The Freedom Project
Tom Foxley, Mental Fitness Coach for Business Owners
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
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
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May 1, 2025 • 4min
Mental Edge 115: What Shackleton, Seneca, and Kaizen Have in Common
You don’t need 10/10 days. You need 6/10 days—consistently.
In this episode, I break down why the real drivers of success aren’t peak performance or fleeting motivation—but quiet, relentless consistency. Through the lens of Kaizen, Stoicism, and Shackleton’s leadership, we explore how you can build elite mental fitness by doing the reps—especially when you don’t feel like it.
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Apr 20, 2025 • 4min
Mental Edge 114: What’s Your Mental Fitness Stack?
You’ve got your creatine, your D3, your fish oil. But what are you doing to train your mind?
In this episode, I break down the overlooked power of a mental fitness routine—what I call your mental fitness stack. You’ll learn how short daily practices like breathwork and journaling upgrade your biology, reshape your mindset, and give you the clarity and composure most people never train for.
Because mental strength isn’t motivation—it’s repetition.
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Apr 18, 2025 • 5min
Mental Edge 113: The Tree, The Baby, and The Goodbye
We are born.
We experience a whole bunch of sensory impressions.
Then we die.
In this episode, I share a deeply personal story about saying goodbye—and why moments like this reveal what truly matters. You’ll learn how mental fitness prepares you not just for performance, but for presence. For emotion. For meaning.
Because when you train your mind to face life as it is…
You stop coasting.
You start living.
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Apr 16, 2025 • 6min
Mental Edge 112: Why Autopilot Is Killing Your Potential
Your brain is built to grow. But if you’re feeling stuck, bored, or numb—it’s not because you’re broken. It’s because you’ve stopped doing things that light you up.
In this episode, I unpack a weekend DIY project—and why it reminded me how powerful novelty, challenge, and hands-on engagement are for mental fitness.
You’ll learn why apathy is your real enemy, how neuroplasticity fuels growth, and what it really means to train your brain like your body.
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Apr 4, 2025 • 4min
Mental Edge 111: Have The Balls to Aim At A Life You Love
You don’t fail because you’re weak—you fail because you’re scared to aim.
In this episode, I take you back to the moment I sent a 20-foot backflip off a cliff—and what it taught me about committing fully to a life that matters. You’ll learn why clarity beats caution, why half-measures kill progress, and what it really takes to land the moves that scare you.
No more vague goals. No more hesitation.
Pick your landing spot.
Commit like hell.
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Apr 3, 2025 • 5min
Mental Edge 110: Mad Jack Churchill: The Man Who Recalibrated Fear
He charged into battle with a broadsword and bagpipes—and captured 42 German soldiers armed only with steel and sheer presence.
In this episode, we break down the story of “Mad Jack” Churchill—not to celebrate madness, but to uncover the science behind his seemingly fearless courage. You’ll learn how exposure therapy works, why the SAID Principle matters for your mental fitness, and how to train your mind to act under pressure.
This isn’t about eliminating fear. It’s about building the ability to move through it.
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Apr 1, 2025 • 7min
Mental Edge 109: From Royal Marines to Antarctic Ice: What High Performers Share
What do the Royal Marines, Ernest Shackleton, and high performers today all understand about growth that most people miss?
In this episode, I unpack the hidden power of environment. We’ll explore how group standards shape personal performance, why morale becomes everything under pressure, and what it really means to grow in a culture of discipline, clarity, and shared purpose.
If you’re grinding alone and wondering why progress feels slow—this one’s for you.
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Mar 31, 2025 • 6min
Mental Edge 108: Train for Chaos, Not Comfort
Mental fitness isn’t about staying positive—it’s about staying ready.
In this episode, we break down the concept of General Mental Preparedness: how to train your mind to meet any challenge, any pressure, and any chaos with clarity and composure. Drawing parallels to elite physical training and the story of a man who thrived across three battlefields, this is your roadmap to becoming truly unbreakable.
Because life won’t get easier. You just get harder to break.
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Mar 28, 2025 • 3min
Mental Edge 107: The Everest Principle: Don’t Conquer It. Rise to Meet It.
Life doesn’t get lighter. You get stronger.
In this episode, I share a hard-earned lesson from Royal Marines training—and what it means for building a meaningful, high-performance life. We’ll unpack why pressure is a privilege, how your system adapts to stress through a principle called allostasis, and what it takes to raise your internal threshold instead of lowering your goals.
If you’ve been questioning your capacity, this episode will change how you see the weight you carry.
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Mar 27, 2025 • 5min
Mental Edge 106: The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz
He volunteered to be captured and sent to Auschwitz. Why?
In this episode, I tell the true story of Witold Pilecki—a man whose mission to resist evil took him inside the gates of hell. We explore what made him capable of enduring the unendurable, why meaning—not muscle—is the foundation of resilience, and what this blueprint teaches us about modern leadership and mental fitness.
By the end of this episode, you’ll see why mental strength isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you train for.
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