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The Ben Ryan Podcast
by Sport Podcast Network
Olympic Gold Medal winning coach, Ben Ryan, seeks out the world’s top performers and coaches to find out what makes them the best. From Footballers and Athletes to Special Forces soldiers and company CEO's, Ben’s focus is on performance, what's important, what isn’t and what really makes a difference.Ben is the most successful men’s rugby sevens coach in the world, winning Continental, World and Olympic titles and off the pitch has been working at the top end of international sport consulting.More at: http://benryan.co.uk/bio/Book - https://amzn.to/3qFjKtNTwitter - https://bit.ly/3ph5W7oInstagram - https://bit.ly/2Z5QSitLinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3ah8Ftv
Episodes
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Jon Norfolk - The Leverage You Can Create From An Under-Performance Is Really Strong
Jon Norfolk is head of coaching at one of Great Britain’s most successful Olympic programmes, British Cycling. Jon is another of our guests that has experienced competing and coaching in different cultures and environments. Having worked previously with the Australian Track Cycling Team and been...
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Scott Drawer - We Need To Value The Off-load As Well As The Load
Scott Drawer is the current Director of Sport at Millfield School, one of the UK’s leading independent school’s. Before that he was Head of Research and Innovation at UK Sport and also held positions as Athletic Performance Manager at the Rugby Football Union and worked in the Sky Performance Hub...
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Robbie Elliott Part 2 - Being First Is Not Always The Best
This week its part 2 of my chat with former footballer Robbie Elliott. Robbie spent two decades as a professional footballer, playing over 140 times for Newcastle United and over 250 appearances in total. Last week we chatted about his own playing career and some of the iconic managers he worked...
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Robbie Elliott Part 1 - There's Definitely A Difference Between Luck And Fortune
After last weeks chat with Darius Charles, we stay on the football theme with another ex Professional footballer, Robbie Elliott. Robbie had almost two decades as a professional footballer, playing over 140 times for his beloved Newcastle United and over 250 appearances in total, which also...
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Darius Charles - I Was Creating A World Where Opportunities Would Come My Way
This week I’m delighted to bring you a chat with someone who grabs life by both hands, former footballer Darius Charles. Darius retired from professional footballer just a matter of weeks ago after playing professionally for sixteen years for the likes of Wycombe Wanderers, Brentford and most...
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Stuart Lancaster Part 2 - To Get Trust, You've Got To Give Trust
This is the second part of the conversation I had with Leinster Rugby senior coach, Stuart Lancaster who has held senior leadership positions at many levels of the game including being the former England Rugby head coach. In part one we chatted about the foundations of culture, putting teams...
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Stuart Lancaster Part 1 - You Don’t Get High Performance And Just Tag Culture On At The End
Todays show is the first part of another brilliant conversation, this time with rugby coach Stuart Lancaster. Stuart is currently coaching Leinster Rugby and he’s held leadership, management and coaching positions at many levels of the game including being the former England Rugby head coach.…
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Ask Me Anything
Thanks to the following for their great questions which formed the basis of this week’s Ask Me Anything show. On Twitter - Brad Allen, Simon Young, Bruce, Luke O’Mahony, Jack, Chris, Nimi, Tuma On Instagram - Richard Mortimer, Emma, Sala Through LinkedIn - Hannah Behan, Andrew M, Rod Bannister,...
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John Sutherland Part 2 - The Best Leaders Understand They Don’t Have All The Answers
It's part two of my conversation with former Met Police Superintendent, John Sutherland. From sieges that shut down London, to the time he got things very wrong when communicating to his team and his own personal battle with his mental health, this is another cracking episode, and we pick up from...
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John Sutherland Part 1 - We Are More Than The Names That We Have And The Positions We Hold
John Sutherland joined the Met Police in 1992 after receiving the baton of honour, presented to the outstanding student during an officer’s basic training. He quickly rose through the ranks and as it says on the back cover of his first book 'Blue', experienced all that is extraordinary about a…
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Laurence Halsted - Seeing The Person Behind The Athlete Is Essential
My guest this week questions the idea of what success is and how most people can look at sport and life in a very different way. Laurence Halsted is a double-Olympian, a fencer who achieved European medals as well helping to take the GB fencing programme from amateur to professional and qualify…
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Dr. Jim Loehr - Every Dose Of Stress Is A Gift
Dr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist and cofounder of The Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute. He has worked with hundred of world-class performers from the arenas of sport, business, medicine, law enforcement, military and much, much more. Sport clients have...
