Do you crave freedom and adventure?... freedom to do what you want when you want... but also freedom from your own limits. The Freedom Project is here fore those of you who live for adventure and freedom. Your host, Tom Foxley, is a performance coach to adventurepreneurs, former Royal Marines Commando, a fellow freedom seeker, skier, mountaineer, and climber who lives for adventure. Tom has been coaching elite performers for a decade. In The Freedom Project, Tom interviews adventure athletes, explorers, mountaineers, and the like to inspire you to take the trip you always longed to take, and to learn from the best. Tom also interviews business owners and entrepreneurs who have created a life of adventure and freedom so you can learn their lessons and create it for yourself. You’ll be getting at least one interview per week with a world class performer who will not only give you your weekly dose of sweet adventure tales, but give you insights to apply to your own life. Once per week, Tom will also get highly tactical and teach you strategies you can deploy into your own life. If you’re ski, climb, surf, BASE jump, MTB, love alpinism and mountaineering, snowboard, hike... and want to spend more time doing more cool shit, The Freedom Project for you. www.instagram.com/tomfoxley
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Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
In a weird way, the shame of not fighting back was always worse than the beating I took.
I lay lifeless on the floor, as fists slammed into me. I was just an observer of the physical assault.
I did nothing.
After the event, I would - ironically - beat myself up about not having the courage or the masculinity required to fight back.
That shame was the worst part.
Partly in a quest to destroy this shame I joined the military. I then started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I saw myself as a fighter and thought I was beyond it.
And at least physically, I was.
But when I was confronted with a challenge at work, I saw a familiar pattern. I shut down.
It looked like procrastination. It looked like laziness. It felt like fear and numbness combined.
I would look back at the day and wish I had acted differently. Just the same as when I was lying in bed as a teenager…wishing I had fought back.
Why could I logically know what to do, but physically not do it?
Why couldn’t I break free from these invisible chains?
This plagued me for years. I worked on my beliefs. I trained my character, but something was always missing.
18 months ago, I finally found the answer. It changed my life. It changed the lives of hundreds of high performers I’ve trained in this skill.
Today, I’m going to share it with you.
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