Employee wellbeing for the hard days nobody calls a helpline about
Most people will never ring an EAP because a meeting went badly or they can’t switch off at night, but days like that still affect how they feel at work. Build Your Inner Voice gives every employee a private wellbeing membership, written around what that person is actually dealing with.
Employees get a 5 minute reset for the days that go wrong, and managers get short sessions they can run with their team. There is nothing to install and nothing for you to run.
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The 5 minute reset, for any employee who needs it
Most workplace support is built for a crisis. The BYIV 5 minute reset is built for the ordinary difficult days in between, when nothing is wrong enough to call anyone about.
A typical example is someone who has more work than they can finish that day, with more still arriving. Nobody rings a helpline about that, so they push on, and by lunchtime they have been busy for 3 hours and finished nothing.
That is the moment the BYIV 5 minute reset is built for. On one page, they tap the situation that fits and type a line about what is actually going on. About 10 seconds later they have a short written guide for that exact thing and a 5 minute audio to talk them through it. They can listen with headphones in, and nobody around them needs to know.
A BYIV 5 minute reset does not fix the thing that is worrying them. It gives them a few minutes to breathe and work out what they can actually do something about today.
There is a set of BYIV 5 minute resets for anyone at work, including feeling overwhelmed, not being able to switch off, not being able to focus, self doubt, money worries and dreading a conversation. There is a second set written for people who manage others, covering the harder situations that come with managing people.
Build Your Inner Voice sits in front of your EAP, not in place of it
An Employee Assistance Programme is the right answer for the serious things, and Build Your Inner Voice does not replace it. Think of BYIV as the front door: the everyday pressure nobody phones a helpline about, dealt with in 5 minutes on the day it happens, so your EAP stays free for everything bigger.
If something bigger is going on
Requests for 5 minute resets and team sessions go through an automatic check for signs that someone may need more help. Planner requests are checked in the same way. If there are signs, that person is shown free, confidential helplines such as Samaritans on the same page. In the most serious cases we are alerted so we can follow up, and their employer is never told. Build Your Inner Voice is not a crisis or emergency service, and the page says so plainly.
If what they write is about something formal, like a disciplinary or redundancy, they are pointed to their own HR team and to ACAS. We never give medical advice, and we never advise on HR or legal matters.
You never see what they wrote
What an employee types into a BYIV 5 minute reset is used once, to write their guide, and then it is gone. We do not store what they type, and their words never appear in your report, even as a number or a category. Each month you get counts only, showing how many people used the reset and how many said it helped. You can also see which email addresses have claimed a membership, so you can give memberships out and take them back. That list tells you nothing about whether a person has used their membership. Plenty of people will use the reset because of something happening at work, and for them that privacy matters even more.
What poor mental health costs employers
Poor mental health costs UK employers around £51 billion a year. Nearly half of that, £24 billion, comes from people who are at work but cannot get anything done, rather than from sick days.
An EAP rarely reaches that £24 billion, because it is built to be called on when something is clearly wrong. The ordinary days, when someone is at their desk and getting nowhere, are the ones that go unsupported. Deloitte put the return on workplace mental health spending at £4.70 for every £1, and found the money comes back faster from support people use before things get bad.Deloitte, 2024
A review of 22 studies found that short breaks at work reliably cut fatigue and lifted energy.PLOS ONE, 2022 The BYIV 5 minute reset is built to be one of those short breaks.
Where the evidence sitsThe studies we cite tested the methods we use, such as self-affirmation and team debriefs. They are not trials of Build Your Inner Voice itself. What we have built is a quick, private way to get those methods to someone on the day they need them. Every study, named and dated
Built for the whole workplace
Every person gets their own membership, and teams and managers get extra tools of their own.
For every employee
One private page with everything on it: the BYIV 5 minute resets, personalised affirmation tracks built around the goal they describe, a personalised 66 day planner to print, a weekly affirmation, the 30 day challenge and a listening tracker.
They activate once with your team code, then open their page any time at buildyourinnervoice.com/my/ with the email address they used. There is no app to download and nothing to install.
For teams
Anyone on the team can describe what the team is dealing with. Sessions can be 10 or 20 minutes long, or 45 minutes if the team has more time. The person gets back a short, timed session to run in a normal meeting, starting with a short breathing pause. We send a 10 minute check-in 2 weeks later to run as the follow up, so the session is not a one off.
A session can be built around too much work and not enough time, a big deadline coming, a change nobody has the full picture of yet, picking things back up after something went wrong, a team that has gone quiet, or new people joining.
For managers and founders
A second set of BYIV 5 minute resets, written for the situations that come with managing people: the feedback you keep putting off, presenting to senior people, a good person handing in their notice, news the team will not like, a decision only you can make, and payroll worries if you are the one paying everybody.
Safe to use at workTeam sessions stay about the whole team, so nobody is singled out or asked to share news or rumours. Anything formal is pointed to HR and ACAS. Each session uses a method with evidence behind it, such as imagining a project has already failed before a deadline, or a blame free look back after a mistake.
