From $100M Exit to Breathwork Breakthrough (Ft Adam Ludwin)

What if your biggest breakthrough came from something you've been doing your whole life—breathing?

I sit down with Adam Ludwin, founder of FivePointFive, a cutting-edge breathwork app that uses real-time biometrics and music to transform your mental, emotional, and physical state—anytime, anywhere. But Adam didn't start here.

We unpack his journey from building and exiting a $100M+ marketing tech company, to nearly burning out, to rediscovering meaning through breathwork. He shares how fatherhood shaped his views on education and well-being, how functional breathwork saved his health, and why he believes personalized, science-backed breathwork is the future of performance and longevity.

Show Notes

• [00:03:00] Adam's early entrepreneurial drive and family influence

• [00:07:00] Why he dropped out of university and what he did instead

• [00:12:00] Teaching mental fitness to his kids: gratitude, journaling, nasal breathing

• [00:17:00] Burnout, tight chest, and discovering functional breathwork

• [00:19:00] Selling his company and taking a year to reset with purpose

• [00:23:00] The emotional side of exits: friendship shifts and family grounding

• [00:28:00] Founding FivePointFive and the breathwork tool he wished he had years ago

• [00:34:00] Why FivePointFive is unlike any wellness app you've seen before

• [00:40:00] Habit stacking, wearables, and functional breathing in real life

• [00:44:00] The future of health isn't more tech—it's better use of what we already have

 

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Music: Clouds - Joakim Karud