THE COUNTERFEIT SLEEP® PODCAST

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. It accounts for 15.5% of all deaths worldwide.

So what does David Letterman and past-president of the American Heart Health Association, Dr. John Warner, have to do with it all?

And is there anything we can do to stop losing family and friends to preventable heart disease? Yes!

Listen and learn:

•why Russia has the highest number of deaths in the world

•how sleep performance and heart health go hand in hand

•what you can do to stop losing loved ones to preventable heart disease

LINKS:

What can we learn from Lisa's story in episode 14 -- http://counterfeitsleep.com/episode-14/

The Vitamin D Controversy episode with Stasha Gominak, episode 24 -- http://counterfeitsleep.com/episode-24/

2018 study, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine on Sleep Scores and increased risk of coronary heart disease -- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29198294/

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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 love, and how you lead.

You recognize that in challenging situations—like, for example, living through a pandemic—what you have been taught to do may be in direct conflict with what you need to do. You realize that successful leadership requires one key skill. And you rinse and repeat to build that skill so you bring success to you and the people in your life.

Simply put, you get Chuck Garcia. Chuck is the former head of Global Marketing at Bloomberg, and the industry leader in executive training with Fortune 500 companies. He is the founder of Climb Leadership International and coaches executives on leadership development, public speaking, and emotional intelligence. 

Chuck joins us today on The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast as part of our ongoing effort to bring insights to executives leaders so they don’t sleep as they continue to shoulder an unprecedented burden during these disruptive times. Our goal is give executive leaders what they need to live, love and lead with success, and we’re delighted to welcome Chuck to this special episode on Executive Leaders Insights.

Listen and learn:

Why adaptability is your key to leadership success in uncertain times

How to increase your visual impact in person and on zoom using the primacy effect

When to prioritize EQ (Emotional intelligence) over IQ (Intellectual intelligence)

BIO

Chuck Garcia is the former head of Global Marketing at Bloomberg, and the industry leader in executive training with Fortune 500 companies. He is the founder of Climb Leadership International and coaches executives on leadership development, public speaking, and emotional intelligence with his Climb Leadership Institute. His clients include Bloomberg, Bank of China, and J.P. Morgan in addition to other large and complex financial institutions worldwide. Chuck is a professional speaker and has given keynotes in over 20 countries, an Amazon best-selling author, and Talk Radio Host on New York’s 77WABC of A CLIMB TO THE TOP: Stories of Transformation. He also teaches Leadership Communication at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Engineering. 

A 25-year veteran of Wall Street, Chuck spent 14 years in sales and marketing at Bloomberg in a variety of leadership positions. He was Director of Business Development at BlackRock Solutions, an arm of the world’s largest investment manager, and was a Managing Director at Citadel, a prestigious alternative investment manager. His Amazon best-selling book, A Climb to the Top, has been translated into Chinese and has been used to train Bank of China executives on Western leadership and communication methods. Chuck is also a mountaineer and has climbed some of the world’s tallest peaks, including Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Elbrus, the Matterhorn, as well as mountains in Alaska and the Andes. 

www.chuckgarcia.com

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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 others don’t?

It depends on what's going on in bed! The truth is Counterfeit Sleep® may be sabotaging your relationship!

Learn the 3 common signs that Counterfeit Sleep® may be sabotaging your relationship and what you can do about it!

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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 to attract and 

The jaw-dropping truth behind the online physician directories. (I can tell you after hearing Nelson’s insider insight, I will never use one again!)

After you listen to episode 51, come listen to this episode. We take a deep dive on how to get rid of the health care middleman. Find out:

•why you should never pay the first bill

•when and how you to use “cash pay” to your advantage

•how to get rid of the health care middleman so you pay less and get more from your health care plan

And along the way, we get into sleep, Counterfeit Sleep®, and your long-term health.

Let’s listen in to part 2 of this eye-opening conversation with the man who is redefining the health care benefits industry, Nelson Griswold.

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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 talent. 

But in this high-stakes game of talent attraction, there is one offering that’s been overlooked. And it’s a valuable one…valuable to both employees and employers alike.

So what is this valuable but overlooked offering? Your workplace health care plan. 

When it comes to health care plan, the old business model persists. And not surprisingly, it’s a model that benefits the insurance companies. In a nutshell, you pay more and you get less. How much more? According to the Kaiser family foundation, premiums have tripled since 1999. Despite this increase in premiums, deductibles have gone up. And the levels of service have not gone up!

