Sleep Optimization for entrepreneurs

“There was also a 2012 study in Stockholm where they found that the strongest predictor of burnout across about 500 working individuals, it wasn't work hours or demands. It wasn't thoughts of work on days off or leisure time. It was too little sleep, right? Sleeping less than 6 hours.”

Sleep Science for Entrepreneurs with Dr. Elie Gottlieb · 17:08· listen →

“I'd rather have the surgeon who slept 9 hours that maybe didn't go to the best medical school over the Harvard surgeon who is only working on 2 or 3 hours of sleep. That's how much I know about the effects of sleep deprivation on cognition, on performance.”

Sleep Science for Entrepreneurs with Dr. Elie Gottlieb · 21:23· listen →

“For a long time we thought sleep is for the weak when in fact it couldn't be further from the truth. Sleep is for winners.”

Sleep Science for Entrepreneurs with Dr. Elie Gottlieb · 40:56· listen →

“It's the Sleep Foundation that has a study that says that every single night of poor sleep can reduce cognitive performance the next day by 25%. And it's the equivalent of a blood alcohol level of 0.05%.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 34:38· listen →

“Based on just one night of that objective sleep data, this Sleep FM model can predict your risk for over 130 health conditions. One night, cancers, dementias, you know, heart failure, chronic kidney disease. It was impressive, not just in the scale, but also in the level of accuracy.”

Sleep Data, AI & Orthosomnia With Dr. Elie Gottlieb · 1:23· listen →

“There is this kind of like maladaptive preoccupation with optimizing or perfecting your own sleep and that it's most often organized around sleep trackers... Baron then coined the term orthosomnia, which, you know, Latin ortho for correct and then somnus for sleep.”

Sleep Data, AI & Orthosomnia With Dr. Elie Gottlieb · 10:21· listen →

“The group that was told that they slept poorly, their cognition went, it was quite poor, right? They felt, they thought they were told that they're sleeping poorly. So their cognition matched that. The other group that was told that they were sleeping well, the opposite happened.”

Sleep Data, AI & Orthosomnia With Dr. Elie Gottlieb · 16:20· listen →

“Your wake time is in your control. You got an alarm for that. So you can't force yourself to fall asleep at the same time every day, but you can force yourself to wake up at the same time every day. This is your sort of circadian anchor.”

Sleep Data, AI & Orthosomnia With Dr. Elie Gottlieb · 33:50· listen →

“Evening types, strong evening types who went to bed early, in other words, against their chronotype, had reduction in risk of diabetes and obesity and hypertension, circulatory disorders compared to evening types who followed their natural late schedule.”

Sleep Data, AI & Orthosomnia With Dr. Elie Gottlieb · 46:43· listen →

“There's not much difference from you biologically than, if we think about it, than a plant, right? A plant needs water, it needs sunlight, it needs nutrients from the soil... But if I give it more water and I tell the plant, listen, I'm going to give you extra water this week, but I'm going to put you in a dark closet. How's that going to work out? There's no amount of water that you can give a plant to make up for a lack of sunlight.”

The Doctor of the Future Is You with Sachin Patel · 15:44· listen →

“The breath is the steering wheel of the nervous system... it literally is grabbing your nervous system by the steering wheel and guiding it in the direction you want it to go in. So if I need more focus, there's a breath for that. If I need more strength, there's a breath for that.”

The Doctor of the Future Is You with Sachin Patel · 37:26· listen →

“The lion chases the giraffe and the giraffe is running away and gets away. They immediately do this huge body shake and then they go back into rest and digest.”

Burnout as a Mirror: Karenna Soto on Somatic Healing · 25:16· listen →

“You wouldn't expect your car to perform optimally if you put water in the gas tank or sugar in the gas tank, or you never change the oil... But you're asking the same things of your body, but you'll put anything in your body and expect it to work well.”

From Burnout to Balance: Dr. Lynise Green on Wellness · 3:30· listen →

“Blood sugar is the number one thing for quality sleep. Blood sugar balance is the number one thing that will affect quality sleep.”

Gut Health, Real Food & Detox Truths for Entrepreneurs · 26:51· listen →

“You wake up with anxiety because the body wants that activation. It's like, well, you've suppressed me, but now I need to reactivate it. I need to go to the other side, right? Everything that goes up goes down. So it's the same.”

Redefining Your Relationship with Alcohol | Silvia Subirana · 25:25· listen →

“Alcohol is the worst... it's still a poison, you know. It's terrible for your liver. It's just a poison for your arteries as well. And more than that, you know, it also really messes up your sleep.”

Dr. Emilie Laplagne: Functional Medicine for Entrepreneurs · 28:12· listen →

“Well, the first thing is you've got to stop putting it in the body. Yeah. The body will do it. With enough time, the body will just do it. You don't have to do anything. If you get out of the moldy environment, you don't have to do a thing.”

The EDGE Framework for Longevity With Sandy Martin · 19:58· listen →

“It's the discipline for the morning routine is easy. The discipline for the evening routine is the one everyone needs to nail.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 13:46· listen →

“I started investing in my health. I had a hyperbaric chamber, the sauna, the cold plunge, massage twice a week, acupuncture twice a week, stretching, got a chef in-house. I told you, I had the ability to kind of invest in my health to play longer and I did that.”

