1KHO 909: The Hidden Side of a Good Night’s Sleep | Tim Masters, My Green Mattress

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Welcome to The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast.
I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And I am so excited to bring to you someone today who has an offering that can make your life so much better, and your kid's lives so much better. Tim Masters, the founder of My Green Mattress. Welcome, Tim.

**Tim Masters** (2:20)
Thank you so much, and thanks for having me on.

**Ginny Yurich** (2:23)
Okay, so this is a full circle moment for me. When I started podcasting and having interviews, it's been about five years. It was August of 2021
And the first guest I ever had was an expert on sleep. His name is Dr. Chris Winter. And I had never interviewed anybody before, but I had a podcast with a couple episodes on it. And he reached out and said, I've got this new book coming out. It's called The Rested Child. Would you be interested in interviewing me and helping me launch the book?
And I had never interviewed anyone before, but I thought it seemed, you know, maybe like a cool idea. Then I was very nervous, but it went really well. It went well. The interview went well. People seemed to like it. And that was the impetus for the entire podcast. Started on this interview about kids and sleep and how unbelievably important it is. Everything from getting outdoors to what we're sleeping on, movement and all of that. It just helps the brain. So you started a mattress company in 2007 for the sake of solving a problem. So I would love if you would take us back to, has it been about 20 years and what was going on in your home and what solutions you were trying to find and couldn't?

**Tim Masters** (3:36)
Sure.
I am a mattress maker and I have been since a teenager.
So my wife and I, Cindy, we started our family and our second daughter, Emily, was born in 6 And Emily had eczema and just allergies, more than your typical childhood allergies. So Cindy had said, why don't you make Emily an organic crib mattress? I'm like, great idea. Like I would make organic mattresses, like onesie twosies, like in the early 2000s. Like, you know, back then it was like the hippies would come in, I need organic this, organic that. And I would source the organic cotton and do the best I could, you know, and make a mattress for them.