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The Memory Project

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Mixbook 5 episodes Nov 9, 2026

The Memory Project is a podcast from Mixbook in which CEO and co-founder Andrew Laffoon speaks with psychologists, researchers, and storytellers about how memory works in everyday life. Each episode combines scientific research with personal stories, looking at how memory shapes identity, family bonds, and the way people hold on to what matters. The conversations also explore loss, milestones, and other life transitions. Listeners are meant to come away with practical ways to think about memory and ideas for capturing important moments.

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Memory and Mental Health Nov 9, 2026 36:03 Some memories fade. Others, the painful ones, stick with us and sometimes, they hurt. What happens in the brain when we can’t move past a memory? And how do people truly heal?In this episode of The Memory Project, Dr. Charan Ranganath, a psychology and neuroscience professor at UC Davis who trained as a clinical psychologist and is the author of Why We Remember, joins Andrew Laffoon, CEO and Co-fo

The Stories We Don't Tell: A Genetic Genealogist on Family Lore Oct 30, 2026 35:33 Who are you, really?Family lore is part fact and part story, and genetic genealogy can show where the two split.In this episode of The Memory Project, Andrew Laffoon sits down with Nicole Conti, a Genetic Genealogist and family history storyteller, to explore why families pass some stories down and leave others out. Nicole draws on her own family’s history, from a surname mystery that led her to a

More Than Memory: What Dementia Really Looks Like Oct 22, 2026 32:03 What does dementia really look like? Ty Lewis, a Certified Dementia Practitioner, Educator, and Advocate, has cared for her mother, Gertrude, through Alzheimer's for more than a decade. In this episode of The Memory Project, she tells host Andrew Laffoon, CEO and Co-founder of Mixbook, what the early signs looked like, what families often miss, and how she finds joy on the hardest days. In this co

Leave Nothing Unsaid: Keeping Family Memories Alive After Loss Oct 19, 2026 26:59 When a fire took her home, Anne Albertson learned what a fire takes, and what it can’t.They were safe, and she is grateful. But the hardest part came after: learning to be grateful and heartbroken at the same time.In this episode of The Memory Project, Andrew Laffoon, CEO and Co-founder of Mixbook, sits down with Anne for an honest conversation about loss. Anne calls this a hard story to tell but

How Memory Shapes You: What a Core Memory Really Is Oct 15, 2026 30:30 What if memory isn’t just something you have, but the very thing you’re made of?In this episode of The Memory Project, host Andrew Laffoon sits down with cognitive psychologist and Palo Alto University provost Dr. Christie Chung to explore how memories don’t just record your life — they shape who you become.Memory isn’t a filing cabinet. It’s an ongoing personal narrative, and every time you revis

How Memory Actually Works Oct 12, 2026 38:21 You remember it perfectly. The problem is that you rewrote it the last time you told the story.Cognitive psychologist Dr. Christie Chung, provost at Palo Alto University, joins Mixbook CEO and co-founder Andrew Laffoon to explain what your brain actually does when you remember. Memories aren't recordings. You reconstruct them every time you bring them up, which means they change, and that turns ou

Welcome to The Memory Project Sep 21, 2026 01:14 On The Memory Project, Mixbook CEO and co-founder Andrew Laffoon talks with psychologists, researchers, and storytellers who study how memory works and the role it plays in our lives. Each episode pairs research with real stories, exploring how memory shapes identity, how families hold onto what matters, and how we navigate loss, milestones, and everything in between.You'll leave each episode with

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