Hostage Tape - My Founder Story with Alex Neist and how mouth tape changed my life

6 years ago I had it all. 2 years later…I lost everything. Mouth tape changed my life. I had the software business doing 7 figures a year, the wife and 2 kids, the vacations, the house, the cars. Within 2 years I was divorced, living in my aunt's basement, I sold my business for a job I hated. My wife and I stopped talking to each other. We did curbside drop-off for the kids. I only saw my kids half the time. I hit rock bottom and in that moment knew I needed to change my life. I had always been a terrible sleeper because I snored like a chainsaw. Turns out my life was being held hostage by my poor sleep. It was one of the reasons my marriage fell apart. My wife slept in another bedroom for years and our intimacy eroded. I was also too focused on my business, burnt out, out of shape, and neglecting my wife and my kids. My life-changing moment was discovering mouth taping. My poor sleep would no longer hold my life hostage. I know, mouth taping sounds crazy. Reading James Nestor’s best-selling book Breath where they plug their nose for 10 days at Stanford Medical Center, develop sleep apnea, snoring, and dangerously low levels of blood oxygen…and then unplug their nose, mouth tape, and everything went away after a day. The light bulb went off in my head…mouth breathing, was it really that simple. Being an athlete my whole life, my coaches never taught me the amazing benefits of nasal breathing and the dangers of mouth breathing. Sitting in my aunt's basement over 4 years ago, it all started with that one night of good sleep. A life-changing series of good sleep that has led me here. I mouth tape every night. I get amazing sleep. I feel energized when I wake up. I lost 25 pounds and got in amazing shape. I started a new business to follow my passion and inspire other men to change their lives. We’ve now inspired hundreds of thousands of people around the world to join the Hostage Tape army. And to change their lives with this crazy simple little thing called mouth taping. We’re now the official sleep aid partner of @ufc , partnered with the @joerogan podcast, and @AndyElliottOfficial and the Elliott Army. We sleep a third of our lives, and statistically…most of us are mouth breathing when we sleep. There are 128 million households in the US. 71% of you are mouth breathing during sleep. That means most of you are not getting very good sleep. So think about how that is negatively impacting you right now…hurting your health, hurting your wealth, and hurting your relationships. What are you going to do to level up and change your life today? Don’t let bad sleep hold your health hostage. Don’t let bad sleep hold your wealth hostage. Don’t let bad sleep hold your family hostage. I want to end on 1 final thing. Remember how I lost my family… After becoming the man, father, and partner I'm proud to be today. One day on curbside drop off, my wife came up to the car and we had our first conversation in 2 years. She invited me into her home, and I was able to see my kid's bedroom for the first time in 2 years. The universe works in mysterious ways. We now sleep in the same bed again, and every once in a while I’ll fall asleep forgetting to put my tape on. She’ll bump me and say, Honey put your tape on. My wife, kids and I are back together. Get Your Tape :: HostageTape.com #ceo #business #sleep #health #fitness #mouthtape #mouthtaping #ufc #joerogan #hostagetape