Breathwork For A Better Workday with Zsombor Szabo

The Anxious Achiever

Morra Aarons-Mele

Business, Careers, Health & Fitness, Management, Mental Health

4.7 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Most of us are unknowingly over-breathing all day long, and it’s quietly keeping our nervous systems stuck in fight or flight. In this episode, I sit down with breathwork coach Zsombor Szabo to talk about how breathing can radically change your energy, focus, and emotional state anywhere you are. Zsombor guides us through live breathing exercises designed to calm your body, find your optimal energy zone, and even intentionally activate your system to build resilience. We also dive into why modern work keeps us in constant survival mode, why most of us unknowingly hyperventilate all day, and how long-term stress impacts health and leadership. Get ready to regain control in high pressure moments. Check out our sponsors: Northwest Registered Agent - Protect your privacy, build your brand and get your complete business identity in just 10 clicks and 10 minutes! Visit https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/achieverfree Shopify - Sign up for a $1 per month trial, just go to shopify.com/anxiousachiever Cozy Earth - Give your home the luxury it deserves. Head to cozyearth.com and use code ACHIEVER for up to 20% off. Express VPN - Secure your online data today. Visit expressvpn.com/achiever and find out how you can get up to four extra months. Talkiatry - Head to talkiaitry.com/achiever and complete the short assessment to get matched with an in network psychiatrist in just a few minutes. Working Genius - Take the working genius assessment today and get 20% off with code ACHIEVER at working genius.com In this Episode, You Will Learn 00:00 How your breathing affects your workday. 03:00 A guided physiological sigh to calm your nervous system. 07:30 What does tightness in your chest and belly reveal about stress? 10:15 Why stress hormones stay elevated at work. 12:15 The gas pedal vs. brake pedal of your nervous system. 14:30 How breath hacks your autonomic nervous system. 16:00 Ways to do box breathing for focus and steady energy. 22:15 Why music + breathwork helps neurodivergent brains. 27:45 How breathwork improves listening and leadership. 30:30 How do you co-regulate and breathe anxious kids? 32:30 Tips to turn breathwork into a habit. 36:45 How to breathe better while working on your computer. 42:00 How to train your nervous system for stress. 44:00 Live intense circular breathing exercise. 50:45 What breath holds do for calm and presence. 57:30 Why do most adults over-breathe? 59:30 Advice on using breathwork to manage panic attacks. Resources + Links Get a copy of my book - The Anxious Achiever Watch the podcast on YouTube Find more resources on our website morraam.com Follow Follow me: on LinkedIn @morraaronsmele + Instagram @morraam Follow Zsombor on LinkedIn

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0:00.0	Give your home the luxury it deserves.
0:04.2	Head to cozyearth.com and you can use my code Achiever for up to 20% off.
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0:19.8	Don't wait.
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0:42.9	slash anxious achiever. Just head to tachiatry.com slash achiever and complete the short assessment to get
0:50.7	matched with an in-network psychiatrist in just a few minutes. That's tachiatry.com slash achiever to get matched with an in-network psychiatrist in just a few minutes. That's tachyatry.com
0:55.9	slash achiever to get matched in minutes.
1:03.3	How you breathe can impact your workday. I think we all know that instinctively. But what kind of
1:10.3	breathing should we be doing to have a better day?
1:14.5	I'm Maura Aaron Smiley, and this is the anxious achiever, the show that looks at the intersection
1:20.5	of mental health and work and leadership and asks, how can we do it all better?
1:27.0	It's not often that an episode makes me cry, but this one did and in a very good way.
1:34.4	It's because this is a very interactive episode.
1:38.2	My guest is Jambor Shabo.
1:40.6	He is based in the Netherlands, and he is a former software sales executive who now teaches breathwork.
1:49.0	He's going to take us through some exercises to calm our energy, to get to a good sort of middle state of energy.
1:59.0	And then at the end, he's actually going to lead us through a complex exercise
2:05.1	that is going to upregulate our nervous systems and is an essential practice for dealing
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