The scientifically proven system for ambitious founders and executives. 10x your performance, thrive through anything, and never burn out. We guarantee it.
Learn the Optimal Pace Protocol in just five minutes, so you can 10x your performance, thrive through anything, and never burn out.
Stop guessing. Know exactly how hard you can push yourself, and how far you can go, when you run your life on the Optimal Pace Protocol.
Standing on the foundation of our five-year study of 10,000 high-pressure high-achievers, the protocol decodes the path to building your performance capacity so you can thrive through anything.
They want you to slow down. We'll show you how to go faster, 10x your performance and never burn out.
The #1 High Performance Community for Executives and Entrepreneurs
Protocol membership includes all the tools and support you need to run your life on the Optimal Pace Protocol so you can 10x your Performance and never burn out.
Protocol membership is perfect when you’re planning to make the leap to chase your dreams sometime in the next year, or when you’ve made the leap and you're still in the building phase so the pressure hasn’t fully ramped up yet.
Protocol members achieve high Performance in about one year.
Mastermind membership includes all the Protocol tools plus weekly sessions with an inspiring group of high-achieving peers for fast learning and powerful accountability.
Mastermind membership is perfect when you’re deep into the path of chasing your dreams, the pressure is building every day, and you can feel the wall of burnout coming closer.
Mastermind members typically achieve high Performance in about six months.
Guide membership includes the Protocol tools, Mastermind attendance, and daily high-definition adjustments from an expert who runs their life on the Optimal Pace Protocol for the fastest and most durable results.
You'll work directly with an expert Guide via private messaging every single day. Tell your Guide your performance goals and they'll make sure you achieve them in one month.
Guide membership is perfect when you’re fighting to keep your head above water every day and burnout is threatening to crush your dreams and blow the whole thing up right now.
Guide members achieve high Performance in about one month.
In 2023, Dory member Tez Steinberg set out to row solo and unsupported in a seven-meter rowboat for 196 days, over 5,000 miles from California to Australia.
He encountered rogue waves, equipment failure, thousands of miles of isolation, and a level of life-and-death pressure to perform most of us will never experience.
Tez trusted his progress and his sanity to the Optimal Pace Protocol which allowed him to push to his absolute limits without burning out or giving up.
He successfully arrived in Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia on April 23rd, 2024.
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In 2021, Dory member Allison Williams left an unsustainable career in hospitality in Los Angeles to pursue her dream of building a startup wellness app that would expand her impact globally.
Over the five-year journey she encountered family tragedy, untrustworthy business partners, shut down and restarted the business, and moved to a new country alone.
Allison trusted her energy and persistence to the Optimal Pace Protocol which allowed her to stay in the game long enough to win.
Today she's thriving as a developmental narrative artist, helping the world's biggest names tell their stories and leading inspiring retreats for authors around the world.
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After a successful career as an executive in aerospace engineering in Dallas, Dory member Justin Monger launched a new mission as a startup founder and inventor of a life-saving medical device.
He navigated the always-on pressure of product design, manufacturing, healthcare compliance, partnerships, and investor relations all while keeping his team supported and on track.
Justin trusted his ability to stay calm and focused to the Optimal Pace Protocol which allowed him to make better decisions and handle all the surprises.
Today he's raised millions of dollars from investors and secured millions more in channel sales from partners.
As a rare disease researcher and startup founder, Dory member Amanda Elam in Naples took the leap to make her impact as a scientist and a business leader.
She experienced the complexity of building an organization, securing grant funding, commercializing a product, and navigating market demands all at the same time.
Amanda trusted her energy and her focus to the Optimal Pace Protocol which allowed her to think clearly and recover fully despite the unrelenting pressure and uncertainty.
Today she's advancing her research, growing her business, and she remains connected with the most important people in her life.
10x your Performance, thrive through anything, and never burn out. Guaranteed.
Trusted by high-achievers worldwide
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I love the Masterminds. They are my favorite day of the week. This is the first time in my life I'm finally prioritizing my mental self-care. Dory allows me to take care of my needs first and not feel guilty.
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With Dory I'm more aware of my mindstate throughout the day, and I’m more likely to notice when it needs some TLC. At the beginning my performance was chaotic and subject to highs and lows, little by little I'm seeing it stabilize.
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I recommend Dory for anyone, whether or not they're in crisis. Often we don’t realize how much we need a community and system like this until it’s too late. Dory provides an organic defense against burning out or giving up.
