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The Freedom ProjectAuthor: 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 Language: en Genres: Business, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Mental Health Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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I'll Be Present When Things Settle Down — The Most Expensive Lie in Business
Episode 336
Monday, 4 May, 2026
This morning Tom Foxley sat in the garden watching his daughter look at something in the grass. Just there. Fully. Nothing lost. That sounds unremarkable. For a long time, it would have been impossible — because Tom is by default a distracted person. Anxious head, always moving, obsessive about progress in a way that doesn't switch off when he leaves the desk. For years he told himself it was just how he was wired. The price of being driven. The honest version looked like: phone out mid-conversation. Wife talking, part of his brain somewhere else. And the quiet, persistent belief that he'd be present when things settled down. When the business was more stable. When this particular pressure lifted. Things don't settle down. You just keep deferring the version of yourself you actually want to be. In this episode Tom traces what changed — the moment he saw clearly what kind of father he'd become if nothing shifted, the training that followed, giving up twice, and what it eventually built. Not just at home. In the business too. Because the weeks where his mind was most scattered tracked directly with his worst decision-making, his most deferred conversations, his most avoided work. Presence isn't a personality type. It's a capacity you build. And you can start the first rep today. Topics covered: - Why driven, ambitious people are often the worst at being present — and why they mistake it for a feature - The pattern connecting mental scatter to poor business performance - Why "I'll be present when things settle" is the most expensive lie in business - What the training actually looked like — including failing and starting again - What it means to build something you can actually inhabit - Where your attention is right now — and who gets the remainder
