In this episode, I talk about one of the most personal and uncomfortable parts of my climbing journey - what happened after I achieved one of my biggest goals.

For years, I built a huge part of my identity around climbing Hubble. It was a dream that gave me direction, purpose, and structure. But when I finally did it, what I felt wasn’t fulfilment.

It was relief.

What followed was burnout, pressure, confusion, and a loss of direction that I kept quiet about for a long time.

In this episode, I explore the relationship between identity and performance, why ambition can become unhealthy when your self-worth depends on outcomes, and how fear of failure and the need for external validation can quietly shape the way we climb.

I also talk about:

• why motivation naturally fluctuates
• how structure reduces co ...