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The Success Nuggets #65 - Sleep is your greatest asset by Johann Callaghan
The Strange Business of Sleep. In this episode, David Abel speaks with Johann Callaghan, The Sleep Success Coach , about why success may depend less on pushing harder and more on recovering better. They explore burnout, leadership, decision-making, the 3am mind, phone habits, worry, dreams, and why sleep is not a weakness, it’s a performance system. Overview from the host David Abel We tend to talk about success as if it’s made of effort. Long hours. Early starts. One more email. One more meeting. One more thing to prove. But in this episode of Success Nuggets , I speak with Johann Callaghan, The Sleep Success Coach , about the quieter and stranger truth: many people don’t have a time problem at all. They have an energy problem. Johann talks about burnout, leadership, the 3am version of ourselves, why problems become so convincing in the dark, and what happens when a high performer finally stops treating exhaustion as a badge of honour. We also get into phones, worry, decision-making, dreams, recovery, and the small but powerful act of not looking at the clock when you wake in the night. It’s a conversation about sleep — but really, it’s about control, identity, pressure, and whether the most ambitious thing a person can do is learn how to properly rest. Success Nugget: A powerful leader is a well-rested leader. With thanks to One Golden Nugget and Maxwell Preece for editing, support and artwork
