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Arena Strive

Healthcare's First Performance Coach.

A digital coaching system that teaches you the tools proven by elite military, world-class athletes and creative performers to manage your mental, physical and emotional readiness in just 5 minutes a day.

How It Works

The Sacred Work of Medicine

Those who serve in healthcare often give beyond themselves. Patient care, critical decisions, team leadership, emotional weight, long hours. The demands are relentless.

Performance Coaching

For decades, other high-stakes industries have used performance coaching to navigate these same demands. Training the mental, physical and emotional capabilities to maintain operating at your best.

Arena Strive
Arena Strive

Built to bring performance coaching to you within the margins of your day.

Content

Evidence-based tools taught by world-class scientists, athletes and performers. The skills you practice.

Coaching

A real human coach personalized to you. The relationship that makes it stick.

Wearable Data

Objective physiology showing how your habits show up in your body. The proof it's working.

All in 5 minutes a day.

Let's walk through what that actually looks like.

Your Day

Select a challenge you're facing right now.

Performance demands show up at work and at home. A 12-hour shift. A difficult conversation with a patient's family. Back-to-back cases. The drive home where your mind won't shut off.

Report these challenges in the app to get performance tools and tips from experts across special operations, athletics, creative arts, and healthcare. Over 30 tools across three categories.

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Step 1 — Learn About the Tool

Once you select a challenge, you're recommended a performance science tool. A world-class expert introduces the science — what the tool is, why it works, and when to use it.

Visualization

Creates a mental blueprint of how you want to perform — step by step, sense by sense. Visualize scrubbing in, the first incision, walking through the case. 30 seconds morning and night.

Transition Protocol

You leave one identity at work and step into another at home. Without a deliberate ritual, those worlds bleed together. Brain dump, use the commute, change your uniform.

De-Stress Breath

The physiological sigh — double inhale, extended exhale. Drops stress in 1-2 breaths. Heart rate follows 10-15 seconds later. Works with a mask on, in the OR.

Shift & Wake-Up Time

Deliberately shift your circadian rhythm using light exposure, exercise timing, and consistency. The science of flexibility healthcare demands.

INTRODUCED BY
Wendy Borlabi
Wendy BorlabiSport Psychologist
Preston Cline
Preston ClineHuman Performance Researcher
Andrew Huberman
Andrew HubermanNeuroscientist, Stanford
Will Coon
Will CoonSleep Scientist
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Step 2 — Put It Into Practice

Now a practitioner who uses this tool in their own high-stakes career walks you through it in real time — you're not just learning, you're doing.

Visualization Practice

Ashton walks through how he used visualization the night before winning Olympic gold — from waking up, to the uniform, to the starting blocks. Then shows you how to apply the same technique to your next case or shift.

Transition Protocol Practice

Tim shares his ritual from FBI hostage rescue to home — writing it down, music on the commute, a physical checkpoint, shedding the uniform. A framework clinicians can make their own.

De-Stress Breath Practice

Natalie uses the de-stress breath mid-surgery. Deep inhale, a little more at the top, extended exhale. She walks you through doing it together — in real time.

Shift & Wake-Up Time Practice

Shane shares how he preps for night shifts — sleep in, vigorous workout, wind down, dark and cold room, guided meditation. A real protocol from someone who lives it.

PRACTICE WITH
Ashton Eaton
Ashton Eaton2x Olympic Gold Medalist
Tim Ulmer
Tim UlmerFormer FBI Hostage Rescue
Natalie Krane
Natalie KraneSurgeon
Shane Gordon
Shane GordonHealthcare Worker
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Your Toolkit

Continue to explore over 30 science-based practices designed to help you regulate stress, manage energy & promote recovery.

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Introduction to Human Performance

First Steps

Destress Breath • Light Exposure • Hydration
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Additional Videos
Three Pillars of Flourishing
Regulate Stress
Promote Regeneration
Stabilize Energy

Manage Pressure

Adjusting Exhale Length
Shoulder Roll
Panoramic Vision

Improve Sleep

Consistency
Cold, Dark, Quiet
NSDR

Care For Your Body

Hip & Back Release
Food as Fuel
Exercise Snacks

Prepare & Activate

Box Breath
Visualization
Cold Exposure

Balance Night Shifts & Call

Meal Timing
Light Restriction
Shift Wake Up Time

Reconnect with Joy

Gratitude
Connect Authentically
Find Your Third Thing

Calm Your Mind

Transition Protocol
Self Debrief
Mindfulness

Reset After a Long Week

Active Recovery
Time in Nature
Precision with Alcohol

See Yourself as a High Performer

Self Talk
Identify & Live Your Values
Prioritize What Matters Now
Your Wearable

Your wearable shows you how your practices are impacting stress and recovery.

Heart Rate Variability measures your body's capacity to handle stress. As you practice tools consistently, HRV trends upward, signaling improved resilience.

Sleep Consistency tracks how regular your sleep patterns are. Better consistency means deeper recovery and sharper performance on shift.

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75 ms Above 8-Day Avg
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Sleep Consistency Last 7 Days
82 % Trending Up
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Your Coach

Your coach helps you tailor these tools to your life and build the habit.

They see your wearable trends, which tools you’re practicing, and your reflections — so every conversation is informed by real data, not guesswork.

Coach Portal
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The Impact

We measure data and impact the same way clinicians do.

After 8 weeks — wearable, self-report, and engagement data aggregated. Measured with Stanford's Professional Fulfillment Index.

~30%
Burnout symptom reduction
~85%
Of burned out clinicians improved
~50%
Reduction in burnout classification
JAMA
Network Open • 2026

Assessment of Clinician Well-Being Using a Biometric-Informed Coaching Platform

Leo T, Reynolds J, Blair J, et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2026.

Read the Full JAMA Open Paper

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