Delegate: Soda Kuczkowski | CEO – START WITH SLEEP, LLC + The Doze | Host, The Doze Podcast
Delegate Short Bio: Soda Kuczkowski is a sleep health educator and trusted certified sleep coach dedicated to helping people optimize their days so they can take back their nights. With nearly two decades of experience in sleep medicine, sleep health education, and behavioral coaching, she has consulted with thousands of individuals and trained health professionals around the world to raise awareness and inspire action around the importance of sleep.
She is the founder of START WITH SLEEP, LLC, a New York-based organization recognized as a global leader in advancing sleep health through education, advocacy, and customized wellness programs. Through evidence-based training, consulting, and strategic wellness initiatives, START WITH SLEEP helps individuals and organizations integrate sleep into broader conversations around health, performance, resilience, and long-term well-being.
She is also the founder of The Doze, a mission-driven sleep and wellness brand that is redefining how people approach rest, recovery, and daily performance. Rooted in an understanding of the cultural, behavioral, and lifestyle factors that shape sleep habits, The Doze is helping transform how restorative rest is valued and prioritized in everyday life through accessible education, curated sleep-supportive tools, and practical resources.
Additionally, she is the host of The Doze Podcast, where the focus is on action over awareness. Drawing from her experience in sleep medicine, sleep health education, and behavioral coaching, she invites listeners into an experience as unique as they are, discovering practical, relatable ways to enhance how they live, work, and perform while bridging culture, community, and wellness.
Scope of Activity: Enduring program
Activity: For World Sleep Day, The Doze will launch a World Sleep Day content series centered on helping our audience connect the science of sleep with everyday life. As part of this effort, we will highlight a featured episode of The Doze Podcast, “The True Cost of Sleep in Everyday Life,” across our digital platforms to reinforce the message that sleep is essential to health and deeply connected to the way we live, work, relate, and function each day.
This activity is designed to support this year’s World Sleep Day focus by helping our audience understand that sleep health is multidimensional. Rather than viewing sleep only through the lens of bedtime or sleep duration, this campaign encourages individuals to think more broadly about how sleep affects emotional well-being, relationships, work performance, resilience, focus, and overall quality of life. Through podcast promotion and supporting digital content, we will encourage our audience to reflect on the physical, emotional, social, and financial impact of poor sleep while also exploring realistic ways to begin making changes that support more restorative rest.
The goal of this activity is to help our community see sleep as an essential and practical part of everyday wellness, not just something to think about when they are already exhausted. By using an existing platform that combines education with real-life application, The Doze continues its mission of translating sleep science into meaningful, everyday support that helps people live, work, and perform with greater intention.
Location: Buffalo, New York
Date of Activity: March 13, 2026
