
Peak Protocols: An Arena Labs Series
Arena Labs has spent years bringing experts from high-pressure, high-stakes fields to teach on the frontlines of healthcare. Now, we're capturing the best insights and tools from those experts and making them available beyond the hospitals where we work.
Podcasting since 2025 • 5 episodes
Peak Protocols: An Arena Labs Series
Latest Episodes
Fail, Reflect, Master: A Seal's Guide for Clinicians w/ Matt Cumbee
What if your worst professional failure became your greatest clinical asset?In this episode, Matt Cumbee—former Navy SEAL and Arena Labs performance coach—joins us to unpack how “catastrophic” failures forge the grit and capacity every ...
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What Makes a Leader Last w/ Mike Mears
What can the CIA teach us about building better hospitals? More than you’d expect.In this episode, Mike Mears—former CIA Chief of Human Capital and the founder of the CIA Leadership Academy—joins us to explore what medicine can learn fro...
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Episode 4
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Performing Under Pressure in the ICU with Jessica B. Williams
What does it take to not only survive, but lead, in one of the most intense environments in healthcare?In this episode of Peak Protocols, we’re joined by Jessica B. Williams, MSN, APRN, ACCNS-AG, CCRN, a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the...
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Episode 3
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FBI Lessons for Frontline Medicine with Sarah Draper
What can the FBI teach us about performance in healthcare? A lot more than you might think.In this episode, Sarah Draper, a West Point graduate, Army veteran, and former FBI Special Agent, joins us to unpack what it takes to lead and la...
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Episode 2
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Coaching the Frontlines of Medicine with Jackie Pen
In the premiere episode of Peak Protocols, we sit down with Jackie Pen — an elite performance coach whose journey has taken her from training world-class athletes at Exos and Future to leading clinician performance at
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