The Tom’s Life Lab Podcast

Episode 47 Energy series: Protect your energy

In this episode, Tom explores why feeling busy but depleted isn’t a time problem, it’s an energy problem.
As the first episode in the energy series, Tom reflects on how easily our energy gets drained by distraction, constant demands, and a lack of boundaries. Tom shares why protecting your energy isn’t selfish, but essential for presence, focus, and impact, and how small, intentional choices can radically change how you work and live.
This episode is a reminder that your effectiveness isn’t measured by hours worked, but by how you manage and protect your energy throughout the day.
Listen now and try this week’s Life Lab experiment:Audit your energy for a few days. Notice when it rises, when it drops, and what influences it without judgement.

Episode 46 Mindset series: Build your identity

Resilience isn’t just about surviving challenges, it’s about shaping your identity through them.
In this final episode of the mindset series on Tom's Life Lab, Tom shares a personal story about a moment of vulnerability at work and how it transformed his understanding of strength.
Strength isn’t the absence of struggle, it’s the decision to rise again. Each hard task, difficult conversation, or tough decision becomes a “brick” in the foundation of your identity. By consciously acknowledging these moments, you build evidence that you are someone who does hard things.
The Life Lab experiment this week: pick one hard thing you’ve been avoiding, complete it, write it down, and celebrate it. Over time, these actions stack up to reinforce a resilient identity that naturally leans into challenges.

Episode 45 Mindset Series: How gamifying hard things builds real resilence

Resilience isn’t just about pushing through, it’s about changing how you relate to difficulty.
In this episode of Tom's Life Lab, Tom continues on the mindset series, sharing a personal story from the early days of HEX, when repeated rejection started to take its toll. Instead of quitting, he turned rejection into a game, assigning points to every “no” and tracking them like a scoreboard.
What started as a coping mechanism became a mindset shift. By gamifying setbacks, Tom reframed failure as progress, reduced fear, and built the persistence needed to keep going until the yeses came.
This episode explores why making hard things playful doesn’t trivialise them, it transforms them and challenges you to run your own experiment this week.

Episode 44 Mindset series: Focus on what you can control

In this episode of Tom's Life Lab, Tom explores how narrowing your focus to what’s actually in your hands can calm overwhelm, restore clarity, and build resilience especially when the world feels noisy or uncertain.
He shares the story of his book launch and how quickly he spiralled into worrying about reviews, sales, and opinions he couldn’t influence. The turning point came when he shifted his attention back to what was in his control: how he showed up, how he rested, and what he created next.
This episode is a reminder that reclaiming your energy starts with one small, intentional action and that momentum is built through tiny wins, not perfect outcomes.
Listen now and try this week’s Life Lab experiment: write down one thing each morning that you can control today. At the end of the day, reflect on how that focus made you feel.

Episode 43 Mindset series: Stories are just stories

In this episode of Tom's Life Lab, Tom explores how the mind creates stories, sometimes helpful, often unhelpful and how easily we can spiral into beliefs that simply aren’t true.
He shares a moment from leading a major change project when one tough meeting sent him into self-doubt… until he paused, questioned the story, and remembered his strengths.
This week’s episode is a reminder that you get to choose which stories receive airtime and that courage often begins with gently challenging the narratives your mind invents.
Listen now and try this week’s Life Lab experiment: Notice one unhelpful story your mind tells you. Write it down, then write down a time it wasn’t true.

Episode 42 Mindset series: Anything is possible

In this episode, Tom explores the mindset that anything is possible not by pretending things are easy, but by choosing challenges that stretch us, scare us, and grow us.
He shares the story behind writing his book 'People People', the self-doubt he had to work through, and how taking imperfect steps strengthens your ability to adapt, learn and lead.
This is an episode about resilience built on purpose, leaning into discomfort, and discovering what you’re truly capable of.
🎧 Listen now and try this week’s Life Lab experiment:Choose one small challenge that feels just out of reach, commit, tell someone, and take the first step.

Episode 41: The art of reinvention

Starting again can feel heavy, even shameful, as if beginning anew means something has failed.
But as Tom shares in this episode of Tom's Life Lab, reinvention isn’t weakness; it’s courage in its purest form.
Whether it’s a plan that’s fallen apart, a dream that’s shifted, or a life change you didn’t choose, starting again is part of being human.
Tom explores what it means to rebuild, to release the version of yourself that no longer fits, and to find strength in small beginnings.
Listen now and try this week’s Life Lab experiment: Take one small step, not the whole staircase, toward your next beginning.
 

Episode 40: When life throws a curveball

Life has a way of surprising us.
Sometimes it’s a new opportunity, other times it’s the kind of change that knocks the wind out of you.
In this episode of Tom's Life Lab, Tom shares what he’s learned about dealing with life’s curveballs, the moments when plans fall apart and certainty disappears.
He explores why our first instinct to control or fix isn’t always the right one, and how peace comes not from pretending we’re fine, but from feeling what’s real and asking a better question: not “why me?” but “what now?”
Listen now and try this week’s Life Lab experiment: If life has thrown you a curveball, stop resisting, feel what’s there, then choose your next move.

Episode 39: What i'd tell my younger self

In this episode of Tom's Life Lab, Tom shares the lessons he’d pass on to his younger self, an honest exploration of comparison, courage, shame, and what it really means to feel “enough".
It’s about letting go of the pressure to have it all figured out, learning to trust your path, and finding joy in progress rather than perfection.
Tom opens up about the importance of caring for your body, investing in real relationships, and not letting fear dictate your choices.
Listen now and for this week’s Life Lab experiment, do one thing your younger self would thank you for.

Episode 38: Dropping the script: finding yourself beyond overwhelm

Overwhelm isn’t always about doing too much, sometimes it’s about being too much.
In this episode of Tom’s Life Lab, Tom explores how the real weight of overwhelm often comes from the pressure to play too many roles. The strong one. The calm one. The one who keeps it all together.
When we try to be everything for everyone, we lose sight of who we are for ourselves. But overwhelm isn’t a flaw, it’s feedback. A gentle nudge from life that says it’s time to pause the performance, drop the mask, and return to what’s real.
Listen now to explore how letting go of the need to perform can help you rediscover calm, clarity, and your truest self.