We start out talking about taking care of that mattress in your home? How old and Dirty is it? You might be surprised!

Then we talk with Sherry Chapman with Ergomotion. By combining smart technology with ergonomically designed bed base solutions, the team at ergomotion aim to achieve the right balance for body and mind.

From their headquarters in Santa Bárbara, California, the products are designed to provide the ideal conditions for self-healing and recovery so that people can live their lives to the fullest.

With more than 3 million adjustable bases sold throughout 30+ countries, ergomotion has grown to become the world's largest supplier and business partner of adjustable bases, offering the ultimate preventative self-care by balancing body, mind and spirit.

There is some great smart technology that can help you detect health issues and will help you get a great nights sleep.

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[00:00:08] Sherry Chapman: the house. Yes. The best sleep is, uh, the best product is whatever allows you to sleep the best and is the most comfortable and fits into your lifestyle. And when you look at a sleep solution, there are many, many facets. It's not potentially just one product. It is everything together, right?

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[00:01:13] Eric Goranson: welcome to around the house. Eric G and Caroline be your source for home improvement every single week. This is not, I promise you your grandmother's home improvement show, where we get you on top of technology and everything else all during the week. Hey Caroline. Hey.

[00:01:38] Eric Goranson: You got it. And that's what we pride to get you the best information out there. And we've got more of that today. We're going to talk a little bit about sleeping in your home because I don't sleep well at night. I get good sleep, but my body is so beat up and destroyed that if I could get six or seven hours, I'm usually pretty [00:02:00] stoked, but we're going to talk a little bit better about getting you some better rest here today

[00:02:07] Caroline Blazovsky: Because I think we all are beaten up, you know, you've got a knee injury, a shoulder injury, that's like you, and then you toss and turn. And every time you roll over, you wake up and the, do you have one of those phones that, or the watches or a ring that tells you how you sleep?

[00:02:30] Eric Goranson: I actually got mad at Fitbit. So this was my. Okay, I'm going to go out and buy the Fitbit scale. The Fitbit watch I'm going to go with it. And I own the Fitbit scale for about six months and they, I didn't realize, and they didn't do enough research clearly on it. And one on the forums and stuff like that.

[00:03:20] Eric Goranson: So I quit using those things at that point. Cause I was like, forget you. I'm done. I broke up with it.

[00:03:48] Caroline Blazovsky: What I like about the aura in particular is it'll tell me if I'm going to have a good workout. Cause you know, sometimes you go to the gym or you go to work out and you're so lethargic and tired and you're like, this isn't going to go, well, it'll tell you ahead of [00:04:00] time, like don't even bother

[00:04:05] Eric Goranson: I probably would never make it to the gym because you know, I, I would guess that if you put a sensor on me that every night I probably move four or five times every hour, at least. And. You would just go not today gardens and not the day,

[00:04:23] Caroline Blazovsky: have to work out. It would

[00:04:24] Eric Goranson: awesome to ever go to the gym.

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[00:04:42] Eric Goranson: Let's talk about mattresses because yeah, the next later on, we've got an interview here, uh, on some great new technology, you know, to be able to get you in a better place for sleep, but let's talk about mattresses for a minute.

[00:05:09] Sherry Chapman: We post

[00:05:19] Caroline Blazovsky: Like 25 years or 50

[00:05:22] Eric Goranson: It was a lot.

[00:05:28] Eric Goranson: So bad, so bad. Well, you think about it. How many would you say there's like 50 million skin cells get dropped off

[00:05:39] Caroline Blazovsky: million skin cells a day, a day. You're slopping off all this skin into the bed.

[00:05:55] Eric Goranson: And they've got that 20 year old Blake avocado, green and gold [00:06:00] mattress from 1975. That's their, that they've been using and you go to Lyft and you're like, dude, what is this thing made out of steel? No, that is all skin cells all inside the mattress. And so now you've got a mattress though. One

[00:06:17] Caroline Blazovsky: So your mattress is always going to way more, cause all these skin cells go into it, but you use a mattress cover. So you protect my mattress.

[00:06:45] Eric Goranson: That is the, you know, the foam one that you. Open it up and it feels like a life raft. You know, you open it up.

[00:06:55] Caroline Blazovsky: that's the, that's the, no, it was a tough and needle and it comes in this really small box. Right. And you're like, how [00:07:00] does this mattress fit in this box? And then you go and open it.

[00:07:08] Eric Goranson: all those mattress and the box companies have that purple Casper, all those guys. It's this little box. 75 pounds. It seems you're like, wow, that's a pretty dense little box. Yeah. Cause it's foam and they've sucked all the air out of it.

