Breathwork for Leaders: Regulate Stress, Boost Performance & Build Impactful Teams

About this episode

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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