Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

anxiety.

This is Shan with Anxiety Slayer and I am here today interviewing Barry McDonough and Barry is the creator of the panic away program.

In the past 10 years the panic away program has touched over 150,000 lives in 32 countries worldwide.

Everyone has used it from soccer moms to famous celebrities.

And Barry's mission is to reach 1 million people

by 2016 and change the way we treat anxiety forever. And here at Anxiety Slayer, we absolutely want to help

him reach his goal. And that's why we've invited him here today to do a Slayer session interview, ask some questions, receive some more information about

the Panic Away Program, and then we'll invite you back to our blog for more information so that you can receive everything that you need

to begin and to look into this great product.

So Barry, welcome.

Shan, great to be here.

Thanks for having me.

Oh, you're most welcome.

I'd love to just roll through a few questions with you and see where they take us but I think the very first

curiosity that I have is how did you get started with the panic away program and tell us a little bit about your personal experience

with panic attacks.

Yeah, the panic away program is really all comes from my own experience of dealing with panic attacks and general anxiety.

And I was in my first year in college when I had my first panic attack. For me it was such an incredible experience because I've never

experienced anxiety like that before. I've been such a laid-back guy, nobody would ever suspect that I'd be the kind of guy who suddenly then start experiencing panic

attacks. And like many of your listeners who know what that's like, you know, they can imagine it, it really just caught me off guard and I immediately

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