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Julia Felton interviews breathwork expert Lucas Kulbis about the benefits of breathwork for leaders in managing stress and enhancing team performance.

Host Julia Felton welcomes high-performance coach and breathwork expert Lucas Kulbis to discuss how breathwork helps leaders regulate stress and improve team performance. Lucas shares his journey from an AI-focused computer science path and startup burnout to discovering breath as a foundational tool for state control, presence, and resilience. They explain how shallow breathing can reinforce anxiety and how intentional breathing can shift the nervous system from fight-or-flight (amygdala-driven) to calmer, clearer decision-making (prefrontal cortex), supporting emotional regulation and co-regulation with others. Lucas teaches practical techniques including the physiological sigh for rapid resets, a bedtime diaphragm-breathing practice to improve sleep, and coherence breathing (about 5.5 seconds in and out) to align heart, breath, and brain. He also describes client results, including a 10X revenue increase alongside broader life improvements, and invites listeners to his free Skool community and coaching. 00:00 Teamwork Advantage Intro 00:46 Meet Lucas Kulbis 01:55 From Startup to Burnout 02:45 Why Breath Matters 04:03 Breathwork for Leaders 05:02 Stress Reset Framework 08:54…

People in this episode

Host: Julia Felton

Guest: Lucas Kulbis

Topics covered

• breathwork
• leadership
• stress regulation
• team performance
• emotional regulation
• neuroscience

Keywords

• breathwork
• stress management
• team performance
• emotional regulation
• neuroscience
• leadership techniques
• coherence breathing

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Organizations: Skool

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