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After seven years, and something like over two and a half thousand episodes, there's

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finally an app.

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It's called Anchored, and it's now live on the app store today, and I want to be honest

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with you about what it is, because it isn't what most wellness apps are.

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I built this so you wouldn't need it forever.

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Here's the thing, I nearly didn't get it made.

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Some of you know, my eyesight went, cataracts.

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For months, I was mostly housebound, and the edges of the world went soft and grey.

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So I did the only thing I could still do.

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I sat down, and I coded.

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Maximum contrast, text so big it filled the screen, lined by line, squinting away.

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And what came out the other end is an app I could use when I could barely see, which

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it turns out is exactly the app you want when your mid panic attack and your hands are

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shaking.

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So what is it?

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It's the podcast, and then some more.

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Over the two thousand shows, ready, all searchable, so you can find the right one, instead

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of scrolling past seven years of me.

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There's a panic attack section that opens straight into help.

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No menus, no choosing, you're already in distress.

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I'm not going to be there making those decisions.

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There's guided breathing that moves with my voice.

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So you're not watching a circle and listening to me separately.

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It's the same thing.

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And there's a night light for the small hours.

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All of this is free, no account, no signup, not even an email address.

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I don't want your data, I never did.

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Now, the money bit, and I'll be straight with you.

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The free version carries the ads, same as the podcast does.

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That's not my favourite thing either, but they pay for the hosting, and the hosting is

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what keeps it free for a person who genuinely can't pay.

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If you'd rather not hear them, that's $5.99 a month, makes it all ad free, the price of

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a large coffee.

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That's the whole pitch, no countdown timer, no half price if you decide in the next ten

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minutes.

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Premium does two more things, but I think are probably worth having.

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The first is downloads, you can pull the whole library onto your phone and it works with

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no signal at all.

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What matters more than it sounds?

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The commute is where a lot of you tell me the anxiety actually shows up, and the commute

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is exactly where the signal drops.

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Underground on a train, on a plane, it just plays.

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The second is books at bedtime.

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Full length books, read slowly, a chapter at a time, made for falling asleep to rather than

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following.

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That library grows every single week, and honestly it's become my favourite corner of the

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whole thing.

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If you're on Android, I haven't forgotten you, it's been tested right now, and it's coming

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next month, genuinely next month, not an app developer next month.

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And here's what I actually want to say, because it's the whole point of this thing.

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Find it, use it, then move on.

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There's no streak in this app, nothing turns red if you skip a day, nothing guilts you back

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in.

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I've been really deliberate about that, because I've seen what those mechanics do to people

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who are already struggling.

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If you use it for the hard times, for three weeks in a bad patch, and then never open again,

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that isn't fair.

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That's the app doing its job.

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The link is in the show notes.

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If it helps you, then please share it with someone who's having a hard time, and then leave

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it behind.

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And one little favour.

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If you download it this week, and you enjoy it, please do take time to leave a review

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on Apple.

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It will really help push it to more people who need that little bit of calm in their lives.

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Thank you my friend.

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I'm Martin.

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This is Anchored.

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Take care, and I'll see you tomorrow.

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