Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast, I'm Shan Van der Leek, and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Chad Lawson.

Chad is a pianist, composer, podcaster, yogi, and Coach from Charlotte, North Carolina.

We're going to discuss his new album, Breathe, which was recorded at Abbey Road,

and his experience with the intersection of music and wellness.

Chad's goal is to provide listeners an emotional embrace

and to hold their hand through everything life throws at them.

And get this, his music has already been streamed 500 million times.

That's just awesome. Welcome to Anxiety Slayer, Chad. Thank you so much, Shan. I so appreciate your invitation.

I am grateful to have found you and to, I listened to your music a few months ago and then you know liked you on Spotify and listened and then this morning I had the

Gift of starting my day listening to Breathe, which is the name of your new album.

What a gorgeous album.

Thank you.

And the color of the sky was playing at the very moment that my husband invited me to look up.

And the sky was this bright purple, beautiful color.

And I thought, look at that.

If that's not magic, I'm not sure what is.

It's always an amazing experience, right?

To be surprised by something so beautiful, and especially when it's something so beautiful every morning and every night right and

Something that's always just right there in front of us if we can just take just two minutes just to kind of notice it, you know.

Mm, yeah, to have that synchronicity of listening to this beautiful music

and to be looking at the sky

and just being in that space of gratitude

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