Welcome to the Slayer sessions with Shannon Ananga. Our mission is to wipe out the fear and discomfort of anxiety.

Good morning or good afternoon,

anangue.

Good morning or good afternoon, Ananga. I'm really excited that we're here together for round two of our interview sessions to talk a little bit more about how we came together and some of the work that we're doing to

support people around the world to slay their anxiety.

So I'm trying to think of when you reached out to me the first time you were the person that

brought us together many months ago that would be a good place to start.

Well you kindly left a comment about my blog and so you popped up on my radar and I looked you up and I was interested in your work and there were a few words in your bio that struck a chord with me. So you were kind of in my awareness zone of people I like to read and see what they're up to.

For a long time I'd had this idea of a project where initially it was going to be like a first aid kit

specifically for anxiety, sort of emergency techniques that people can use when they want to feel

calm.

So I had a specific thing in mind that I wanted to do.

And I think it was about September, early September last year,

I decided to reach out to some blogging friends

and get some feedback or see if anybody wanted to partner

up and we could bring some tools together.

So I approached a few people about five or six people and you were the last one I expected to respond because I didn't know you so well and you

look like a very busy successful person.

I was really happy when you came back to me and we started to tweet each other backwards and forwards and then some emails started flying.

I was immediately inspired by your open-heartedness and your energy about the project.

So that was an unexpected bonus that we got to hook up

and work together.

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