The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast

BIO: Julie Flygare, JD, serves as President & CEO of Project Sleep . Flygare is an internationally recognized patient-perspective leader, an accomplished advocate, and the award-winning author of Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir of Narcolepsy. In March 2022, she delivered the TEDx Talk, “What Can You Learn from a Professional Dreamer?” In 2024, Flygare was awarded the Sleep Research Society's Pub...

Dr. Dylan Petkus is on a mission to help educate and empower those with sleep apnea and other sleep issues to live fuller, healthier lives. Dr. Petkus knows firsthand the frustration of CPAPs and the daily struggles of brain fog, exhaustion, and the range of issues related to sleep apnea. Motivated by his struggles with sleep apnea, Dr. Petkus embarked on a multi-year-long research journey to unco...

Warren Phillips, M.S., the Non-Toxic Dad, he is leading a social movement educating and inspiring individuals to choose a non-toxic lifestyle. Warren is a passionate and energetic entrepreneur, he lives a non-toxic lifestyle and works tirelessly to educate the world about avoiding and removing toxins. Non-Toxic Dad has reached and impacted over 100 million people in the last year. During the first...

Miesha Tate is a former UFC Bantamweight Champion and still an active fighter in the UFC. Outside of fighting, she hosts the Built for Growth podcast, where she interviews a wide range of guests on mindset, resilience, health, and entrepreneurship. She’s passionate about health and wellness and regularly speaks at events and conferences on topics like longevity, recovery, and performance, drawing...

Ronda Holman is The Airway Champion. She is the Co-Founder of Airway Coach a revolutionary approach to helping humans learn to help themselves breathe better while they sleep by developing protocols and systems to be preformed daily. She is a 25 year, US Airforce trained, dental assistant who has spent her entire career looking at airway disorders and their negative effects in the mouth. She has d...

BIO: Dr. Neel Bulchandani is an intra- and inter-disciplinary healer specializing in solving complex problems related to sleep, airway, feeding, and mobility. He uses systems thinking and a kaleidoscopic approach (nod to Thomas Edison) in order to help all ages -- babies to adults. He began as a chiropractor 17 years ago, and then 9 years ago, when his daughter was born with a tongue tie, he went...

Dr. Eugene Lipov is one of the world’s leading experts on the treatment of symptoms related to post-traumatic stress. Truly, a pioneer in stellate ganglion treatment for symptoms of PTSD, he knows first-hand that trauma can be all-consuming. Growing up with a veteran father stricken with PTSD, and a mother with debilitating depression who eventually took her own life, he truly understands the impa...

BIO: Although Emily was previously trained and certified in Acupressure, Reiki, and other healing modalities, she found herself caught up in the chaos of corporate life for years- along the way having two children and working seven days a week, her personal perfect health storm came knocking. After going from doctor to doctor, countless testing and diagnoses, Emily turned to Nervous System Regulat...

In 2008, Ben Azadi was an obese man who went through a personal health transformation of releasing 80 pounds of extra weight, and getting metabolically healthy. Ever since, Ben Azadi, FDN-P, has been on a mission to help 1 billion people live a healthier lifestyle. Ben has a 10 year mission to help over 1 million people naturally reverse their diabetes. Ben, the founder of Keto Kamp, has over 17 y...

Todd is the co-founder and Chief Brand Officer of Dream Performance & Recovery, makers of performance sleep products. His obsession and passion for fitness, nutrition, sleep and overall human performance optimization began when he was a walk-on for the Michigan State University football team. His successful college career led to an NFL opportunity for the Rams in 2012, where he took his passion fo...

BIO: Arjen is a PhD aerospace engineer (NASA, Ferrari, Nikon, ASML). He likes to use engineering to make a positive impact. SHOWNOTES: 😴  How Arjen leveraged his aerospace and acoustics background to revolutionize sleep environments 😴  The origin story of AirTulip — a smart headboard that creates a "clean air bubble" around your sleep zone 😴  Why traditional air purifiers fall short and how Air...

Dr. Daniel Gartenberg is a sleep scientist and the founder and CEO of SleepSpace, a company that develops innovative solutions for improving sleep quality and health. He has a PhD in cognitive psychology from George Mason University and more than 15 years of experience in sleep research and technology. Dr. Gartenberg has received over $3.5 million in grant awards from the National Science Foundati...