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The major value I discovered in the protocol was learning new ways to manage my mindset. There's such a range of helpful activities. After using it for a couple of days, my performance score increased and became even easier to improve over time.
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The protocol is founded on the central concept of pace, a fundamental physiologic principle, relevant to all facets of life. For those who appreciate brief, quantitative sessions, this platform is the ideal choice. Staying near your Optimal Pace enables you to achieve greater ambitions.
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I use the protocol as a framework for my own mental health. It gives me an opportunity to build KPIs around my mental fitness so I can move more smoothly through the highs and lows of being an entrepreneur. It's an excellent tool for founders like me.
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Dory gives me the self-care practices and community support I need so that I can support my business, my team, and my customers. The protocol helps me be the best version of myself, move past limiting beliefs, and it's helping me grow into the type of founder that I aspire to be.
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The protocol helps me cope in times of stress with the right tools when I need them most, to keep me mentally healthy and energized for the work ahead. Dory helps me be the best leader I can be, the best person I can be, and protect myself and my mental wellbeing as I go along this really difficult journey called entrepreneurship.
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The protocol has helped me to set a stronger mindset, establish balance within the day, develop habits to be more productive, and equally become more conscious of what habits create more or less productivity. It's making me a better person at home, in the office and everywhere in between.
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The protocol is high performance training for founders, a system for keeping us healthy amidst the unwavering pressures we face. I recommend Dory to any leader riding the emotional rollercoaster. It's the sane way.
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It’s EOS, but for yourself. The toll stress and anxiety takes on entrepreneurs is a dirty secret that doesn't get acknowledged enough, and when it does, there's never any information about what to do about it. Dory helps me keep myself strong so I can better focus on the business
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The protocol taught me best practices and methodologies that represent a holistic approach to physical and mental wellness for founders and executives. It opened my mind to new techniques for self care and helped me take a step back to evaluate how I'd been doing certain things to my detriment.
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Dory connects me with other entrepreneurs and makes us accountable to each other for our own well-being. We measure our progress around a common language and shared set of metrics, and encourage each other on a better path towards success and happiness.
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Dory is fantastic. In the Masterminds, like-minded professionals come together to share our personal and professional challenges with the support and structure we need to move forward in a new and more rewarding direction.
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The world needs a "new" type of entrepreneur that can adapt and handle extreme stress in what is likely to be an exponentially more challenging business environment. Dory allows me to handle extreme entrepreneurial stressors and become a healthier, happier, and more productive leader and citizen.
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The protocol helps me manage my mental state as I navigate the challenges and demands of entrepreneurial life. I'm now finally doing things to support my mindstate that I've been trying to do for a very long time. Dory gives me a simple method that is very effective.
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Dory has helped me realize that, as a founder and entrepreneur, I tend to have an unhealthy mental lifestyle. The protocol has helped me identify the bad habits I've picked up and create more healthy habits. I now have a much better understanding of how stress is affecting my ability to be effective.
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This is the tool every entrepreneur needs to have before they consider becoming one. Founder health is too often overlooked behind urgent growth challenges. Dory is the tool I needed in order to break that paradigm. I highly recommend the protocol for all business leaders... especially if you don't feel you can justify the time to learn it.
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This protocol is required for everyone who thinks they know what they're getting into when starting a business. It's helping me have a healthier and more fulfilling entrepreneurial journey.
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I'm all into hacking my performance as a founder and Dory helps me improve my health with a ton of poweful methods and simple tools and techniques to accomplish this.
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Dory puts me and my business partners on the same page with a common set of tools and language for performance. The protocol gives me back the productivity I had and lost when we first launched. This will save our business.
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The protocol gives me a strategy for mental, physical, and professional wellness while I live the high-stress entrepreneurial journey. It inspires and energizes me through my current challenges, and I feel prepared for whatever comes next.
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Dory has shown me how important it is to invest time in my mental and emotional growth for ultimate success both in business and in life. The protocol has really opened my mind to a new way of thinking and living.
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This is an eye-opening protocol for founders and entrepreneurs so we can optimize our mental, emotional and physical states, ensuring we perform better over the long haul. Dory gives me a deliberate approach to setting a mindset for being successful.
10x your Performance, thrive through anything, and never burn out. Guaranteed.
High-pressure high-achievers like you need specialized tools, so you can stay in the game long enough to see your wildest dreams come true.
We're not going to let burnout break your brilliant brain. Not on our watch.
