Hello, folks. Welcome back to the WOOP podcast, where we sit down with top performers and dive deep on all things human performance.

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

On this week's episode, we're joined by WOOP VP of Performance, Kristen Holmes, and Maya Shankar, a cognitive

scientist and creator and host of the podcast, a slight change of plans.

Meyer was a senior advisor in the Obama White House, where she founded and shared the first

ever social and behavioral sciences team. She also served as the first behavioral science advisor,

the United Nations. She has focused much of her career on observing how behavioral science

insights can be used for social good. Maya and Kristen sit down to discuss behavior change as it

relates to our health, and they cover what motivates us and the secrets to staying motivated, how we can

improve our health using tried and true behavioral science techniques, how to balance instant

gratification with longer-term goals, how framing your goals in a negative or positive light can

make a difference, what gets in the way of making good decisions, what it takes to inspire

change in others, what the fresh start effect is and how we can use it to our advantage,

how to handle setbacks, and how to set and follow through on goals.

This is really a great conversation to better understand what motivates us.

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Head to join.wop.com to get started. Without further ado,

here are Kristen Holmes and Maya Shankar.

Today I have the tremendous opportunity to sit down with behavioral scientist and host of the

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