Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vanderleak.

Today I have the pleasure of speaking with V. Lockard, creator of Snuscast, the podcast designed to help you fall asleep.

As someone who has personal experience living with anxiety, V knows exactly how anxiety can sneak

into bed with you even if you have felt ready for bed all day. V and her husband started Snuscast to share their love of this simple but effective tool that helps people who have trouble falling asleep.

Welcome to Anxiety Slayer V.

Thank you, Shan. I'm so happy to be here.

It's wonderful to have you and I must say I really enjoy Snuscast.

I do. I love that I get to choose if I want to listen to poetry or fiction or non-fiction or

original stories. It's such a creative offering and it really is incredibly

relaxing and so soothing. So kudos to you.

Thank you. I love hearing that we try to put out a lot of diverse offerings for sure.

You do it and you do it well. And congratulations on your success.

You've got hundreds of podcasts, millions of downloads,

and so you're definitely serving the community

who we hear from a lot who is I can't get to sleep what do I do what do I do and

snooze cast is a great remedy for that let's dig right in and have you share the story, the inspiration for

snuscast how this all came together for you.

My husband and I were both having some trouble falling asleep at night and we were trying different

ways separately and together to fall asleep. For me it was occasionally having a little trouble falling asleep.

For my husband it was a little bit more of a regular thing trying to find maybe some kind of not too interesting YouTube video to watch while

falling asleep or music. We started to read to each other actually first. We'd pick a book out and then we would take turns every night alternating who was reading to the other person.

And one of the things we noticed is that not only was this a great way to

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