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b'Today\\u2019s guest is Kristen Holmes. Kristen has spent her entire career and much of her life in high performance environments. In college, she was a 3x All American and 2x Big 10 Conference Athlete of the year at the University of Iowa competing in both Field Hockey and Basketball.\\xa0She was a 7 year member of the U.S. National Field Hockey Team and one of the most successful coaches in Ivy League history, having won 12 league titles in 13 seasons and a National Championship at Princeton University. She also founded a successful, nationwide field hockey camp and clinics business and ran it for 16 years. Today, Kristen is the Vice President of Performance Science at WHOOP, a consumer technology company that empowers\\xa0its users to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies\\xa0and daily lives. Her role is to drive thought leadership at WHOOP by using a meta approach to better understand individual and team performance across military, sports, and medicine. In this interview, we get into Kristen\\u2019s sports background, her coaching philosophy and career, WHOOP, and all things performance optimization.\\nTimestamps\\n00:02:41 Moving a lot growing up and sports background\\n00:09:45 College sports days\\n00:17:42 Outcome dissociation\\n00:19:53 Happiness is internal\\n00:21:20 Habits will accumulate\\n00:23:30 Extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation\\n00:26:16 Coaching and performance work after college\\n00:38:27 How Princeton Field Hockey became so successful\\n00:44:05 Opportunity to join Whoop\\n00:47:30 Heart Rate Variability\\n00:49:45 Whoop\\n00:54:51 Her role at Whoop\\n00:59:37 How she optimizes her performance\\n01:03:00 Her driving force\\n01:03:57 Importance of sleep'