THE COUNTERFEIT SLEEP® PODCAST

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 book--free! Get the excerpt here.   About Tara Clancy, Sleep Strategist... Tara A. Clancy, M.A., works with executive leaders who want innovative solutions that amplify performance, positive culture and profits--and provide sustained competitive advantage. Connect with Tara here: Individuals: www.counterfeitsleep.com Business: www.hipersleep.com

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 if your other half needs a different temperature for sleep   BONUS! Streamline the summer strategies from episodes 70-73 with my 3-2-1 Empty™ strategy in my new book--free! Get the excerpt here.   About Tara Clancy, Sleep Strategist... Tara A. Clancy, M.A., works with executive leaders who want innovative solutions that amplify performance, positive culture and profits--and provide sustained competitive advantage. Connect with Tara here: Individuals: www.counterfeitsleep.com Business: www.hipersleep.com

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 use tonight!   BONUS! Streamline the summer strategies with my 3-2-1 Empty™ strategy in my new book--free! Get the excerpt here.   About Tara Clancy, Sleep Strategist... Tara A. Clancy, M.A., works with executive leaders who want innovative solutions that amplify performance, positive culture and profits--and provide sustained competitive advantage. Connect with Tara here: www.counterfeitsleep.com www.hipersleep.com  

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 brain #PoweredUp   About Tara Clancy, Sleep Strategist... Tara A. Clancy, M.A., works with executive leaders who want innovative solutions that amplify performance, positive culture and profits and provide sustained competitive advantage. Connect with Tara here: www.counterfeitsleep.com www.hipersleep.com  

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 Strategist... Tara A. Clancy, M.A., works with executive leaders who want innovative solutions that amplify performance, positive culture and profits and provide sustained competitive advantage. Connect with Tara here: www.counterfeitsleep.com www.hipersleep.com  

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 Strategist... Tara A. Clancy, M.A., works with executive leaders who want innovative solutions that amplify performance, positive culture and profits and provide sustained competitive advantage. Connect with Tara here. www.counterfeitsleep.com www.hipersleep.com  

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 the ROI for your organization   About Tara Clancy, Sleep Strategist... Tara A. Clancy, M.A., works with executive leaders who want innovative solutions that amplify performance, positive culture and profits and provide sustained competitive advantage. Connect with Tara here. www.counterfeitsleep.com www.hipersleep.com  

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 Sleep® Podcast, we get insights and ideas about leadership retreats and leadership in general from David Veech, founder and CEO of Leadersights and Clandestine Travel. And yes, founding those two companies is intentional! David served proudly as an officer in the US Army for 20 years and then built a career focused on two things:  building engaging and productive workplace cultures and achieving balance, joy, and wisdom through multicultural travel. Listen and learn: How to eliminate the downside of the leadership retreat Why THE MIRROR TEST is the leader’s key to solving workplace problems How the Servant Leader Mentality boosts loyalty and retention BIO David Veech is founder and CEO of Leadersights and Clandestine Travel. In both companies, we focus on leaders. With Leadersights – a coaching and consulting firm – we focus on building engaging and productive workplace cultures. With Clandestine Travel – a full-service travel agency – we focus on achieving balance, joy, and wisdom through collective travel experiences. David served proudly as an officer in the US Army for 20 years. Following that, he built a career focused on teaching, coaching, and consulting and now focuses on expanding horizons and opening minds through multicultural travel. CONNECT https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidveech https://www.clandestinetravel.com [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidVeechLeadersights High Performance Sleep ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace. Clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA, 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 performance Let’s start with this staggering cell phone statistic: In 2014 Americans checked their phones an average of 33 times per day. By 2022, that number was up to 344! So in just eight years, we went from checking our phones 33 times per day to 344 times per day. It took us less than a decade to 10x how often we get sucked in by our phones. So you probably won’t be surprised to hear this statistic: 47% of Americans self-report they're addicted to their cell phones. So what does this mean for you, and what can you do? Listen, learn the 'Do Not Disturb' strategy, and start using it tonight! Give it one week, and if you’re still having sleep performance challenges, it’s time to take the Sleep Performance Assessment. When you create a “do not disturb” relationship with your phone, you get the sleep performance you need for the daytime performance you want. Use it tonight! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace. Clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA, High Performance Sleep Strategist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 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 to Business Impact Series in episode 49. Check out her excellent strategies. When you’ve got Allison’s gems under your belt, you’re ready to level up. Because when you understand that there’s another piece to that old saying, you communicate at a new level. So what is the new piece? It’s this: “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it so your audience can see it!  Saying it so your audience can see its is the secret to success! Why? Well, as humans, sight is the sense we rely on most. In fact, we perceive up to 80% of all impressions through our sense of sight. So then…how do we say it so our audience can see it? That’s exactly what today’s guest shows us. Todd Cherches is the CEO of BigBlueGumball and the author of “VisuaLeadership. Listen and learn: How to avoid the pitfalls of proximity bias How to retain top talent using the “flipping the eye” strategy  How to build positive culture with the four buckets of visual leadership Let’s listen to this insightful conversation with  Connect/BIO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddcherches/ Free book chapter download: www.toddcherches.com/passion Todd Cherches is the CEO and cofounder of BigBlueGumball, an innovative New York City-based leadership development and executive coaching firm. A member of Marshall Goldsmith’s “MG 100 Coaches,” Todd is a three-time award-winning Adjunct Professor of leadership at NYU, and a Lecturer on leadership at Columbia University. He is also a TEDx speaker on “The Power of Visual Thinking,” and he is the author of the groundbreaking book, "VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life," which was published in 2020 by Post Hill Press/Simon & Schuster. https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddcherches/   Book: UP YOURZzz Website: www.taraclancy24.com   Linked In: Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA, Leadership & Workforce Performance Innovator 

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 Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast, we’ll get into two client cases to answer this question and to show you the impact it has on performance and the bottom line. You’ll learn what your habit of waking up to go is telling you about your sleep performance, and what to do tonight if you’re waking up to go at night. Find out what's really going on when you wake up to go! Listen to episode 4 of The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast.  EPISODE 4: https://www.taraclancy24.com/podcasts/the-counterfeit-sleep-podcast/episodes/2147799276   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Book: UP YOURZzz Website: www.taraclancy24.com   Linked In: Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA, Leadership & Workforce Performance Innovator  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 Expert The People IQ Expert, Dr. Sherene McHenry, is a former graduate professor turned full time speaker and author. She’s spoken on three continents, authored multiple books and articles, has a PhD in Counselor Education, is a Certified Speaking Professional and is past president of the Michigan National Speakers Association. Connect LI--https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherenemchenryfullyengaged/ @drsherenemchenry #sherenemchenry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to make Counterfeit Sleep® a part of your past history and harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA, High Performance Sleep Strategist.

