Wake Up to Wealth - The Power of Breathwork with Louie Hamner

Episode Date: June 5, 2026

In episode 64 of Wake Up to Wealth, Brandon Brittingham interviews Louie Hamner, a successful entrepreneur and breathwork expert, as he explains how breathwork has not only changed his life but has also helped countless others find clarity, heal trauma, and unlock their true potential. Tune in for insights on wealth management and the importance of having a strong financial foundation for your business.   SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Brandon Brittingham Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mailboxmoneyb/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandon.brittingham.1/   Louie Hamner Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louiehamner/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/louie.hamner.7 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louie-hamner-88953373/   WEBSITES Brandon Brittingham: https://www.brandonsbrain.org/home ========================== SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: Accruity: https://accruity.com/

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Welcome, everybody. Welcome back. Thank you guys so much for joining us for another episode of Wake Up to Wealth. And like I always start every episode, I have to say thank you guys for the support of the show. We're 125,000-ish downloads per episode. We continually trend in the top 25, 30 in business. and between number one and five in investing on Apple Podcast. So thank you guys so much.

When you think about the shows that have so much bigger budgets, we're shooting this shit in a hotel in New Orleans right now, right? Like no studio. I got my boy Kate here. We got Louie here today. But it's pretty wild to think that the content that we're putting out is getting that much burn when we're competing with shows that have, you know, huge freaking budgets, huge studios behind it.

And that's just because you got. It's because you guys continue to support the show and it gets me the ability to get cool people in the show like Louis today and give you guys content that you want to hear and listen to. So thank you guys so much. And today I'm super excited. A lot of people say, oh, I met this person.

They changed my life or this changed my life. I can actually attest to this guy actually changed my life. And I've got Louis Hamner with us today. Thank you, Louis. Yeah, you're welcome. Yeah, happy to be here. And so Louis, I'm going to let him tell it,

but Louis brought me into the world of breathwork. And I thought it was some dumbass hippie weird shit. And it actually is probably one of the most profound things. I do it all the time now. I actually flew Louie in here today because we have an event here in New Orleans tomorrow for a bunch of entrepreneurs, my own event, because I am such a believer in it now.

So if you would, I don't know how to describe it to people. Yeah. Yeah. Could you describe it? Yeah. Well, it's kind of hard. Yeah, it's kind of hard to describe.

Breathwork is a way of you getting back to who you were originally. Yeah. Like is a simple way of like kind of putting it. But it's a way of you coming into the present moment with who you really are. And that's what changes. That's what changes people. I was just like putting it in a sentence, I would say that's kind of what it is. So for people that are listening to this, this guy's not just some weird hippie.

He was super successful, right? You built a company and exited. Yeah, I built a company and exited 17 years later. And at the age of 49, kind of semi-retired. And so, and breathwork, why we're kind of talking about it because it kind of changed me. It pivoted me in my business in a way I never would have done it. And I kind of attribute it to, it was like everything I had done prior to the exit, breathwork kind of materialized it.

Does that make sense? It does, yeah. It just brought it, like, made everything come to be. So I think one of the things that, one of the things that convinced me to try this with you was in one of the conversations, I think you said, and I want everybody that's hearing this, because I know a lot of you that listen to the show, you're running, you run businesses,

your entrepreneurs, you're driving hard. And one of the things I think you said to me was, dude, when's the last time, like you actually, like, just sat and breathed for an hour? Yeah. And I was like, fucking never, probably. Like, and actually just sat with your breath and relaxed. Like, for people that don't, number one,

I want you guys to think about that because that's a real shit. And number two, walk us through like what happens to people when they do this. Yeah, kind of what happens is that especially, I'm talking

as an entrepreneur, as a business owner, especially business owners. Yeah. So this applies to everybody, but especially business owners, is that you get so caught up in your business and what you're doing.

You don't take time to really process what you're feeling, what you're learning, and what you haven't let go of. Yeah. You're just going to the next thing. Yeah. And when you don't allow yourself,

when you don't allow yourself to get caught up to that, all of those things start shaping how you're making normal, like, everyday decisions, and you're not making them, you're not making them without the stress of all the other decisions. Like, you're not making them without the past. Yeah. And so until you let yourself get caught up to that,

then all that gets cleared out. Then you get to start over again. Yeah. If I were saying that, it's like, it's a reset. It's a reset. It is really a physical, emotional,

spiritual reset. It's almost like you went on a two-week vacation. Because you know, you know, as a business owner, when you want vacation, the first three days, it's not vacation. It's hell.

Yeah. It's, I'm still checking this. I'm making this. I'm like, shit. I forgot to do that. Yeah. You're catching up.

And that's what happens. If you notice, that for three days you are spending three days catching up on the shit you didn't complete. When you left. And then on day four, you're like, okay, finally, I can relax. This is my first day. I can relax. Yeah, it's a great.

