Mike Maher is a UK-based breath coach, podcaster, and educator who turned a decade of corporate burnout into one of the internet's most-watched breathwork channels. After fifteen years in the business world left him stressed, anxious, and running on empty, Mike discovered the transformative power of conscious breathing — not as a spiritual luxury but as a practical, science-backed skill anyone can learn. Inspired by pioneers like Wim Hof and the growing field of functional breathing science, he founded TAKE A DEEP BREATH and quietly set about demystifying a topic that had long been tangled in mysticism and contradictory advice. He is now a certified Advanced Oxygen Advantage Instructor, and his content has accumulated over 42 million views. At the heart of Mike's work is a single, grounding conviction: most people are breathing incorrectly, and fixing that changes everything. Shallow chest breathing, chronic mouth breathing, and an over-stimulated nervous system keep the majority of us locked in a low-grade stress response — and Mike's signature R.E.S.E.T. framework offers a clear, five-step path out. Whether he is guiding a listener through heart-coherence breathwork to regulate the nervous system, exploring the CO₂ tolerance techniques of elite athletes, or interviewing the world's leading scientists on his podcast #Breathcast, Mike's approach is always grounded in evidence, delivered with warmth, and stripped of unnecessary complexity. He believes breathwork doesn't need to be your identity — it just needs to make sense. What makes Mike genuinely distinctive is his gift for translation: taking decades of research from physiology, yoga, and ancient breathing traditions and rendering it instantly usable for real people with real lives. His 1-to-1 coaching (delivered globally over Zoom), his five-week Functional Breathing Essentials course, and his 480-plus YouTube videos have collectively helped hundreds of thousands of people sleep better, stress less, and move through the world with a quieter, more settled nervous system. Based in the East Midlands of England but coaching clients on every continent, Mike represents a new generation of wellness practitioners — rigorous, accessible, and absolutely convinced that the most powerful tool for human health has been right under our noses — and inside our lungs — all along.
