Meet Our Leadership Team:
Courtney Floyd
Product Research Manager
Courtney is the reason The Sleep Shop exists. She's a Seattle native with a passion for healthy sleep. She graduated from Seattle Pacific University with a major in marketing. She started The Sleep Shop to help friends and family choose a good mattress, and helped grow the site to what it is today. She does most of the product testing and reviews.
Gabe Lazare
Junior Editor
Gabe is the newest member of The Sleep Shop team. If you like the design of The Sleep Shop, give Gabe a thumbs up. He's a digital marketing and design guru and the brains behind the design and SEO of The Sleep Shop. He also won't say no to testing a ton of mattresses either, and helps on almost every mattress review.
Chloe Nzuve
Head of Product Testing
Chloe is the main product tester for The Sleep Shop inc. She's responsible for acquiring and reviewing the mattresses you see on this website! She's also the one writing most of the reviews so you can be sure you're getting information direct from the source.
Courtney's Story & How The Sleep Shop Started
I created the sleep shop to educate myself and my friends about the importance of getting a good night's sleep. From there, The Sleep Shop grew.
I am in my 30s and I have already went through a rough period struggling with anxiety and depression that stemmed from not getting good rest. This took a major toll on me through my early 20s and I knew I had to make a change.
I sought help from a few professionals and in doing so, I learned a lot about sleep and how your mattress and pillow play a critical role.
The most important thing I learned?
NOT ALL SLEEP IS CREATED EQUALLY...
Fast forward to now.
I love running The Sleep Shop. It gives me the opportunity to test a variety of sleep products and help people at the same time. It shouldn't take buying 2 or 3 mattresses to finally find one that fits your needs, and your sleep style. I have a true passion for helping people get quality sleep.
The Sleep Shop Mission:
Our entire team is dedicated to serving our readers. At our core, we love to help people get great sleep. Its essential to living a healthy life.
With that said, operating The Sleep Shop is very costly and time consuming. We treat this website like a business, because it is a business. To keep The Sleep Shop almost entirely ad-free, we use affiliate links when recommending products we love. These affiliate links are used to generate a comission when a reader makes a purchase after reading one of our reviews.
Using these affiliate/special links doesn't cost you anything!
Whether you click through one of our links to make a purchase, or go the manufacturer's website directly, you pay the same amount (unless we've secured a discount for our readers).
This is the best way to monitize The Sleep Shop and keep our team motivated to continue doing what we do.