“In Belfast, there’s a boxing club on almost every corner… I just wanted to be like my older brothers.”

In this week’s edition of the Oxygen Advantage® podcast Patrick is delighted to welcome Irish hero, Olympic medalist and multiple time World Boxing Champion at amateur and professional level, Michael Conlan.

The Belfast native is a household name in Ireland after his medal-winning success at the London Olympics in 2012 and also for being the first Irishman to secure a boxing world championship at amateur level when he won the AIBA (Amateur International Boxing Association) bantamweight title in Doha, Qatar in 2015.

He speaks to Patrick about his life growing up, the support of his family, his boxing career and the hard work he had to put in to get to such a high level. He talks about how growing up in Northern Ireland at the tail end of the troubles and the support of his family helped shape him as a boxer and helped instil a resilience in him that remains to this day.

It is a resilience that was recognized on the world’s stage when he spoke out about the high levels of corruption in the amateur boxing world following a decision against him at the 2016 Olympics in a fight he clearly won.

This is a great sit down with a dedicated and talented athlete who speaks openly and honestly about his life and career. It is an informative and entertaining listen for anyone interested in the highs and lows of life as one of the best athletes in their field.

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction – Michael’s Start in Boxing

03:29 Family Mentors

06:04 The Rosary Beads Tattoo

07:38 Boxing and Spirituality

09:36 How Boxing Helps Communities

13:17 Coaching Across Borders

15:03 The Irish and Boxing

16:58 Talent, Hard Work & Sacrifice

19:59 Advice for Kids and Life Skills

23:28 What Makes Michael Conlan Happy?

28:19 Fighting for The World Championship

31:01 Speaking Out Against Boxing Corruption

39:40 How is Amateur Boxing Now?

41:17 How Do You Handle Defeats?

45:39 Conclusion – Adversity, Adapting and Following Your Gut

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“Men perceive or suffer differently from depression and they deal with it differently.”

In this week’s episode of the OA podcast, Patrick and Daniel are joined by Oxygen Advantage® master instructor and psychologist Alessandro Romagnoli and OA instructor, coach, breathwork expert and freediver Angela Leibinger to speak about men’s mental health, freediving and breathing.

Angela is involved with breathing, free diving, and coaching and Alessandro is a psychologist with a specialty in cognitive neuroscience both are closely involved with functional breathing and both have worked closely with men suffering from depression.

5% of the world’s adult population suffer from depression. According to the statistics, women are twice as likely to suffer from depression but as Angela points out, that doesn’t mean men are suffering any less. Men are four times more likely to die by suicide and three times more likely to drink alcohol or take drugs as a coping mechanism.

In this episode the team attempt to look at how depression can affect men differently, how the signs of depression can present in different ways for men and how even the language we use to describe depression can be a big reason why men don’t engage.

This episode looks at the biological and the psychological aspects of depression for men and how clinical intervention mixed with functional breathing practices can be a huge benefit to countless men around the world.

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“Breathing. We do it automatically, but that doesn’t mean it’s automatically efficient.”

On the latest episode of the Oxygen Advantage® podcast, Patrick is joined by General Practitioner and Breathing Therapist, Dr. Louise Oliver.

Having worked with women going through the menopause and contraception for over 20 years, Dr. Oliver is the perfect guest to talk about women’s breathing, the perimenopause and the menopause.

For over 20 years Dr. Oliver has been working with women on contraception and HRT. It was during this time that Dr. Oliver experimented with using breathing for pain relief. During this time, she had a profound moment. When working with one patent, she used breathing exercises to put her into an incredibly relaxed state but when she tried that with other patients, doing the same thing made them feel much worse.

This was when she realized how breathing can affect people differently and decided to train as a breathing practitioner. In doing so she found that the missing link was carbon dioxide sensitivity. It was then that she realized there was a whole spectrum of breathing that needed to be considered.

She has since set up her own breathing practice alongside her GP practice and has used this experience to train other doctors to look at people’s breathing as an indicator of other symptoms.