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 how bad is that rate? Well, we can compare it to the tech industry which is known for its high turnover rate—higher than in any other business sector. The tech industry’s historic turnover rate has been just over 13%. So the attrition rates in the high teens that we’ve been seeing for the last year and a half exceed the turnover rate of the industry that has had the highest rate! And what we like to do here on The Counterfeit Sleep Podcast® is to get at the WHY that’s driving the problem. So the obvious question is Why is the turnover rate so high?  And that’s where it gets really interesting to me. There’s a range of ideas on “why” we’re seeing such high levels of attrition. Some say it’s about wanting more money.  Some say it’s about wanting greater flexibility. And more recently, a new “why” emerged: “toxic culture.” In January of 2022, Donald Sull, an MIT researcher and co-founder of CultureX, and his colleagues published an article called Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation.  I recommend that everyone read it, and you can find the link to the article in the show notes. But the skinny is this: Sull and his colleagues identified the Top Predictors of Attrition During the Great Resignation…and toxic culture topped the list. By far. So if we know an epidemic of toxic culture is a major “why” behind the great resignation, that’s good news, right? Once we’ve identified the why of a problem, we’re in a position to work toward a solution. So what now? Certainly, addressing the epidemic of Counterfeit Sleep® is a key element of the solution, and you hold a key piece of the solution, as well, Phil. And that’s why I’ve been so eager for our conversation today.  You work with businesses to leverage modern selling practices, including social and virtual selling, to increase their profitability, their productivity, and their performance. And you have some keen insights about toxic culture.  So let's get into what you’re seeing and hearing, your insights, and some key strategies to help businesses terminate toxic culture and build the positive culture that keeps employees through thick and thin! Listen and learn: The real reasons employees are leaving Why you want to avoid “Mushroom Management” like the plague How to grow positive culture with the powerful MUST strategy BIO Phil Gerbyshak knows sales. He’s a sales speaker, a sales executive, a sales expert, a sales leader mentor, a sales podcaster, and a sales coach. Phil has worked in sales for years, starting by selling high-speed Internet when the Internet was using dial-up, was a stockbroker, a software salesman, and has even sold advertising. Phil works with businesses to leverage modern selling practices, including social and virtual selling, to increase their profitability, their productivity, and their performance. https://philgerby.com @PhilGerb on Twitter and Insta https://linkedin.com/in/philgerb on LinkedIn LINK: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/toxic-culture-is-driving-the-great-resignation/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to make Counterfeit Sleep® a part of your past history and harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA, High Performance Sleep Strategist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 since the pandemic was declared. Just how much? There’s been a four-fold increase in symptoms of anxiety or depression disorder from pre-pandemic levels. And since The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast is all about helping you connect the dots, consider this important fact: During the same time period, there’s been an increase in sleep problems. In fact, 58% of people are now struggling with sleep…58%! That means more than half of the population is not getting the healthy, restorative sleep our brains need to repair and recharge. And when our brains don’t repair and recharge, there are downstream effects. Some of us feel it physically, some of us feel it mentally and some of us feel all of the above! So the first takeaway for Mental Health Awareness Month is think about how you’ve been feeling…anxious, depressed, irritable? If these feelings are growing in you, the first thing to do is take a look at your sleep. Counterfeit Sleep® and mental health challenges go hand in hand. So that’s the first takeaway for Mental Health Awareness Month. Our second take away is this: It’s time to change the way we think about mental health. And to talk about this today we welcome our special guest Heather Lutze.  Heather is a bipolar survivor, and she's on a mission to encourage anyone facing mental health challenges to think differently. Heather proclaims “You can craft a personalized relationship with your issues to survive and thrive to live your best life.” Listen and learn: •Why your may be feeling more anxiety than ever before •How mental health challenges affect a person and their loved ones  •How you can survive and thrive in the most challenging situations BIO Heather Lutze is a bipolar survivor. She wants to change the way people think about mental health. She is NOT a therapist and does not give medical advice. Heather is on a mission to give anyone facing mental health challenges to think differently. Taking personal responsibility and owning their disability then leveraging it to a better quality of life. She has learned so much as a successful business owner, renowned keynote speaker, and 3-time author. This is what BIPOLAR LOOKS LIKE. You can craft a personalized relationship with your issues to survive and thrive to live your best life. Coming soon... Heather's book! Crazy, Good Life at crazygoodlife.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to make Counterfeit Sleep® a part of your past history and harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA, High Performance Sleep Strategist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 counterfeitsleep.com to get the info you need to stay ahead of the curve. For today’s episode one term comes to mind: “shell shocked.” Does that get at how you have felt at one point or another over the past couple of years? Or maybe shell shocked is how you continue to feel? From pandemic living, to war realities and all kinds of disruption in between, we’ve been dealing with one setback after another and an endless future of growing uncertainties. And uncertainty is infamous for keeping leaders up at night, so we’re bringing you a special guest to talk about how if the face of uncertainty, you make the decisions that drive success. The short answer is this: Rely on your intuition. In the absence of historical data, your intuition leads you to success.  That is, if you know how to pay attention to it. But how do you that? How do you use your intuition when there’s so much noise, so much distraction? That’s exactly what we get into today with our guest, Ron Karr. Ron Karr is a best selling author and has worked with leaders on six continents to eliminate risk, gain buy-in and achieve better results—faster—with the Velocity Mindset®. His presentations and advisory services have generated over a billion dollars in incremental revenues for his clients. Listen and learn: Who—or what—you must listen to in times of uncertainty Why being purpose driven out performs being task-driven The 3 things to do succeed with your intuition BIO Ron Karr has worked with leaders on six continents to eliminate risk, gain buy-in and achieve better results faster with the Velocity Mindset®. His presentations and advisory services have generated over a billion dollars in incremental revenues for his clients. Ron is the author of five books including his latest, The Velocity Mindset® and the bestselling Lead, Sell or Get Out of the Way. Ron facilitates the Chief Revenue Officer Mastermind Group made up of CEO's and VP's building high-performance sales cultures. CONNECT WITH RON https://ronkarr.com/ and https://ronkarr.com/velocity-mindset-book https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkarr/https://twitter.com/ronkarrhttps://www.facebook.com/ronkarr1https://www.youtube.com/user/ronkarr1https://www.instagram.com/rokarr/ https://ronkarr.com/velocity-mindset-book as well as my Velocity Mindset Assessment and Leadership Self-Assessment: https://ronkarr.com/velocity-mindset-assessment/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to make Counterfeit Sleep® a part of your past history and harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA, High Performance Sleep Strategist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 magnified to a degree unlike anything we’ve ever seen before: we can’t do work the way we used to we can’t do the grocery store the way we used to we can’t even do school the way we used to.  And doesn’t it make it particularly challenging to lead when the goal posts keep changing? Setting the course despite the growing uncertainties in every aspect of our lives is daunting—and yet we see leaders who have adapted and are having incredible success.  How does that happen? What do these leaders know and do? To help us answer these questions, we talk with Roxanne Kaufman, President & CEO of pro laureate. As you’ll hear Roxanne explain, every one of us is born with 0.2 milligrams of gold in our bodies – that’s right – gold – real gold. And Roxanne is a leadership gold miner. She helps individuals, teams, and organizations discover, unleash, and develop their 0.2 mg of gold. She believes this is where our own individual leadership potential lies, and when we find the courage and determination to dig it out, we develop as leaders. In this conversation, Roxanne tells us how to mine that gold and propel our leadership at work and at home upward!  Listen and learn: When responsive action is better than reactivity How to hit pause in those most challenging moments…in the simplest way AND Where to find the biggest innovation in mining your gold…and the gold of those you lead CONNECT WITH ROXANNE HERE Roxanne Kaufman, President & CEO https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxanne-kaufman/ www.prolaureate.com Every one of us is born with 0.2 milligrams of gold in our bodies – that’s right – gold – real gold. It is in our blood, our bones, our muscles… and the highest concentration of it is in our heart. Every one of us has a heart of gold… leadership gold. Roxanne is a leadership gold miner. She helps individuals, teams, organizations and corporations discover, unleash, and develop their 0.2 mg of gold. She believes this is where our own individual leadership potential lies; and that we just need to find the courage and determination to dig it out. That’s how we develop as leaders. Not all who are born become leaders, but all who are born have the potential to become leaders. Roxanne is a Leadership Gold Miner; a Certified Leadership Master; Professional Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Coach; Author; President & CEO of ProLaureate Ltd; and the Immediate Past President (2020-2021) of the National Speakers Association Ohio Chapter.“ Lead with your heart. Get stuff done.”RK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to make Counterfeit Sleep® a part of your past history and harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA, High Performance Sleep Strategist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 physical stamina, the mental focus, and the emotional bandwidth we need to live, love and lead at our highest level of performance. If you haven’t listened to that yet, download episode 56. You’ll hear 3 stories of 3 women who struggled unwittingly with Counterfeit Sleep® and then transformed their lives by leveling up their sleep performance. In this, our second episode to celebrate Women’s History Month, we get into how we build our future—so we can continue to build our collective history. We welcome Deb Boelkes, leadership luminary, founder of Business World Rising, and author of the recently released, Women on Top: What’s Keeping You From Executive Leadership? During her 30-year career within Fortune 500 technology companies, Deb rose through the ranks of a heavily male-dominated business world. How did she do that? She credits phenomenal leadership training, lots and lots of leadership books, a few tremendous role-models…as well as more than a few managers who reinforced what not to do. As she rose through the corporate ranks, Deb gained an undisputed reputation as a passionate, people-oriented leader. And that is clear is the work she does in business leadership. And so we’re excited to bring you this Business Impact Series conversation with the wonderful Deb Boelkes. Listen and learn: The #1 way to limit your rise up the ladder…and what to do instead! Why having 3/10 is better for your career than having 7/10 and How to get comfortable with self-promotion…and do it powerfully! Connect with Deb here: https://www.businessworldrising.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/debboelkes/ Episode links: Stop Women’s Sleep Problems http://counterfeitsleep.com/episode-56/ Tara’s Counterfeit Sleep® story http://counterfeitsleep.com/episode-2/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to make Counterfeit Sleep® a part of your past history and harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA, High Performance Sleep Strategist.