Yeah. So what do you think is, so prior to this, I try to meditate. It didn't work. Yeah, me too. Never worked. Me too. You know, what is the power? Well, number one, you are gifted at it.

I don't know that I just think you have a special gift. but what is what is the power in it like what what changes the power in it is that first off meditation the power in this style of breathing of breathwork is that meditation is hard to just sit and to like clear your mind so the power in this is you're actually actively doing something there's no you're not you're not counting your breath or you're not trying to pause and make you're just actively breathing so it's you know how to do. We know how to be active. Right. And so you're, you're actively breathing.

So it's easy to do. It's through the mouth. And then you do that for 30, 40 minutes and then you stop. And then it puts you in this deep meditative state. So it's kind of like in our mind. And I was just thinking through this because I'm very high ADD. When I got diagnosed, the doctor was like, you're off the chart. How did you do this? Like, have you gone bankrupt yet? I'm like, no. He's like, anyway. So it gives you something very accurate. active to do. So, because we're addicted to the feeling of getting shit done.

100%. So it gives you this active breathing. So you're kind of like, it settles that. Like, I am doing something. Right. Yeah. I might be just be laying here. And that's why meditation doesn't work for people like us. Yeah, it doesn't work. Because you lay there like, what am I doing? Yeah. One minute, you're like, this is crazy. But this gives you something active to do. Yeah. You can even move your hands and, you know, just to give you something to do. I used to, like, move my hands up and down. Just to like give me something. to do, so I can stay there. But what happens is once you connect to your breath and you get in this pattern where you start to oxygenate your body to a level where it needs to be, your mind starts

to calm down. And so the power in this breath and this style of breathing and the rebirthing is it gives you something actively to do, which settles that. And then, you know, 20 minutes into this, you start to really settle in. And then, you know, you have another 20 minutes of breathing, which is deep connection to who you are. And then you have about a 15 minute, 10, 15 minute window of where you've stopped breathing and you're in this deep meditative state, like meditating like a monk, you know. And then you get all this clarity, all the stuff that you have been running and pacing yourself so fast,

starts catching up to you. Yeah. Kind of like you finally have put on the brakes. Yeah. And everything that you've been wanting to really think about. out and focus on to like and to see through and all that stuff so all that stuff such catching up and you're at you're at the best physical and physiological state and you're in that moment to process all that information yeah so we did I didn't ask this question so obviously there's

different versions of breathwork I only know yours yeah which is rebirthing yeah tell us what it is a it's a conscious breathing where you're where you're in a a breathing cycle where you're either inhaling or exhaling so there's no hesitation at the top or the bottom of the breath and you're just staying connected without counting you're just your normal breathing um to about 75 maybe you know 60 75 percent of your lung capacity through your belly um and you just as a constant breathing um so you're not really it's not a holotropic which is forcing air out and forcing it in hard this is just your normal breathing pattern,

in and out. So for those of you guys are listening to this, I've had, I've had spiritual experiences. I've saw my future. I've saw my past. It healed trauma that I was dealing with. I had physical releases

in my body, right? You know, it's, it's wild. Yeah. I was to say Peter Levin, who's renowned for trauma and overcoming it, He talks about how when we are unable to complete an emotional state,

yeah, and that gets interrupted, then that's what trauma is and we hold it in our body. And he says, until we can get back into a state and then like process it, that gets held up and it starts aging our body, like cigarette smoking those. Yeah. And this, and he says this practice, this rebirthing style of breathing allows you to go back to that state, like to complete those emotional states. to let go of that trauma. What do you think?

What do you think? What's you, I know you've got to have an idea or an opinion. What do you think happens? Like, what do you think happens when, when somebody like me has just this profound religious experience, right? And it happened more than once.

Like, what do you, what do you think? What's, what I have no explanation for it. That's why I'm asking. Yeah. So,

like, if I was actually thinking about this today, literally today, on the plane ride, I was thinking about this. I think sometimes when we talk about religion or religious, we think that there's certain things that we have to do or be to have an experience.

Like we have to be, I don't know, we have to be not doing certain things that religion considers bad. Yeah. To have a religious, to have a spiritual experience. Yeah. But the truth is like that that's not necessarily true.

The truth is that we are. spiritual beings and that we're just having a physical experience with the body. And when we can stop and rest our physical body and connect to our breath, and the word in Greek, or breath is spirit, right? In the Bible, when it says God did breathe into Adam, his spirit, the breath of life. So when you connect to your breath, how I see it is like you're connecting to your spirit. And when you're connecting to it at that pace, where it just relax, like a slow inhale, a slow exhale, so you're not forcing it, you're not. Yeah. And you just start connecting to that. You start connecting to who you are spiritually. Yeah. And it kind of looks like,

to me, it's like, we're these two things. And as we start to connect to our breath, we realize, like, we're not this thing on the ground. We're this thing. And then we have this spiritual experience. and it's mind-blowing because we think we have to have done something. Well, honestly, I'm religious. Like, I go to church every week. And as I was doing my first breathwork practice, and I had this very, very spiritual experience, I remember thinking, how is this happening?

