Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole,

and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom

or something like that. So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital

space together. All right, everyone, for years, I have been talking about sleep hygiene,

talking about the importance of sleep. And something I learned is like one of the, it feels like

such an uncontrolled environment, but when you set yourself up for success, it can be something that can change your life.

So today we have Sleep BFF on Lindsay McBarland. Welcome to the show.

Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here.

I'm excited to have this conversation, especially around CPAPs. I have my dear friend

Alicia McCarville, big CPAP girly, but I'm going to be honest with you, I don't know a lot about

CPAP machines. I don't know a lot about that side of sleep. And I'm so excited to have you on.

Let's get into it. Tell everyone who you are, what you do, and why this sleep journey

has been so important for you. Yeah. So I mean, sleep is huge, just like you've been saying, right?

And I'm a respiratory therapist by background, which is kind of how I learned and started to

understand sleep more. So it started working like in home care setting, like setting up patients on

CPAP machines and started to see the positive transformation. On my kind of channel, I tried to

give like a lot of advice and recommendations around like my journey, but nothing is kind of

medical advice that I am giving. So we're going to note that for today too. This is all conversational,

but it is we're not

giving medical advice, y'all. This is not a doctor. Yeah, no. Exactly. And then, yeah, a year and a half

ago, I started making content around CPAP and sleep apnea in general. I just feel like there was

like a huge gap, particularly for women and just sort of awareness around what sleep apnea is and what even like CPAP

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