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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Friday Oct 20, 2023
Friday Oct 20, 2023
At some point in life you’re going to have to drop the identity you’ve built up and change who you are.
Sometimes, this comes at the end of a challenging career when you’ve realised you’re just not going to make it.
Other times, this is when you’re doing incredibly exciting and daunting things. For example when you’re moving onto another stage in life.
When Jackie Paaso decided to give up on her mogul skiing Olympic dream, she encountered the first identity shift. It sparked an incredibly difficult time for her. But the lessons she learned in that time ultimately made her one of the world’s greatest pro skiers.
Jackie dominated many events of the freeride world tour and set the bar for the type of skiing that was possible. She built a career that many dream of but few achieve.
Once more, her identity was built to support this life. But when Jackie and her husband got pregnant, once more a shift of identity was imminent.
Jackie found herself asking questions around how her life would look post baby and what would happen to her career and also her way of life.
Alongside Elyse Saugstad, Jackie featured in Here, Hold My Kid; a ski movie sharing this journey as they shred big mountains.
Alongside the details of Here, Hold My Kid, we discuss:
- Dealing with mental health and how to approach challenges you face.
- Navigating the uncertainty of identity shifts.
- What kind of example Jackie intends to be for her kids.
- What Jackie wishes she could have known when going through her initial identity shift.
- And her process of skiing big lines.
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