The Two 5-Minute Windows That Control Your Entire Day (ft. Tim Thomas)

The Two 5-Minute Windows That Control Your Entire Day (ft. Tim Thomas)

July 2, 2026 · 46 min · Season 7 · Episode 31

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Tim Thomas discusses the two five-minute windows that control your day and the importance of breathwork for mental health.

In this episode of The Vibe With Ky Podcast, we get into the two five minute windows that quietly control your entire day, with Special Forces veteran Tim Thomas. If you feel exhausted all the time and have started calling it normal, this conversation was made for you. Tim Thomas spent over a decade as a Special Forces Commando, then over a decade more working with veterans stuck in fight or flight. After losing years to PTSD, chronic exhaustion, and pharmaceuticals that never fixed his sleep, he had a breakthrough in the dirt of Afghanistan that led him to build Breathwork in Bed, an app that has since helped save veteran lives and is now helping everyday people fall asleep with peace and wake up with power. Ky and Tim get into why so many of us have simply forgotten how to feel human, and why sleep, not willpower, might be the real battleground for mental health. Tim walks Ky through a live breathwork exercise on camera and breaks down why the brain cannot outthink trauma, but the breath can outrank it. This episode gives you a real, practical starting point that costs nothing but five minutes a day. Key takeaways from this episode: You will learn why the five minutes before…

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