Sleep Your Way to Better Performance
The TriDot Triathlon Podcast
TriDot Triathlon Training
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We all know sleep is critical for performance and recovery but how do we actually get better at it? In this episode, Sleep Is A Skill creator Mollie Eastman and The RunDot Running Podcast's Carrie Tollefson join Vanessa Ronksley to break down how to improve your sleep in practical, actionable ways. We cover what sleep really does for the body, how much you need, and how it directly impacts performance and recovery. Then we get into the details that matter most: optimizing your sleep environment, choosing the right equipment, and understanding how nutrition, supplements, and tracking devices can either support (or sabotage) your sleep. This episode won’t put you to sleep, but it will inspire you to start treating sleep like the performance tool it truly is and unlock gains you may be leaving on the table.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Carrie Tullifson, Olympian broadcaster, and your guide to the world of Run Dot. |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm Vanessa, your average triathlet with elite level enthusiasm and host of the TriDOT podcast. Today, we are teaming up with our triathletes and our runners so that we can hopefully learn a little bit more |
| 0:22.6 | about how sleep quality impacts us as athletes and as humans. |
| 0:27.6 | And I'm super pumped to have Molly Eastman on the show. |
| 0:31.0 | Molly is the creator of Sleep is a Skill and the host of Sleep is a Skill podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | Sleep is a skill is a company that optimizes people's sleep, which we all love, through a unique blend of technology, accountability, and behavioral change. |
| 0:45.4 | So Molly is the perfect expert to help us sleep our way to better running and triathlon performance. |
| 0:52.4 | Now, we treat this show like any good workout. |
| 0:55.9 | So we're going to start up with a warm-up question, settle into our mindset conversation, |
| 1:00.2 | and then wind things down by having Molly answer an audience question on the cooldown. |
| 1:05.2 | Lots of good stuff. |
| 1:06.3 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:08.5 | This is the TriDOT podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every |
| 1:15.2 | conversation. |
| 1:16.5 | Let's get started with today's warm up. |
| 1:20.4 | Now, Molly here, we start our show off with a warm-up question. |
| 1:25.3 | So today's warm-up question is, what is one non-negotiable in your |
| 1:31.5 | morning routine, like something that you would never, ever give up, no matter how busy your life |
| 1:38.2 | gets? Ah, I love this one. And also, thank you so much for taking the time to have me here. |
| 1:45.4 | It's truly my mission on the planet to share about all things, sleep optimization, and bring in this concept |
| 1:50.7 | that sleep truly is a skill, you know, muscle that we can build. So from that place, what is |
| 1:56.1 | kind of sleep 101, if you will? It begins with how we start our day. So I love that he's kicked us off |
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