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 27, 2023
Friday Oct 27, 2023
Adventure comes to us in many different forms. For some of us, the mountains, the sea, or the sky reveals itself to us as our path. For others, our call to adventure is a literal call to arms.
A signal reveals itself to us and whispers “this is your journey, this is your gauntlet”. The price of admission is mighty, and the potential cost is your life.
The adventure of a military career is rewarding in a way that civilians will only guess at. Camaraderie, danger, fulfilment, humour, and misery beyond anything the civilian world can offer.
For James Malone, his deployment to Afghanistan in 2018 came with all of the above. He returned with the onset of PTSD which morphed to alcoholism to cover the pain.
For years, he turned away from the decision to confront his problems, but then he found a more authentic way of living, stopped drinking, and bought a camera with the money he saved.
When we’ve created a persona which serves a purpose but betrays our authentic self, the juxtaposition creates pain.
James’ journey is one of rediscovering authenticity, and through that, discovering true satisfaction for the first time in his life. In this podcast you too will discover what discovering authenticity looks like.
James’ current venture is creating a feature length documentary Once We Were Warriors - an exploration of what it means to be a veteran, and why the labels of “bad, sad, or mad” are lazy stereotypes.
Once We Were Warriors shows the journey of a handful of veterans exploring the slopes of Chamonix and using the mountains as a tool for growth.
You can support this incredible project by visiting: www.oncewewerewarriorsfilm.com
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