#128 - She Was Made Redundant Because Of Sleep Deprivation. Now She Researches It For A Living — Nicole Ratcliffe

You tried the sleep method and it did not work. That is not your fault.Nicole Ratcliffe knows this better than most. Chronic sleep deprivation after having her child derailed a high-earning career, led to redundancy, and forced her into the most difficult period of her life. What came out of it was a complete reinvention — and a mission to change the way we treat sleep at every level.Because sleep is not a nice to have. It is the foundation that everything else sits on. Your work. Your relationships. Your ability to show up as a parent. Your mental health. When the sleep goes, everything else quietly starts to follow.In this episode:→ How sleep deprivation ended Nicole's career and what she built from the wreckage→ Why the sleep industry is solving the wrong problem — and why one size fits all advice was never going to work for your family→ The research connecting sleep deprivation to parental depression across 1,000+ parents→ Why sleep health needs to be treated like a seatbelt — non-negotiable and built into the systemFor the ambitious mother running on empty and wondering why everything feels harder than it should.This might be why.