[00:07:45] Eric Goranson: It just seems better to go into your local mattress store. Go lay down on it a couple times over a couple of different days, spend some time on it and go, is this great? Or is this horrible? I've gotten mattresses before. And I'm like, there is no way. [00:08:00] This thing is like it's made out of bricks. There's no Amazon.

[00:08:30] Caroline Blazovsky: Flame retardants are a big thing because they're what we call. They can be endocrine disruptors. So a lot of people have gotten away from splaying spraying, actual flame retardants on these mattresses because mattresses actually the laws that they have to be safe for fire hazard. So now they're using all different types of technology, so they don't have to spray chemicals onto your mattress.

[00:08:57] Eric Goranson: It is. And coming up here in a little bit, we've got a great [00:09:00] discussion here. Where do we talking about some of the adjustable bed basis? Because we can talk mattresses and all that stuff, but that's not what we're doing today as far as brand specific, but we've got a great, uh, ergo motion.

[00:09:35] Eric Goranson: Let's have this base discussion. We'll do that just as soon as around the house returns.

[00:10:00] Eric Goranson: Panther.

[00:10:04] Sherry Chapman: G. Yeah. We love Eric G and

[00:10:20] Eric Goranson: welcome to around the house with Eric G N Caroline B, where we talk everything about your home every single week. Thanks for joining us. Hey Caroline.

[00:10:33] Caroline Blazovsky: God, this week's gone so fast. And, um, it just seems like it goes faster and faster. It seems like our guests just keep popping up and now we've got someone who's in my category.

[00:10:47] Eric Goranson: let's see, we've also got my category, which is home technology. So we're kinda meshing this together. We're married. Let's welcome into the conversation. Sherry Chapman. [00:11:00] Ergo emotion. Welcome to around the house.

[00:11:05] Sherry Chapman: Thanks so much for having me.

[00:11:24] Sherry Chapman: Yeah, it's uh, we had a, we had a great show, um, really, really enjoyed bringing, um, what the team has been working on and the sleep and wellness technology, uh, to CES and, uh, I think the consumers are really starting to appreciate the importance of having tech, having products that will help be more predictive and proactive for them.

[00:12:13] Sherry Chapman: Um, and that's, that's, I think where the really important part is. And what's so exciting about, um, us at ergo motion and what we're creating.

[00:12:37] Caroline Blazovsky: What are the characteristics, what are you going to look for? How do you get the best sleep and why is your product so much better at doing that?

[00:13:06] Sherry Chapman: And when you look at a sleep solution, there are many, many facets it's not. Potentially just one product. It is everything together, right? It's it's the right mattress. It's I think, including an adjustable base, um, it is what your sleep surrounding is like, it's the temperature. It's how you go to bed. So much of what you do during the day will inform how you sleep.

[00:13:59] Sherry Chapman: [00:14:00] Um, and we believe are adjustable basis and the adjustable base category. We'll start to it. And it currently is allowing you to better enjoy those moments when you sleep before sleeping and when you wake up as well. And that's, that's a lot about what we talk about. When we talk about heart, uh, smart home connected, adjustable base, I'm starting to help infuse those lifestyle moments to help you get ready for a good night's sleep.

[00:14:52] Eric Goranson: It doesn't matter what mattress I have. I don't have any adjustable, but because I'm always moving around in the night, it showed me constantly [00:15:00] moving. Trying to find that comfort. So I got no data out of that thing that was out of that watch because it was basically watching my movement and because I was moving every 30 minutes to 40 minutes, it read it as bad information that I didn't really wasn't sleeping at night.

[00:15:25] Sherry Chapman: Well, yeah, and I think, and not that sleep tracking and movement is not an important data set. It is. W if you wake up and you don't feel well, you don't necessarily need a number to tell you that my C you know, I know I did

[00:15:45] Sherry Chapman: Yeah. That's that's right. So I think where, um, the, the predictive and the proactive, um, Datasets and sensors. So yeah, we, we have, uh, we're infusing non-contact health sensors into the [00:16:00] adjustable base that will start, that will read, um, your heart rate, your respiration and movement. And I think combining those three data sets together, we'll let you know you, you could have sleep app.

[00:16:39] Sherry Chapman: You can take a look at the data and say, wow, there's something happening with me right now. That is different from two weeks ago. Maybe I should go contact my doctor. Maybe I should look at what's going on. So it's more than the bed telling you that you didn't sleep well. Now it's really starting to inform what's going on again [00:17:00] during the day what's going on with your body.

