ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
In North America alone, there are about 100 million people with sleep issues. Maybe you’re one of them. Every week, veteran broadcaster Neil Hedley sits down with celebrities, high achievers and the world’s top neuroscientists to try and find answers to his own 30-year battle with sleep issues in the hope that he might find an answer that works for you, too.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 114 days
Average audio length:
43 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
65 episodes
since Aug. 16, 2019
episodic
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Jesse Cook, Cathy Goldstein and Olivia Walch grade their own sleep
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Why Jade Wu had just woken from a nap before the interview
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What happens when trying to make sleep happen becomes the problem
Why Wu wrote Hello Sleep
The access problem surrounding Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
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Why major changes in sleep science often take years to become visible
How scientific knowledge becomes more nuanced instead of simply replacing “wrong” answers with “right” ones
Why no single sleep stage should automatically be treated as the only stage that matters
REM sleep, …
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Why Lawrence Gowan says he often sleeps better on a moving tour bus than almost anywhere else
How sleep differs among members of Styx on the road
Why trust in the tour-bus driver matters to Gowan's ability to switch off
How touring fitness changes when musicians move through the…
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Why sex and sleep are surprisingly difficult to study in a laboratory
How at-home sleep technology may make naturalistic research more practical
The difference between association, mechanism and an actual sleep intervention
Why trying too hard can interfere with both sleep and s…
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How Diane Macedo's years in overnight and early-morning news contributed to her sleep problems
Why she stopped assuming she was simply a lifelong "bad sleeper"
The myth that every adult must get exactly eight hours
How circadian timing complicates sleep for shift workers
Light,…
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Why total sleep time and sleep-stage percentages deserve different levels of confidence
What a consumer sleep tracker can measure directly — and what it has to infer
Why motionless wake is still difficult for wearable algorithms
Wearables, nearables and the danger of assuming mo…
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How Erin Davis went from morning-radio wakeups to bedtime stories
Why she calls retirement “rewirement”
How Drift was conceived and launched in 2021
The original Drift format: breathing, story and waves
Why bedtime narration requires a different broadcasting voice
Public-domai…
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