Invisible forces
Real terrain
Next move
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Map the forcesSee The Terrain
Slow down enough to name the forces shaping behavior: stress, shame, incentives, defaults, culture, and support.
Field move
Former Recon Marine. UC Berkeley. Human outcomes builder.
Omar Alexander Pedroza
Tools for people fighting forces they were never trained to see.
My work sits where lived experience, behavioral science, social innovation, and technology meet: naming the terrain, building structure that holds, and making agency usable in real life.
Proof 01
Recon Marine
Marine Corps Reserve Sergeant trained through BRC, Recon Sniper, Combat Diver, Airborne, and SERE.
Proof 02
Berkeley Built
First-gen UC Berkeley alumnus working across social welfare, behavioral science, systems thinking, and venture building.
Proof 03
Human Outcomes
Founder building practical tools for agency, conversation, recovery, and responsible wellness systems.
Real life first. The textbook came after. The work is not a personal brand wrapped around empty polish. It is a field system for seeing pressure clearly and building what helps people move.
Operating Model
The work is direct because the stakes are real.
Clear promise, visible proof, controlled structure, and outcome-focused work. No guru act. No polished noise. Just tools built from the ground up.
Prompt01
Pause02
Choose03
Repair04
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Install the structureBuild What Holds
Turn insight into structure people can actually use: prompts, routines, rooms, products, and accountability.
Field move
Direct
Opt-in
Nonclinical
Usable
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Set the guardrailsKeep The Line Clean
Trauma-informed, not therapy. Direct, not reckless. Practical enough to survive contact with real life.
Field move
Field Systems
Training became the language I think in.
Not as performance. As method. Observe the invisible. Read the actual terrain. Carry tools for places that were not built for you to win.
Evidence
See what others miss
Observation
A visual anchor for the invisible-forces work: slow down, stay low, read what is actually shaping the field.
Evidence
Read the ground
Adaptation
Terrain changes what is possible. The work has to adapt to the human environment, not just the plan.
Evidence
Move in the dark
Tools
Tools matter when pressure narrows attention. The goal is to make the next usable move visible.
Input01
Observation
Identify the quiet forces running underneath the visible problem before designing the next move.
System02
Structure
Build prompts, routines, rooms, and products that make agency easier to access under pressure.
Control03
Guardrails
Keep the work direct, opt-in, safety-aware, and honest about what it is and is not.
Applied Wellness Innovation
One studio for the work instead of scattered proof.
Applied Wellness Innovation is where the ventures connect: lived experience, behavioral science, AI, social work, and product design aimed at real human outcomes.
Input: lived experience
Lens: behavioral science
Output: usable structure
Lived experience
Behavioral science
Responsible technology
Ventures
The mission is already being built.
The homepage should point to live work, not just biography. These are the surfaces where the method becomes useful.
Academy and community
Operation Break Free
A structured reset for people who feel stuck, scattered, or written off.
Enter the academy
Founder deck in proof
The Sh*t We Carry
A physical conversation deck for adults who want more honesty than small talk, with visible pass, pause, and opt-out mechanics.
View the deck
Research thread
Cues01
Defaults02
Agency03
Field guide in development
Behavioral Loops
Plain-language work on cues, rewards, and environments that keep people trapped in patterns they did not choose.
Research thread
Systems inquiry
Attention01
Identity02
Outcomes03
Graduate research
AI-Mediated Environments
Research and design work on how digital and AI systems shape attention, agency, identity, and human outcomes.
Systems inquiry
Credibility
Earned. Stated cleanly.
- Service01
Reconnaissance Marine
Former Sergeant, United States Marine Corps Reserve.
- Field02
Advanced Training
Basic Reconnaissance Course, Recon Sniper, Combat Diver, Airborne, and SERE.
- Education03
Berkeley To USC
First-generation UC Berkeley alumnus and incoming doctoral student at the University of Southern California.
- Practice04
Behavioral Health
Experience across youth, older adults, immigrants, veterans, and crisis-facing settings.
- Safety05
Human Risk
Executive protection experience grounded in the reality that safety shapes every meaningful outcome.
- Build06
Founder
AWI Studio, Operation Break Free, The Sh*t We Carry, and practical frameworks for human outcomes.
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