[00:17:07] Caroline Blazovsky: of that. You saw the bed. Right. So, and I didn't get to see it. So how does it monitor you? Is it monitoring you through an app through sensors that tell an app? Or how does.

[00:17:42] Sherry Chapman: And then we have our quest zone, which also has our sensors. What we utilize, it's called non-contact health sensors. So there's sensors in the adjustable base itself. You can use any mattress. And what those sensors do is those sensors read vibrations. [00:18:00] So heart rate, respiration movement all give out different vibrations.

[00:18:16] Eric Goranson: we've all seen all of those smart things out there that, you know, oh, my Instapot is run by Alexa. My bed is run by Alexa. Everything's run by Alexa.

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[00:19:01] Sherry Chapman: the Ron keel band and Steeler. We are rocking

[00:19:05] Into: with Eric.

[00:19:22] Sherry Chapman: That's true. Um, we have, we have two products of that. We're excited about. We have quest connect, which really just focuses on smart home integration.

[00:20:00] Sherry Chapman: So you can then set up, um, scenarios. It's time to go to nine at a time to go to bed at nine o'clock the bed lowers the blinds, go down the hue lights, you know, go or maybe it's. Yeah. And then, um, Your nest, pro's your sleeping time. So that really is for that, um, smart home IOT consumer who wants to integrate, um, sleep as part of their scenario.

[00:20:51] Sherry Chapman: Yeah, we're excited. We've got, uh, anti snore and rise to wake specific apps that you set your alarm and yeah, the bed will wake you up [00:21:00] with a gentle rise instead of having to go off. I'd have to get used to that. That's

[00:21:11] Sherry Chapman: Well, what we don't have is the snooze function on it.

[00:21:39] Eric Goranson: I'm liking this idea. Maybe I can break her of that.

[00:22:03] Sherry Chapman: Because once you get into that, nice, you know, you're sitting up in the bed, you've got your feet are up a little bit. Um, you're very calm. Forget your cup of coffee. The next step to the gym seems to, I got to, you know, I'm staying a little too long in my bed in the morning. I'm not gonna lie. Um, especially now that we're all working from home, there seems to be a transition that I'm, I've got to get a little bit more disciplined about.

[00:22:36] Eric Goranson: Okay. Now I'm out of bed shopping now. So this seems like something that like, wait a minute. If I can stop that alarm from going off six times in the morning with that, I like this because for me I'm that same way I w alarm goes off one time.

[00:23:12] Eric Goranson: It's all over the board out there.

[00:23:34] Sherry Chapman: We're one of, we are probably the only company that. Put expertise has put really all of this creativity towards this one product category. And that's why we're so focused on expanding it and making sure that we are we're, we're taking it. And we're creating products that meet the consumers needs. Um, so our, you know, we, we've got our quest product line, [00:24:00] which you can buy on emotion.com.

[00:24:25] Sherry Chapman: Currently quest 2.5, um, which could be at 1499. Um, again, these are all very much what I like to call the democratization of wellness, very affordable, um, very lightweight. These can be sent via FedEx. You just need two people to bring it in, set it up. Um, and, and one thing that people, a lot of times with the adjustable base, you, you don't need to buy a mattress.

[00:25:11] Sherry Chapman: Let's say you've decided you're going to train for a marathon and you know, that, you know, rising your feet up and getting that circulation or potentially you've just hurt your back. So we really think that. The quest product line allows for hi, I need a solution today for this. I'm not looking to go and buy a whole new sleep set up.

[00:25:56] Sherry Chapman: If you use it and you don't want to continue with it, you just [00:26:00] fold it up. You can put it in storage. Heck you can gift it to a family member as well. So they're very lightweight, very mobile. Um, I think very conducive to, for people in apartments, people who, you know, are looking for, you know, You know, seven, eight, $9,000 solution, but need, um, solution to a specific life moment.

[00:26:38] Caroline Blazovsky: I was going to say with health-related things like, um, sweet so that you were talking about sleep apnea, but then also like acid reflux.

[00:27:03] Sherry Chapman: Oh, without a doubt. The products absolutely would help with that because you can just raise the bed. The bed really raises up. It's really small inclines, so you can, you know, utilize it at, at any. And in fact, you could raise it up. So it's not necessarily, um, you know, the person, your partner, who you're sleeping with, um, would be bothered by it so much.

[00:27:49] Sherry Chapman: They would be very heavy. Um, you, you know, you'd buy an adjustable waist and you would keep it for forever. And our beds are made that way. They're, they're made to last forever, [00:28:00] but because they're so heavy, you're not necessarily going to move them. Um, and so these allow you to just utilize them. Um, when, you know, specific things arise in the family as well.

[00:28:36] Eric Goranson: well.

