You promised yourself you’d take a break from drinking. You got through a week, maybe even a month. Then a wedding came up, you had a shit day at work or your mates asked why you weren’t drinking. And you picked up a drink again.

In this episode of A-Game Unfiltered, Adam Smith and Adam Mayhew talk about what pulls you back to alcohol when you’d already decided to take a break. Maybe it’s how you switch off after work. Maybe you’re worried what your mates will think. Or maybe you’ve been the bloke who’s always up for a beer for so long that you’re unsure who you are without one.

We talk about how to handle social pressure, why beating yourself up after a drink keeps you stuck, and how giving yourself something to look forward to can make a break from alcohol easier to stick with.

If you’ve gone back to drinking and caught yourself thinking, “What the hell is wrong with me?”, start with a better question: “What was I hoping that drink would give me?”

If you’d like our help taking a break from alcohol and learning to switch off without it, get in touch with A-Game.

Adam Smith

Adam Smith is an entrepreneur, transformational coach, NLP Practitioner and Timeline Therapist with extensive experience building businesses, leading teams and developing high-performing client relationships. Combining strong commercial acumen with deep expertise in human behaviour, he helps founders overcome the unconscious patterns that limit growth, leadership and fulfilment. Known for his ability to build trust quickly, create meaningful connections and challenge clients to think differently, Adam has helped business owners improve performance, increase confidence and achieve sustainable success without compromising who they are.
Connect with Adam Smith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-smith-high-performance-coach/

Adam Mayhew

Adam Mayhew is an entrepreneur and transformational coach who helps founders build successful businesses without sacrificing their health, relationships or peace of mind. Drawing on his own journey through burnout, alcohol dependency and feeling disconnected despite outward success, he helps ambitious business owners develop greater clarity, resilience and self-awareness. His coaching combines mindset, performance and wellbeing to help founders make better decisions, improve their energy and create a life that feels aligned with the success they have worked hard to achieve. Adam is a qualified Nutritional Therapist, Mindfulness Teacher, and CNHC-registered Health Practitioner.

Connect with Adam Mayhew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammayhew/

To find out more about Smith & Mayhew: https://agameconsultancy.com/about/

You’ve built a successful business or career. But when someone asks who you are outside of it, you struggle to answer.

In this solo episode, Adam Mayhew explores why so many successful men attach their worth to their work. A good month means you feel good about yourself. A bad month follows you home, takes over your weekend and leaves you reaching for a drink to quiet your head.

Drawing on his own experience and conversations with A-Game clients, Adam discusses:

• The pressure to provide and the fear of slowing down.
• Why success can still leave you feeling that you’re not good enough.
• Using alcohol, scrolling and food to escape how you feel.
• What makes old habits difficult to break.
• How the way you speak to yourself affects your day.
• Making room for life beyond work and being present in it.

If your head is still in the business when you’re sitting with your family, this episode gives you a question worth spending some time with: who are you outside of your work?

Learn why your mind won’t settle, what keeps you reaching for a drink and how to install the system that gets you back on your A-Game at work and fully present at home. Four free videos with practical tools and exercises you can use straight away - https://go.agameconsultancy.com/agame-free-course-4579

A-Game helps successful men perform at their best and create real freedom. If something isn’t working and you’re ready to do something about it then please contact a member of the A-Game team: https://agameconsultancy.com/contact/

Adam Smith

Adam Smith is an entrepreneur, transformational coach, NLP Practitioner and Timeline Therapist with extensive experience building businesses, leading teams and developing high-performing client relationships. Combining strong commercial acumen with deep expertise in human behaviour, he helps founders overcome the unconscious patterns that limit growth, leadership and fulfilment. Known for his ability to build trust quickly, create meaningful connections and challenge clients to think differently, Adam has helped business owners improve performance, increase confidence and achieve sustainable success without compromising who they are.
Connect with Adam Smith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-smith-high-performance-coach/

Adam Mayhew

Adam Mayhew is an entrepreneur and transformational coach who helps founders build successful businesses without sacrificing their health, relationships or peace of mind. Drawing on his own journey through burnout, alcohol dependency and feeling disconnected despite outward success, he helps ambitious business owners develop greater clarity, resilience and self-awareness. His coaching combines mindset, performance and wellbeing to help founders make better decisions, improve their energy and create a life that feels aligned with the success they have worked hard to achieve. Adam is a qualified Nutritional Therapist, Mindfulness Teacher, and CNHC-registered Health Practitioner.

Connect with Adam Mayhew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammayhew/

To find out more about Smith & Mayhew: https://agameconsultancy.com/about/

You hit the income target, buy the car, book the holiday. Then the goalposts move and you’re straight back to chasing the next thing. When do you actually get to enjoy the life you’ve worked so hard to build?

In this solo episode, Adam shares seven rules for a free and fulfilling life, drawn from his own fuck-ups, victories and years of coaching successful men.

From attaching happiness to business milestones to saying things you don’t believe just to fit in, he looks at the habits that leave you successful on paper and miserable behind closed doors.

We cover:

• Why the next achievement never seems to be enough.
• What your criticism of others might reveal about you.
• Questioning what’s considered normal, including drinking.
• The cost of trying to make everyone like you.
• Learning to question your thoughts before believing them.
• Letting go of other people’s opinions.
• Giving yourself permission to enjoy life now.

If you keep telling yourself you’ll relax, make a change or start enjoying yourself when things settle down, this episode is for you.

A-Game helps successful men perform at their best and create real freedom. If something isn’t working and you’re ready to do something about it then please contact a member of the A-Game team: https://agameconsultancy.com/contact/

Adam Smith

Adam Smith is an entrepreneur, transformational coach, NLP Practitioner and Timeline Therapist with extensive experience building businesses, leading teams and developing high-performing client relationships. Combining strong commercial acumen with deep expertise in human behaviour, he helps founders overcome the unconscious patterns that limit growth, leadership and fulfilment. Known for his ability to build trust quickly, create meaningful connections and challenge clients to think differently, Adam has helped business owners improve performance, increase confidence and achieve sustainable success without compromising who they are.
Connect with Adam Smith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-smith-high-performance-coach/

Adam Mayhew

Adam Mayhew is an entrepreneur and transformational coach who helps founders build successful businesses without sacrificing their health, relationships or peace of mind. Drawing on his own journey through burnout, alcohol dependency and feeling disconnected despite outward success, he helps ambitious business owners develop greater clarity, resilience and self-awareness. His coaching combines mindset, performance and wellbeing to help founders make better decisions, improve their energy and create a life that feels aligned with the success they have worked hard to achieve. Adam is a qualified Nutritional Therapist, Mindfulness Teacher, and CNHC-registered Health Practitioner.

Connect with Adam Mayhew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammayhew/

To find out more about Smith & Mayhew: https://agameconsultancy.com/about/