How a career built on calm couldn't fix her own insomnia with Hayley Dawes, Founder of Dreem Distillery

Every guest on this podcast talks about looking after yourself and your sleep when starting a business, so I was keen to speak to someone with first-hand experience of losing it, getting it back, and building a business from it too.

Hayley Dawes spent years designing beautiful, calming homes for other people. She couldn't find a moment of that calm for herself. A mother of four and a long-time entrepreneur, Hayley battled chronic insomnia that began to affect every part of her life. The thing that finally shifted it was broad-spectrum CBD and plant actives, used properly and consistently. That personal discovery became Dreem Distillery, a science-led luxury sleep brand now known for its award-winning Night Drops Sleep Oil and, this year, a new magnesium body butter, Dreem Melt.

This is a story about building a business out of a problem you genuinely couldn't solve any other way, and what happens when your professional skill and your personal life are pulling in completely opposite directions.

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