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[00:29:05] Sherry Chapman: we've created an adjustable base bed solution for that aging in place consumer. So what we know, obviously the silver tsunami, um, all the, as the baby boomers and the, in that, um, customer segmentation, a. Um, all the data and what we've heard, you know, they, they want to stay at home for as long as possible.

[00:29:56] Sherry Chapman: Good on the other spectrum. We have ergo sportive, which [00:30:00] is, um, a bed that we created with partnership with Garmin, and also has the integrated health sensor, um, data. And that data while you sleep gets integrated into your Garmin watch. So you can have a 360 view. Of what's going on and it better informs the body battery, um, setting that, um, your garment watch.

[00:30:42] Sherry Chapman: And, uh,

[00:31:02] Caroline Blazovsky: Now the aura ring, which tells you different things, just like the garment. And so I think incorporating this into just another piece of it, for people who are really, really focused on wellness and athletics and things like that, it's amazing for them to help with our workout and knowing when to work out and, you know, if they got a good night's sleep, et cetera.

[00:31:48] Sherry Chapman: Um, and while you're on the bed really is, um, very accurate. And so we've really honed in on that where obviously Garmin and apple [00:32:00] and fit that. And, you know, with rains and aura, you know, during the day, that's what you doing and that's, you know, and there's a lot of external noise that happens and it's just like your

[00:32:11] Caroline Blazovsky: You know, you're just monitoring something on your finger with people who don't know what an aura ring is, but it's, you put a ring on and it's supposed to tell you all these details, but when you're on a bed, you're going to get a lot more accuracy just by the way you move and breathe. I mean, a ring on your finger, isn't going to be so great.

[00:32:29] Sherry Chapman: expertise.

[00:32:55] Sherry Chapman: So that's, you know, and the watches they're, they're designed for movement during the [00:33:00] day, and it takes in any external noise, but our data set from our sensors have been developed specific for the sleep environment. And you

[00:33:13] Sherry Chapman: Yeah, our, our headquarters, um, or we've just launched a, a very large manufacturing facility, um, in Asia using all solar power.

[00:33:46] Sherry Chapman: If you're not happy with it, you know, give it to a friend, let a friend, if it's not what you want, um, truly, really help the consumer. Think about, you know, sharing product, not necessarily, it's important for us [00:34:00] obviously to sell product, but, um, we don't want the waste and to cut down on the waste in our product team, cussing, looking at ways to cut down on waste with what we're, what we have, um, and what we're doing, even from packaging.

[00:34:40] Sherry Chapman: Um, so it's very important for, um, our company that we constantly strive to be. Eco-friendly

[00:35:02] Eric Goranson: There's a lot of different ways to get.

[00:35:29] Sherry Chapman: You can go to amazon.com. Um, we'd love for everybody to check out a retailer. We've got a retailer locator on our website and go check out our, on one of our retail partners. Um, we are, you know, we support our retail environment. We think the mattress and the, the, the retailers, uh, in furniture, retailers are super important to us.

[00:36:04] That

[00:36:17] Sherry Chapman: Yes.

[00:36:36] Caroline Blazovsky: I mean, I don't care what age you are. We all. Orthopedic issues. We end up twisting our ankle. We end up blowing out a shoulder, Eric knows, you know? And so anyway, you're

[00:36:50] Caroline Blazovsky: Oh my gosh. I ran down the road and fell in a pothole

[00:37:29] Sherry Chapman: Um, I think one thing that we've all learned in the last couple of years, um, that, you know, we have to change and adapt and we've got to kind of find solutions that will help us be healthy. In our life and we have to be way more proactive than I think we have in the past. Um, and so I hope that know emotion and our products, it can contribute that to society.

[00:37:54] Eric Goranson: one more thing to share. I want to add, as you just brought that up, I've had six knee surgeries, five for [00:38:00] meniscus tears. I've had all these different things to my body man, before I had my ACL MCL surgery, where they had to replace that. 20 years ago, I'd have given it a lot more than what your base is cost back then to be able to put my leg up without having to stack pillows and, and do all that stuff to follow those surgeon's orders of what I had to do for the first two weeks.

[00:38:22] Sherry Chapman: it's a smart way. Yeah, it's a, I think it's a game changer and I hope the quest line with our pricing and how mobile it is and lightweight really. And I guess I go back to repeating, but it's the democratization of wellness. It's really bringing the adjustable basis to the masses. Um, still great quality, um, amazing support.

[00:39:03] Sherry Chapman: Um, and I'd love for everybody to try one.

[00:39:15] Sherry Chapman: Thank you guys. Very well.