From NFL to Entrepreneurship: Justin Pugh's Playbook · 42:26· listen →

“I eat the same thing every day. For the most part, like down to a T. And that might sound like a little much, but honestly, it's made my life significantly easier and less stressful.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 19:55· listen →

“And by the way, bad night's sleep have a lot of an effect the day after. You make a bad decision. You are more grumpy. You have a higher chance to have higher rates and high glucose and your testosterone usually is lower. And so you are also, your cortisol, your stress is higher. You are more prone to get injured.”

Biomarkers, Biological Age & the Science of Healthspan · 32:58· listen →

“As a human, your number one job in life is to be a professional sleeper... if you can do that, then the idea is you go to bed on time and you wake up when you're done, the same way you go to work on time and you leave work when you're done.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 13:43· listen →

“If there is a secret to longevity, it's not a secret, it's first your lifestyle. The things that have the most proof are caloric balance, exercise, sleep, aggressive screening. There's no secrets out there.”

Longevity As a Competitive Edge: Jesse Levey on Health Strategy · 27:18· listen →

“One of the most extraordinary learnings for me in my journey in this science was how potent stress is as a pro-aging phenomenon. It may be the most— I've described it before as just like gasoline on the fire of aging.”

Reverse Biological Age: Dr. Kara Fitzgerald on Diet & Sleep · 19:45· listen →

“Most people unfortunately kind of are living at the simmering 7, especially entrepreneurs. They're constantly at this simmering 7 or 8. They never really get to 10, and they also never get down to 0, and so they kind of burn out because they're revving at this high RPMs.”

Fitness for Busy Entrepreneurs with Eric D'Agati · 21:03· listen →

“A very easy scientific test you can do at home is put the powder on a plate and add some iodine to it. And if that powder turns black, purple-black, then that shows up for starch.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 8:16

“When you think you're buying a lion's mane capsule or powder, you're actually buying 68% of blended rice, blended grain. So that's almost criminal and it's really bad for the industry.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 22:52

“It never makes sense until you look backwards.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 28:18

“Why win one prize and then lose 3 others, whether it's your health, relationships, friendships? I'm more of a pro the balanced entrepreneur, not the extreme entrepreneur that burns other boats that are actually really valuable for a meaningful life.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 35:37

“Business people is that they get a second chance or a third chance and you can reinvent yourself in your 40s and your 50s and your 60s. As an athlete, you have a finite window.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 38:54

“Provide the master chef with the ingredients and let the master chef do the cooking.”

Julian Mitchell on Functional Mushrooms & Biohacking · 43:06

“I had shown up and fixed this exact problem I was having for so long here in Central New York, but I fixed it for everybody else. And I was very much building, the founder of a startup company, and I was not prioritizing building a support system for myself and making sure that my own social-emotional needs were being met by the people around me.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 5:46

“The beauty of events is that if your guests didn't plan the event, they don't know what's wrong. So, if something goes wrong, just cover it up with a smile and ask for forgiveness if you have to. At that point, there's nothing you can do.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 10:19

“If I don't move every day in one way or another, things get bad, so I always make that a huge priority.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 14:12

“As a leader, as an entrepreneur, you're constantly having to make quick decisions all day long. You're having to solve everyone's problems. And it's just nice to have one less problem to solve.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 23:28

“There's just something so therapeutic about getting your thoughts out on paper and just leaving them there, you know, and not letting yourself ruminate on anything. It's been huge for me.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 30:07

“None of it matters if the relationships in our lives don't feel good. So that's something that I'm very proud of, that I can say that I've made that a priority.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 35:19

“It really is simply an invitation for us to see within ourselves where we're not honoring our unique capacity or where we have the opportunity to mature.”

Burnout as a Mirror: Karenna Soto on Somatic Healing · 1:34

“We are the life source of our business, right? We are the thing that gives it pulse. And if we're not taking care of ourselves, then that's, then what's the point, right? That this thing that we're creating, we won't be able to sustain it.”

Burnout as a Mirror: Karenna Soto on Somatic Healing · 5:30

“The challenging question that I ask a lot of entrepreneurs or people that are dabbling in their habits, I'm like, do you wanna waste 2, 3, 4 years down the line? I'm like, time is everything.”

Burnout as a Mirror: Karenna Soto on Somatic Healing · 29:34

“My recommendation for anyone that is experiencing those things is first shake out your body, like completely shake everything out. You can even go through some tapping, through some stretching, move your body, do like a little like 5-minute yoga flow.”

Burnout as a Mirror: Karenna Soto on Somatic Healing · 31:15

“There absolutely is some added levels of pressure because a lot of the retainer sort of agreements that I look at, people's income can be based off of how many views they're getting. And that's a really kind of difficult position to be put into where a certain amount of money is not guaranteed to you. That can put a lot of strain on you mentally.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 15:49

“The first one that I always say is you really do have to create for yourself. If you can find a way for you to be able to feel comfortable in saying that this is an extension of yourself, this isn't— instead of you posting content, you're sharing content, you're extending yourself to people. That can be a place where you find validation regardless of views, regardless of engagement, regardless of traction.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 19:19

“It's so interesting to be working out of the Center for the Creator Economy because I'm very critical of social media. I'm a creator and I talk about social media every day, but I'm also very critical of it. It is very much an attack on our focus and our time if you allow it to be.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 25:13

“What works right now and has worked all of human history is storytelling. And now more than ever, you have an outlet to tell your story, tell your why or your business's why, and potentially reach millions of people. That is awesome. That is a real, real opportunity.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 33:59