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Craig White Part 2 - Nothing Is Ever In The Way, It's On The Way
In part two of my discussion with Craig White we go into Transcendental Meditation, centering, flow states, the roles of breath, sound, touch and movement and much, much more, but we start by talking about Embodied Learning - what it means, and how it works, as well as the sensation we’ve all…
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Craig White Part 1 - Confusion Always Precedes New Learning
Craig White's credentials in rugby are impeccable. Roles at Wasps, Ireland, Wales, The British and Irish Lions as well as his journey with the Uruguay team at the last Rugby World Cup, fill his CV. He started in strength and conditioning but has added so much more at places like Bolton Wanderers...
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Andrew Milburn - Nine Times Out Of Ten Your Gut Is Right
Andrew Milburn retired from the US Marine Corps in 2019 and has since gone on to write the highly acclaimed memoir ‘When The Tempest Gathers: A Marine Special Operations Commander At War’. As an infantry and special operations officer, Andy has had operational command at every rank which included...
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Wendy Searle - Just Get Out The Door
This week's podcast comes from one of the most inhospitable but beautiful places on earth as we chat to explorer, Wendy Searle. A mother of four with a busy job, Wendy wanted to show others that extraordinary is available to everyone. She is the seventh woman and fourth fastest in history to ski...
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Marcus Daniell - There's A Relationship Between Rest And Pushing Too Hard
This week's guest is professional tennis player, Olympic medallist and founder of the brilliant High Impact Athletes organisation, New Zealander, Marcus Daniell. The chat you're about to hear is a very honest one from someone who's learnt so much from the journey he has taken. It's easy to think...
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Allistair McCaw - You Can't Give Energy, If You Don't Have Energy
So, It’s series three and for my first guest of the re-branded 'Culture & Performance Podcast' I thought it would great to kick off with a best-selling author and speaker and someone who’s recognised as one of the world's foremost figures in leadership, team culture and performance, Allistair...
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Series 3 Coming Shortly And With A New Name!
Series 3 starts on Feb 02 with a re-branded podcast 'Culture and Performance with Ben Ryan' which will encapsulate all things that Ben holds dear with regard to his approach to coaching and life. Over the course of the series we'll hear from people from the world of sport, the Armed Forces,...
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Series 2 Summary & Ben's Best Books
Ben will be back in a few weeks time with more great conversations in Series 3. In the meantime, please check out past podcast episodes as well as some of the books that Ben recommends in this short summary. Listen & Subscribe to The Ben Ryan Podcast: Ben’s Website - http://benryan.co.uk/bio/...
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Martin Buccheit & George Perry - Learning What Not To Do, Is As Important As Knowing What To Do
It's two for the price of one on this week's podcast as I'm joined by two world-class operators. The first, Martin Buchheit, I have known and worked alongside in a Nike research and innovation group for the past five years. Until recently, he was head of performance at PSG FC, from the outside at...
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Heather Fisher - It’s About Proving Myself Right, Not People Wrong
For today’s show, It’s the awesome Heather Fisher. Heather recently finished her stellar International Rugby career that’s included winning a World Cup winners medal at XVs level, playing in the Rio Olympics for GB Sevens as well as winning a bronze medal in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She has...
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Chris Skelley - Keep Moving Forward, Keep Staying Positive
For today's show it's the irrepresible Chris Skelley. Only a couple of months ago he won Judo gold in the visually impared under 100kg category at the Paralympics in Tokyo. He's also a European and World Champion. Chris grew up playing rugby and competing in Judo from the age of five, but in his...
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Aidan McCullen Part 3 - Leaders Need To Be More Like Coaches
Today’s show its the last in a three-part series with former rugby player Aidan McCullen who these days is an executive coach, host of the weekly podcast, the ‘Innovation Show’ and author of new book ‘Undisruptable’. Last week we talked about discipline versus talent, manifestation and positive...
