Andrew Wynne, Executive Coach and Chair, The Executive Connection

How did you first discover the nap? My first introduction to the nap wasn’t exactly positive. At boarding school, we were forced to have a rest for 30 mins after lunch. My peers and I resented this, and we generally spent the time getting up to mischief, fidgeting, or wishing the time to pass. Later in…

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Steph Clarke, Facilitator & Designer, Melbourne

As a morning person, I love that a nap can give me the feeling of having two mornings in a day! I discovered the nap early in life, as my Dad is a serial (possibly professional level) napper. His mid-afternoon work naps still cause much amusement to his colleagues. Turns out the napping skill is…

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Nikki McKee , travel agent

“Most days I get up around 4 am so between 11am and 12 pm I find myself getting tired. Fighting it is painful and I much prefer to surrender to it and take myself off for a nap. I don’t always wait until my head starts nodding off by itself, I pre-empt it and having…

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Dr Sarah McKay, Director of the Neuroscience Academy

“I resisted urge to nap for many years. It was only when I started working for myself 10 years ago I realised that it could be a possibility. I get up at about five am so by 1 or 2.30 pm and I can feel the urge to nap. If I don’t have an urgent…

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Ita Buttrose, Chair of the ABC

Ita’s career in television, radio and print media has involved executive and editing roles for major Australian media companies including Australian Consolidated Press (now Bauer Media), News Ltd and Fairfax and  her own media company, Capricorn Publishing.  She was  founder of  Cleo magazine, has written eleven books, and is the National Ambassador for Dementia Australia. NapNow spoke with…

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Greg Kelly, Paediatrician, Brisbane

I am a paediatric intensive care specialist, artist and yoga teacher. I’m very interested in maximising the quality of my life and the lives of others in the broadest possible sense. Not only do I work long and unpredictable hours including nights and weekends but I am required to process lots of information, engage in…

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Betsy Faen, Counsellor, Sydney

Napping has only become a regular part of my life in the last few years since coming across NapNow. Prior to that I had been afraid to nap, because I have always had trouble sleeping at night, and I didn’t want to do anything that might jeopardise that. As well, I have never been that…

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Daniel Turissini, Washington DC

NapNow speaks to nap-entrepreneur Daniel Turissini, from his Washington DC office, about the role of napping in his life, and his business napnook. NapNow: What led you to become a napper? Daniel: My rediscovery of naps came at a steep price: my health. Much of my early educational and corporate success came as a result…

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