So as an employer you’re paying more, you’re employees are paying more…and all for the same product.

There’s no ROI, and there’s no other part of a business plan where this would be acceptable. But it’s overlooked because, well, the health care industry is a behemoth and has long had the upper hand. 

But that changes when you find out there is an alternative to paying higher premiums and higher deductibles.

And in this Business Impact Series episode, you get the insider’s view of this alternative to old school health care benefits. We welcome Nelson Griswold. Nelson is a two-time bestselling author and the nationally recognized authority on delivering high-quality, affordable employer health care by disintermediating the insurance company. He’s a columnist for Employee Benefit News magazine and chairman of the ASCEND conference that is disrupting employer health care. A dynamic keynote speaker, Nelson has spoken at every major industry conference, including the prestigious World Health Care Congress.

Listen and learn:

How your workplace health care plan repels the top talent you’ve worked so hard to attract

The jaw-dropping truth behind the online physician directories

The simple steps to take control of your workplace health care plan and control costs and quality

Let’s jump in to this eye-opening and empowering conversation with health care benefits visionary Nelson Griswold.

BIO

A two-time bestselling author, Nelson Griswold is the nationally recognized authority on delivering high-quality, affordable employer health care by disintermediating the insurance company. He’s a columnist for Employee Benefit News magazine and chairman of the ASCEND conference that is disrupting employer health care. A dynamic keynote speaker, he has spoken at every major industry conference, including the prestigious World Health Care Congress. An adviser to business leaders, Nelson chairs the Employer Health Care Council of the C-Suite Network. A public policy expert in a previous career, he is committed to preventing a government takeover of health care in the U.S.

Listen to part 2 of this conversation with Nelson Griswold in episode 52.

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Leadership Starts Here with Steve Lishansky |

This week we’re peeling back another layer of the leadership onion. In episode 49, we asked this fundamental question: What do leaders do? 

We explored how building trust is mission critical and then got stellar communication strategies that do just that from Allison Shapira, leadership communication expert. 

This time around on the Business Impact Series, we go another layer deeper in that proverbial onion by asking this question: Where does leadership start? 

After all, having a thorough understanding of where leadership starts is critical in the best of times—and as we all know, we are a far cry from the best of times. That means more than ever, we need a nuanced understanding of where leadership starts so we can live, love and lead consistently, at our highest level of performance.

Today’s guest is Steve Lishansky. Steve is a Hall-of-Fame executive coach, dynamic professional speaker, strategic planning facilitator, and best-selling author. He works with CEO’s and C-Suite executives to reach their ultimate leadership impact through better leveraging their talents, culture, and results. Steve’s new book – Leadership Starts Here – gets to the heart of our question: Where does leadership start? 

Listen and learn:

How do leaders create the culture that top talent wants to be a part of

When should you choose “common practice” over “common sense”—and when should you not to 

How to use “The 50 Choices Dilemma” to optimize your leadership

Let’s listen in now to this compelling conversation with Steve Lishansky, CEO of Optimize International

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevelishansky/

https://www.optimizeintl.com/leadership-starts-here-book/

BIOSteve Lishansky is a Hall-of-Fame executive coach, dynamic professional speaker, strategic planning facilitator, and best-selling author. He works with CEO’s and C-Suite executives to reach their ultimate leadership impact through better leveraging their talents, culture, and results. Steve has worked on leadership development with executives from more than 45 countries and leading organizations, including: Accenture, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, NASA, Cisco, Fidelity, State Street, MetLife, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Oakley, and successful fast growth entrepreneurial companies. His new book – Leadership Starts Here – is an indispensable reference for senior executives committed to upgrading their leadership decision-making processes, company cultures, and results.

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Top Talent, Leaders & Trust with Allison Shapira |

Let’s start with a fundamental question: 

What do leaders really do?

In the words of the legendary John P. Kotter: “They don’t make plans. They don’t solve problems. They don’t even organize people. What leaders do is prepare organizations for change and help them cope as they struggle through it.”

So that’s what leaders really do. They do the work of preparing for and coping with change. 

With the unending changes that have been thrust upon the world, it’s no wonder leaders are under a tremendous burden now. And it’s no wonder so many are losing sleep as a result!

Now if you’re a regular listener of The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast, you know we don’t want anyone losing sleep!