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 stories of three very different women who had very different daytime struggles…but all caused by one nighttime problem. You guessed it, Counterfeit Sleep®. If you haven’t listened to episode 56, check it out. And then share it so we take one step forward in ending women’s sleep problems. In this episode, we celebrate #WorldSleepDay2022 by bringing you another amazing story of transformation. This time, it’s a guy. Tristian Williams, founding principal of Boomloop Group and author of Fruition Power: How to Achieve More, Lead Well, and Conquer Overwhelm. Tristian was chugging along until he became a new dad and sleep problems became front and center. But it’s not what you think. It was Tristian’s sleep that was affecting his new baby. You heard that right…Tristian’s sleep was interfering with his baby’s sleep.  So he had to do something—quick! He was forced to look at his sleep in a new way. And once Tristian did what he had to do to improve his sleep performance, it opened his eyes to draining effects Counterfeit Sleep® had had on his life without him even knowing! As you’ll hear Tristian tell it, improving his sleep performance has opened up solutions to other problems he dealt with in his life—problems he just accepted as "normal" because they were his norm.  But as we say her on The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast, All sleep is not created equal! So we're excited to share this conversation with Tristian Williams in honor of #WorldSleepDay. Our hope is that you will see eye-opening solutions for common problems, just like Tristian has. Listen and learn: What snoring tells you about your sleep performance  How the sleep performance continuum is your key to achieving your goals  What to do if you’ve convinced yourself you have some kind of deficiency BIO Tristian Williams is an organizational leadership strategist. After spending nearly a decade leading multi-generational marketing and sales teams and training on the topics of leadership and organizational health, he founded Boomloop Group to help leaders grow healthy organizations that support employee retention and revenue growth. Tristian is the author of Fruition Power: How to Achieve More, Lead Well, and Conquer Overwhelm. RESOURCE: https://boomloopgroup.com/uncoveryourcompetitiveadvantage/ Links to episodes: Migraines with Dr. Michael Geis http://counterfeitsleep.com/episode-22/ Stop Women’s Sleep Problems http://counterfeitsleep.com/episode-56/ Tara’s Counterfeit Sleep® story http://counterfeitsleep.com/episode-2/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to make Counterfeit Sleep® a part of your past history and harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA, High Performance Sleep Strategist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast LIVE! And that means YOU have options! You can keep on being a listener OR you can be a viewer!  So that’s a big one for us, and the second momentous thing? Well, it’s a big one around the world…It’s International Women’s Day! On this day, we celebrate women’s achievements and how they’ve helped all of us progress—women and men alike! More on that soon... In this conversation on International Women’s Day we bring you Kathleen Caldwell, a woman who makes it her business to keep the spotlight shining on women! Kathleen is the founder and CEO of the Caldwell Consulting Group and the C-Suite Network’s Women's Coaching & Consulting Council. She is an award winning, credentialed success coach and a speaker and author. Kathleen has helped thousands of leaders around the world stockpile their success. And with the great resignation in full effect and the world in a state of flux, couldn’t we all use a stockpile of success to draw from right about now? We’ve got you covered! Listen in and learn: Why NOW is the time to take the steps to achieve your biggest goals, How this day that honors our mothers and sisters is just as important to our fathers and brothers, and How to stockpile your success with 5 S Success Formula BIO Kathleen Caldwell is CEO of Caldwell Consulting Group and founder of the Women’s Success Accelerator ™ and C-Suite Network’s Women’s Coaching & Consulting Council. ™. Kathleen is an award winning, credentialed success coach, speaker and author who has mentored and advised thousands of leaders around the world to greater success.Kathleen is known best as a connector and Co-Accelerator ™ of people and projects that make a positive impact. In her spare time, she is a certified Zumba instructor, health coach, and success hypnotherapist and has a passion for international travel and ballroom dancing with her sweetheart and husband, Michael. CONNECT https://tinyurl.com/KathleenCaldwellLinkedIn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to make Counterfeit Sleep® a part of your past history and harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA, High Performance Sleep Strategist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 that is often taken for granted: US, their children. After all, it is women who grew us in their bodies and gave birth to us. It is women who gave us the opportunity to impact the world as we create our own histories. And boy, do women lose sleep because of that! I know I have been the cause of some lost sleep for my own mother. Times when I was sick as a kid, times when I had all the answers as a teenager, and times I’m sure I caused lost sleep that I don’t even know about… I’d be willing to be you can think of a time or two you were the reason your mom lost sleep, yes? Of course since I took on the “job of mom” myself, I’ve lost sleep my fair share of sleep, too. But if you’re a regular listener of The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast, you know we go beyond the obvious causes of lost sleep. We help you connect the dots between hidden sleep performance problems and easy-to-see daytime performance problems. And we’ve had many women join us to tell their stories. And so for Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating these women. We share their successes and bring you the eye-opening solutions to make women's sleep problems just what they should be: a part of history. (Episode links below.) Helping the women in our lives make Counterfeit Sleep® a part of their past is how we keep these women in our future. So go ahead and share this episode right now. And remember International Women’s Day is March 8th! And The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast has become an international phenomenon! We reach listeners in 46 countries across the globe, from Argentina to New Zealand—and we’re hoping for Zimbabwe soon! So we are doing a special LIVE show on March 8th with Kathleen Caldwell CEO of Caldwell Consulting Group, LLC. For over 15 years, the Caldwell Consulting Group has been in the business of mentoring and advising entrepreneurs, executives and business teams around the world and propelling them to greater success. Episode links: TMJ pain in episode 5 with Lauren Attention, hip pain, and snoring in episode 9 with Ronda Memory problems in Episode 3 with Christine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to make Counterfeit Sleep® a part of your past history and harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  Connect with Tara A. Clancy, MA . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 a heart attack every 40 seconds. And heart disease is the world's leading cause of death. It accounts for 15.5% of all deaths worldwide. So what does David Letterman and past-president of the American Heart Health Association, Dr. John Warner, have to do with it all? And is there anything we can do to stop losing family and friends to preventable heart disease? Yes! Listen and learn: •why Russia has the highest number of deaths in the world •how sleep performance and heart health go hand in hand •what you can do to stop losing loved ones to preventable heart disease LINKS: What can we learn from Lisa's story in episode 14 -- http://counterfeitsleep.com/episode-14/ The Vitamin D Controversy episode with Stasha Gominak, episode 24 -- http://counterfeitsleep.com/episode-24/ 2018 study, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine on Sleep Scores and increased risk of coronary heart disease -- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29198294/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 performance mountaineering? You get a unique perspective on how to achieve success in how you live, in how you love, and how you lead. You recognize that in challenging situations—like, for example, living through a pandemic—what you have been taught to do may be in direct conflict with what you need to do. You realize that successful leadership requires one key skill. And you rinse and repeat to build that skill so you bring success to you and the people in your life. Simply put, you get Chuck Garcia. Chuck is the former head of Global Marketing at Bloomberg, and the industry leader in executive training with Fortune 500 companies. He is the founder of Climb Leadership International and coaches executives on leadership development, public speaking, and emotional intelligence.  Chuck joins us today on The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast as part of our ongoing effort to bring insights to executives leaders so they don’t sleep as they continue to shoulder an unprecedented burden during these disruptive times. Our goal is give executive leaders what they need to live, love and lead with success, and we’re delighted to welcome Chuck to this special episode on Executive Leaders Insights. Listen and learn: Why adaptability is your key to leadership success in uncertain times How to increase your visual impact in person and on zoom using the primacy effect When to prioritize EQ (Emotional intelligence) over IQ (Intellectual intelligence) BIO Chuck Garcia is the former head of Global Marketing at Bloomberg, and the industry leader in executive training with Fortune 500 companies. He is the founder of Climb Leadership International and coaches executives on leadership development, public speaking, and emotional intelligence with his Climb Leadership Institute. His clients include Bloomberg, Bank of China, and J.P. Morgan in addition to other large and complex financial institutions worldwide. Chuck is a professional speaker and has given keynotes in over 20 countries, an Amazon best-selling author, and Talk Radio Host on New York’s 77WABC of A CLIMB TO THE TOP: Stories of Transformation. He also teaches Leadership Communication at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Engineering.  A 25-year veteran of Wall Street, Chuck spent 14 years in sales and marketing at Bloomberg in a variety of leadership positions. He was Director of Business Development at BlackRock Solutions, an arm of the world’s largest investment manager, and was a Managing Director at Citadel, a prestigious alternative investment manager. His Amazon best-selling book, A Climb to the Top, has been translated into Chinese and has been used to train Bank of China executives on Western leadership and communication methods. Chuck is also a mountaineer and has climbed some of the world’s tallest peaks, including Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Elbrus, the Matterhorn, as well as mountains in Alaska and the Andes.  www.chuckgarcia.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 solutions to the topic of love. Do you ever wonder why some marriages go on to be long-lasting ones…and others don’t? It depends on what's going on in bed! The truth is Counterfeit Sleep® may be sabotaging your relationship! Learn the 3 common signs that Counterfeit Sleep® may be sabotaging your relationship and what you can do about it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 episode 51, you learn: How your workplace health care plan repels the top talent you’ve worked so hard to attract and  The jaw-dropping truth behind the online physician directories. (I can tell you after hearing Nelson’s insider insight, I will never use one again!) After you listen to episode 51, come listen to this episode. We take a deep dive on how to get rid of the health care middleman. Find out: •why you should never pay the first bill •when and how you to use “cash pay” to your advantage •how to get rid of the health care middleman so you pay less and get more from your health care plan And along the way, we get into sleep, Counterfeit Sleep®, and your long-term health. Let’s listen in to part 2 of this eye-opening conversation with the man who is redefining the health care benefits industry, Nelson Griswold. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 now common. These and other employee-centric modifications make a business more attractive to top talent.  But in this high-stakes game of talent attraction, there is one offering that’s been overlooked. And it’s a valuable one…valuable to both employees and employers alike. So what is this valuable but overlooked offering? Your workplace health care plan.  When it comes to health care plan, the old business model persists. And not surprisingly, it’s a model that benefits the insurance companies. In a nutshell, you pay more and you get less. How much more? According to the Kaiser family foundation, premiums have tripled since 1999. Despite this increase in premiums, deductibles have gone up. And the levels of service have not gone up! So as an employer you’re paying more, you’re employees are paying more…and all for the same product. There’s no ROI, and there’s no other part of a business plan where this would be acceptable. But it’s overlooked because, well, the health care industry is a behemoth and has long had the upper hand.  But that changes when you find out there is an alternative to paying higher premiums and higher deductibles. And in this Business Impact Series episode, you get the insider’s view of this alternative to old school health care benefits. We welcome Nelson Griswold. Nelson is a two-time bestselling author and the nationally recognized authority on delivering high-quality, affordable employer health care by disintermediating the insurance company. He’s a columnist for Employee Benefit News magazine and chairman of the ASCEND conference that is disrupting employer health care. A dynamic keynote speaker, Nelson has spoken at every major industry conference, including the prestigious World Health Care Congress. Listen and learn: How your workplace health care plan repels the top talent you’ve worked so hard to attract The jaw-dropping truth behind the online physician directories The simple steps to take control of your workplace health care plan and control costs and quality Let’s jump in to this eye-opening and empowering conversation with health care benefits visionary Nelson Griswold. BIO A two-time bestselling author, Nelson Griswold is the nationally recognized authority on delivering high-quality, affordable employer health care by disintermediating the insurance company. He’s a columnist for Employee Benefit News magazine and chairman of the ASCEND conference that is disrupting employer health care. A dynamic keynote speaker, he has spoken at every major industry conference, including the prestigious World Health Care Congress. An adviser to business leaders, Nelson chairs the Employer Health Care Council of the C-Suite Network. A public policy expert in a previous career, he is committed to preventing a government takeover of health care in the U.S. Listen to part 2 of this conversation with Nelson Griswold in episode 52. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 that from Allison Shapira, leadership communication expert.  This time around on the Business Impact Series, we go another layer deeper in that proverbial onion by asking this question: Where does leadership start?  After all, having a thorough understanding of where leadership starts is critical in the best of times—and as we all know, we are a far cry from the best of times. That means more than ever, we need a nuanced understanding of where leadership starts so we can live, love and lead consistently, at our highest level of performance. Today’s guest is Steve Lishansky. Steve is a Hall-of-Fame executive coach, dynamic professional speaker, strategic planning facilitator, and best-selling author. He works with CEO’s and C-Suite executives to reach their ultimate leadership impact through better leveraging their talents, culture, and results. Steve’s new book – Leadership Starts Here – gets to the heart of our question: Where does leadership start?  Listen and learn: How do leaders create the culture that top talent wants to be a part of When should you choose “common practice” over “common sense”—and when should you not to  How to use “The 50 Choices Dilemma” to optimize your leadership Let’s listen in now to this compelling conversation with Steve Lishansky, CEO of Optimize International https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevelishansky/ https://www.optimizeintl.com/leadership-starts-here-book/ BIOSteve Lishansky is a Hall-of-Fame executive coach, dynamic professional speaker, strategic planning facilitator, and best-selling author. He works with CEO’s and C-Suite executives to reach their ultimate leadership impact through better leveraging their talents, culture, and results. Steve has worked on leadership development with executives from more than 45 countries and leading organizations, including: Accenture, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, NASA, Cisco, Fidelity, State Street, MetLife, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Oakley, and successful fast growth entrepreneurial companies. His new book – Leadership Starts Here – is an indispensable reference for senior executives committed to upgrading their leadership decision-making processes, company cultures, and results. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 change and help them cope as they struggle through it.” So that’s what leaders really do. They do the work of preparing for and coping with change.  With the unending changes that have been thrust upon the world, it’s no wonder leaders are under a tremendous burden now. And it’s no wonder so many are losing sleep as a result! Now if you’re a regular listener of The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast, you know we don’t want anyone losing sleep! And so we continue to support CEOs and business leaders by bringing them the ideas and insights they need to succeed in turbulent times. We feature the best of the best in corporate leadership—the thought leaders and the innovators—the ones the CEOs call when they need help.  Whether you’re the CEO of a multinational corporation or the CEO of your family, each episode gives you what you need to lead so you can get the sleep you need. So what do you need to lead through change? Of course, high performance sleep™ is your foundation. But beyond that, is there a key skill that separates the highly successful leaders from the rest? The answer is a simple one: communication.  And if you hear that word and sum it up as “Communication is what we say and how we say it”, you’re right—that’s true.  But there’s more.  Communication has an end goal, and that goal is to build trust. And you achieve that end goal…that trust…when you communicate, but only if you communicate with impact. And that’s exactly what we get into in this next installment of our Business Impact Series. Our guest is Allison Shapira, a leader in Leadership Communication. Allison is the author of Speak with Impact: How to Command the Room and Influence Others . She works with leaders to help them speak clearly, concisely, and confidently to build the trust that propels others to carry forth their vision. Listen and learn: why communication is your key strategy to attracting and retaining employees in challenging times how to maintain your authenticity when you have a message you don’t want to deliver the 3 questions everyone should ask themselves before speaking  Connect with Allison Shapira Allison at https://allisonshapira.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 a headache” kind of situation, although I’m sure that has huge impact on anyone hearing it.  What I mean is headache and the negative impact it has on your bottom line. Recent research out of Portugal concludes: “Headache has a significant economic burden, as measured by work loss costs, in Portugal.” Now let’s pick apart that phrase “work loss costs.” Work loss costs can be the result of a variety of factors. One example is an absent employee. When an employee is not at work, his individual productivity is obviously cut by 100%. But what about the more sinister relative of absenteeism…what we call presenteeism?  As defined by Harvard Business Review, presenteeism is when your employee is on the job…but not fully functioning.  Presenteeism can cut individual productivity by one-third or more. And no matter how present you may be at this particular moment, it’s easy to appreciate how a loss of 1/3 of productivity has a significant impact on your bottom line. So what can you do to mitigate the negative impact has on your bottom line? That’s what we get into today with our guest, Dr. Stasha Gominak.  If her name sounds familiar, you may have heard our scintillating conversation in episode 24 about Vitamin D. If you haven’t listened to that episode yet, download it now. We get into critically important information for keeping healthy in times like we finds ourselves now.  If Stasha Gominak’s name is not familiar, here’s the important stuff:  Dr. Gominak is a retired neurologist who made a fascinating discovery while treating thousands of patients with neurological illness. She discovered one treatment that helped patients dramatically: improved sleep. And you can bet that headache—and even migraine—was a chief complaint of many of her patients. Lucky for those patients, Dr. Gominak’s insights and innovations allowed them to resolve their pain—and regain pleasure and productivity in their lives at home and at work.  Listen and learn: Why headache plays a unique role in presenteeism How to tell if your trusty sleep tracker is NOT trustworthy How to mitigate the negative impact headache has on your bottom line Connect with Dr. Gominak here: https://drgominak.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 a good VPN? Are you trekking into the office because you have a strong in-person component to your job, like maybe, running the company’s data center? Or are you like many people and now working under some hybrid model? There’s been such an evolution around where we do our work that even big companies have made fundamental changes. For example, Citigroup has taken the step of renaming each of its roles. They now have 3 kinds of roles: “remote” roles “resident” roles for those jobs that just have to be done at the branch, and "hybrid" roles. So that’s wonderful that Citigroup has worked all that out, but many leaders are still trying to figure out how to best answer the question of where do you do your work—and it’s the kind of thing that keeps them up at night! And so for this episode of our Quarter 4 Business Impact Series—the last one before we ring in the new year--we give you new perspectives and strategies to answer this very pressing question: How can you lead employees and achieve massive results when everyone’s trying to figure out “Where’s the office??”  Answering that question is exactly what we get into in this conversation. Our guest today is Heather Hansen O’Neill. Heather is the co-author of Where's the Office? Moving Today's Leaders from What IS to What CAN BE . Heather wrote this book with Wilford A. Lewis, and lucky for us because this very timely book gives leaders the perspective and the strategies to move from physical space to mind space for optimal results. You may already know Heather from her innovative Fire Up Experiences that she brings to her audiences as an international speaker and adventurer. She stimulates vibrant energy, focus, and action for those who want to collaborate effectively, lead change, and achieve massive results. And I promise you, you’ll feel Heather’s energy as you listen to this conversation. Listen and learn: How to capitalize on the element of self leadership Why moving from physical space to mind space is they key to success right now How to find your fire and lead your employees to achieve massive results Let’s listen to this conversation with Heather Hansen O’Neill now. BIO Heather Hansen O’Neill is an international speaker, author, adventurer, and entrepreneur using her action-packed experience to Fire Up audiences. She stimulates vibrant energy, focus, and action for those who want to collaborate effectively, lead change, and achieve massive results. With expertise in virtual, hybrid, and live events, as well as her focus on helping individuals and companies’ breakthrough fears, judgments, and blocks to reach sales and leadership success, Heather’s innovative keynotes are in high demand during these changing times. Her newest-and soon to be released book, Where's the Office? Moving Today's Leaders from What IS to What CAN BE helps leaders move from physical space to mind space for optimal results! Where’s the Office? https://heatherhansenoneill.com/wheres-the-office/ Connect with Heather: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherhansenoneill/ http://heatherhansenoneill.