253: Chuck McGee III, Founder of Iced Viking Breathworks: Stop Sabotaging Your Nervous System

Chuck McGee III is a breathwork instructor and ACT practitioner known for cutting through wellness noise with practical, no-nonsense nervous system tools. A Type 1 

Diabetic and traumatic brain injury survivor, he combines lived experience, physiology, and breathwork to help people regain agency over stress, pain, and performance.

 

SHOWNOTES:

😴  How did breathwork become Chuck’s “bartender-to-breath” origin story?

😴  What if every emotional breath has a pattern—what are you unconsciously breathing into today?

😴  Is your phone posture quietly training stress into your body?

😴  How does a long exhale drop heart rate and signal safety fast?

😴  What is tool shuffling, and why shouldn’t you rely on one method?

😴  How do you build consistency with no shoulds attached?

😴  What’s your minimum viable practice so habits actually stick?

😴  Does one breath truly count as real breathwork?

😴  Is mouth taping about cadence and co2—not just nasal breathing?

😴  What’s the bedtime sleep shift from “will i sleep?” to “how soft can i breathe?”

😴  Join Chuck’s breathwork session here: https://www.icedvikingbreathworks.com/breathing-session

😴   And many more

 

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