Hey, it's podcast episode number 200 on the anxious truth 200 I'm amazed so today we're

going to do something a little bit different please indulge me you see there's no intro music

there's no slick opening I'm not going to talk about my books and that sort of stuff I just want

to take 10 or 12 minutes and chat with you sort of informally and reflect a little bit about where

the podcast has been since its inception in 2014 where it is now and kind of where we're going

and I want to talk to you about how you participate in setting that direction and determining

where we go from episode 201 and onward so grab a coffee or tea or whatever beverage you want

and pull up a chair get comfortable and let's just chat a little bit then I promise next week we'll

be back to our regular programming so when I started this podcast in 2014 the podcast was originally

entitled that anxiety guy so if you're sort of new and you're listening to old episodes and you

hear that name same podcast just with a different name and the funny story about that is when I

did not know what to name the podcast and I really had no plans for the podcast at all I wanted to

do something to pay forward some of the help that I got in online when I needed it I thought a

podcast might be a good idea I'm pretty comfortable speaking so I said all right I'm going to do a

podcast I had no idea what podcast work nobody cared back then so I fired up my little $4

podcast app on my crappy iPhone whatever iPhone it was in 2014 and I started talking and I know

I needed a name I didn't know what to name the podcast and one night I saw a promo on TV for

that 70 show which interestingly enough I have never seen I've never even seen a minute of that

70 show but of course I knew about it because it was an incredibly popular TV show at the time

and I thought oh I'm gonna name the podcast that anxiety guy and it's sort of stuck but I never

really liked it like I just never really liked the name it was a default name and I kind of

didn't care because I I really had no plans for this this thing this podcast I recorded my first

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