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of High Performance Sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 concern, the rate of successful leadership succession planning stays surprisingly low.  And that is almost shocking when you consider this statistic: 86% of leaders report that leadership succession planning is an important—if not urgent—priority. So why the disconnect? And how can we help leaders take action? That’s what we get into in this episode of our Business Impact Series, where we help CEOs and business leaders plan now for success in the new year.  This is our sixth installment of our Quarter 4 Business Impact Series, where we feature the best of the best in corporate leadership—the thought leaders and the innovators—the ones the CEOs call when they need help.  Whether you’re the CEO of a multinational corporation or the CEO of your family, each episode gives you what you need so you can get the sleep you need for success as you live, love and lead. You get the insights and solutions you need now to have success in 2022—and beyond.  Subscribe now to get each episode from the trusted advisors featured in the Business Impact Series. Today’s guest is Mary Kelly. And if you want to know what she does, the answer is simple: Mary improves profit growth.  Now how she improves profit growth is a little more involved: As an economist, corporate strategist, former Navy intelligence officer, and best-selling leadership author, Mary translates economic data into relevant information that business leaders can use to make the right decisions and grow their organizations. She is the author of over a dozen books on business and leadership, and the co-author of the very timely book, “Who Comes Next? Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy." Listen and learn: the real reason leadership succession planning is the CEOs top concern right now why we should have been prepared for the seismic shift in human capital how to turn the Great Attrition into the Great Attraction succession planning Let’s listen in now …and then get Mary's incredible FREE resources at www.ProductiveLeaders.com/free BIO Mary Kelly improves profit growth. As an economist, corporate strategist, former Navy intelligence officer, and best-selling leadership author, Mary translates economic data into relevant information that business leaders can use to make the right decisions and grow their organizations. Author of 15 business and leadership books including The Five Minute Leadership Guide, 15 Ways to Grow Your Business in Every Economy, Money Smart, Why Leaders Fail and the 7 Prescriptions for Success, 5-Minutes Per Week, and 52 Weeks to Building a Better Business, and Who Comes Next? Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy co-authored with Meredith Elliot Powell , Mary can be found at [email protected]. Commander Mary Kelly, US Navy (ret) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmarykelly/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marykellyspeaks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMaryKelly/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of high performance sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep PerformanceFor you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 hit, which may not be surprising to you. After all, even in good times, running a successful business is tough business. Consider that in any given year, an estimated 600,000 businesses close—and that’s in the US alone. So what happened as a result of the pandemic? Well, an April, 2021 survey by the Federal Reserve found that an additional 200,000 US businesses permanently closed during the first year of the pandemic. That rate of closure is about a quarter to a third above normal, which is more than enough to lose sleep over. And we’re all about preventing sleep problems here on The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast! And so we bring you the fifth installment of our Quarter 4 Business Impact Series. We feature the best of the best in corporate leadership—the thought leaders and the innovators—the ones the CEOs call when they need help. Whether you’re the CEO of a multinational corporation or the CEO of your family, each episode gives you what you need so you can get the sleep you need for success in life, love and leadership.You get the insights and solutions you need now to have success in 2022—and beyond.  Subscribe now to get each episode from the trusted advisors featured in the Business Impact Series. Today’s guest is Judi Otton. Judi is the founder of GrowthCast and a Fractional CFO. She helps business owners understand their financials in plain English and build healthy, thriving businesses. Listen and learn: What the cholera epidemic of the early 1830s tells us about your chances for business success in 2022 Why pandemics and fix-up strategies go hand-in-hand How to achieve financial alignment for business success in a climate of change Let’s listen in on this conversation with Judi Otton, Founder of GrowthCast Connect with Tara here ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of high performance sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 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 their job performance. After all, having a trusted sounding board is critical to success in just about any role. So wouldn’t it make sense to have some built in support for CEOs? As it turns out, there is built in support for CEOs. It’s called the Board of Directors. But here’s the surprising thing: In a survey of over 400 CEOs in 11 countries, only 28% of CEOs said they turned to their Board of directors for honest feedback. Not even one-third of CEOs turned to their Board of Directors for guidance…and that was back in 2018. Since then, the shifting landscape of pandemic conditions has only increased the complexity and volatility of, well, everything. That, in turn, increases the chances of  the healthy tension between CEOs and their Boards degrading into an unhealthy friction—and that’s just one more thing to keep CEOs up at night. And if you’re a regular listener of The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast, you know that sleep performance problems are the death knell for performance, period. And so in this episode of our Business Impact Series we talk with Julie Garland McLellan about how to leverage the power of your Board of Directors. Julie is a professional company director and corporate governance consultant who provides the behind the scenes guidance that has helped many boards, CEOs and chairmen turn difficult situations into successful outcomes. She is the author six books on governance and writes the powerful newsletter called the "Director's Dilemma.” What I love about the insights Julie shares in this conversation is this: We focus on the relationship between CEOs and their Boards, but there are concrete takes aways for you no matter what your current level is in the chain of command. Listen in and learn: Why CEOs are struggling to deliver in this new environment  How to reduce friction between CEOs and their Board of Directors How to leverage the power of your Board for business growth and success BIO Julie Garland McLellan is a professional company director and corporate governance consultant. She is the author of the "Director's Dilemma" newsletter, and six books on governance. Julie undertakes board and director appraisals and practical in-boardroom education using real-life scenarios. Her guidance behind the scenes has helped many boards, CEOs and chairmen to turn difficult situations into successful outcomes. Website: www.directorsdilemma.com Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliegarlandmclellan/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of high performance sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 over how to make the coming year a success. And so, we bring you the next installment of our our Q4 Business Impact Series where we give business leaders the insights and ideas of today’s top thought leaders.  In episode 41, we talked about ruthless prioritization with Jennifer Eggers, and in episode 42, we talked about Chaos Tolerance with Dr. Rachel MK Headley. Talking with these two women has literally changed the way I approach my business and relationships, so don’t miss episodes 41 and 42. Go ahead and download them now—or better yet, subscribe now so you never miss an episode. In this episode, we feature another guest who is at the top of her game, Julie Holmes. Julie is an Inventor, Founder, Serial Entrepreneur, and Innovation and Tech Strategist. She is an award-winning speaker and tech strategist who has guided tens of thousands of people in why, when, and how to leverage technology effectively.  In this conversation, we go beyond technology and get into something more fundamentally powerful: how to leverage personal philosophy and process for revenue generation and business growth. Listen to this episode of The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast and learn: What personal philosophy CEOs are embracing to surmount resource and recruitment challenges Why “process” is better than “innovation" to generate revenue  How to use Julie’s 4-step process for revenue generation and growth during uncertain times Let’s listen in to this conversation with Julie Holmes BIO Julie Holmes is an inventor, app developer, pragmatic technologist, and innovation expert, plus she’s way smarter than her smartphone. With over 25 years of experience in enterprise and small business technology, she’s a master of how-to TECH IT OFF YOUR LIST. She is an award-winning speaker and has guided tens of thousands of people in why, when, and how to leverage technology effectively. thesmarterpreneur.com julieholmes.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of high performance sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 disruptions, or just the impact of inflation, success in 2022 is an uncertainty. And worrying about that can keep you up at night, which is not OK with us here on The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast. So today, we bring you the second installment of our Quarter 4 Business Impact Series. We feature the best of the best in corporate leadership—the thought leaders and the innovators—the ones the CEOs call when they need help.  Whether you’re the CEO of a multinational corporation or the CEO of your family, each episode gives you what you need so you can get the sleep you need. You get the insights and solutions you need now to have success in 2022—and beyond.  Subscribe now to get each episode from the trusted advisors featured in the Business Impact Series. Today’s guest is Dr. Rachel MK Headley, CEO of Rose Group International (RGI). Rachel and her team help executives and their teams become more adaptable, integrate acquisitions more smoothly, improve accountability, and execute on strategic initiatives. RGI evaluates chaos tolerance and blends leadership, project management, and change management frameworks to develop talent in companies that seek to be more competitive now and into the future. Listen and learn: Why understanding tolerance for chaos is integral to success What you can do as a leader to create an environment where people can thrive, and How to know when to look at management for solutions—and when to look inward BIO Dr. Rachel MK Headley, CEO of Rose Group International (RGI), and her team help executives and their teams become more adaptable, integrate acquisitions more smoothly, improve accountability, and execute on strategic initiatives. RGI evaluates chaos tolerance and blends leadership, project management, and change management frameworks to develop talent in companies that seek to be more competitive now and into the future. CONNECT https://rosegroupintl.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rachel-mk-headley/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of high performance sleep™, clink the link below. You take this simple step, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 4 Business Impact Series. We’ve invited the best of the best in corporate leadership—thought leaders and innovators--the ones the CEOs call when they need help. In each episode, you get what you need so you can get the sleep you need. You get the insights and solutions you need now as you plan for the coming year to have success in 2022—and beyond.  