And so we continue to support CEOs and business leaders by bringing them the ideas and insights they need to succeed in turbulent times.

We feature the best of the best in corporate leadership—the thought leaders and the innovators—the ones the CEOs call when they need help. 

Whether you’re the CEO of a multinational corporation or the CEO of your family, each episode gives you what you need to lead so you can get the sleep you need.

So what do you need to lead through change? Of course, high performance sleep™ is your foundation. But beyond that, is there a key skill that separates the highly successful leaders from the rest?

The answer is a simple one: communication. 

And if you hear that word and sum it up as “Communication is what we say and how we say it”, you’re right—that’s true. 

But there’s more. 

Communication has an end goal, and that goal is to build trust. And you achieve that end goal…that trust…when you communicate, but only if you communicate with impact. And that’s exactly what we get into in this next installment of our Business Impact Series.

Our guest is Allison Shapira, a leader in Leadership Communication. Allison is the author of Speak with Impact: How to Command the Room and Influence Others . She works with leaders to help them speak clearly, concisely, and confidently to build the trust that propels others to carry forth their vision.

Listen and learn:

why communication is your key strategy to attracting and retaining employees in challenging times

how to maintain your authenticity when you have a message you don’t want to deliver

the 3 questions everyone should ask themselves before speaking 

Connect with Allison Shapira Allison at https://allisonshapira.com

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Presenteeism, Headaches and Your Bottom Line with Dr. Stasha Gominak |

In this episode of The Counterfeit Sleep® Podcast, we talk about something all too common: the headache. 

It’s a topic we need to talk about because the negative impact of headache is huge. Now, I don’t mean the “Honey, I have a headache” kind of situation, although I’m sure that has huge impact on anyone hearing it. 

What I mean is headache and the negative impact it has on your bottom line. Recent research out of Portugal concludes: “Headache has a significant economic burden, as measured by work loss costs, in Portugal.”

Now let’s pick apart that phrase “work loss costs.” Work loss costs can be the result of a variety of factors. One example is an absent employee. When an employee is not at work, his individual productivity is obviously cut by 100%. But what about the more sinister relative of absenteeism…what we call presenteeism? 

As defined by Harvard Business Review, presenteeism is when your employee is on the job…but not fully functioning. 

Presenteeism can cut individual productivity by one-third or more. And no matter how present you may be at this particular moment, it’s easy to appreciate how a loss of 1/3 of productivity has a significant impact on your bottom line.

So what can you do to mitigate the negative impact has on your bottom line? That’s what we get into today with our guest, Dr. Stasha Gominak. 

If her name sounds familiar, you may have heard our scintillating conversation in episode 24 about Vitamin D. If you haven’t listened to that episode yet, download it now. We get into critically important information for keeping healthy in times like we finds ourselves now. 

If Stasha Gominak’s name is not familiar, here’s the important stuff: 

Dr. Gominak is a retired neurologist who made a fascinating discovery while treating thousands of patients with neurological illness. She discovered one treatment that helped patients dramatically: improved sleep. And you can bet that headache—and even migraine—was a chief complaint of many of her patients. Lucky for those patients, Dr. Gominak’s insights and innovations allowed them to resolve their pain—and regain pleasure and productivity in their lives at home and at work. 

Listen and learn:

Why headache plays a unique role in presenteeism

How to tell if your trusty sleep tracker is NOT trustworthy

How to mitigate the negative impact headache has on your bottom line

Connect with Dr. Gominak here:

https://drgominak.com

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How to Lead Remote, Office or Hybrid Employees for Massive Success |

Remember when we used to ask each other this simple question: “Where do you work?” Nowadays, it’s a more complicated question: “Where do you DO your work?”

So what’s your answer? Are you home working remotely thanks to zoom and a good VPN? Are you trekking into the office because you have a strong in-person component to your job, like maybe, running the company’s data center? Or are you like many people and now working under some hybrid model?

There’s been such an evolution around where we do our work that even big companies have made fundamental changes. For example, Citigroup has taken the step of renaming each of its roles. They now have 3 kinds of roles:

“remote” roles

“resident” roles for those jobs that just have to be done at the branch, and

"hybrid" roles.

So that’s wonderful that Citigroup has worked all that out, but many leaders are still trying to figure out how to best answer the question of where do you do your work—and it’s the kind of thing that keeps them up at night!

