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Sleep for Executives

Sleep for Executives

By: Nathan Pali
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Sleep for Executives is an episode about how high performers can finally fix their sleep without wrecking their schedule, productivity, or ambition.

If you’re an executive, founder, leader, or high-responsibility professional who’s exhausted but wired at night… this episode is for you.

In this episode, you’ll learn how chronic insomnia, night anxiety, and broken sleep patterns develop in high-stress leadership roles—and why willpower, supplements, and “sleep hacks” usually make things worse.

Drawing from CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia), sleep psychology, and real-world executive coaching, this episode explains:

  • Why driven, high-IQ professionals are more prone to insomnia
  • How stress, cortisol, and performance pressure sabotage sleep
  • The hidden habits that keep executives stuck in bad sleep cycles
  • How to retrain your brain to feel safe sleeping again
  • Practical changes to your sleep routine, environment, and schedule that actually work
  • How to fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer without medication

This episode also includes a short calming wind-down segment designed to help your nervous system shift out of work mode and into sleep mode.

This isn’t a meditation, and it’s not generic sleep advice. It’s a practical, compassionate guide to better sleep for executives, leaders, and high performers who want deep rest without sacrificing ambition.

If you’re interested in executive sleep, insomnia relief, CBT-I, stress and sleep, night anxiety, sleep hygiene, and learning how to sleep again under real-world pressure—this episode is for you.

Sleep for Executives Because high performance still requires real rest.

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