Subscribe now to get each episode from the trusted advisors featured in the Q4 Business Impact Series. We kick off our series with the Uber-amazing Jennifer Eggers. Jennifer is the founder of LeaderShift Insights, Inc. The firm works with leaders and organizations facing disruption who want to increase their capacity to adapt so they can emerge stronger and more effective faster. Many CEOs have sought out Jennifer over the past 3 decades—and countless others have turned to her book on resilience. Co-authored with Cynthia Barlow the book is titled, “Resilience: It’s Not About Bouncing Back.” With such a novel perspective, you won’t be surprised when I tell you it’s an international bestseller in several categories and has a five-star rating on Amazon. And you also won’t be surprised to learn we get into this novel perspective on resilience in our conversation! Listen in and learn: How today’s uncertainty and the great resignation give leaders a golden opportunity  Why resilience is NOT what it used to be How ruthless prioritization is the key to business success in 2022 and beyond BIO Jennifer Eggers is the founder of LeaderShift Insights, Inc. The firm works with leaders and organizations facing disruption who want to increase their capacity to adapt so they can emerge stronger and more effective faster. A professional speaker, coach, and consultant, Jennifer is an innovative leadership, talent, and organization development executive with a passion for creating insights that drive business results. She is known for facilitating high-stakes meetings with challenging stakeholders. Her book, co-authored with Cynthia Barlow and titled, “Resilience: It’s Not About Bouncing Back,” is an international bestseller in several categories and has a five-star rating on Amazon. Get Resilience: It’s Not About Bouncing Back and save 15% with special code: lsi15 https://leadershiftinsights.com/resilience-book/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of high performance sleep™, clink the link below. You take the first step, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep™ to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep™ and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 furthered our understanding of what we used to call crib death or cot death. You can check out part 1 in episode 38. Today in part 2, we take a deeper dive. We get into what our evolved understanding tells us about what we can do proactively to keep our babies safe. And let me say this right now: Dr. Kev, as his young patients call him, is a pediatric, airway-aware dentist, so get ready for some cutting edge strategies to keep our babies healthy. And my goal is to get these cutting edge practices into the hands of all young couples and parents. So please help me with that goal. How can you do that? Share this episode far and wide with anyone who is having a baby or who plans to have a baby! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of high performance sleep™, clink the link below. You take the first step, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 talked about kids and school problems in honor of ADHD Awareness. In this bonus episode, you’ll hear Dr. Gozal tell how, as a pediatrician in Israel, he was faced with a difficult task at 3am in the ER, and how this experience drove him to want to know more about what happens during sleep, and why ultimately, his quest led him to the United States. After you listen to Dr. Gozal’s story about SIDS, listen to episode 38 with Dr. Kevin Boyd, a pediatric dentist who brings an anthropological view point to the question of what contributes to SIDS. And subscribe so you get our next episode, which is part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Kevin Boyd.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of high performance sleep™, clink the link below. You take the first step, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 what we used to call Crib Death. Each year, there are about 3,400 sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUID) in the United States. In 2019, about 1,250 deaths of those 3,400 deaths were due to SIDS itself. But here’s the thing: what does that really tell us? After all, a syndrome according to Merriam Webster is “a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality or condition”. So SIDS helps us know what happened: tragically, an infant died suddenly and unexpectedly. But the term SIDS doesn’t tell us WHY. And there’s a reason for that: It’s because we don’t know why.  That’s what makes me so grateful for the ongoing work of pioneering researchers in the fields of sleep medicine and airway health. With each new discovery, we take another step forward toward understanding the WHY of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome—and each step forward brings us closer to the the ultimate goal of preventing it.  Today on The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast, we have the privilege of hearing from one of these pioneers in the field, Dr. Kevin Boyd. Let’s listen in. Listen and get answers to these questions: How anthropology and royal chins give us a new window into overall health Why the novel “Airway Health” perspective is the backbone of health, from infancy through adulthood What we can we do—even before our babies are born— to give our them the best chance of a healthy life Get a copy of my parent guide "Is It Bad If My Baby Keeps His Mouth Open? DR. KEVIN BOYD'S BIO: Kevin Boyd is a board-certified pediatric dentist with over 20 years’ experience delivering outstanding dental healthcare to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with physical and/or mental disabilities, and other special needs. After graduating from Loyola University’s Chicago College of Dentistry in 1986, he attended the University of Iowa for his advanced residency training in Pediatric Dentistry. Dr. Boyd also holds an advanced degree (M.Sc.) in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from Michigan State University where he participated in research projects related to unhealthy eating and how it contributes to tooth decay, obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. His strong academic background in nutritional biochemistry has been instrumental in motivating the importance he places on nutrition as being a key component of each child’s dental health plan. He has received specialty training in Pediatric Dentistry from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and further advanced continuing education and clinical training by Gnathos, a prestigious institute of advanced education in orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics for growing children. He is recognized as a leading clinician in the Chicago area for diagnosing and treating interferences to normal growth of the teeth, jaws and face. CONTACT: Dentistry for Families and Children Phone: 312-988-9855 Email: [email protected] Personal Email: [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of high performance sleep™, clink the link below. You take the first step, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 10 with Dr. Minna Kim. (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tcsp-10-post-nasal-drip-reflux-and-inflammation-with/id1563132355?i=1000521494425) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of high performance sleep™, clink the link below. You take the first step, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.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 go hand-in-hand with ADHD. Dr. Gozal shared an amazing story about how he came to uncover the underlying problems in a group of kids with behavioral and learning problems—the bottom 25% of the class as Dr. Gozal puts it. And , more importantly, you got new insights into how to find solutions to these kinds of mental and emotional energy challenges that are so common in today’s children. If you haven’t listened to episode 35 with Dr. Gozal, check it out. And while you’re at it, subscribe to The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast because we have an amazing podcast coming up soon with Dr. Kevin Boyd who shares some incredible insights on the topic of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Today, we get into new territory… We’re looking at WHY so many of these kids have sleep challenges in the first place. Now you may be thinking "SCREENS—our cellphones are wreaking havoc on sleep."  There is truth to that and it’s good you know because we have to be aware of these kind of “sleep hygiene” things that can wreak havoc on our sleep.  But here on The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast, you get more than sleep hygiene. We bring you the eye-opening solutions… the “Wait, what??” kind of insights that let you look at a problem in a new way--a way that brings you to solving the underlying problem. And that’ exactly what we get into with today’s guest, Chris Zombek. Chris’s long career as a dental hygienist gave her access to the stunningly successful field of orofacial myofunctional therapy. Yep, it’s a mouthful to say! And that’s a happy coincidence because the mouth is actually the focus of orofacial myofunctional therapy. If we can geek out on the Latin roots for a moment: myo means “muscle” oro refers to oral, and facial refers to face! So if we work backwards, orofacial myofunctional therapy is therapy that focuses on the function of the muscles in the face and the mouth. And can you take a guess which muscle is most important? If you’re like most people, you are in for a surprise… Listen and get answers to these important questions: What does thumb sucking and collar biting tell you about sleep problems? What’s really going on when your school-aged child wets the bed? Why does the removal of the tonsils and the adenoids have such a high failure rate? And if you’re a parent or a teacher looking to help these struggling kids in your life, get the guide I wrote for parents here. Chris Zombek BSDH, COM https://www.innovativemyo.com/ [email protected] BIO Chris began her dental career 31 years ago and is a proud member of ADHA. Certified by the International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM) and practicing since 2014, she is the owner of a successful orofacial myofunctional therapy practice, IMT-Innovative Myo Therapy. She has served on the Education Committee and the Board of Directors for the IAOM. Chris has been educating the dental and medical community on Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders and Therapy since 2015. Her highlights of therapy are seeing the many transitions her clients go through while leading them into functional health. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of high performance sleep™, clink the link below. You take the first step, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 commitment and innovative thinking to solving the problem of academic and behavioral problems in school-aged children. Listen and learn: why identifying the right problem can be so challenging in our modern times the real reason so many kids have challenges in school what you can do to help your struggling child BIO David Gozal, MD, is an international expert in the field of sleep medicine. He is known as a pioneer in the study of childhood sleep problems and the relationships between sleep disorders and neurobehavioral, cardiovascular and metabolic disease. His research focuses on translational approaches to pediatric sleep disorders, such as childhood obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and sudden infant death syndrome. He has published more than 600 peer-reviewed articles, more than 150 book chapters and reviews, edited three books and has extensively lectured at scientific meetings around the world. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you're ready to harness the benefits of high performance sleep, clink the link below. You take the first step, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Bring the benefits of High Performance Sleep to your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 get started, and we'll take care of the rest! Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Get the benefits of High Performance Sleep in your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com 

