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THE COUNTERFEIT SLEEP® PODCAST

by Tara Clancy

Stressed? Anxious? Burned out? It's time to stop the Counterfeit Sleep® epidemic that makes our modern lives feel like a nightmare. Listen to cutting-edge Sleep Strategist & Performance Innovator Tara Clancy and get the insights and strategies you need to achieve the changes you've only dared to dream!

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Episodes

  1. #75: The #1 problem to solve right now

    The #1 problem to solve right now Listen and find out: the #1 problem...and how common it is why solving this problem is so impactful now the exact steps to take today for success tomorrow BONUS! Streamline the summer strategies from episodes 70-73 with my 3-2-1 Empty™ strategy in my new...

  2. #74: When should you turn off your AC at night?

    ASK TARA: When should you turn off your AC at night? Listen and find out: why social media is blowing up about the problems of using your AC while you sleep how to use one common household object to improve the health and efficiency of your AC system what simple strategy to use to avoid divorce…

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  3. #73: Stop the Snack Attack

    What does the Snack Attack mean for you and Counterfeit Sleep®? Listen and find out: why the snack attack and Counterfeit Sleep® go hand in hand--and put you in low power mode when having a cookie is better than a vegetable bok choy how to stop the snack attack with one simple strategy you can…

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  4. #72: What NOT To Do at 2am

    What NOT To Do at 2am--if you want to get out of low power mode! Listen and find out: how to tell if you are secretly agreeing to one of the biggest problems that keeps people in low power mode what your night brain needs from you asap how you can use a simple strategy tonight to get your day…

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  5. #71: Brain Battles and Stress

    How do Brain Battles lead to increasing levels of stress in your life? Listen and find out: what brain battles look like up in your life why they create stress for you how to use strategy #2 of our #PoweredUp Summer Series to end the battle of the brains and lower stress About Tara Clancy, Sleep...

  6. #70: Sun Phobia and Counterfeit Sleep®

    How does Sun Phobia set you up for Counterfeit Sleep®? Listen and find out: the surprising ways the sun can help you improve your sleep performance how to take advantage of it safely how easy it is to make strategy #1 of our #PoweredUp Summer Series part of your morning About Tara Clancy, Sleep...

  7. #69: Employee Well-being and ROI

    How can you support employee well being and get the ROI you need? Listen and find out: Why investing in employee well-being is essential for our bottom line Why employee "low power mode" means those programs will fail to deliver the necessary ROI Exactly how to support employee well-being and get...

  8. TCSP 68 -- Recharge Your Leaders with David Veech

    Recharge Your Leaders with David Veech | Summer’s here in the northern hemisphere, and we’re all heading off to vacations and leadership retreats. You may not know this, but there’s a real downside to retreats…unless you do it right. In this Business Impact Series episode of The Counterfeit…

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  9. TCSP 67 -- Cell Phones and Sleep Performance with Tara Clancy, High Performance Sleep Strategist

    Cell Phones and Sleep Performance | It's time to talk about cell phones and other screens! Listen and get answers these two questions: 1) what does it mean for you, specifically how many ways do cell phones reduce your level of sleep performance and 2) what you can you do to level up your sleep...

  10. TCSP 66 -- VisuaLeadership® with Todd Cherches

    VisuaLeadership® with Todd Cherches | Do you know the best way to get a message across? The way that gets buy in and ultimately keeps your top talent in your camp? If you’re thinking of the old saying, “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it"...great! And that’s what Allison Shapira brought…

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  11. TCSP 65 -- Waking up to go, Performance and The Bottom Line with Tara Clancy, Innovative Sleep Strategist

    Waking up to go, Performance and The Bottom Line | Today we’re talking about something many people do but never think twice about: Waking up to go to the bathroom! Is it a harmless habit, especially if you fall back asleep? Or is waking up to go a problem, period? In this episode of The…

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  12. TCSP 64 -- Boost Your EQ With Your People IQ with Dr. Sherene McHenry

    Boost Your EQ With Your People IQ with Dr. Sherene McHenry | Listen and learn: •the surprising reason so many employee trainings fail •why employee retention problems have skyrocketed *how to hold onto the talent you worked so hard to attract and develop BIO Dr. Sherene McHenry, The People IQ...

