Breathwork for Wellbeing, Longevity, and High Performance | Brian Mackenzie
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
How can something as simple as your breath unlock greater resilience, enhance performance, and transform how you navigate high-stress moments?
Our guest today is Brian Mackenzie, a human performance expert and pioneer in the field of breathwork, endurance, and stress adaptation. And he’s back for the second time on the podcast.
As the founder of Shift Adapt, Brian's innovative training methods blend breathing protocols, movement, and mindset strategies to optimize health, performance, and resilience for athletes and everyday individuals alike.
In this conversation, you’ll learn how mastering your breath can be one of the keys to unlocking your potential. But it’s not just about performance; Brian shares how breath control is a remote control for your nervous system, helping you manage high-stress situations and live with greater clarity and presence.
If you’re looking to deepen your understanding of how to harness your breath for both high performance and everyday well-being, this conversation is packed with insights.
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| 0:00.0 | How can something as simple as your breath unlock greater resilience, enhance performance, and transform how you navigate high stress moments? |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome back, or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, where we dive into the minds of the world's greatest thinkers and doers. |
| 0:16.8 | I am your host, Dr. Michael Jervay, by trade and training a high performance psychologist. |
| 0:21.8 | And our guest today is Brian McKinsey, |
| 0:25.3 | a human performance expert and a pioneer in the field of breathwork, |
| 0:29.2 | endurance, and stress adaptation. |
| 0:32.2 | He's the founder of Shift Adapt, where his innovative |
| 0:35.5 | training blends, breathing protocols, movement, and mindset strategies to |
| 0:40.9 | optimize health, performance, and resilience for athletes and everyday |
| 0:45.2 | individuals alike. And he's back for the second time on this podcast. I love how his |
| 0:50.8 | mind works. I love our friendship. I hope you love this conversation as well. |
| 0:54.7 | So with that, let's dive right into this incredible conversation with Brian Mackenzie. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay Brian this is like a real treat for me. It was 2018 was the last time we saw each other on this podcast and a lot's happened since then. In 2018 you broke your |
| 1:17.2 | neck. Pretty close to that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay so I want what I want to do is |
| 1:22.3 | bring that story back forward for folks that, you know, |
| 1:26.7 | we're part of your journey in our community at that point. |
| 1:30.0 | And then just like, how did that go? |
| 1:32.3 | What have you learned? |
| 1:33.4 | How are you different? |
| 1:34.9 | But let's just ground our community |
| 1:37.6 | in what happened in 2018. |
| 1:41.1 | I was, so Memorial Day weekend, I was with my sister and her kids and her brute of kids she has four and we went to a playground and we went to a playground down the street and we got into a game of tag. |
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