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/

Ever leave a meeting and spend the rest of the day picking apart what you said? Wondering whether you spoke too much, annoyed someone or made yourself look like an idiot?

In this episode of A-Game Unfiltered, Adam Smith and Adam Mayhew discuss why you keep replaying conversations and how to start breaking the pattern. We explore people-pleasing, fear of being judged and how quickly an unanswered message or a comment from your boss can take over your evening.

We cover:

• How you turn assumptions about other people into facts.
• Why judging yourself for overthinking makes it more exhausting.
• A simple process for questioning an unhelpful thought.
• How movement, breathing and daily practices can help.
• Why saying “I always do this” keeps you stuck.

If you’re still thinking about a conversation everyone else has probably forgotten, this one’s for you.

Watch our free A-Game Reset mini course: 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’ve got the career, the business, the house, the family and the things you once thought would make you feel successful.

So why do you still need a drink to switch off?

In this episode, Adam Mayhew talks about why so many successful men rely on alcohol at the end of a stressful day or week, and why the thing you think is helping you relax could actually be contributing to the anxiety, overthinking, poor sleep, low energy and inability to properly switch off.

I also share my own experience of becoming alcohol-free over eight years ago, why the first 90 days can be so important, and what happens when you finally stop using alcohol to suppress what’s going on underneath.

Going alcohol-free isn’t just about removing the drink. It forces you to learn how to handle your thoughts, emotions, stress and pressure differently.

If everything looks successful on paper but you know you’re not operating at your best, this episode is for you.

FREE A-GAME RESET MINI COURSE

If this sounds familiar, I’ve created a free 4-part video course called The A-Game Reset.

Inside, I share the frameworks and tools we’ve used with 500+ successful men to help them remove alcohol, stop overthinking, improve their health, handle pressure better and get back on their A-Game at work and at home.

👉 Watch The A-Game Reset free here: 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/

In this episode of A-Game Unfiltered, Smith and Mayhew break down what actually drives low energy and why most people already know where they’re going wrong.

They get into sleep, alcohol, poor nutrition, lack of movement, screen time and the small daily behaviours that quietly wreck how you feel, think and perform.

They also talk about the cost of low energy beyond just feeling tired: worse decisions, less patience, poorer training, lower presence at home and constantly giving the people closest to you whatever is left over.

No biohacking nonsense. Just the basics done properly, and an honest look at the habits you keep choosing even though you know they’re making you feel worse.

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/

**Join us live at A-Game Live in Leeds on 20th October. This is a free in-person event for ambitious men who want to perform better, think clearer and be more present at home. Tickets are limited. Register your interest here: https://go.agameconsultancy.com/theq4reset **

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/

In this episode of A-Game Unfiltered, Smith and Mayhew break down the language and beliefs that quietly keep people stuck.

From “I have imposter syndrome” and “I’ve always been an overthinker” to “I’m just not confident” and “that’s just how I am”, they challenge the labels people attach to themselves and explain why the way you speak about yourself matters.

They also get into overthinking, anxiety, people pleasing, confidence, meditation and why learning to sit with your own thoughts is one of the most important skills you can develop.

If your own head is often the thing getting in your way, this one is worth listening to.

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/

**Join us live at A-Game Live in Leeds on 20th October. This is a free in-person event for ambitious men who want to perform better, think clearer and be more present at home. Tickets are limited. Register your interest here: https://go.agameconsultancy.com/theq4reset **

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 can have the business, the house, the family, the holidays and still know something isn’t right.

In this episode of A-Game Unfiltered, Adam Smith and Adam Mayhew talk about alignment and what happens when the way you’re living no longer matches the person you want to become.

They get into fitness, relationships, family, business, boundaries, speaking your truth and why so many men keep doing things simply because they’ve always done them.

They also discuss the danger of saying “everything’s fine” when it isn’t, how resentment builds when you repeatedly ignore what you actually want, and why self-respect is built through the things you do and don’t do. There are some essential questions to answer this episode.

Don’t just listen to this one. Do the work.

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/adam-mayhew-nutrition-coaching/

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