I'm Mitch. I started Love Nightshift because night shifts were ruining me.

The first few months were fine. Then they caught up. I was losing weight, getting sick all the time, grumpy 24/7, sleeping through my days off. My relationship was suffering. I tried every tip the guys at work swore by. Most of it didn't help.

One particularly bad day I started digging into the science. Turns out, when it's dark your body produces melatonin, the hormone that makes you fall asleep and stay asleep. When it's light, that process shuts down. Your body is literally fighting you when you try to sleep during the day.

The answer seemed simple. Block the light.

So I went looking for a decent sleep mask. Every single one I found was either a cheap novelty gift with a funny face on it or a flimsy travel accessory designed to be used once. Nothing was built to be worn every day by someone whose health depended on it.

I made my own. The difference was night and day (no pun intended). I went from barely surviving shifts to actually managing them well, while most of my coworkers still looked like zombies and spent every day off recovering.

Then my wife got night shifts on her nursing placement roster. She was nervous, she'd never done them before. I made her a mask, gave her some earplugs, and told her she'd be fine. She was.

That's when it hit me. There were thousands of shift workers out there struggling the same way I had, and nobody was making products for them. Everything on the market was designed for someone who might wear a sleep mask on a plane once a year. Not for a nurse who needs one every single shift.

I started Love Nightshift to fix that.

What began as one homemade mask on the Sunshine Coast has become a range of sleep products used by over 50,000 shift workers across Australia. Every product we make is designed for people who need to sleep when the rest of the world is awake. That's who we are and that's who we build for.

If you work nights, rotating rosters, or you just want better sleep, you're in the right place.

Mitch Love Nightshift Sunshine Coast, Australia