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
Episodes
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Friday Nov 17, 2023
The death of a parent and a friend pointing out that you need to get a life. You wouldn’t elect for these two things if you had that choice.
But these two things proved to be turning points in Stella Kamba’s life.
She lived the corporate life and was excellent at it. But something nagged at her to do something more aligned with her true self.
That thing was to start More Life Adventures; a business providing adventurous fitness holidays for busy people.
Stella has been on a massive journey of transformation, and in this conversation, Stella and I discuss…
- The details of her growth as that person
- The obstacles she has faced in her journey and how she overcame them
- What it’s like to take that big step
- How her mindset has shifted along the way
It’s been a privilege to work with Stella on just a small part of this journey. My hope is that you can use this as a jumping off point to move to your next level as an adventurepreneur.
If you’re interested in levelling up as an Adventurepreneur, I offer a handful of free adventurepreneur assessments each month where we can discuss what your next level looks like and how to attain that.
To see if you qualify for a free adventurepreneur assessment, head to my instagram profile @tomfoxley and send me the word "adventurepreneur".
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Meet the godfather of freeskiing - Mike Douglas.
Mike - alongside a handful of others - reinvented ski technology and therefore the future of skiing itself.
After being instrumental in the creation of the twin tip ski that unlocked a completely different style of skiing, then becoming a mainstay of the pro skier scene, Mike turned his attention to creating ski films.
In doing so, he became an icon of winter sports.
He has gone on to produce ski films that do more than produce ski porn - pow shots and cliff drops.
Mike tells stories - beautiful stories that enrich the viewers experience of life through a broadened perspective.
Along the way, Mike has set up a production business, hired and disbanded teams, and produced genuinely world changing films.
All of this, he did whilst keeping his sense of adventure and maintaining his freedom.
In this episode you will learn:
- How to balance business ownership and adventure
- How Mike had to readjust his business through Covid
- The thrill of being vulnerable and how to embrace it
- How the flow state of business corresponds to the flow state of freeskiing
- Mike’s adventure bucketlist
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
What could possess a man to run the fastest known time from the base of the valley to the top of Mont Blanc and back?
The thrill of adventure, the unknown, and the chance to test oneself.
Iain Innes spent years making his way into professional ski racing.
Eventually he realised this wasn’t his journey, and took a step back from his life long goal.
Without this structure, Iain entered the unknown.
He found his way again through embracing adventure and discovering mountaineering, and mountain exploration.
Iain seeks freedom in all guises.
In this episode, you will discover:
- How Iain trains for these insane challenges without a training program to follow.
- The thrill of going solo and unsupported.
- How to handle difficult transition moments in life.
- How to satiate your desire for adventure when times are uncertain.
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Does your scarcity mindset create a life you secretly despise?
I used to have a horrendous scarcity mentality. There was never enough time. There was never enough money. There was never enough X, Y or Z for me to really live the life I want.
This royally fucked me for years. It’s not like I wasted those years. But I certainly didn’t make the most of them.
I dragged myself out of that hole over the course of years and now understand how to obliterate that mentality.
Now, I see the same pattern in potential clients day in, day out.
They have excuses that sound like logic but are really just traps.
On one hand they call themselves an adventurer or an ultra runner or an alpinist.
And they may have been that person one day. But their current reality tells a different story.
If you took a snapshot of their past 12 months, all you’d see is someone yearning for adventure, but establishing their own road blocks.
They don’t show up as their best self consistently.
They fail to book the trips.
They fail to live the life of an adventurepreneur.
They settle for mediocrity and the status quo.
Scarcity creates a mediocre life for extraordinary people.
Today, I’m going to describe the 3 golden rules I teach my adventurepreneur clients to take.
Then I’m going to explain the single most effective tool to overcome a scarcity mentality.
Friday Nov 03, 2023
Friday Nov 03, 2023
The conventional path never was for Willis Morris. Willis sought another kind of freedom.
He moved from indoor climbing to alpinism, and became world class at it.
Then from alpinism to speedriding. He wanted, in his words, “the toughest way up, and the gnarliest way down.”
What’s more, he chose to teach himself how to speedride.
This podcast is an exploration of:
- How to learn any skill
- What you learn from climbing the hardest pitches on The Eiger
- How to climb hard alone, without dying
- And much more
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
I’ve seen countless people massively shift their levels of performance. And I’ve seen countless fail to change anything at all.
The latter end up mediocre, miserable and resentful. The former ends up free, successful, and satisfied.
Which camp you fall into is not down to luck. It’s down to your choices.
There are five choices adventurepreneurs make time and time again which ensure mediocrity. Today, I will help you identify which you make.
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
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Two months back, I had a “fuck it” moment.
It’s not every day you get the chance to go on a ski mountaineering trip of this kind.
I no longer live 45 minutes away from the best skiing in the world. I live at least 5 hours, a plane journey, and multiple countries away.
Because of this, big trips:
- Cost a lot more money
- Take a lot more time
- Are a big interruption to my family and my business
For many, this is a dead end.
But if you cut open my soul, it still bleeds adventure.
So there’s no way I’m turning down a trip like this.
I’ve helped clients plan trips like this, and I’ve made it happen for myself before. But this trip will be a whole new beast.
Today, I’m going to show you exactly what I’m going to do to ensure I have the trip of a lifetime, but - and this is an important but - ensure my family life and my business thrive whilst doing so.
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.
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
True: a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
But, that step must be in the direction of travel.
Plus, it helps if each step covers as much ground as possible.
Today, I’m going to show you how you cover as much ground as possible each and every day.
Because if you fail to make the most of every single day, you’ll end up looking back at yet another year of stagnation.
We’re going to cover:
- Thriving in the most challenging situations
- How to stop wasting time
- When positivity won’t help you
- Finding the right support