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., w...

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! Strea...

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 strat...

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.,...

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 lea...

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 innova...

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   A...

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 Vee...

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...

 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...

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 im...

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...

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 hig...

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 anxie...

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...

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 t...

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 hig...

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...

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...

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...

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. I...

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 lo...

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 ot...

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 t...

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 ta...