Why Build Your Inner Voice
You probably have someone in mind already, like the person with a good idea who never quite says it in the room, or someone who used to have real drive and is now running on empty.
You cannot fix any of that for them, and it would not be your place to try. What you can do is put something genuinely useful in their hands and let them use it their own way.
Most wellbeing benefits are a library of the same content for everyone. Usually someone signs the contract and everyone gets a login, but only a handful of people try the benefit. Most of those people never go back, because content that is the same for everyone never feels like it is about them.
Build Your Inner Voice is written one person at a time. Each person describes the goal they are working on, and everything they get back is written around that goal. The goal might be confidence in a room full of senior people, sleep, money worries or something well outside work. They can change their goal whenever they like.
Each part of the membership takes a few minutes at most, and people can use it whenever suits them, even at 3 in the morning. Nobody checks whether they have used their membership, and there is nothing to keep up with.
Support for menopause at work
Menopause is one of the few things that reliably affects how well someone can work, and one of the very few that almost nobody mentions at work.
People still say ‘women of a certain age’, usually meaning no harm by it, and for most workplaces that phrase is about as far as the conversation ever gets. 2 in 3 women aged 40 to 60 going through menopause say it has had a mostly negative effect on them at work, and more than half have been unable to come in at some point because of it. Only a quarter say their employer offers a policy or any support at all.CIPD, 2023
A great many capable people quietly manage 2 or 3 years of broken sleep and lost confidence without telling anyone at all, and some of them leave rather than ask for help. More than a quarter say it has held their career back, and around 1 in 6 has thought about giving up work altogether because of it.
In March 2026 the government published guidance asking employers to offer workplace adjustments for menopause. The 2 things it presses hardest for are also the 2 that are hardest to simply buy in: support that fits the individual rather than the category, and managers who are able to have the conversation without making things worse.GOV.UK, 2026
For the person
Nobody has to name a symptom or fill in a form, and nobody at work has to be told anything. Each person chooses what they are working on, and everything they get back is written around that choice. Someone working on sleep gets the sleep work. If their words keep deserting them 10 minutes before a meeting, there is a BYIV 5 minute reset written for exactly that moment.
For the manager
For a manager the hard part is almost always the conversation itself, and the fear of saying the wrong thing and making it worse. Managers get their own set of BYIV 5 minute resets, written for their own side of the job, and the one that matters most here is the difficult conversation you have been putting off. It is written for the manager’s own head in the few minutes before they walk in, rather than being a script to follow once they are in there.
For you
Build Your Inner Voice sits alongside the support you already have, such as your HR policy and occupational health provider, and asks nothing extra of them. When somebody asks what you offer, you can point at something concrete, without first having to build a programme or put a room full of managers through training.
What we are careful not to sayMenopause is not an illness, and we are not a medical service. We do not diagnose or treat anything, and we do not give medical advice. Build Your Inner Voice does not replace somebody’s GP or your occupational health provider, and your HR policy still applies as normal. What the research shows is that symptoms affect work, and that the guidance now asks for support built around the individual. NICE says talking therapy should be considered for menopause symptoms, alongside or instead of HRT. Build Your Inner Voice is not therapy and does not claim to be. It works on the same idea at an everyday, practical level, which means helping with what somebody says to themselves at 3 in the morning, or 10 minutes before a meeting on a day when their concentration has deserted them.NICE NG23
What every employee receives
Unlimited personalised tracks
Affirmation audio written around the goal each employee describes, in the voice and sound they choose. Employees can make as many tracks as they need.Fair use policy applies.
12 areas, each written differently
Each area is written in its own way. For example, sleep tracks work on putting down whatever is still undone before bed, and confidence tracks pair belief with a next step. The employee picks their own area, and can change it at the start of any month.
30-day challenge
30 short daily emails, each written for the focus that person chose: something to hold in mind that day and something small to do with it. The challenge is entirely optional, and they can start it on any day.
Weekly affirmations
A gentle weekly affirmation for the focus that person chose. The weekly affirmations follow the lunar cycle.
Gratitude practices
A short pause to notice one good thing, woven into the weekly affirmation and deepening at each full moon.
Monthly focus reset
On the first of each month, a quiet moment to keep the same focus or choose a new one as life moves.
Gentle listening tracker
A no-pressure way to tick off the days they listen to their tracks. Missing a day doesn’t undo anything, and the tracker is only there as a quiet nudge if it helps.
Welcome guidance
A short, warm series over the first few weeks, helping each person get the most from every track they make.
66 day habit planner
Each employee says what they want to be different and gets a plan of 66 small actions, one a day, written for that goal. The plan is a PDF they can print and keep. The length comes from the research into how long habits take to settle.
Their own membership page
One private page with everything in their membership, opened by a link only they have. When a membership ends, it closes.
Why employers choose Build Your Inner Voice
It asks almost nothing of you, and your team get something that is genuinely theirs.
Nothing for you to run
You get one invoice and one team code. Your employees enter the code at buildyourinnervoice.com/activate and their membership starts there and then. There is no software or training, and nothing for you to run.
