Do you crave freedom & want to hit peak mental fitness? The Freedom Project is here fore those of you who live for adventure and freedom. Your host, Tom Foxley, is a mental fitness coach, former Royal Marines Commando, a freedom seeker, skier, mountaineer, and climber who lives for adventure. Tom has been coaching elite performers for more than a decade. In The Freedom Project, Tom aims to uncover what it takes to hit peak mental fitness for freedom seekers. Once per week, Tom will also get highly tactical and teach you strategies you can deploy into your own life. If you want to learn peak mental fitness, and love creating freedom, this is the podcast for you. www.instagram.com/tomfoxley
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Monday Feb 23, 2026
Monday Feb 23, 2026
His business is growing.
He’s just become a dad.
And everything feels harder.
Not because he’s disorganised.
Not because he lacks discipline.
Not because he needs better time management.
But because he’s internally divided.
In this episode, I break down the hidden psychological conflict that shows up when ambitious founders become fathers — the tension between performance, partnership, fitness, and identity.
We look at:
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Why “doing more” won’t fix this
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The baseline anxiety most new dads never name
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How people-pleasing habits quietly sabotage high standards
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And how integrating your competing internal parts restores clarity and capacity
High performance isn’t about squeezing more into your day.
It’s about increasing your capacity to handle more — without resentment, guilt, or internal chaos.
Elite mental fitness is a sets and reps game. Put the reps in.
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