The second thing would be that it is important to feel like it’s okay to break a few rules. That is one thing I absolutely wish would’ve happened at the beginning of my career. Number one, I wish somebody had told me to take 20% of your paycheck from your first job and stick it into a savings account every single month. What are your “3 things I wish someone told me when I first started my career” and why? So I think we’re at a very unique time to be a sleep specialist, especially one that has the good fortune of having friends like you, who are shouting out about the work that we do and getting people to sleep better. You know, like everything is kind of at play now. You’re not just worried about your health anymore. That’s telling, that lets us know that there are people out there who are just not getting the sleep that they need either quantity or quality wise. There’s over a 20% increase in sleeping pills, prescriptions and an antidepressant medication, new prescriptions. These are surveys that we did on our website. We’ve seen alcohol consumption is up 21%. I mean, not to get too serious, but we’re in the middle of a fricking pandemic and nobody is sleeping well because of it. To be really honest with you, right now is one of the most important times I think to be a sleep specialist because so many people are hurting. It’s kind of one of those evergreen topics that’s out there because it seems like nobody’s getting either the quality or the quantity that they’re looking for. I’ve been very fortunate that the media loves sleep and loves to report about sleep. If you were early in the days of WebMD, then a lot of people knew you and asked you to be on their shows or asked you to be interviewed and so we did a lot of that. A much bigger company called WebMD picked me up and I was their sleep specialist for 15 years doing articles, answering questions and then that’s kind of where some of my media came from.
I was a cut and dry clinician, 30 patients a day, 15 sleep studies, a night type of thing for about seven or eight years. I’ve definitely had some different aspects to my career. I’m really more interested in the entire human condition and that’s why the PhD in clinical studies made so much sense because we know that psychology has so much to do with our sleep, with our energy, with our focus, with just about everything that we do. A lot of folks that are in sleep medicine, they just treat sleep apnea, or they just treat narcolepsy and restless legs, things like that. I’m one of 168 people that have ever actually done that.Īnd I’ve been actively practicing as a sleep specialist for 23 years and so my path is different.
How did he become medically certified? So I am one of those crazy people who took the medical specialty boards without going to medical school and passed. He just said that he didn’t go to medical school. So now you’re probably saying to yourself, hold on a second.
So I actually have a PhD in clinical psychology, yet I am medically board certified. I took a little bit of a different pathway. So for most people out there who are a sleep specialist, usually they have an MD and then usually they sub-specialize in something like, pulmonology, neurology, cardiology, and then they do a secondary within sleep and sleep disorders. Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?īecoming a sleep specialist is certainly a unique pathway that a lot of people don’t get the opportunity to go down. Thank you so much for doing this interview.
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