  13. TCSP 63 -- Terminate Toxic Culture with Phil Gerbyshak

    Terminate Toxic Culture with Phil Gerbyshak | We need new insights as The Great Resignation drags on! We’re hearing daily how businesses continue to struggle with hiring and retaining employees. In fact, over the last 18 months, employers have experienced attrition rates in the high teens. Just…

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  14. TCSP 62 -- Surviving and Thriving with Mental Health Challenges with Heather Lutze

    Surviving and Thriving with Mental Health Challenges with Heather Lutze | It’s Mental Health Awareness Month. If you’re like most people, your mental health has taken a hit as the disruption of our world continues. Listen to any news program and you’ll hear mental health challenges have increased...

  15. TCSP 61 -- Succeed with Intuition with Ron Karr

    Succeed with Intuition with Ron Karr | Welcome to season 2! We continue to bring you eye-opening solutions for common problems—and we’re excited to bring you a new format in season 2…we’re going LIVE! Join us on Thursdays take it all in live. Need the link? Don’t miss a thing! Subscribe at...

  16. TCSP 60 -- Mine Your Leadership Gold with Roxanne Kaufman

    Mine Your Leadership Gold with Roxanne Kaufman | We bring you another episode in our Executive Leadership Insights Series. And I hope that name doesn’t scare you off! After all, we are all leaders in our lives, especially now in this ever-changing environment where the level of change is…

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  17. TCSP 59 -- Build Your Future & Your History with Deb Boelkes

    Build Your Future & Your History with Deb Boelkes | With this episode, we continue our celebration of Women’s History Month, but the focus is different. In our first Women’s History Month episode, we focused on Ending Women’s Sleep Problems—the most fundamental thing we must do to have the…

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  18. TCSP 58 -- Stop Low Performance Sleep, Start Living! with Tristian Williams of Boomloop Group

    Stop Low Performance Sleep, Start Living! with Tristian Williams of Boomloop Group | Here on The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast, we love bringing you stories of people who discovered their Counterfeit Sleep® and transformed their lives! In our recent Women’s History Month episode, we highlighted the...

  19. TCSP 57 -- How to Stockpile Success with Kathleen Caldwell

    How to Stockpile Success with Kathleen Caldwell | Hello listeners! Any guesses what’s happening right now on this momentous day as we record this episode of The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast? Two important things! One--and this is a big one for us here at Makedo Studios--we are taking The…

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  20. TCSP 56 -- Ending Women's Sleep Problems

    Ending Women's Sleep Problems | March is Women’s History Month. It’s when we celebrate the contributions women have made and recognize the specific achievements women have made over the course of history. I love that, and I think women should be celebrated, also, because of a major contribution...

  21. TCSP 55 -- The Heart Disease Controversy

    The Heart Disease Controversy | February is Heart Health Month. We focus on heart and the system it runs, the cardiovascular system. But do we really need a heart health month? Take one look at the statistics, and you’ll say yes! Data from the CDC tells us, that in the United States, someone has…

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  22. TCSP 54 -- Pandemic-proof Your Climb to the Top with Chuck Garcia

    TCSP 54 -- Pandemic-proof Your Climb to the Top with Chuck Garcia | What do you get when you combine exposure to military life during your formative years, a successful career on Wall Street working with Michael Bloomberg, and a love for the life or death challenges that come with high…

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  23. TCSP 53 -- Stop Divorce With Sleep, Valentine's Day Edition

    Stop Divorce With Sleep, Valentine's Day Edition | It’s the Valentine’s Day edition of The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast! If you’re one of our regular listeners, you know we bring eye-opening solutions for common problems. Now with Valentine’s Day upon us, it’s time to bring our eye-opening…

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  24. TCSP 52 -- Get Rid of the Health Care Middleman with Nelson Griswold (part 2)

    Get Rid of the Health Care Middleman with Nelson Griswold | Here is the episode for listeners who want to spend less and get more! This is part 2 of our conversation with Nelson Griswold, health care benefits visionary. If you haven’t listened to part 1, go ahead and download episode 51 now. In...

  25. TCSP 51 -- Health Care Plans: Get More for Less with Nelson Griswold

    Health Care Plans: Get More for Less with Nelson Griswold | And so it continues…the disruption of just about everything in the way we do business, including how we attract and retain top talent. Offerings like video interviews, remote opportunities, and even full “work from home” positions are…

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  26. TCSP 50 -- Leadership Starts Here with Steve Lishansky

    Leadership Starts Here with Steve Lishansky | This week we’re peeling back another layer of the leadership onion. In episode 49, we asked this fundamental question: What do leaders do? We explored how building trust is mission critical and then got stellar communication strategies that do just…

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  27. TCSP 49 -- Top Talent, Leaders & Trust with Allison Shapira

    Top Talent, Leaders & Trust with Allison Shapira | Let’s start with a fundamental question: What do leaders really do? In the words of the legendary John P. Kotter: “They don’t make plans. They don’t solve problems. They don’t even organize people. What leaders do is prepare organizations for...

