Going Deep on Sleep and Well Being with Dr. Matt Walker, W. Kamau Bell and Maya Shankar

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Quick afternoon nap? Gummies before bed? Hitting snooze? Here’s a thorough look at how to get our sleep right with one of the world’s most informed sleep experts: Dr. Matthew Walker. Why? Sleep is our super power. Put less positively, poor sleep maps terribly closely to poor mental health. Joining me for the conversation are previous guests and friends of the show cognitive scientist and podcaster Maya Shankar, and comedian/producer W Kamau Bell.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corgan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corgan and today I'm wondering about sleep.
0:10.0	I think we know that it plays a starring role in our mental health.
0:15.0	What I really wanted to discuss were the tricks to a consistent sleep pattern.
0:21.0	My thought partner is probably the leading expert in the field. His name is
0:24.8	Dr. Matthew Walker. He studies the science of sleep, as well as neuroscience and
0:30.2	psychology, which he teaches at UC Berkeley.
0:33.8	I also ask two friends of the show,
0:36.4	previous guests Maya Schunker and W. Kamau Bell,
0:40.3	to join us for the conversation and stress test Matthew's theories.
0:45.0	So join us for another episode in our 10-part conversation on well-being,
0:51.0	how to get it and how to keep it.
0:54.0	We'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan. My conversation
1:13.9	partners on the subject of sleep are Dr Matthew Walker. He teaches
1:18.0	neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley. He also wrote a book called
1:21.6	Why We Sleep and is the founder and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science.
1:27.0	Dr. Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist who has been a previous guest on Tell me more and Kelly Corrigan
1:35.2	Wonders.
1:36.2	She was the advisor to the Obama White House on behavioral science.
1:40.2	She's also the creator, producer, and host of a podcast called A Slight Change of Plans on which I was a guest talking about the empty nest experience.
1:49.0	And then my final guest is W. Kamal Bell. He's also a friend of the show. He's been on Tell
1:55.3	me More and Kelly Corrigan Wonders. He's a stand-up comedian, a director,
1:59.3	producer, and a dad for seven seasons. He was the host of the five-time
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