Hello everyone. Welcome back to the WOOP podcast, where we sit down with top athletes, scientists, experts, and more to learn 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 Robert Mueller, Associate Vice President here at Woop for Government, and I'll be sitting in for Will Ahmed this week.

On this week's episode, we're taking a look at the United States Coast Guard.

More specifically, how their helicopter pilots and air cruised use Woop to mitigate risk

while also helping keep our service, men, and women safe.

The Coast Guard mission is critical.

As a service member, there's no better feeling than serving the community

and the Coast Guard answers that call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So today, I'm sitting

down with Coast Guard commander Scott Austin for discussion on leadership, performance, and how

whoop data can be used to help our service, women, and men. Commander Scott Austin is based

in Port Angeles, Washington, and recently completed a study with Coast Guard members that evaluated

how perceived levels of readiness compared to actual physiological readiness. So think, how tired

do you feel versus how tired are you really from a physiological standpoint?

He talks about what he learned about his team as a commanding officer, a position of leadership,

and what his crew members learned about their human systems, i.e. themselves, by learning

to trust their whoop data.

Commander Austin and I discuss the role the Coast Guard plays in not only search and rescue,

but also other Coast Guard missions most people do not typically ever hear about.

Why the sleep deprivation culture is one of our greatest threats to safety and physical and mental well-being of our service members.

Scott will also tell us about the many stressors and fatigue Coast Guard aviators experience on a daily basis.

We also discuss how leadership can only smartly manage what is measured when it comes to a more

ready and resilient Coast Guard force. And lastly, but very critically, why the military,

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