Why You Feel Less Capable Than You Used To, with Sarah Laurie

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Sarah Laurie, founder of Take a Breath, whose breathing software has been tested at scale inside companies like Microsoft, Spark, and The Warehouse Group. Here's the claim that reframes everything: breathing isn't about relaxation. It's a performance mechanism. When you breathe properly, the part of your brain responsible for decisions, focus, and managing your emotions switches fully on. When you breathe shallow, into your chest, the way more than nine out of ten of us now do, that part of your brain switches off and your stress response takes over. You haven't become less capable. Your brain is quietly running in the wrong mode. Sarah explains how our breathing has changed at a population level over the last two decades, why she believes so many high performers are secretly operating well below their capacity, and why the constant pull of our phones and short-form content is making it worse. The results from her corporate programmes are hard to ignore: she's measured 96% of people reducing their anxiety, 76% sleeping better, and 82% with more energy, without anyone stopping work to do it. This is a conversation about the one thing you do around twenty thousand times a day without thinking, why you're almost certainly doing it wrong, and how quickly that can change. Watch every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: www.eccuity.com/podcasts Learn more about Sarah here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-laurie-8711a67/ Learn more about Sarah's company here: https://www.takeabreath.world/ #waystowealth #breathing #health #performance #anxiety #sleep #wellbeing #stress #entrepreneurship #nzbusiness #healthtech #productivity #takeabreath #wealthbuilding