10/19/2026
Hosts and PTSI Resilience Trainers John Salerno and Samantha Horwitz talk with Rob Sweetman, fmr. Navy Seal, TedX Speaker, sleep scientist, and founder of Sleep Genius on Badge of Honor TV.
From staying awake for more than 5 days in Navy SEAL training, to long hours on deployments, to writing research papers on Sleep Science in Graduate School, Robert has experienced every level of sleep.
In 2010, Rob finished the most grueling military training in the world, BUD/S, where is awake for 5.5 days, enduring the worst imaginable experiences.
In 2012 Rob completed BUDs class 284, where he sustained a quadruple hernia requiring surgery. He served for eight years where he did two deployments with SEAL Team Seven and became an instructor at Advanced Training Command. He was medically retired after a back injury but had multiple other "hidden" injuries. Those included Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI),Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Insomnia. Robert used Ambien to go to sleep and stimulants to wake up. At one point in time he was using NyQuil to go to sleep at night.
In 2017, after the loss of Rob's teammate, SO1 Ryan Larkin, Rob dedicated his life to sleep. He wrote a sleep pod Patent and designed a deployable sleep pod for his brothers in the SEAL teams.
In 2023 Rob was named the "Sleep Genius" after helping a cohort of active duty Navy S.E.A.L.s in the 62romeo program. Since then he has taken on private clients for Sleep Coaching and Keynote Speeches. Find out more at https://www.sleepgeni.us/
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