Used on an ordinary day
An employee can take 5 minutes at their desk at the moment it is needed, so a difficult morning is dealt with before it builds into a difficult month. Most wellbeing benefits are built for the point where something has already gone wrong.
Personal to each employee
Everything is written around the thing that person said they are working on, and they can change it whenever they like. Nothing is assigned to them by you or by us.
Private by design
For anything about use, you see numbers and never names. Usage is only ever shown from 3 people upwards, and the ‘felt better afterwards’ figure only once there are at least 5 answers, so no individual can be picked out.
Safe to use at work
Team sessions never single anyone out or ask for news or rumours, and anything formal is pointed to HR and ACAS. Build Your Inner Voice gives no medical advice and no HR or legal advice, and it never sets your team against you.
Easy to sign off
Nothing connects to your systems, and you never upload an employee list. Your IT and legal teams can download our data and security sheet from this page before you buy.
For IT, legal and procurement
This is the short version, so nobody has to go digging. You can download the full data and security sheet below.
Nothing to install
Everything runs on web pages, opened by a private link. There is no app, no browser extension, no access to your network or devices, and no single sign on project.
No employee data from you
You give us your own contact details for billing, and a team code to pass on. Employees activate themselves with their work or personal email, so you never send us a staff list.
What is kept, and for how long
We keep a membership record while the membership is open. What someone types into a 5 minute reset is used once to write their guide and is not stored. The usage record holds no personal details such as names or emails, and none of what anyone wrote. The usage record is deleted after 100 days. Audio tracks are deleted after 90 days.
Special category data
What people write may touch on health or personal circumstances, so we treat it as special category data under UK GDPR and handle it accordingly. It is never shared with you.
Who processes it
We use Make (EU) for automation, Anthropic for writing, ElevenLabs for voice, Bunny and Google for delivery, Railway for audio mixing and Stripe for payments. The full sub-processor list is in the data sheet.
When it ends
When your membership ends, the team code and the private pages stop working. The membership records are removed the next morning. Anyone who wants to keep going can take out a personal membership in their own name, separate from your account.
Download the HR overview (PDF) Download the data and security sheet (PDF)
Employer Membership
Employers receive exclusive workplace pricing, and the rate per employee comes down as your team grows. You get one simple invoice, and every employee receives the full membership.
Start with 5 people, not the whole company
The smallest team membership is 5 people, and it is designed to be a pilot. Pick the team under the most pressure, or simply the people who put their hand up. There is no long contract and no notice period: tell us and it ends at your next renewal, so the most you ever have at stake is one month for 5 people. You see how the membership lands before you decide anything else. You can add employees as you grow and move to the better rate when you reach it.
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For many businesses, employee wellbeing costs may be treated as a business expense. Please check with your accountant or tax adviser regarding your own circumstances.
An invitation, to a limited number of organisations
We’re inviting a small number of organisations to become Founding Employer Partners. They will be the first workplaces to offer this to their teams, and the ones whose experience shapes how it grows.
- Lock in your founding employer rates, for as long as you maintain a minimum of 5 active employee memberships.
- Help shape future workplace features through your feedback, spoken to directly rather than through a form.
- Receive early access to relevant workplace improvements, where appropriate for your organisation.
Once you have had a few months of it, we will ask whether you would be happy to say a few words about how it landed, in your own words and only if you want to. That is how the next employers will judge this, rather than on figures from someone else’s research.
Places are limited, and taken in the order they’re confirmed.
Become a Founding EmployerStart your employer membership
Tell us a little about your team and you go straight to secure checkout. Your team activation code arrives by email the moment payment goes through. If you’d rather talk it through first, choose that below instead.
Workplace questions
I work somewhere that doesn’t offer this. How can I get it?
Ask your workplace for it. We’ll write the message for you to send to your manager or HR team, and if your workplace signs up we’ll send you a free personalised track to give to a friend or family member as a thank you. Ask your workplace.
How do employees get access?
The moment your payment goes through, your team activation code lands in your inbox. Pass it to your team however suits you.
Each person goes to the activation page, enters the code and their own email address, and their membership is created there and then, private to them. The code works exactly as many times as the number of memberships you hold, so nobody outside your team can use it.
What happens when someone leaves?
You do it yourself at buildyourinnervoice.com/manage, using your team code and the email you are billed on. Free up that person’s membership, then either give the place to someone else, who activates their own private membership, or reduce how many you hold and your next invoice goes down. You need to stay at 5 or more active memberships.
There’s no charge for swapping someone, and no limit on how often you do it. The person leaving loses access to the membership you provided, and the person arriving starts a fresh private membership with nothing carried over from the person before.
Is this therapy or a health service?
No. Build Your Inner Voice is a personal-development and wellbeing tool built around affirmations. It doesn’t diagnose or treat anything, and it doesn’t replace therapy or medical care. It sits alongside whatever support you already offer.
Give your team something that’s genuinely theirs
Each employee gets something personal that they shape for themselves and can come back to all year.
Looking for an individual membership? See personal membership