The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast 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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