THE COUNTERFEIT SLEEP® PODCAST

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

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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/

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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.

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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

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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.

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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/

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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.

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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

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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.

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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/

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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/

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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 .

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