Hello folks, welcome to the Whoop Podcast. I'm your host, Will Ahmed, the founder and CEO of Whoop,

where we are on a mission to unlock human performance. We build technology across hardware and

software and analytics to better understand the human body. And I want to thank Fast Company, which just last week named Woop the most innovative

company in the world for wellness.

Certainly a humbling moment for us and an incredible recognition, and we'll do our best

to live up to it.

It certainly feels like an important time for that.

I'm just wishing all our listeners, the best of health during this difficult time with coronavirus. I can feel

how it's affected us as a business. I can feel how it's affected different governments and leaders

and strategies. So anyway, our thoughts here at Woop are with you and your families.

We have an exciting guest this week, and also it seems like a timely guest, in Dr. Jamie Coleman.

Jamie is a Denver-based trauma surgeon and is also a professor, writer, and media health expert. Now, we recorded

this before coronavirus got going, so we don't talk about coronavirus. However, we do dive deep into

the lens of what it's like to be a trauma surgeon. I mean, this is one of the most amazing fields,

if you think about it,

in terms of what these people have to go through and work through in order to keep society

healthy and safe. We discuss what it's like to work in the male-dominated field of surgery,

how a matter of minutes or even seconds can be the difference between life and death,

the physical, mental, and emotional toll that her line of work takes on her body,

and how she balances her busy career with raising two children.

Now, throughout all of this, Jamie has been a Woop member as well,

and so we talk about how Woop has impacted her life and how she's using Woop, in fact, in a study

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