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 Washington State, we: look at what's going on with our teens explore the eye-opening role of sleep in mental health look at what you can do to keep the teens in your life healthy Parent Book: Is It Bad If My Child Keeps Her Mouth Open? Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Get the benefits of High Performance Sleep in your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com 

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 your well being how to achieve the benefits of strategy #5 even if you can't do it! Then get strategies #1 and #2 in episode 27, strategy #3 in episode 28 and strategy #4 in episode 30. And subscribe now so you don't miss The Fall Five hack that makes it easy to do these strategies! Use the 5 strategies--The Fall Five!--to avoid sleep problems. Get the high performance sleep™ you need to get the high performance days you want. And to stay healthy in body and mind! For you:Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Get the benefits of High Performance Sleep in your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  .

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 COVID-related changes in two areas: 1) the labor supply and 2) the labor market re-equilibration from the rapid rebound of demand for labor as businesses reopened. LABOR SUPPLY DECLINES If we look further at labor supply, the briefing states, "During the pandemic, labor force participation declined most sharply for women with family responsibilities and for workers over 55.” So let’s first look at the women’s labor force participation—it is expected to increase by the end of this year. And that makes sense because, for example, more kids are back at school, leaving women with fewer family responsibilities—at least in theory, as I’m sure the moms who are listening would agree. But back to the labor supply and our second group…the workers over 55. Can we expect the same increase in this group? No. And why is that? Simply because the shortage of workers over 55 was not a result of a more temporary reason like family responsibilities. No, the labor shortage for workers over 55 came about because there was a wave of early retirements in this population.  So what does this labor shortage mean for you if you’re the Chief Talent Officer—or any member of the C-Suite for that matter? It means top talent recruitment will be more difficult than ever. And my guess it that you know that already. So the question is: What can you do to get the ROI you need for your recruitments efforts? To give you the insights you need, we welcome Bill Humbert to The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast. Bill is an expert recruiter with 40 years of Recruiting Experience. He understands both sides of the desk as a Recruiter and as a Career Coach.  In this episode, Bill shares why abandoning talent acquisition and embracing “talent attraction” is the key to reducing turnover and retaining top talent. Bill also gives you the skinny on why mirroring the sales process in your talent attraction process yields maximum ROI! Bill offers a very unique perspective that will benefit anyone who relies on employees for business success—and for anyone who is an employee. Listen in and learn: Why “talent acquisition” leads to workforce turnover How “talent attraction” grows your future leadership pool What the sales process teaches you about hiring, onboarding and retention of top talent Bill Humbert's BIO: Bill is an expert recruiter with 40 years of Recruiting Experience (RecruiterGuy.com). He understands both sides of the desk as a Recruiter and Career Coach. He has been referred to as The Candidate Whisperer. In an evaluation he received on August 19, 2021, his client wrote, “Get many folks struggling with their career search to Bill Humbert. He changed my life for the better.”  Connect with Bill: LinkedIn - Bill Humbert | LinkedIn Twitter - @RecruiterGuy81 Facebook - RecruiterGuy's Guide to Finding a Job | Facebook Website - HTTPS://RecruiterGuy.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sleep Performance For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Get the benefits of High Performance Sleep in your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  _______________________________________________________________________________________ * https://www.ncci.com/SecureDocuments/QEB/Insights-2021-Q2_LaborShortage_2021.html