  28. TCSP 48 -- Presenteeism, Headaches and Your Bottom Line with Dr. Stasha Gominak

    Presenteeism, Headaches and Your Bottom Line with Dr. Stasha Gominak | In this episode of The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast, we talk about something all too common: the headache. It’s a topic we need to talk about because the negative impact of headache is huge. Now, I don’t mean the “Honey, I have…

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  29. TCSP 47 -- Lead Remote, Office or Hybrid Employees with Heather Hansen O'Neill

    How to Lead Remote, Office or Hybrid Employees for Massive Success | Remember when we used to ask each other this simple question: “Where do you work?” Nowadays, it’s a more complicated question: “Where do you DO your work?” So what’s your answer? Are you home working remotely thanks to zoom and…

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  30. TCSP 46 -- Leadership Succession Planning with CDR Mary Kelly

    Leadership Succession Planning with Mary Kelly | You know how we say, “The more things change, the more they stay the same?” Well, business is no stranger to that truism, especially when it comes to leadership succession planning. Even now, while changes from human capital migration are a top...

  31. TCSP 45 -- Achieve Financial Alignment with Judi Otton

    Achieve Financial Alignment with Judi Otton | To say we’re in a time of change would be an understatement—perhaps the understatement of the year. The pandemic has had—and continues to have—comprehensive effects on our lives, including our economic lives. Business owners have been especially hard...

  32. TCSP 44 -- Leverage Your Board's Power with Julie Garland McLellan

    Leverage Your Board's Power with Julie Garland McLellan -- We’ve all heard the saying, “It’s lonely at the top” and that’s true for CEOs, too. According to research by the Harvard Business Review, half of CEOs struggle with feelings of isolation. And of those, a whopping 61% feel it’s hurting…

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  33. TCSP 43 -- Process Over Innovation with Julie Holmes

    TCSP 43 -- Process Over Innovation with Julie Holmes -- If you’ve nailed down your plan for revenue generation and business growth in the coming year, and you’re sleeping like a baby at night, you can stop listening now. But if you’re like many CEOs and business leaders, you’re still losing sleep...

  34. TCSP 42 -- Chaos Tolerance with Dr. Rachel MK Headley

    Chaos Tolerance with Dr. Rachel MK Headley Here are two questions for you: One, do you know anyone on the planet who doesn’t want success in the coming year? And two, do you know anyone who isn’t worried about achieving success in the coming year? Whether is labor shortages, supply line...

  35. TCSP 41 -- Ruthless Prioritization with Jennifer Eggers

    Ruthless Prioritization with Jennifer Eggers | If you talk to enough CEOs these days, you’ll hear one common sentiment: There’s a lot to lose sleep over! And you don’t have to be a sleep strategist to know that losing sleep isn’t good for any body or any business. And so we bring you our Quarter…

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  36. TCSP 40 -- Healthy Baby Strategies with Dr. Kevin Boyd

    Healthy Baby Strategies with Dr. Kevin Boyd - Here it is! This is part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Kevin Boyd in honor of SIDS Awareness month. In part 1, we talked about SIDS and how royal chins, anthropology and the work of pioneers like Dr. Christian Guilleminault and Dr. David Gozal have...

  37. TCSP 39 -- How SIDS Inspired a Young Doctor with Dr. David Gozal

    How SIDS Inspired a Young Doctor with Dr. David Gozal “Things can happen in sleep. In this case, bad things.” These are the words of Dr. David Gozal as he tells the heart-breaking story of how he was introduced to sleep medicine. We featured this sleep medicine pioneer in episode 35 where he…

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  38. TCSP 38 -- SIDS, Royal Chins, and Anthropology with Dr. Kevin Boyd, part 1

    SIDS, Royal Chins and Anthropology with Dr. Kevin Boyd In this episode, we go beyond the workplace and look into something that impacts us on a profound level: the death of an infant. October is PREGNANCY & INFANT LOSS AWARENESS month and we’re focusing on SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome—or…

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  39. TCSP 37 -- Too Hot to Sleep? Think Outside the Socks!

