Where did your vision come from?
Where did that originate?
So I suffer from insomnia.
I went to med school, nobody sleeps.
And then later in my life,
I found tragedies in my life.
But I always felt if I slept better,
I performed on the exam better.
And grief is one of those big parts
of people not sleeping well.
I was able to overcome that.
And then when I started my business, so many decisions,
but I was able to overcome that too.
So in the midst of it all,
I'm able to find a way.
And so I thought I will share it with the world.
So I found a way, I think everybody can do it.
I've done it holistically.
I don't take any sleeping pills.
So that's my seven proven sleep strategies for everyone.
Absolutely.
What is going on with Word?
What are your, what's your end goal with your vision?
Do you have a number that you wanna reach
and try and help X amount of people
or what is your goal for right now?
So the sleep is, I call it the new pandemic.
So people are not sleeping.
It's a limitless,
if I can change one person to sleep better
and discover their own potential that,
hey, I slept better, so I'm gonna be great today.
And that's all, that's it.
So that person can tell another person.
And I don't have a major goal,
but it's one person at a time.
Gotcha.
So whenever you first decided to become sleep doctor
or Dr. Fix Sleep, as you said, right?
Dr. Sleep Fix, yeah.
Dr. Sleep Fix, I brought it backwards.
How did you begin that journey out of med school?
What were your first steps?
What got you started?
So early on, I went to med school in the late eighties
and sleep was not talked.
Even now, sleep is not a big part of our curriculum.
But then I was able to see every time I was a better person,
I took better decisions.
I also did ICU work.
So I was like a shift worker half the time.
But I knew how I felt poorly when I didn't sleep better.
And so I was going through all these motions.
So I said, I have to find a way.
So I've been in practice for 25 years.
So I dedicated my whole life for all the specialties.
I have four medical specialties.
But for the last five years, I'm going to,
because I've seen the effects of poor sleep in the ICU,
affects various parts of our body,
blood pressure, diabetes, mental fog, dementia.
So I said, let me go on the other side
and teach people to prevent all this problem.
So as you grow in life, you become more philosophical.
In the ICU, I practice reactionary medicine
because people are sick and they're dying.
So I said, I'm going to do something preventative.
So instead of reacting, let's go a bigger mission
to help people.
So if you sleep better, you rest better,
your heart rate is better, your blood pressure is better,
your diabetes is under control,
your mental cobweb is all gone,
you are more clear, it prevents dementia.
So that's where, after 25 years of practicing ICU medicine,
I said, let me do something in a bigger goal.
So that's when I decided to dedicate
the entire energy on sleep.
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Have an excellent time building out your vision
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