Clocking Out with Raymond Lee

In this episode of Clocking Out, we meet Benedict Beaumont, a former IT professional and high school teacher who traded the classroom for a deeper kind of teaching: helping others heal through breathwork.

Benedict grew up in Brighton, a seaside city on England’s south coast known for its creativity and openness. From an early age, he was curious about life’s big questions — why we’re here, what makes us whole — but found few answers in conventional paths. After university, he followed expectation rather than instinct, landing a well-paid IT job in London. From the outside, it looked like success. Inside, it felt empty.

When his rock-and-roll dreams collided with his corporate life, Benedict chose passion over predictability and quit his job to pursue music full time. But when the record deal fell through, everything he’d built unraveled. With no job, no band, and no plan, he escaped to California to clear his head. In the stillness of the desert, he realized it was time to rebuild, this time with purpose. 

He became a high school teacher, dedicating his career to helping students in some of England’s toughest schools. But after years of giving everything to others, he hit another wall: burnout. Searching for renewal, he set off to India, a trip that would nearly cost him his life but ultimately gave him a new one.

There, and later in Bali, Benedict discovered breathwork, a practice that reconnected him to purpose and presence. Today, as the founder of The Breathing Space, he trains facilitators and leads retreats around the world, empowering others to use the breath as a tool for transformation.

In this conversation, Benedict shares how burnout, curiosity, led him back to himself and why every breath is a chance to begin again.