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 your physical, mental and emotional health how strategy #4 helps us stay well despite the challenges of living in a modern world Then get strategies 1 and 2 in episode 27! And subscribe now so you don't miss strategy #5! Use the 5 strategies--The Fall Five!--to avoid sleep problems. When you get high performance sleep, you have high performance days. And you stay healthy in body and mind! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Get the benefits of High Performance Sleep in your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  .

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 really—exhausted from the load we’re carrying as we live through all that’s going on these days. We’re feeling it at home and we’re feeling it at work as we manage the dueling dragons of keeping the household together and keeping the business viable. Listen to episode 29 and learn: How can we manage the dueling dragons of keeping the business viable and keeping the household together? What are the best “connectivity” strategies to bring success at work and at home? How can you use “protest scrolling” to get better sleep? In this episode of The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast, we welcome Sarah Riggs Amico.  Sarah is a business executive, a political leader, and the founder of Rediscovering Our American Dream (ROAD), a mission-driven media company that is building the largest visual archive--ever created--to define, document, and defend The American Dream.  Sarah is a Harvard Business School grad who worked at The William Morris Agency and APA Agency for the Performing Arts before relocating to Georgia to join the board of Jack Cooper Holdings, a leader in the automotive transportation and logistics services industry. Jack Cooper Holdings transports 3.5 million vehicles annually for American manufacturers including GM and Ford.  And Sarah is a mom, and a wife and a daughter, and a granddaughter. So she gets what’s going on…and she feels it. And lucky for us, she’s got some great strategies to share to help us all manage the dueling dragons--and get better sleep to fortify us! Connect with Sarah: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-amico-661a15/ ROAD website: https://www.ouramericandreams.org Jack Cooper website: https://www.jackcooper.com/home/default.aspx Sleep Assessments: For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Get the benefits of High Performance Sleep in your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  .

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 your physical, mental and emotional health how it helps us stay well during this "dual pandemic" Then get strategies 1 and 2 in episode 27! And subscribe now so you don't miss strategies 4 and 5. Use the 5 strategies--The Fall Five!--to avoid sleep problems. When you get high performance sleep, you stay healthy in body and mind! For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Get the benefits of High Performance Sleep in your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  .

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 your sleep. Protect it! Listen now and learn: the top 3 fall challenges that lead to sleep problems THE FALL FIVE-- 5 easy-to-use strategies that lead to High Performance Sleep™ how you can keep yourself and your loved ones safe in body and mind For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Get the benefits of High Performance Sleep in your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com  .

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 harm to you, your loved ones and your colleagues. Get answers to these questions: Is it better to have Counterfeit Sleep® or clinical sleep apnea?  How can you determine when a sleep study is necessary? What question should you ask to vet a sleep center to avoid a false negative sleep study? Counterfeit Sleep® Assessments For you: Find out your risk of Counterfeit Sleep®. Take the screening here: www.counterfeitsleep.com For your workplace: Get the benefits of High Performance Sleep in your workplace! Learn more about high performance sleep and our sleep performance assessment in your workplace. Visit www.hipersleep.com