Do people stop you in the street when they hear your voice?

Sometimes they do. So it's normally in, it's in restaurants or airports when they hear the voice. And occasionally people come up in the street. Wait, that's the voice on my phone every day. Yeah, I think it's an interesting relationship because for people who do it every day, they have a friendship. It's very personal. We have a relationship already. So it's always a surprise for me when they come up and they give me a big hug and it's lovely, but it's a surprise as well. What do you think the attraction is of the app? So I think the simplicity of it, I think the accessibility of it, and I think the authenticity of it. So these aren't things that we've sort of come up with. The things

that have been around for a few thousand years, they work. You know, and the science, you

know, we have a whole science team now that's kind of proving out the efficacy of these

techniques. There's so many different types of meditation, there's so many different ways

of it being practiced. So there's not a lot of research kind of actually measuring the efficacy of an

app. Of short term, short meditation. So mindfulness being delivered as an intervention

in very sort of bite size chunks, you know. Why does it work? It works because typically we are

very distracted. We don't spend a lot of time in the present and

because we're distracted we get very easily overwhelmed. So once we learn how to

step out of that busy mind, that thinking, and we're not so easily overwhelmed,

there are lots of physiological changes that take place in our body. Our heart

rate slows down, our breathing slows down. We're less

likely to produce a lot of the harmful chemicals that typically are pumping around our body. And we

experience a greater sense of calm, not only in our body, but also in our mind. What's your daily

meditation routine? Yeah, so it used to be, before having children, I would get up every morning, that would be the first thing I do. Now the first thing I do is go straight out the front door and I go for a run or a cycle, whatever. Which can be meditative too. Which has its own, yeah, which has its own benefits. And then I meditate later in the day. I normally meditate. I try and meditate sort of around lunchtime or at the end of the day once the children have gone to bed.

How long do you personally meditate?

It varies. I still try and meditate an hour a day. Sometimes it's a little bit less.

Occasion is a little bit more? It depends.

How short is too short? How long do you need?

It's a great question. When I left the monastery, so having trained as a Buddhist monk, I really thought anything less than an hour wasn't sort of worth kind of doing, you know? That was my thinking. That's how I've been trained. And then I started working with people one to one, and I found that actually 20 minutes was really meaningful and then 10 minutes was really meaningful.

We've experimented with the app a lot and now you'd even find in the app sort of three minute

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