14 - Breathwork Exercises for Entrepreneurial Anxiety & Stress with Samantha Skelly

Mar 19

Mar 19 14 - Breathwork Exercises for Entrepreneurial Anxiety & Stress with Samantha Skelly

Do you know how to really breathe? Samantha Skelly, the founder of Hungry for Happiness, Pause Breathwork, and a true breathwork QUEEN knows the benefits it can have on your body, mind, emotions – and even your business.

“My body has the ability to do this when I clear away the dust of all residual emotionality and I’m left with just the purity of who I am.”

– Samantha Skelly

Sam will share why true healing is an inside job – and why, if you look for validation, significance and security through your business, you’ll NEVER get it. She’ll also share how she uses comedy to break patterns and why it’s critical to increase your capacity to really feel the full range of emotions available to us as humans. You’ll hear the top three benefits of breathwork – and go through a guided breathwork exercise that you can whip out any time you need it.

Note: Don’t do the breathwork exercise while driving or in water!

Show Notes

01:00 – Introducing today’s guest Samantha Skelly.
03:30 – She loves weirdness and full human expression.
04:15 – Your self-love and acceptance is directly correlated with your expression.
05:20 – The three weirdest things about Sam: She loves baby food, she’s fascinated with the range of her voice, and she loves contrasts and breaking patterns.
07:45 – Coaching is all about breaking patterns, and she likes doing it with comedy.
08:30 – Rachel and Sam are quarantined together – and having a blast.
10:00 – When you don’t have fear you can see the other side of the challenge.
11:10 – Light and dark coexist – we can control what we focus on, not what is.
11:50 – Shrink your problems and have perspective – and bring in humor and light.
14:00 – On her first company, Hungry for Happiness.
14:20 – She started it because of her own struggle with an eating disorder.
14:35 – She felt a lot of stress and rejection as a child actress and dancer.
15:05 – From age 18-23 she was in a “diet depression”, had an unhealthy relationship with food, and felt unsafe and uncertain in her body.
16:00 – She had issues with food and was addicted to exercise but on the outside, people saw it as commitment and structure.
16:30 – She realized that healing from eating disorders is an “inside job” that must address emotions and energy.
17:15 – She went to Bali and ended up in a breathwork class.
18:50 – The 3-hour breathwork class changed her life and she felt self-love.
19:40 – She went through the emotions and experience but didn’t identify with any of it, which she had done in the past.
20:20 – She studied breathwork intensely and saw her work shift her emotional eating and exercise disorders.
21:00 – Sam began teaching breathwork to her Hungry for Happiness clients.
21:35 – Sam realized breathwork could help everyone, especially anxious entrepreneurs, which is what inspired her next business, Pause Breathwork.
22:40 – We rely on our business to meet all our needs and give us validation, but what we need to do is address our internal environment first.
23:30 – Sometimes we search for meaning, significance, love, and acceptance through our business and clients.
24:45 – Get in tune with why you want what you want. Are you seeking to fill a need or are you actually pushing the needle forward for maximum impact?
26:00 – Rachel shares her breathwork experience with Sam.
27:45 – Breathwork is powerful and increases your capacity to feel.
29:10 – Your body knows what to do – so let it do it’s thing during breathwork.
30:30 – Rely on your truth which will come up when you do breathwork.
31:35 – The biggest benefits of breathwork: the mind regains access to intuition, you release stagnation and trauma in the body and feel energized, and it shifts your state.
34:30 – Sam leads us through a breathwork exercise using the tri-active breath and saying the mantra, “I am safe. I am powerful.”
41:00 – Rachel recounts her experience with the breathwork exercise.
42:30 – Sam shares what she sees in Rachel – loving vibes all around.
44:30 – If you want to learn more, give more, and do more for yourself and others, find Sam on Instagram and check out her 6-week program Journey, using the code “RayRay” for $50 off.
48:10 – Breathwork will amplify everything you are already doing and will make you more valuable to your clients.
49:15 – You can also become a facilitator so you can teach Pause Breathwork to the people you care about most.
51:15 – One thing you wouldn’t know about Sam from social media is that she is the Master of Stains – she always leaves and attracts stains.
52:30 – You wouldn’t know that Rachel has been saving little birds that crash into windows since she was a kid; she analyzes, diagnoses, and tries to heal them.