Hello folks. Welcome back to the WOOP podcast. We sit down with high performing individuals to unlock what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak. And what you can do to unlock your own best performance. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, and CEO of Woop, and we are on a mission

to unlock human performance. On this week's episode, Woop VP of Performance, our principal scientist,

Kristen Holmes, is joined by a behavioral psychologist, Dr. Gemma King. She has a PhD in human behavior

and is an emotional intelligence and performance under

stress expert. Gemma is a research fellow at the University of Queensland School of Psychology

and works as a specialist external advisor to McKinsey and company. Kristen and Gemma discuss

Gemma's work as a behavioral psychologist. The different types of

stress and stress styles, you'll actually learn what type of stress style you have and how to manage

that. The various behaviors that can help mitigate stress. So think about meditation,

breathing protocols, healthy eating, and more.

How to deal with stress before bed and throughout the night, that's right, secrets to unlock

your whoop scores. Gemma's work with the Australian special forces. What Gemma is obsessing

over right now, that includes gut biome health. The Wim Hof study. Woop is helping

Gemma and WIM put on. That's right. Wimhoff, the famous breather and cold resilience man.

And finally, the best ways to prepare yourself before a stressful event. A reminder, if you're looking to join WOOP, new members can use the code Will W-I-L at checkout

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If you have any questions, you want to see answered on the podcast.

Email us, podcast at Woop.com. Call us 508-443-4952. Here are Kristen Holmes and Dr. Gemma King.

Gemma, I'm so happy to have you back. So good to see you again, Kristen. We're going to talk about stress. Your favorite topic.

It's an epidemic, which is good for your job. Whenever I tell people that I am a stress researcher,

they're like, oh my God, can I be your guinea pig? And I say, line up. There's a huge line in front of me.

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