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Aidan McCullen Part 2 - There’s Nothing In A Caterpillar, That Tells You It’s Going To Be A Butterfly
Today’s show is the second of a three-part series with former rugby player, turned exec coach, podcaster and writer, Aidan McCullen. Last week we talked about nutrition and breathing and how he is ever-evolving as a father and husband by learning new things each week and this week we discuss...
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Aidan McCullen Part 1 - If It Takes Slower To Get There, It’ll Last Longer
Aidan McCullen played professional rugby for over a decade, including huge clubs like Leinster and Toulouse and was capped by Ireland too, but since his playing days he has transformed himself into one of life’s great learners and communicators. From hosting his own amazing podcast 'The…
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Alice Dearing - You Thrive When Surrounded By Good People
For today’s show, I chat to an athlete who's just returned from her first Olympic Games , open water swimmer, Alice Dearing. When we met in a small park in Camberley in the south of England, she was still unpacking all of what she’s been through from being part of the hugely successful team GB to...
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Tom Mitchell Part 2 - How Putting Your Plate Away Can Lead To The Team Scoring More Goals
It’s the second part of the chat I had, walking through Richmond Park in South London, with Olympic Silver Medallist and England and Team GB Rugby Sevens Captain at both the Rio and Tokyo Olympic Games, Tom Mitchell. We discuss building values from day one, putting time into relationships,...
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Tom Mitchell Part 1 - Excitement And Fear Walk The Path Hand-In-Hand
Tom Mitchell, Olympic Silver Medallist and England and Team GB Rugby Sevens Captain at both the Rio and Tokyo Olympic Games is this week's guest. It really was a great conversation and having originally given Tom his international debut when I coached him with England, we had well over a decade…
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Jeremy Snape - There's A Lot Of Things You Can Do If Your Radar's Up
As a cricketer, Jeremy Snape achieved international honours with England as well as captaining county side Leicestershire, but it’s perhaps for his work in sports performance that he’s best known for these days. Post playing career Jeremy founded Sporting Edge, a company specialising in inspiring...
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Joe De Sena - Nothing Good Happens After 11pm
Joe De Sena is a force of nature. I first became aware of Joe through podcasts like The Tim Ferris Show and Rich Roll and decided to reach out. Joe's story on those podcasts was one of starting out with very little and how a drive to change 100 million people’s lives pushed him on to found…
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Kelly Sotherton - Throw Positive Thoughts Out And They'll Come Back Somewhere
As a heptathlete, Kelly Sotherton had huge success. A triple Olympic medalist, Commonwealth Games gold medalist and with European and world medals. But some of her medals came years and years after she actually competed as the result of some of her opponents failing drug tests retrospectively. We...
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Osea Kolinisau - When You Don't Have Much, You Help Each Other Out
Former Fiji sevens captain and my great friend, Osea Kolinisau, or Oscar, as he is known in rugby, is this week's star guest. Flag bearer for Fiji at the Rio Olympics, when Fiji won their countries first ever Olympic gold medal, he’s one of the most successful sevens players in the history of the...
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Owen Eastwood - Belonging
Owen Eastwood is a performance consultant who’s book ‘Belonging’ I devoured recently. Topping the charts in his native New Zealand, it’s crammed full of story-telling and take-home messages. I would read a few pages, then reflect on my own work and career and drift off into thought and feelings....
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Cath Bishop - There's More Than A Medal At Stake
Ex-International Rower Cath Bishop won World Titles and has been to three Olympics including the 2004 games in Athens where she won a silver, but results are not what she would like to be judged or defined by. In fact, just starting her introduction as “ex-international rower” already wrongly...
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Liz McColgan - Everyone Is An Individual
Series 2 kicks off with Olympian and former world champion athlete, Liz McColgan. Liz had a glittering career in athletics on both the track, in the 10,000m and the road, in the marathon. On top of world titles, she’s also a double olympian, double commonwealth champion and multiple marathon...
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Series 2 - On It's Way!
Series 2 starts on July 07 with former World Champion and Olympic Silver Medalist Liz McColgan the first of many weekly guests. Details of how you can subscribe to the Ben Ryan Show, along with social media details are below... Listen & Subscribe to The Ben Ryan Podcast: Ben’s Website -...
