiful trip to Hawaii, that creates now family history, of course, because that restaurant doesn’t even exist anymore.

[00:03:34] Sammy: Well, no, and it’s still so important to me, even though it doesn’t even exist.

[00:03:38] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Beautiful. So what do you do with your mug now? Do you use it?

[00:03:42] Sammy: No, I don’t use it, ’cause it still sits on my dresser, and, what I was saying before, I have a couple little coins left in it. ‘Cause I still…

[00:03:50] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Beautiful. So I think coming back to when you were annoyed earlier, and I love that you’re smiling now. See? It was good to put that phone away. Sometimes that’s what you have to do.

[00:03:59] Sammy: That’s what you have to do.

[00:04:01] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: You have to think about things that bring you joy, that resonate with you, that bring you happy feelings. And it’s not about visibility, about showing off what you do, what you own, getting higher numbers. It’s just about resonating, getting the emotions, the feelings that really remind you of happy memories. And I think that we sometimes don’t even have to take pictures of those things. Just be in the moment, right? Just look at it and enjoy, and maybe just remember, like I said, a little memory ball that comes out and brings it up.

[00:04:36] Sammy: That’s all you need.

[00:04:36] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: That’s all that we need. Well, cheers to that memory.

[00:04:39] Sammy: Cheers.

[00:04:40] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: And cheers to more pineapples in Maui.

[00:04:42] Sammy: Yes. I hope so.

[00:04:45] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Beautiful.