I'm not praying. I'm not in church. I'm not fasting. I'm not doing anything. Yeah. I'm laying down in a yoga studio. Right. Breathing.

Breathing. Yeah. And this is like the second most spiritual experience of my life. Right. And I just was crying because I was just like, what is happening? Yeah. And it kind of blew my mind too because I thought, I'm not doing anything that I would consider that would create that type of a, you know, I'm not reading the Bible. Right.

I'm not doing any of these things. Yeah. So it's us connecting to the divinity. That's how I see. It's like our own divine nature. Right. Yeah. we become aware of it.

And when we become aware of our own divine nature, then, you know, from my perspective, then we're connected to God. We're connected to the thing that created us. What have you seen this do for people? You know,

I mean, let's talk about, I saw you do this for 500 people in Salt Lake. Yeah. Right? That was wild of shit because, you know, I felt like,

I don't, I don't say I felt like, I saw it. I mean, I felt it, but I also saw about 500 people have a religious experience.

Yeah. Right? And so what, but what have you seen people, what have you seen people who have stuck with it and continue to do it? What have you seen to do

for them in their life? I want to start just talking about things physically first. Yeah. So we know, we both know Blake, a kid that had, his right ankle had hurt

for three years, had to be able to run. Yeah. He did breathwork one time and he came up to me. He's like, hey, after I did that breathwork with you, I can run. And I haven't been able to run for three years without my ankle aching. Yeah. He's like, and I've kind of kept tabs with him and said, how's your ankle?

He's like, it's been great ever since breathwork. So I've had several people who have had some type of physical ailment. I had a lady who her left shoulder had hurt since her son had been born 18 years ago. Yeah. She's like, for 18 years, I've never been to sleep on my left side. breathwork one time and she was like, I've been sleeping on my left side. It's crazy.

Yeah. So what happens is why that happens is because we're holding tension in our body. And when that tension continually is held, then it starts to cause other problems in our body, right? Like if you're walking crooked and then your backs are hurting, then you're back start hurting, then you're doing this. And then, you know, and so when you do this, it actually, it softens your,

the soft tissue of your body. Yeah. And then there's physical ailments that kind of your body will let go of because it no longer is height or rigid. That makes sense? It does. So one, I've had several.

I say hundreds of people over the last seven years. I've had hundreds of people. I say hundreds, probably 100 to 200 people say physically this no longer has happened to me. Right. So one. Two, they get a perspective shift of their own identity. Uh-huh.

And that little perspective shift, like, changes them. I can 100% attest to that happen to me. Yeah. I mean, we, we see this like in schools where a kid will say, a teacher believed in me, and then it just changed me. And then I started getting straight A's or whatever it is, you know, or, and we see people change. But when the perspective shift is internal, when it's just you,

it has more impact in your life because it's you. and there's a thought pattern that no longer exists anymore because that perspective shift happened internally. And it's confirmed spiritually because you, it's like a near-death experience. You have this deep spiritual connection and that shifts, identity shifts and you can't believe certain things

that you used to believe about yourself. And I've seen that. I've seen that change. I've had women who've said, our marriage was hard to soften my husband and that's all we needed to get to not that that changed their whole marriage but it was enough to give them a break in their marriage yeah where then the things that needed to happen happen yeah that makes sense it does yeah so it's a ton of sense when i went to that event when there was 500 agents i bet you i had 20 people come up to me on the

first day and said hey last year when you did this year before change changed my life. Like, change my relationship with my mom. Change my relationship with my brother. It's wild,

dude. It's wild because you, because we don't give ourselves enough time, we're always looking at their phone. You're always doing something.

We're always doing something. And your mind, you never, you know, again, I think that's one of the things that stuck with me is you never,

rarely, how often do you sit in your thoughts and do you sit in peace? Right. And then to your point, as entrepreneurs and when we run hard, we become addicted to chaos, right? And then you become addicted to chaos,

you can't see through it. And, man, and in, in, besides the, the trauma stuff, every time I do breathwork, it draws a straight line to where I need to be in business too. It gives me so much clarity. It's wild. Yeah, I'll tell you one thing that it did for me. I went, and when I first did it,

I went to Sonoma and Zach, the guy who mentored me. Yeah. I was there for five days, no, four days. We did that practice five times and four days. Yeah. But I came back. I remember my kids, you know, I guess they were 19, they were like 18 and 16 and 13. But I remember them saying, Mom, dad's different.