    Too Hot to Sleep? Think Outside the Socks! When the hot temperatures disrupt your sleep, it's time to think outside the "socks" and use this uncommon strategy for a quick fix! It works wonders for nasal congestion and related post-nasal drip. If you have chronic post-nasal drip, check out episode...

  40. TCSP 36 -- Tonsils, Tongues & Sleep Problems with Chris Zombek, BSDH, COM

    Tonsils, Tongues & Sleep Problems with Chris Zombek, BSDH, COM We’re bringing you this episode during ADHD Awareness month. If you listened to episode 35, you heard the very compelling conversation I had with Dr. David Gozal about kids with behavioral and learning problems—two things which often…

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  41. TCSP 35 -- End School Problems with Dr. David Gozal

    End School Problems with Dr. David Gozal The first step in solving any problem is this: identify the correct problem. It can be harder than you think--especially when it comes to kids and problems in school. And it requires real commitment and outside-the-box thinking. Dr. David Gozal brings both...

  42. TCSP 34 -- The MUST DO Sleep Hack for Fall

    The MUST DO Sleep Hack for Fall In this bonus episode, you'll get the MUST DO Sleep Hack to avoid sleep problems this fall! If you implement The Fall Five to avoid sleep problems this fall, and you're still not feeling great, it's time to look at your sleep performance. Follow the links below to...

  43. TCSP 33 -- Teens, Suicide Prevention & Sleep with Dr. Steve Carstensen

    Teens, Suicide Prevention & Sleep with Dr. Steve Carstensen Teen mental health challenges--and suicides--have been a growing problem. And as a result of the pandemic, teen suicides have become an epidemic. Today, with some key insights from Dr. Steve Carstensen of Premier Sleep Associates in...

  44. TCSP 32 -- Strategy #5 to Avoid Fall Sleep Problems

    Strategy #5 to Avoid Fall Sleep Problems Fall brings real challenges that create sleep problems for many people. In this bonus episode, we give you strategy #5 to avoid fall sleep problems. Find out: why strategy #5 is so challenging in the fall the surprising reason strategy #5 is critical to…

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  45. TCSP 31 -- Top Talent Attraction with Bill Humbert

    Top Talent Attraction with Bill Humbert If you’ve been listening to the business reports—or even the nightly news—you’ve heard there’s a labor shortage. Interestingly, in the Quarterly Economics Briefing for Q2*, it is noted that it is a “perceived labor shortage” — really just a reflection of...

  46. TCSP 30 -- Strategy #4 to Avoid Fall Sleep Problems

    Strategy #4 to Avoid Fall Sleep Problems Fall brings real challenges that create sleep problems for many people. In this bonus episode, we give you strategy #4 to avoid fall sleep problems. Find out: why strategy #4 is so challenging in the fall the surprising reason strategy #4 is critical to…

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  47. TCSP 29 -- Managing the Dueling Dragons with Executive Sarah Riggs Amico

    Managing the Dueling Dragons This one’s for those of you that are tired…really tired. And not just “sleepy tired” like we talk about so often here on the Counterfeit sleep® podcast. No, those of you who are tired…worn out…and weary. And who isn’t feeling tired like that these days—exhausted...

  48. TCSP 28 -- Strategy #3 to Avoid Fall Sleep Problems

    Strategy #3 to Avoid Fall Sleep Problems Fall brings real challenges that create sleep problems for many people. In this bonus episode, we give you strategy #3 to avoid fall sleep problems. Find out: why strategy #3 is so challenging in the fall the surprising reason strategy #3 is critical to…

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  49. TCSP 27 -- How To Avoid Sleep Problems This Fall

    How To Avoid Sleep Problems in the Fall The fall season brings unique challenges that lead to sleep problems--unless you take action! Find out what the challenges are and get the strategies you need to avoid sleep problems this fall. As we head into this cold weather season, your best friend is...

  50. TCSP 26 -- The Sleep Apnea Controversy

    The Sleep Apnea Controversy Now is the time to talk about sleep apnea because it weakens your immune system, and there is nothing more important today than a healthy immune system. Listen and learn what sleep apnea is, what sleep apnea isn’t and when you need to think beyond sleep apnea to avoid...

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Stressed? Anxious? Burned out? It's time to stop the Counterfeit Sleep® epidemic that makes our modern lives feel like a nightmare. Listen to cutting-edge Sleep Strategist & Performance Innovator Tara Clancy and get the insights and strategies you need to achieve the changes you've only dared to dream!

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