You control your destiny when you know your Optimal Pace. Everyone who burns out is guessing at their Optimal Pace, and they guessed wrong.
Always know where you stand with clear Performance and Capacity metrics you can trust, track, and improve.
Achieve 10x Performance and prevent burnout—guaranteed. Results you can measure in a month. Impact you'll feel in weeks.
The system stands on the foundation of our five-year study of 10,000 high-pressure high-achievers that decoded the path to building performance and capacity.
Choose Protocol, Mastermind, or Guide. Each membership gets you to 10x Performance and prevents burnout at the speed you need.
Figure it all out faster in our supportive community of high-achievers who are ready to show you the way.
You can choose to run straight into the dream-crushing wall of burnout that’s coming, or you can choose to build your capacity to thrive through pressure so you can stay on your path and see your wildest dreams come true.
This is the moment you choose the path that shows the world how brilliant you really are, or you fall victim to the path straight to burnout. This time, the path to never burning out is measurable, trackable and predictable. You can do it.
Membership plans
Select the membership that meets your need for speed. Every plan includes our proven Optimal Pace Protocol and a full money-back guarantee if you ever burn out.
protocol
$19*/mo
TOOLS AND COMMUNITY
10x your Performance in one year
Always know your Optimal Pace
Community messaging group in Signal
Community Deep Dive reviews
Money back burnout guarantee
* take one-minute to check your Optimal Pace every day for the lowest price. Protocol membership costs $49 per month minus the number of days you check in each month.
Mastermind
$399*/mo
faster results + accountability
10x your Performance in six months
Weekly sessions with inspiring peers
Guide-moderated group accountability
Always know your Optimal Pace
Mastermind messaging group in Signal
Mastermind Deep Dive reviews
Money back burnout guarantee
* billed annually
guide
$2,499/mo
Fastest resulTs + expert guidance
10x your Performance in one month
Daily high-definition adjustments from an Optimal Pace Protocol expert
Monthly goal setting and progress reviews
Weekly sessions with inspiring peers
Guide-moderated group accountability
Always know your Optimal Pace
1:1 Guide messaging in Signal
Private Deep Dive reviews
Money back burnout guarantee
Here are some of the most frequently asked questions about the Optimal Pace Protocol — the system our community uses to stay consistent, overcome obstacles, and maintain momentum toward ambitious goals. These answers explore how the protocol supports long-term progress, creative output, and meaningful success without burnout.
The Optimal Pace Protocol is a scientifically proven system that allows high-pressure high-achievers to 10x their performance and never burn out.
The protocol stands on the foundation of our five-year study of over 10,000 high-pressure high-achievers that proved that your pace of work today directly impacts your capacity to produce high quality work tomorrow and into the future.
The protocol has been proven with seven scientific studies of high-pressure high-achievers who held executive roles in their companies.
Check in to see your Optimal Pace every day. Follow the instructions based on your specific pace each day. If you have any questions, ask the private messaging group, the mastermind, or your guide.
Dory is named after the little wooden boats that navigate relentless whitewater at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. They're called dories.
There’s something magical about watching a fragile wooden boat glide effortlessly through waves as tall as buildings between walls of rock as high as skyscrapers. It's a powerful, peaceful performance in the midst of chaos.
At Dory we teach you how to be like the wooden boat, so you can navigate the waves of your life with power and grace.
10x your Performance, thrive through anything, and never burn out. Guaranteed.
Hustle culture, despite how dangerous it is, got one thing right. You have to work really hard in order to achieve your dreams when you have big dreams for yourself.
I started my first company when I was 16 years old and I sold it for $169 million dollars when I was thirty years old. If you chase a big dream in your life too, you’re a high-achiever, and that makes you one of us.
Simply put, high-achievers like you and I are the only people who ever truly move the world forward and see our wildest dreams come true, because we’ve chosen the harder path. The path that we know leads to greater rewards.
But unfortunately, that’s where the story ends for most people like us.
You see, high-achievers have a fatal flaw in our programming, the ability to push ourselves so hard that we burn out and blow the whole thing up, long before we ever receive the great rewards.
The fact is, burnout breaks brilliant brains. And it’s just too devastating for us to see it happen anymore.
So we’re never going to let it happen again. Not once. Ever again.
If you've chosen the bigger path through life for yourself and your family, you deserve to see your wildest dreams come true.
You deserve to run your life on the scientifically proven Optimal Pace Protocol so you can 10x your Performance and never burn out.
I really hope you’ll join us.
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