Sam Alexander creates tech content for tens of thousands of viewers, but his most important work happens in therapy sessions where Plaud helps him become the person he wants to be.
In a world designed to fracture your attention, presence has become the rarest commodity. As a tech content creator, Sam Alexander knows this struggle well. Between online calls and in-person meetings, Sam juggles many conversations every day. Among those conversations, therapy is perhaps the most important, most impactful one.
Want to hear this story directly from Sam? Check out his YouTube review where he speaks candidly about therapy, family relationships, and how Plaud has become an essential in his mental health journey.
The problem: staying present
"One of my biggest problems in therapy is that I can't remember everything we talked about during the session," Sam explains. "I can't take notes fast enough. And also writing stuff down while we're talking, it takes me out of the conversation and I often lose my flow of thoughts."
The impossible choice: be present OR document. Experience OR capture. Engage OR remember.
For Sam, therapy was surfacing important insights about his relationship with his parents and his own internal struggles. But by the time he left his therapist's office, the details were already blurring.
The solution: three ways Plaud changed everything
Documentation: freeing your mind to be fully present
Sam wore the tiny Plaud NotePin S as a watch. Before his session, he pressed a button. Then he forgot about it.
Without the need of being his own stenographer, Sam was able to speak without interruption or slowing down. While his mind wandered into important memories and emotions, Plaud took notes, and gave it back to him without missing anything.
"After an hour of listening to me talk, I looked over the summary and I was shocked at how insightful this was."
Self-reflection: full insights when you need them
After one particular session, one sentence from Plaud's summary stood out to Sam: "[Sam] will work on being more aware of how he masks himself around his parents with the goal of showing up more authentically."
"That sentence, it's so simple and I probably would have been able to say it myself because I knew that that's something that I want. But seeing it written so plainly woke me up."
Sam went back to that summary multiple times, especially before visiting his parents. They live in different states now, seeing each other only a couple times a year. Having those insights readily available meant he could actually use what he'd learned when it mattered most.
New perspectives: getting out of your own head
With the transcript and summary in hand, Sam continued to ask Plaud AI for additional insights based on his session. One stuck with him: "Release the need to change or fix them, understanding that being a good child doesn't necessitate this role."
"That's something again I probably understood intellectually, but having Plaud reiterate this point was something I very much needed to hear for it to start to sink in."
This isn't AI wisdom. It's Sam's own understanding reflected back from a different angle. The insights are his. The growth is his. Plaud helps him hold onto both.
Technology that elevates human behavior
"Having written summaries of my therapy appointments that I can quickly go back and reread has genuinely been life-changing for me. I think it's going to dramatically increase the amount that I can learn from each therapy session and hopefully allow me to grow more in alignment with the person that I want to be."
Plaud didn't do Sam's emotional work. Instead, it took the busywork out of his way so he could be fully present, then helped him carry those insights forward. AI is not replacing memory or thinking, but enhancing the ability to learn from experience.
In a world that constantly fragments our attention, Plaud offers something rare: the freedom to be fully present in the moments that matter most, and the ability to carry those moments forward and let them actually change us.
Because the most important conversations aren't with AI. They're with our therapists, our loved ones, and ourselves. Plaud is here to make those conversations as meaningful as possible, and help us remember, learn, and actually put them to use.
Ready to be fully present in the moments that matter? Get your Plaud NotePin S today.
