# 7 cards to 7 people in 7 days - will create happiness (especially for you!) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-today-with-beth-buffington-6737462/7-cards-to-7-people-in-7-days-will-create-happiness-especially-for-you Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-today-with-beth-buffington-6737462/7-cards-to-7-people-in-7-days-will-create-happiness-especially-for-you.md Podcast: [Create-Today with Beth Buffington](https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-today-with-beth-buffington-6737462) Published: 2026-09-03T11:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.bdi-create.today/podcasts/create-today-with-beth-buffington/episodes/2149251022 Audio file: https://app.kajabi.com/podcasts/medias/2149251022.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/create-today-with-beth-buffington-6737462/episodes/7-cards-to-7-people-in-7-days-will-create-happiness-especially-for-you Duration seconds: 1638 ## Resource Send 7 Cards to 7 people in 7 Days: Surprising Science on Why It’ll Make you Happier Every now and then as you flip through your mail – junk, junk, a bill, a catalog... you'll find one... an envelope with a handwritten address. Stop for a moment and think about that little flare of joy that flutters in your heart. You know what I'm talking about.  That's what this episode is all about. 💌 The joy a rectangle of paper provides in the humble greeting card. And here's why. It's almost Thinking of You Week (September 21–27, 2026) , and Beth is kicking off a two-part series on the creativity and the science behind sending a greeting card. This week, she explores why sending a card might be one of the simplest, research-backed happiness boosts available to you. And it's easy to concentrate on this month because September 21-27 is Thinking of You Week. In this episode, you'll discover: • The origin story behind Thinking of You Week. It started as a Lenten challenge from photographer Leonard Smith that grew into an international movement backed by the Greeting Card Association • This year's official challenge: seven cards to seven people in seven days (and why "vague intentions rarely turn into actions") • Surprising numbers behind why we are a card culture (even though we are so darn digital) •Americans buy an estimated 6.5 billion greeting cards a year • 7 in 10 card buyers call them "essential," not just nice-to-have • The UK neuroscience research showing a handwritten card lights up the brain differently than a text or email and provides roughly twice the happiness of a social post and three times that of an email • Why a University of Chicago study says you're wrong about how awkward your card will feel. • The science-… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/create-today-with-beth-buffington-6737462/episodes/7-cards-to-7-people-in-7-days-will-create-happiness-especially-for-you/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/create-today-with-beth-buffington-6737462/7-cards-to-7-people-in-7-days-will-create-happiness-especially-for-you.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.