Anyone interested in the effects of menopause, the way symptoms can be mitigated with breathing therapy, and the medical professionals are should listen to this podcast.

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“There is so much benefit, so much power to just becoming aware of how we are breathing.”

In this week’s episode of the Oxygen Advantage® podcast, Patrick is rejoined by former guests Dermot Whelan and Caroline McKenna as they prepare for an epic journey up the famed Kilimanjaro mountain in Tanzania.

Both Dermot and Caroline have gone through big life changes in the past few months with Caroline moving back to Ireland from Australia after seven years and Dermot retiring from his radio show after 21 years to concentrate on his Mind Full brand.

They speak in detail about their lives, their preparation for the journey up Kilimanjaro and the ways in which breathing has not just helped prepare them for their epic upcoming trek this September but has been an essential part of their personal journeys of self-improvement.

They also explain how breathing training has given them essential tools they can call upon for the rest of their lives.

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“There’s no point in trying to sprint if you can’t walk.”

In this surprise bonus episode of the Oxygen Advantage® podcast, Patrick McKeown is joined by podcast partner Daniel Pålsson and Ximena Beltrán García to discuss the recent news about Polish tennis ace Iga Swiatek.

The world number one tennis player received global media attention recently when she was filmed training for the National Bank Open in Montreal with her mouth taped.

The pictures that circulated around the world reignited the discussion around nose breathing and using functional nasal breathing to

improve performance. As with all of these online discourses, a mixture of facts and fiction about nose breathing filtered through the media, so Patrick and his team are on hand to guide you through.

Ximena and Daniel are both Oxygen Advantage® instructors who specialize in training tennis players and both have years of experience making the OA method and functional breathing a part of their training regimes. Both are very experienced tennis players and coaches with Daniel a former tennis pro in his native Sweden.

Looking at the science of breathing, they discuss the possible reasons why Iga has chosen to use mouth taping and the many benefits that functional breath training can bring to her and all athletes. They discuss the frighteningly large proportion of professional athletes who have dysfunctional breathing and what they and any member of the public can do to start improving it.

This is a great episode if you are looking for insights into functional breathing for athletes, for reasons behind why the world number one taped her mouth during training and for explanations of the science behind why functional breathing methods such as those taught by the Oxygen Advantage® are hugely beneficial to their health, their mental and physical wellbeing and their performance.

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“Don’t ever assume what somebody else is thinking and get furious. Half the time we don’t even know what’s going on inside our own brains.”

On the latest episode of the Oxygen Advantage® podcast Patrick talks with former Hollyoaks star and current yogi, hypotherapist and life coach, Gemma Merna.

Despite enjoying a very successful eight-year career with popular TV soap Hollyoaks, Gemma Merna faced many issues with stress and anxiety from a young age that were only worsened when under the pressure of the bright lights of fame.

Towards the end of her time on the soap, personal loss and not dealing with the resulting trauma would lead Gemma to exiting the role.

However, her choice to leave would be the first of many steps on a journey of learning and self-improvement.

Finding comfort and even therapy in yoga practice, Gemma was able to start dealing with her anxieties and started making small steps to pursue a new career in health. Those steps included learning hypnotherapy, and of course, discovering the importance of breathing to help calm and focus the mind.

This self-improvement journey would eventually lead to Gemma establishing Mind and Wellness with a goal to “give individuals the tools to discover themselves again”. By learning to be patient with herself and by “retraining” her brain with positive improvements, hypnotherapy, breathing to down regulate and of course yoga, Gemma admits she is now living the life she wants to live.

This podcast is a personal and informative look, through the lens of Gemma’s experience, at how we can all better our circumstances if we take the pressure off ourselves and work to improve our physical and mental health.

To learn more about what Gemma does or to book a course, visit https://mindandwellness.co.uk/.

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“The benefits are there. We can do this safely but it’s not going to be a one-size-fits-all approach.”

Patrick McKeown meets Investigative journalist and author Scott Carney.