For the past 25+ years, Anna Rahe has delved deep into a liberating and empowering relationship with fascia so that as many people as possible can invest in their health, restore their vitality, and heal themselves with the proprietary tools she has created.  As the founder, CEO and educator of GST Body, Anna has spoken about holistic body care through fascia around the world, partnered with top a...

Dr. Jacob Ambrose is a licensed clinical psychologist and owner of Restore Psychology where he provides therapy services. Dr. Jacob specializes in working with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, ADHD, and relationship concerns. His therapy style includes Shadow Work, Dynamic therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral strategies. Finally Dr. Jacob is currently providing educational content on psychological c...

Professor Sara C. Mednick is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine and author of The Hidden Power of the Downstate (Hachette Go!, pub date: April, 2022) and Take a Nap! Change Your Life. (Workman). She is passionate about understanding how the brain works through her research into sleep and the autonomic nervous system. Dr. Mednick’s seven-bedroom sleep lab works liter...

Martin Moore-Ede MD PhD is a world-leading expert on circadian clocks and how light impacts human sleep & health. As a professor at Harvard Medical School, he led the team that located the human circadian clock. and showed how it was synchronized by light. He founded the Circadian Light Research Center which identified the key blue wavelengths that control the circadian clock, and patented & devel...

😴  Why light is medicine—and also a potential toxin 😴 The importance of “bookending” your day (Mollie’s signature phone shut-down ritual) 😴 Danielle’s take on blood sugar drops at 3AM and what to do about it 😴 The sneaky ways stress spikes glucose (even from doing laundry!) 😴 How modern lighting wrecks melatonin—and what to do about it 😴 Easy, low-cost upgrades to make your home circadian-fr...

Dr. Boros holds a Doctor of Medicine (M. D.) degree from the Albert Szent-Györgyi School of Medicine, Szeged, Hungary and is a retired Professor of Pediatrics, Endocrinology and Metabolism of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine. Dr. Boros is the co-inventor of the stable isotope-based dynamic metabolic profiling (SIDMAP) technology, which is a functional biochemistry...

Alyssa is a non practicing Aerospace engineer that found the human body more fascinating than rockets. After suffering a health crisis in her early 20's she went on a decade long journey learning how to heal herself. Today as an FDNP, her research background shines, taking a deep dive to investigate her clients bioindividuality and walking with them on a path back to balance.  Out of a necessity t...

Dr. Jacob Israel Liberman’s discoveries in the fields of light, vision, and consciousness have been enthusiastically endorsed by luminaries in the fields of health, science, and spirituality from Deepak Chopra and Bruce Lipton to Eckhart Tolle. His newest book, Luminous Life: How the Science of Light Unlocks the Art of Living, reveals how light guides our every step, so we may fulfill our reason f...

Christa Biegler is an award-winning dietitian nutritionist, host of the Less Stressed Life podcast, and author of The Eczema Relief Diet & Cookbook. She helps health-savvy women overcome food sensitivities and fatigue without restrictive dieting to beat bloat, burnout & eczema breakouts. She lives with her unicycling husband & kids in the Midwest. The Less Stressed Life Podcast & Nutrition mission...

Valerie Cacho, MD, is an integrative sleep medicine physician and women's sleep expert. Her interests and expertise include diagnosing and treating medical sleep disorders, mind-body approaches to insomnia, self-compassion and mindfulness, clinical hypnotherapy, and promoting sleep health and whole living. She is the president and founder of Sleep Life Med, a tele-sleep practice in Hawaii and Cali...

Dr. Daniel Cohen is a Neurologist and serial entrepreneur. He co-founded SOLTEC Health to study the healing effect of magnetic waveforms on sleep and neurodegenerative conditions. SOLTEC Health ( https://soltechealth.com/ ) has developed a safe, non-invasive, drug-free platform technology that can greatly expand the already growing field of neuromodulation. With this new disruptive technology, it...

Tah Whitty is a Master Emotional Navigation Coach, Registered Nurse of 32 years, and co-founder of The Condor Approach, the world’s leading certification for Psychedelic Informed Integration Coaches. An expert in trauma and shadow navigation, Tah helps Gen-X individuals unlock emotional and physical healing. He also leads EmotionALL, SisTah Sanctuary, and Free Bruh, empowering individuals through...

Minerals are the unsung heroes of our bodies and lives, often overlooked, but essential. Caroline Alan, also known as The Mineral Geek, is here to change that. Coming from a career in the corporate world, Caroline found herself struggling physically, mentally and energetically.  During her journey back to health, Caroline encountered plant-based minerals and their incredible ability to support a r...