What does happen? Yeah. It's just like more chill. Yeah. What did you do? Yeah. What, you know? Yeah.

And I was just, I just, you realize that you're running too hot. Mm-hmm. And running that hot doesn't create space in your life. Running that hot is scarcity. Yeah. And that's the thing that it did for me. Like I stopped running so hot, got out of scarcity. You got out of that survival mode.

Yeah. And so started allowing things to come into my life. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I don't know. I just remember sitting at my desk at times and I would think, man, everything's going right. Like, I should be doing something. thing. Right. And the best thing I could be doing was sitting there and then allowing something

to come to me and say, oh, man, they would come up, someone would come into my office and say, I'm so glad you're here. I needed to talk. And sometimes the escrow officer would say, I just got an offer from another company. I'm so glad you're here because I want to talk to you about it. Now, if I wasn't there and running hot and trying to find shit to do. Yeah. And I'm not there in that moment. Like, that was a critical moment. 100%. That makes sense? It does. It does. it makes a ton of sense. Secondly, I was to say...

And so the breathwork gave you that awareness. Gave me that awareness. Yeah. And what happened, too, is that the people that worked for me started doing it. Mm-hmm. And it started giving them awareness. Yeah. And they realized it started changing them.

Yeah. And then, for example, I got that one person. They said, I got an offer and they said, but my life has been changing here. Mm-hmm. I know literally, $35,000 more a year. Right. But it's just not worth... but you're changing my life.

I brought my kid to breathwork. Yeah. You know, it was just, it grounded us to, you realize like what's important. Yeah, that makes sense.

And what's meaningful. Yeah, that's awesome. It was great. So for anybody. And I wouldn't have predicted that. I wouldn't have, someone would have told me that a year ago.

Like, even when spring said to go do it, I'm like, this is crazy. Yeah. When you, this is like hippie stuff. Yeah.

I had the same reaction. I mean, when you guys were all telling me about it, I was like, this sounds fucking. I love it. It is dumb. It is so dumb.

But it's not. It's literally, if you're listening to this and you're an entrepreneur, this is literally the missing link. This will take you to a level you didn't even think was possible and it will unlock a door you didn't know even existed. Yeah. Yeah. Can I say one more thing about that?

Of course. It's so funny is that we did breathwork at some of that. And this entrepreneur that was there, he said afterwards, we were talking like what did you experience it he said i came out i just saw something in my business it's going to radically change my whole business he's like literally this is going to change everything in my business so i came up to him afterwards and i said the outcome you got at breathwork do you think you could have paid a coach to get you that outcome he goes no they wouldn't have found

it he goes i wouldn't have found it i wouldn't have believed it yeah he said i said how much is it worth to you. He goes, it's going to give me 250,000 in revenue more a year, just a simple change of that. And then I said, would you pay me $10,000 for it? You know, I helped you get it. He goes, that's crazy because that was like one hour. Right. And I'm like, I know. You don't believe in one hour. You can come up with it. It's like, you can change it. Like, you don't believe it. But it speaks to the untapped potential that we have in ourselves. It speaks to that. And that's what I say, like, I'm not the magic. The magic is. in the person.

Now, I think you, I think, now, I think you do have, the magic's in the person, but I do think you, and everybody says that that's done it with you. I think you do have some magic. I know, I'm just saying, but the thing that they're most impressed is, they're oppressed by is who they really are. Because I've heard other people have done breathwork, and I'm not taking it away from anybody, but they're like, nah, I didn't, you know what I mean? And then I've, like, I've had people said that they've done breathwork before and then

do it with you. And they're like, that shit wasn't even. The same experience. This was completely different. No, I agree. So there is some magic, but I guess they're just so much untapped within. You help people find it. I'm just helping to find it.

Yeah. So if someone's listened to this and they want to learn more about breathwork or they want to follow you or they want to connect with you, what do they do? Just connect with me on Instagram. Right. How? Louis Hamner. Connect with me on Instagram. DMN will set you.

All right, cool. I ask everybody the same question when we wrap. The show is called Waking Up to Wealth. And the answer is different for everybody. But to you, what does waking up to wealth mean? Realizing that you have everything you've always did. Easy enough. Dude, I thank you so much.

This guy has been a great influence on my life. He introduced me to breathwork, which has radically changed everything. just a special person and I'm glad I get to be boys with him and he's going to be here at my event tomorrow so I got to introduce a bunch of people that I coach to his stuff. So it's really, really cool.

I appreciate you being on the show and talking about breathwork today. Yeah, thanks. Thanks so much for tuning into this episode of Wake Up to Wealth. We're sure to appreciate it. If you haven't done so already, make sure you're subscribed to the show

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