Hi, my name is Dr. Rongen Chatterjee, medical doctor, author of the 4-pillar plan and BBC television presenter.

I believe that all of us have the ability to feel better than we currently do, but getting healthy has become far too complicated.

With this podcast, I aim to simplify it.

I'm going to be having conversations with some of the most interesting and exciting people both within,

as well as outside the health space to hopefully inspire you, as well as empower you with simple tips that you can put into practice immediately to transform the way that you feel.

I believe that when we are healthier, we are happier because when we feel better, we live more.

My guest today is somebody who goes by the title of an elite sports sleep coach,

but I hope it's going to provide a very different perspective on sleep, because this is someone who has been heavily involved in trying to improve sporting performance by improving the quality of people's sleep.

He's author of the book Sleep. It is Mr. Nick Littlehael's Nick. Welcome to the podcast.

Thank you very much. Great to be here.

Nick, I first came across your book. I think probably at the time of its release in October 2016.

I don't remember devouring on the train home, back up from London, really, really interesting.

The thing that really struck me, which I think is where I'm going to start the conversation today,

is that you started off being the international sales and marketing director of Slumberland,

which is the largest sleeping comfort group in Europe in the late 90s.

How did you get from being sales and marketing director of a sleep company to coaching the likes of wine gigs and David Beckham in terms of how the people are sleeping?

To be honest with you, I sometimes reflect on that myself, because it's what's covered off in the book.

It's a story that people are quite interested in, not only because of the subject sleep, but also exactly as you pointed out.

I started off as a sales representative for this company, Slumberland. They were a very big branded company.

And in about six years, I became their sales and marketing director.

It meant that I could travel around the world and watch everybody sleeping and involved in different countries and all sorts of things.

Along the whole time I was doing it, I always heard this word, you know, sleep was taken for granted.

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