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Short - Kelly Sotherton speaks about the relationship between athletes and the press
As part of their discussion, which will be aired in full as part of series 2 of the Ben Ryan Podcast, Ben sat down with former heptathlete Kelly Sotherton and the chat soon turned to athletes relationship with the press and in particular, thoughts after Naomi Osaka withdrew from Roland Garros...
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Series 1 Review
Welcome back to the podcast where this week I take a look back over series one with the help of my partner, TV presenter Michelle Ackerley. It’s been a fantastic start to the podcast and over the course of the past ten week's we've heard from one of the stars of the Peter Crouch Podcast, Tom...
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Greg Barden - 'Life Isn't Black And White'
Greg Barden was the youngest to ever pass Special Forces Selection and his journey from the Special Boat Service to England Sevens and company founder is as inspirational as it is interesting. This was the first time we met each other since we parted ways badly with England Sevens, me as the…
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Dr Sherylle Calder - 'Little Things Make A Big Difference'
My guest this week is Dr. Sherylle Calder. Sherylle was part of the staff that helped South Africa win the Rugby World Cup in 2007, having won the same tournament four years earlier in Australia with England. She's also worked in many other sports including Football, Cricket, NFL and Formula One...
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Austin Swain Part 2 - 'What Got You There, Won't Get You There'
If you have listened to last weeks episode then you would have heard leading psychologist, Dr Austin Swain, talk about coping with pressure, confidence, psychological safety and a whole lot more. We continue that conversation in this week’s show as we jump into the world of business and…
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Austin Swain Part 1 - 'High Performing Teams Disagree Well'
Dr Austin Swain is one of the co-founders of Lane 4, experts in organisational performance that have a 25 year track record of world-class and ground breaking delivery. He was England Rugby’s first Sports Psychologist and has worked with many top-end professional sports teams and athletes, but…
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Matt Little - 'How Hard Is A Hard Day?'
If you watch tennis, you might recognise his face. You aren't sure what he does but you see him at the Grand Slam events as the cameras pivot to the players team and families seating. Maybe in the short video played before Andy Murray, Britain’s greatest ever tennis player, comes onto centre…
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Erwin Valencia - 'Just Do You'
We go stateside this week and talk to Erwin Benedict Valencia or simply ‘E’. I have know Erwin since 2016 when we met in New York City in his role working in Basketball and we’ve been good friends ever since. I would regard him as a polymath, hugely competent in many different and diverse…
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Nemani Nadolo - 'It Never Starts With Rugby'
From his beginnings in Sigatoka ‘Rugby Town’ in Fiji, to gracing every top professional league in the world, rugby superstar, Nemani Nadolo’s story is an engaging one. One of the world's best Rugby Union wingers in the last twenty years, it’s not been a straight path to his many achievements and...
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Margot Wells - 'Bring Me The Right Head, I’ll Give You The Body'
Welcome to another show where each week I'm joined by some brilliant minds that deliver their take on what they think really makes the difference in performance. My second guest on the #benryanpodcast is Margot Wells, one of the great unsung heroes, but not by the many international sportsmen and...
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Setting The Scene With Tom Fordyce
Welcome to my new podcast where each week I’ll be joined by leading coaches, athletes and educators from the world of sport and far beyond. On each episode I’ll go through my guests journey, their stories and compare with my own experiences coaching at the elite level, to pull out some greats…
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Coming Soon
The most successful rugby sevens coach in the world, Ben Ryan is on a mission to better understand what makes individuals and organisations world class, by swapping notes with leading coaches, players, administrators from the world of sport and further afield. In this promo we hear extracts of...
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Olympic Gold Medal winning coach, Ben Ryan, seeks out the world’s top performers and coaches to find out what makes them the best. From Footballers and Athletes to Special Forces soldiers and company CEO's, Ben’s focus is on performance, what's important, what isn’t and what really makes a difference.Ben is the most successful men’s rugby sevens coach in the world, winning Continental, World and Olympic titles and off the pitch has been working at the top end of international sport consulting.More at: http://benryan.co.uk/bio/Book - https://amzn.to/3qFjKtNTwitter - https://bit.ly/3ph5W7oInstagram - https://bit.ly/2Z5QSitLinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3ah8Ftv
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