In a slight change from the norm, the latest episode of the Oxygen Advantage® podcast is a recording from the ‘Scott Carney Investigates’ podcast. It brings together the expertise of Oxygen Advantage® founder and Director of Training and Education, Patrick McKeown and investigative journalist and author, Scott Carney.

The pair discuss breathing training, where it is now in the world, it’s rise in popularity and the potential risks this involves. They touch on subjects such as hyperventilation, different breathing traditions and practices as well as the dangers of ‘gimmick’ trainers.

They talk about the way in which certain breathwork trainers with limited knowledge of the physiological effects of different breathing exercises can do more harm than good if they do not adapt their teaching to each individual’s circumstances.

This podcast is a great discussion on the perceptions, realities and dangers of functional breathing training by two people who are very well versed in the field.

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“All you need to do is keep going. Put one foot in front of the other… and you will figure it out.”

On the latest episode of the Oxygen Advantage® podcast, Patrick McKeown talks to fitness influencer, nutritionist, health coach and breathing practitioner, Becca Gillen.

Coming from a nursing background, Becca first started gaining public attention when she would to post about the difficulties of nursing during the early days of Instagram. From there she started her influencer journey and has had an up-and-down journey in recent years.

After starting to build a successful business, Becca ran into a difficult few years.

She was hit hard by both COVID and Long COVID and was often bedridden with no energy. Along with that, her business dropped to near zero in the wake of the pandemic lockdown.

It was during lockdown that Becca really started addressing her breathing as a way to address her COVID issues. By practicing daily breathing exercises and ice baths, Becca was able start making incremental improvements that say her health and fitness return to normal levels.

This is a really great listen for anyone interested in the ways we are faced with adversity and we can learn not only to overcome it, but thrive.

Becca can be reached directly via her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beccagillen/?hl=en

Her health and fitness work can also be found there: https://www.instagram.com/bpm.method/?hl=en

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction – Gemma’s Background

07:10 Alcohol and the Younger Generation

12:45 Gaining Motivation and Drive from Adversity

15:16 Long COVID and Becca’s Journey to Breathing

22:20 Focussing our Attention Inward to Help Us Heal

30:18 Why Do You Like Working for Yourself?

31:52 Earning the Sense of Accomplishment

34:55 Breathing, Psychology and Stressors

44:36 Change, Impatience and Social Media

48:47 Mobile Phone Habits

55:06 Five Year Plans vs. Going with the Flow

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“Food can be your greatest medicine or your slowest poison.”

For the opening episode of Season 4 of the Oxygen Advantage® podcast, Patrick welcomes writer, speaker and ‘The Soul Coach’ himself, Gerry Hussey.

Originally from Galway in Ireland and based in Dublin, Gerry has built a strong reputation for himself over the past few decades from his origins in sport psychology to his current work, spreading the word on how we can improve our individual health when we start looking inwards.

Author of books including ‘Awaken the Power Within’ and his new book, ‘The Freedom Within’, Gerry looks at ‘the brain, the gut and the heart’ when considering the issues that may be negatively affecting our mental and physical health.

With the brain we can overthink things, we can have a negative outlook or we can be shaped by the experiences, traumas or unresolved emotions of our past. With the gut, quite simply, we need to eat a healthy and balanced diet and really focus on what we put in our bodies as it can negatively affect our heads and our hearts.

As Gerry says, “What shows up in your emotions, shows up in your immune system, in your hormonal system and in your nervous system… The right person, with the right process, never has to worry about the outcome.”

In our latest audio, Oxygen Advantage® founder and CEO Patrick McKeown leads you through guided breathing and relaxation to help with insomnia.

This audio is the same as our previously released audio for Insomnia but the background green noise has been replaced with relaxing music to give you another alternative as you prepare for sleep.

Insomnia and sleep difficulties are faced by millions of us every night. When we don’t sleep well at night, we lose our ability to function at our best the following day. This 20-minute video is designed to help ease those difficulties and relax your body and mind.

Simply play the audio as you are going to bed and let Patrick’s calming voice guide your breathing and send you off to a deep sleep.

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