And so for this episode of our Quarter 4 Business Impact Series—the last one before we ring in the new year--we give you new perspectives and strategies to answer this very pressing question:

How can you lead employees and achieve massive results when everyone’s trying to figure out “Where’s the office??” 

Answering that question is exactly what we get into in this conversation.

Our guest today is Heather Hansen O’Neill. Heather is the co-author of Where's the Office? Moving Today's Leaders from What IS to What CAN BE . Heather wrote this book with Wilford A. Lewis, and lucky for us because this very timely book gives leaders the perspective and the strategies to move from physical space to mind space for optimal results.

You may already know Heather from her innovative Fire Up Experiences that she brings to her audiences as an international speaker and adventurer. She stimulates vibrant energy, focus, and action for those who want to collaborate effectively, lead change, and achieve massive results. And I promise you, you’ll feel Heather’s energy as you listen to this conversation.

Listen and learn:

How to capitalize on the element of self leadership

Why moving from physical space to mind space is they key to success right now

How to find your fire and lead your employees to achieve massive results

Let’s listen to this conversation with Heather Hansen O’Neill now.

BIO

Heather Hansen O’Neill is an international speaker, author, adventurer, and entrepreneur using her action-packed experience to Fire Up audiences. She stimulates vibrant energy, focus, and action for those who want to collaborate effectively, lead change, and achieve massive results. With expertise in virtual, hybrid, and live events, as well as her focus on helping individuals and companies’ breakthrough fears, judgments, and blocks to reach sales and leadership success, Heather’s innovative keynotes are in high demand during these changing times. Her newest-and soon to be released book, Where's the Office? Moving Today's Leaders from What IS to What CAN BE helps leaders move from physical space to mind space for optimal results!

Where’s the Office?

https://heatherhansenoneill.com/wheres-the-office/

Connect with Heather:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherhansenoneill/

http://heatherhansenoneill.com/

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Leadership Succession Planning with Mary Kelly |

You know how we say, “The more things change, the more they stay the same?”

Well, business is no stranger to that truism, especially when it comes to leadership succession planning. Even now, while changes from human capital migration are a top concern, the rate of successful leadership succession planning stays surprisingly low. 

And that is almost shocking when you consider this statistic: 86% of leaders report that leadership succession planning is an important—if not urgent—priority.

So why the disconnect? And how can we help leaders take action?

That’s what we get into in this episode of our Business Impact Series, where we help CEOs and business leaders plan now for success in the new year. 

This is our sixth installment of our Quarter 4 Business Impact Series, where we feature the best of the best in corporate leadership—the thought leaders and the innovators—the ones the CEOs call when they need help. 

Whether you’re the CEO of a multinational corporation or the CEO of your family, each episode gives you what you need so you can get the sleep you need for success as you live, love and lead. You get the insights and solutions you need now to have success in 2022—and beyond. 

Subscribe now to get each episode from the trusted advisors featured in the Business Impact Series.

Today’s guest is Mary Kelly. And if you want to know what she does, the answer is simple: Mary improves profit growth. 

Now how she improves profit growth is a little more involved: As an economist, corporate strategist, former Navy intelligence officer, and best-selling leadership author, Mary translates economic data into relevant information that business leaders can use to make the right decisions and grow their organizations. She is the author of over a dozen books on business and leadership, and the co-author of the very timely book, “Who Comes Next? Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy."

Listen and learn:

the real reason leadership succession planning is the CEOs top concern right now

why we should have been prepared for the seismic shift in human capital

how to turn the Great Attrition into the Great Attraction succession planning

Let’s listen in now …and then get Mary's incredible FREE resources at www.ProductiveLeaders.com/free

BIO

Mary Kelly improves profit growth. As an economist, corporate strategist, former Navy intelligence officer, and best-selling leadership author, Mary translates economic data into relevant information that business leaders can use to make the right decisions and grow their organizations. Author of 15 business and leadership books including The Five Minute Leadership Guide, 15 Ways to Grow Your Business in Every Economy, Money Smart, Why Leaders Fail and the 7 Prescriptions for Success, 5-Minutes Per Week, and 52 Weeks to Building a Better Business, and Who Comes Next? Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy co-authored with Meredith Elliot Powell , Mary can be found at [email protected].

Commander Mary Kelly, US Navy (ret)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmarykelly/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/marykellyspeaks

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMaryKelly/

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Sleep PerformanceFor you:

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