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by Alison Kole
Hosted by Dr. Alison Kole—a triple-boarded pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine physician, reformed chronic insomniac, devoted mom, and unapologetic sleep health creator—this hit podcast takes you on the real, unfiltered journey inside the science and soul of sleep. Each week, with wisdom forged from the trenches of night shifts and the chaos of motherhood, Alison sits down with top-tier experts and ordinary people with extraordinary sleep stories, unraveling how sleep shapes happiness, health, and destiny. If you want the 360° truth—the wins, the setbacks, the breakthroughs—about why every hour of sleep could be the most important hour of your life, this is the show that will change how you see your pillow forever. Sleep isn’t just her passion—it’s the key to waking up to your potential.
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- 3 days ago32 min
Can’t Remember the Last 10 Minutes of Your Drive? The Truth About Drowsy Driving | Dr. Joseph Dzierzewski
Have you ever pulled into your driveway and realized you don’t remember the last 10 minutes of the drive? You may have been doing more than zoning out. Your brain may have been slipping in and out of sleep while your hands stayed on the wheel. Dr. Joseph Dzierzewski of the National Sleep Foundation returns to break down the 2026 Drowsy Driving Report. An estimated 145 million American drivers, about 6 in 10, say they have driven while impaired by sleepiness. So why do so many of us keep gett...
- 1 weeks ago32 min
The Sleep Syndrome of Menopause with Dr. Andrea Matsumura
Why do you fall asleep fine, then wake up at 3 AM with a racing heart and a brain that won’t switch off? If you’re in your 40s or 50s, you are not imagining it, and it is not “just aging.” Sleep disruption affects up to 60% of women in the menopause transition. For many, it doesn’t go away after menopause. Dr. Alison Kole sits down with sleep physician and menopause expert Dr. Andrea Matsumura, creator of the D.R.E.A.M. Sleep Method™. They cover what is actually happening to midlife women’s s...
- 3 weeks ago37 min
Will Sleep Apnea End My Military Career? CPAP, Deployment & the Truth About Getting Tested
Afraid that a sleep apnea diagnosis will cost you a promotion, a deployment, or your career? You’re not alone. That fear keeps many service members quiet, tired, and untreated for years. In this episode of Sleep Is My Waking Passion™, I sit down with Jesse J. James, a retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer with 20 years of service, a respiratory therapist, and Director of Military Healthcare Initiatives at Quality DME. Jesse has seen the system from the inside, both operationally and clinic...
- Oct 7, 202626 min
Sleep Like an Astronaut: NASA's Sleep Scientist on Body Clocks, Shift Work & Sleep Apnea in Space
Ever feel jet-lagged on a Monday without leaving your house? Or notice that a few night shifts can scramble your sleep for a week? Now imagine a sunrise every 90 minutes. That's life on the International Space Station, where astronauts circle the Earth on a loop of 45 minutes of light and 45 minutes of dark. So how does NASA get them to sleep? Not with a gadget. With a bedtime. On my birthday (yes, really), I sat down with Dr. Erin Flynn-Evans, director of the Fatigue Countermeasures Labor...
- Sep 30, 202638 min
Always Tired With COPD? It Might Not Be Your Lungs
Doing everything right for your COPD and still exhausted, foggy and short of breath? It might not be your lungs. In honor of World Oxygen Day (October 2, also my birthday!), I'm joined by fellow pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine physician Dr. Saema Tahir, the NYC Sleep Doctor. We talk about what happens when COPD and obstructive sleep apnea overlap, why it's so often missed, and what you can do about it. Oxygen therapy is life-changing when you need it. But if sleep apnea is part of...
- Sep 24, 202639 min
19 Years Tired. It Was Narcolepsy. | Lindsay Scola
Ever been told your exhaustion is "just stress"? Lindsay Scola spent 20 years at the center of politics and entertainment, advancing events for President Obama and working the Emmys, while secretly fighting to stay awake. It took 19 years, two "normal" sleep studies, and a meltdown in her doctor's office to finally hear the words: narcolepsy type 1. Dr. Alison Kole and Lindsay talk about the narcolepsy symptoms that hide in plain sight, why home sleep tests can miss what's really going on, ...
- Sep 16, 202641 min
Your Skin Knows You Didn't Sleep: Sleep, Skin Aging & the Truth About Korean Skincare with Dr. HeeJin Kim
Have you ever looked in the mirror after a bad night and thought, my face did not sign up for this? You're not imagining it. That dullness, the sunken eyes, the fine lines that look a little deeper than they did yesterday — that's your skin talking. And when a few bad nights turn into a few bad months, it stops being about looking tired and starts being about accelerated aging. In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. HeeJin Kim — a physician trained in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Geriatric Med...
- Sep 9, 202635 min
Fix Your Circadian Rhythm | Dr. Olivia Walch, PhD
If you've ever typed "why can't I sleep" or "how do I fix my circadian rhythm" into a search bar at 2 a.m., this episode is for you. Most of us have been taught to think about sleep in one dimension: how many hours did I get? But there's a second dimension almost nobody talks about — rhythm. And when your rhythm is off, more hours in bed won't save you. This week I'm joined by Dr. Olivia Walch, PhD, a mathematician and sleep scientist, author of Sleep Groove, and CEO of Arcascope, the compa...
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About Sleep is My Waking Passion
Hosted by Dr. Alison Kole—a triple-boarded pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine physician, reformed chronic insomniac, devoted mom, and unapologetic sleep health creator—this hit podcast takes you on the real, unfiltered journey inside the science and soul of sleep. Each week, with wisdom forged from the trenches of night shifts and the chaos of motherhood, Alison sits down with top-tier experts and ordinary people with extraordinary sleep stories, unraveling how sleep shapes happiness, health, and destiny. If you want the 360° truth—the wins, the setbacks, the breakthroughs—about why every hour of sleep could be the most important hour of your life, this is the show that will change how you see your pillow forever. Sleep isn’t just her passion—it’s the key to waking up to your potential.
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