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Hey, you're on air with Ella, and today I am so excited to bring you Kristen Holmes.

Hey, Kristen, how are you?

Hi, Ella.

I'm doing well.

Kristen, will you tell us who you are and what you do? Yes. So I'm a psychophysiologist.

What that means is I study the interrelationships between our psychological processes and our

physiological responses and vice versa. So I'm really passionate about trying to understand how behaviors related

to our physiology like, you know, sleep and circadian rhythms and recovery behavior and

training behavior and core psychological functioning like purpose and efficacy and control

and connection, how these things impact our ability to essentially show up

as our best selves. So when we think about, you know, being able to produce energy, being able to

be motivated for task, being able to have attentional capacity, what are the inputs, right,

that really get us to that place where we can repeat levels of showing up that feel really good.

And you do this partially as the Global Head of Human Performance and the Principal Scientist at Whoop.

Yes. Not everybody knows what Whoop is. Can you tell us a little bit about Whoop and your role?

Yes. So as you said, I'm the global head of human performance, principal scientist at

whoop. So I basically oversee all of the research, thought leadership type of research, some validation

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